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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Harry, yer an alcoholic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, any chemically induced change of state of mind that doesn't require a third party to supervise, can be considered self medication.

  Morning coffee? Self medication. Going for a jog to feel better? Self medication. Getting blackout drunk on your own? Self medication. Midnight wank when you can't sleep? Self medication.

  You know what's NOT self medication? Taking shrooms or LSD or any other hallucinogenics with a trip sitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Merde!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the size of the singular testicle, I think the scales are right-ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So... it's Hitler's penis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad news then: almost all software engineers will be using various forms of genAI for their work, let that be LLMs for coding or image generation for quickly visualising things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well that sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone's commenting about the message on the popsicles... But is nobody questioning WHY there's 4 of them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And potentially the cleanest your asshole has been for a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at the proof level needed for it to disinfect, at least not the earliest body piercings.

  Alcohol is a disinfectant only at certain v/v percentages (or proof) - specifically between 60-90% (120-180 proof). 40% (such as vodka, whiskey, and most spirits) works in a pinch as well.

  However the earliest alcohols were 10-15% ABV at most. We're talking about beers and wines that came from accidentally allowing fruits, bread, etc., ferment in water.

  Now, mind you, even a 5-7% beer or winde won't have much microbial life in it, but that's because of constant exposure to an alcohol-ic environment.

  Now, distillation for alcohol didn't come around until 1000CE-ish (distillation itself has been available since Ancient Mesopotamia, but was primarily used to clean water, or to concentrate perfume). Medieval monks were actually the first to distill wine into aqua vitae (a form of fortified wine)

  So no, people ~2000 would not have had access to high enough potency alcohol to be used as a disinfectant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, I want to point out that 2000 years ago was essentially still the height of the Roman Empire, who were far from unknowledgeable about a number of topics, including the human body. In fact, the Romans are actually closer to us modern people than to the first humans who wore body jewellery - any type of jewellery that required body modification (such as, a needle cutting through flesh to create a tunnel).

  The oldest ear piercing evidence for example goes back 7000 years, around 5000BC, pre-dating even the Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures. The oldest mummy ever found had its ears pierced.

  As to how this came to be... I think it's pretty straightforward. Humans have liked pretty jewellery since the dawn of time, and there's even proof that such items were used to barter, as a pre-currency, pre-coin form of money. This includes gold and silver and other precious metals, but even pretty shells and stones.

  However the main issue with jewellery is that it's easy to take from your body. How do you make it harder? By embedding it in your body.

  What I think happened is that a group of humans discovered the generally antiseptic properties of silver (potentially a silver arrowhead or similar item embedded itself into a human, it wasn't removed due to fear of bleeding out, and the wound didn't get infected days later, allowing it to heal around the item), and began utilising it as a way to provide more protection for their jewelry - after all it's much harder to remove an ear, nose, lip, or nipple ring than a bracelet or necklace.

  Such practices spread easily with trade, so it's no surprise that in a few hundred years it was all over the place that you can, in fact, cause a bit of pain to yourself to have some permanent value added to your body.

  Some fun facts:

  • Romans did indeed wear nipple rings as a symbol of status (no, not as a way to attach their otherwise quite heavy cloaks!)
  • while in India, nose rings were more common (both septum and nostril rings)
  • in (mostly sub-Saharan) Africa, lip rings, lip and ear stretching were "the big thing"
  • in the furthest parts of SE Asia - modern day Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea - a number of tribes marked adulthood and other major life achievements with genital piercings, primarily for men (mostly foreskin and frenulum piercings), but also some women (labia and clitoral hood piercings).
  • In the western world, piercings fell out of fashion between 1400-1600, partly because of the discovery of the Americas, where more intricate body piercings (tongue piercings for example) were used in religious rituals that the Europeans considered barbaric or even downright demonic.
  • Their popularity was restored partially by the unsubstantiated rumours of Queen Victoria I's husband, Prince Albert, after whom the piercing was named, having a ring in his glans to contain his enormous size in the back then fashionable trousers (the Victorian equivalent of skinny jeans). Mind you these rumours started a solid hundred years after his death... in the 1950-1960s
  • the 1960-70s were the resurgence years in western culture for body piercings, in part thanks to the hippie movement, and in part thanks to the gay subculture (which was already pretty big on body piercings as a differentiating factor) becoming more mainstream (Stonewall etc.).
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally specified that the changes in TSA will affect airports "in other countries".

