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- Comment on Anon questions nature 1 day ago:
Name checks out…
- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 1 week ago:
You’ve surely heard of Slay the Spire, and if you liked that I would strongly recommend Monster Train.
- Comment on Typical English roast dinner potentially ‘drenched’ in 102 pesticides, says report 2 weeks ago:
Data from the Fera pesticide usage survey for 2024, showed 102 – including seven banned in the EU – were used on seven vegetable and soft fruit categories.
Those roast potatoes may have been sprayed with benthiavalicarb, a fungicide banned in the rest of Europe because it causes cancer. They may have also had a sprinkling of metribuzin, a herbicide, banned because its an endocrine disruptor.
The carrots may have been treated with the insecticide spirotetramat, whose EU approval has expired and can kill bees and fish. Peas are often treated with the herbicide S-metolachlor, which poses risks to mammals and has been implicated in groundwater contamination.
And those strawberries may have been doused with clofentezine, dimethomorph and mepanipyrim, all banned in the EU because they have been identified as endocrine disruptors and may have harmful effects on human and animal hormones.
- Comment on Science is iterative 3 weeks ago:
Still kinda using water to turn a turbine, if you squint really hard.
- Comment on And toxic in large amounts! 5 weeks ago:
Lactate is lactic acid.
- Comment on Truly the smartest person of our time 5 weeks ago:
Not actually a professor but an English literature major, I believe.
- Comment on New insect just dropped for the ones who dont know 5 weeks ago:
Nice stick
- Comment on The Struggle 1 month ago:
Consider also reducing your sugar intake!
- Comment on Which wired earbuds do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Audio Technica make some really small and comfortable ones that sound good.
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 month ago:
What I think he’s saying is that Glyphosate affects the shikimate pathway, which is a biological pathway in plants. This doesn’t exist in human cells, but it does exist in our gut microbiota.
We also know now that Glyphosate is a glycine analogue and can displace glycine anywhere in protein synthesis, with unknown effects. It’s also likely an endocrine disrupter.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
Mass is not conserved.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 1 month ago:
So it’s just jank, then?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
You should consider looking into the bioavailability of nutrients from meat vs legumes when factoring in value for money, also.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
If all you need to do, as you say, is to “burn more and eat less”, then how come people with T1D lose weight while eating more? It’s physics, right?
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
Not only is it not set in stone, it appears that your BMR is affected by what you do. If not provided with sufficient nutrition, the body seems to adapt and lowers BMR.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
The body isn’t a fire and food isn’t wood, so the analogy isn’t a very good one.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
They could both be problems. White bread by itself, even without being sweetened, is still very high in carbohydrates which turns into glucose in the body.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
Please point to another mechanism by which weight is lost.
Type 1 diabetics, without treatment, can consume vast amounts of food (and hence as a result calories) and yet continue to waste away. How do you explain this with CICO?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 2 months ago:
Madoff’s scheme lasted for 30 years or more, surely that means it’s worth something?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 2 months ago:
Crime.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 months ago:
CrDroid on 8 pro.
- Comment on what do you think is the future of the internet and tech in general? 2 months ago:
It will get increasingly locked down due to authoritarianism and corporate capture. Small pockets like the Fediverse persist, but it becomes harder and harder to use as regulators impose laws on more technology.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 2 months ago:
We don’t care about your take either, Jeff. Now fuck off.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 2 months ago:
I don’t know about highly. It’s better than not processing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Check out OP’s post history.
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 2 months ago:
Cows aren’t… real…?
- Comment on NieR: Automata Will Continue, Finally Confirms Square Enix as the Game Breaks 10M Units Sold 3 months ago:
Mobile title with blind boxes and day 1 DLC.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 months ago:
Maybe because other games are more fun?
- Comment on Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died 3 months ago:
RIP. The Dreamcast will always be my favourite console, thank you.
- Comment on Fighting games have a product design problem 3 months ago:
And that’s fine, not every game has to be for everyone.