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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  "If I find out you've been watching AI slop, there will be consequences. And don't think hiding it from me will make sure I don't find out. Watching slop makes people stupid in a very particular way, and you can't stop yourself from catching stupid from it, so I'll be able to tell."

  It's up to you what "consequences" means in this instance. You could even reveal that the consequence was the stupidity they developed along the way, and now they have to live with that.

  (By all means, modify this message to be less cold and more kind and loving. I am not good at that sort of thing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-uniformed police that don't identify are not police.

  As such you can call (uniformed) police on them.

  If they say they know that ICE are operating in that area, ask how you can know that the people you're reporting are actually ICE and not impostors that turned up after the real ICE left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is geolibertarianism left wing or right wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The plural of "axis" is "axes", pronounced "AX-ease".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get anxious if I have more than three open per window. How other people don't is incomprehensible to me.

  My phone is an ancient flip-phone, so I can't be sure how things would go there, but I can't imagine it would be much different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kissing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It's touching a highly sensitive part of your anatomy to part of another being. This proves that you trust them.

  The touch is gentle. This proves that you are to be trusted.

  Both contracts are those of mutual safety.

  There are multiple types of kissing. There's the kiss, perhaps on the head, that you might give a pet or a young relative.

  And there the other sorts of kisses that would be incredibly inappropriate in those instances because it breaks part of the contract of trust.

  But if between consenting individuals who trust each other in other ways, then all is well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the actions of my own government, the correct behaviour is to appease, play nice and hope he uses lube when he ultimately comes to f--k us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We lived through the Cold War in the '80s. It seemed like a very real threat and eventually even though nothing really changed until the wall came down, everyone kind of got used to it and went on as best we could.

  Like we have more recently with Covid. That's still there and hasn't gone away. It's still as serious a threat as it was at the beginning. You know how you'd mostly forgotten about it but not really? Same deal.

  If you can't form or find a community, find distractions.

  And if you find out where the first bomb's going to hit, let me know because I want to be under it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much money should one person realistically make or have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have more accessible money right now than the poorest person in your country would ever need to survive to the age of country's life expectancy, then you have too much money.

  If you think of: the maximum fines leviable by your government for committing a crime; as mere inconvenience - rather than a life-ruining financial burden - then you also have too much money. (Weird punctuation for easier parsing).

  These two things may not be mutually exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant

  ^ The link above goes to...

  a video of a BBC reporter trying to report on drugs being destroyed by burning but he's a little too close to all that smoke...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone who thinks that it'll be easier or more efficient to wring out if it's 1.4 times as long. And who has a bad memory. And who thinks the first two times were surely a fluke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wash them whenever I've dirtied enough for a full load, and if I don't, I'll often throw the bathroom mats in there with them. Frankly though, still nowhere near often enough. If they pass the sniff and squint tests (smell and look fine), I'm usually OK using them again. And again.

  There was already a towel wash pencilled in for this week or next, oddly enough, before this question showed up, or else it might have shamed me into considering it. Other laundry is first in the queue though.

  As for throwing them out? Never had need in the 20+ years I've had my own towels, and some of those were hand-me-downs.

  I remember one particularly large brown bath towel starting to fall apart at my parents' house long before I moved out, and I still kind of miss it, which is kind of funny.

  Now, washcloths made of towelling material - I've ruined a fair few of those with careless wringing. PSA: Don't fold them diagonally before wringing them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knee-leeks and spear-leeks. Delicious.

  Etymology time!

  1. Knee-leeks is basically what onions were called before we adopted (or were made to adopt) a version the French word

  2. the old English name for "spear" was "gar"*. "Garlic" is literally just a modern interpretation of "gar-leek".

  What about regular leeks? They're just, well, leeks.

  * Spear(wielding) Danes are mentioned as "Gardena" in the third word of the commonly seen image of the first page of Beowulf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is when it came to secular things pertaining to Christmas, the church would have said "No", and the state would have gone along with that, even if most people weren't religious.

  The same happens everywhere, regardless of religion or how prominent it is. If you attempt to do something that the elders of a religion say are offensive to that religion, the state will discourage it, and so people don't bother in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Britain, especially from the 1970s to 2000s, there was always a race to be the #1 charting song at Christmas, and songs with a Christmas theme often won out, even if they were otherwise secular pop songs. This means that over the years, we've ended up with probably a hundred of them ranging in quality from terrible to great.

  America have followed suit. Or else, they might argue they started it with songs like "White Christmas" and "Silver Bells".

  This is largely down to the more permissive secular and Protestant Christian societies where irreverence is tolerated if not encouraged.