  Barfing in that pre-TSA the US air travel market was a shitshow contributed nothing to the discussion of how introducing the TSA and their stringent, invasive procedures fucked up air travel for other countries. Which, again, I very clearly specified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a very short period.

  Phones became a mainstream way of communication in the 1880s.

  Public transport, in the form of trains and buses and street cars have become widespread in the early 1800s, mostly around 1830-1850 (e.g. London had railway services but the first underground service opened in 1863).

  Mind you, most of these services were connecting small-ish town sections (even London wasn't really a unified city until the 1900s, but a bunch of parishes, boroughs and towns connected by railway), so your "friend living on the other side of town" was usually a 15-30 minute walk away at most. In fact most people, the average people anyway, had friends only in the local community as they've rarely left said community and ventured beyond their immediate vicinity. Those who'd have friends from far away - let it be a city a few dozen to a few hundred miles away or even another country - would be either the upper class (nobility and high earning professions like solicitors), or merchants (also rich). Long distance travel was a luxury most couldn't afford.

  It was the industrialisation that allowed for cheaper transport and for towns to grow larger and denser, so the overlap of the availability of public transport, the NEED for such transport to meet friends, and the lack of telecommunications wasn't as widespread as one would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That's because you're US-centric still.

  Other countries, interestingly, didn't have all these issues prior to TSA hardening the screening process post-9/11.

  All those countries and airports, however, upped their processes when the US did, making air travel a chore instead of a good experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting rid of the TSA would be such a helpful step forward better air travel.

  Most countries' airport security is to some extent modelled after the TSA, and was done in lockstep with the US increasing "travel safety" via invasive processes. Obviously it is toned back A LOT, but if the US were to get rid of the TSA and provide more lax regulations on air travel, most international countries would follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how could this happen😔⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Repeat after me: 👏 NO 👏 SEX 👏 SCENE 👏 EVER 👏 IS 👏 UNNECESSARY 👏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not even a bread bro, I just happen to have ADHD and got a few hyperfocus sessions into sourdough 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there's a number of reasons for the shape of the various bread types. The dough type - from the kind of flour used, through the resting time, fermentation time, raising agent (let it be any of a variety of yeast products, wild yeast aka sourdough starter, baking powder or baking soda, there's tons of options), how hydrated it is, and so on. The oven type and baking approach. The purpose of the bread.

  Your first picture is of a standard toast or sandwich bread. It's supposed to be a fairly loose, soft bread with a soft crust and an engineered shape for easier baking - with conduction baking on all sides except the top (here conduction baking refers to the fact the sides and bottom of the bread is held in place by a heated metal tray, transferring heat directly without letting air or steam escape, resulting in the soft crust). A more industrial yeast type is used (usually dry or instant yeast), which result in relatively small gas bubbles, giving it a dense but fluffy interior. The flour is usually a light wheat flour, and both resting and fermentation times are low - that's why it's a more industrial bread, you mix the ingredients, let the mixture sit for 30-60 minutes then bake it, easily automated.

  The second picture is of a sourdough loaf. This usually uses wholemeal wheat flour, often mixed with rye or other grains for better texture, and is a fairly tedious bread to make with multiple stretch and fold sequences and long resting periods, allowing lots of gluten to form, which means every stretch and fold sequence doesn't mix the dough but rather layers and shapes it. The yeast comes from a sourdough starter, and is allowed to ferment longer, which is why you get an intense flavour. It bakes quick in a Dutch oven first covered then uncovered, allowing it to fluff up but then shape a hard crust. You get much larger bubbles and an internal structure of long strands of gluten forming swirls and such.