  The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won't have had anything like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the Celts got distracted by the influx of Germanic tribes and as such had more immediate things to worry about and hate than the Romans, but I figure if the Franks, Saxons, Vikings, et. al. decided to stay home, the modern Britons would still grumble about the Romans occasionally.

  I mean, the Germanic invasions started over a millennium ago and dislike of that's still on a low boil, so I figure two millennia isn't out of the question.

  On the other hand, the Romans did go home. The Saxons, not so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L's which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren't stood on a corner, diamond-wise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your former colleagues see your potential but do not see, or choose not to see, the rest of you. The rest of you that's messy. The rest of you that cannot operate at a high level for long periods. The rest of you that's just f--king done.

  Your former colleagues have stamina in spades - or at least, more than you do - and imagine a perfect individual that combines their stamina with your enviable potential.

  But, that person does not exist. Or at least, if they do, that person isn't you.

  There's no point running yourself into the ground trying to meet an ideal that only exists in the minds of other people.

  Don't buy into their idealism. At least, not until you're sure you can be the person they think you can be.

  Source: I was in a similar situation, but kept going, burned out and am not OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  List is incomplete. It seems to assume a relatively warm climate or expensive use of night-time home heating.

  Thus: Long sleeves. Underwear under long trousers perhaps for sanitary purposes, but possibly for comfort.

  There's probably also a few people who have socks they wear to bed if not also blindfolds or old-timey nightcaps, but I get why those things aren't in this graphic. Lack of long sleeves is more of a head-scratcher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right next to Clorida.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All forms of ampersand are based on "Et", Latin for "and", so cheat and use the backwards 3 (for E) forms.

  The simplest puts a vertical bar through the backwards 3 like a relative of the dollar sign, and the other adds a t to it so that the middle point and the bottom line of the backwards 3 join up with the crossbar and base of the t. Bonus points for drawing that latter one without lifting your pen, but you're doing well if you still have to extend the t's crossbar after the fact.

  Or really cheat and use the plus sign. That's just the t from "Et", but in the right context, most people instinctively understand it + will know what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you're right, the downvote was a bit harsh considering that I didn't do a deep dive on the matter.

  I can't undo the bandwagon, but I can undo mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well for whatever it's worth, you're welcome.

  That "feeling adrift" sounds a little bit how depersonalisation and/or derealisation were described to me when I was trying to get diagnoses. I didn't feel like they fit my experience of mental illness at all (everything feels real enough (maybe too much), and I've never felt adrift), and I'm not a doctor so I'd be the last person to try to diagnose either in someone else, but they might be things for you to look into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are non-binary and asexual flags Wario and Waluigi colored, respectively?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think this is sexuality, it's politics. Wario is clearly a UKIP supporter and Waluigi is UKIP / Tory coded.

  (all in jest of course. Or is it?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does "DNS" work on the dark web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The NSA and GCHQ have both run their own TOR nodes and presumably already have an excellent understanding of how it works, so there's bound to be at least one person, if not an entire department, at the FBI who already understands TOR better than most of the people reading this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't say they improved my mood much, so there wasn't a great deal to notice, but I have noticed a distinct lack in extreme lows since I started taking it.

  The trouble with mood-altering and mood-stabilising medications (and behaviours if you count things like exercise) is that they can affect perception not only in the present, but about past thoughts and behaviours too, so spotting any obvious change might require some effort.

  Case in point, it took me a long while to notice that I haven't been having the crushing lows, and part of me still believes that it's not the Vitamin D that's responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Best as I can tell there's no evidence that Vitamin D and kidney stones have anything to do with each other, and in fact, there may even be scientific papers in existence that suggest the opposite is true, i.e. Vitamin D may help reduce the risk of kidney stones.

  Caveat: This was based on a quick web search, not deep research, and everyone's biology is different. If you're getting kidney stones, check with an actual doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey man, the line's gotta be somewhere, right? :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  we're 9 billion people

  Either you're a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don't. Averaging the first three sites* that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing

  * Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a reason kids in Spelling Bee competitions are allowed to ask for the language of origin of a word.

  It can often give a hint that a certain sound is spelled an unusual way. The "Ch" of "Chemistry" comes through Greek where it's spelled with their letter "chi", which for reasons I won't get into, looks like our X.

  Kids in a spelling bee wouldn't need to ask about "Chemistry", of course, but there may be other examples where that would be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP seemed to suggest that these dreams are, or quickly get to being, beyond their control. Nonetheless, even daydreaming at the wrong time can be perilous.

  I say this as someone who has never had good attention control.