  Then the baguette, it uses a different approach to sourdough but with a similar effect. Unlike sandwich bread, the dough for baguettes - as well as what I'd call "European medium bread" (medium here meaning the hardness and bakedness of the crust) - a crispy crust that isn't as well baked as a sourdough, but also isn't soft, with a well developed gluten structure, using more predictable yeasts (again usually instant quick yeast or dry yeast, or in some areas, live yeast cubes). Mind you the baguette you're showing is more of a hypermarket style baguette that is intentionally baked to a lesser darkness, and traditional baguettes are more on the golden brown part of the scale.

  Overall, the kind of flour determines the flavour, but also the raising and resting times. Some flours (especially wholemeal or grain mix flours) need more time as the more complex proteins and sugars take more time to be broken down by the yeast thus they rise slower. Hydration determines how tough the dough is to shape (e.g. pasta is only hydrated by the eggs, making it a hard, dense dough, pizza needs to be flexible so it's high hydration, and it gets extra raise in the oven as the water quickly evaporates). Yeast determines the flavour, the raising time, and in the final product, the texture and airiness. The baking method can fuck a lot with the texture. A regular convection oven can dry the crust out making it tough and thick, forming quickly and stopping the bread from rising, but adding some ice in a pan at the bottom can generate enough steam to let the bread rise properly by delaying the crust hardening. Same idea for sourdough using a Dutch oven, you create a high moisture environment, a steam box, to keep the crust soft while the bread rises, then remove it at the end so the crust can cripsen and brown. The sandwich bread is medium hydration thus it keeps the sides moist while they bake, giving it that brown but soft crust. If you were to plop the same dough just into the oven, without the baking shape, due to there being little to no gluten development, it would just fall apart and harden into the world's shittiest giant cookie.

  But also you can bake bread in a Dutch oven over an open fire, giving a more rustic style bread with thick, chewy, but also cripsy crust. Toss the same dough with lower hydration into a circle and onto an upside down pan in the same fire and you got some awesome flatbread with a nice center air pocket you can open up and stuff with meat.

  Then, you can decide to just fuck it and add as much high fructose corn syrup as possible without fucking up the bread, and you get American style bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake moo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd say that McD's patties are super small. Your average patty will be around 6-8oz, so 170-230g, which is much closer to your initial number of 1600 parties per cow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake moo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That count is way off.

  An average cow is 600kg, and yields 36-48% in pure meat, so around 250kg.

  McDonald's standard patty is 45g, while larger patties - say, like, the Quarter Pounder - go up to 120g.

  Presuming 2/3 of all burgers per cow are regular, and 1/3 are Quarter Pounder size, then we have a simple formula to solve:

  2x*0.045kg + x*0.120kg = 250kg

  That makes X approximately 1190, so the total number of burgers is ~3570, over double of your calculations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men call women they failed to get with easy, just because other men had more success with her. These insults are almost never about the women themselved but the men trying to make themselves feel better about their failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are not MMF threesomes then but MFM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a high school classmate who was "so totally not gay" he'd only watch lesbian porn so there's no dick in it.

  Guess who hit my (faceless) Grindr profile up a few years after graduation for a DL hookup where he wanted to try bottoming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you? I almost exclusively saw it in the gay section for some weird reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should really do something⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rough-faced shag? Sounds like an average Friday, innit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  96C is hardly room temperature though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is it Jew York or Jew Mexico?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rest in pepperoni⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost literal self-suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having lived in London now for ~8 years... I can confirm that the city does feel much safer in the past year or so. ASB in the areas I frequent dropped considerably, phone snatching has dropped below pre-COVID levels, and even gang-related activities seem to have quieted down a bit.

  Yes, of course, a city of 10+ million will never be completely crime-free, but overall I'd say London is healing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf that face scanning BS was 100% on the companies contracted out to do the verification, because the moronic law had absolutely no control over HOW the user's age must be verified and how the data used to verify the age should be stored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hope they take into account just how many people HAVE seen the pictures and how many COULD HAVE seen it.

  Also the fact that X would have had no filter preventing kids seeing that image, which doesn't just go against revenge porn laws, but also the OSA - which would be the first actual positive of the latter.