blackbrook
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- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 1 day ago:
I have never experienced this as a problem. However one does learn to compensate for differences between the eating experience and the tasting-while-cooking experience.
For example, when it comes to heat (chili heat), I’m cautious, knowing that what is tolerable for a taste, may not be tolerable for a whole meal since the heat tends to build as your eat. I also adjust for my audience’s taste, for example if I think they can take less heat then I can, or like things less salty.
- Comment on Omg 2 days ago:
It can only be destroyed by throwing it into the heart of Mount Doom. Or other volcano.
- Comment on WAT DA 6 days ago:
That each bigger bear is also standing forward of the smaller ones and with it’s hind legs hidden behind them exaggerates how much bigger they are.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 week ago:
Quite true. It is also important to know the limits of the precision you are going to be getting.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 week ago:
You seem to not be getting that words can have multiple (even if related) meanings. When some science or other discipline takes a common word and defines it really precisely for their purposes, that doesn’t change the definition of the common word for all usages and mandate that all lay people use it only with that discipline’s more precise definition.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 1 week ago:
But it’s a good definition if you are, say, putting a thing into each indentation. That’s why the two definitions are different.
- Comment on Yes I know it doesn't work like that 1 week ago:
No you make the whole drill out of potatoes, duh!
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 2 weeks ago:
As I do more reading though, I find warnings that many dish detergents will harm plants. Some people do spot tests, but buying a commercial insecticidal soap is safest. I guess I’ve been lucky, maybe because I use a crunchy natural dish detergent that is pretty mild.
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you consider regular soap, but my understanding is that liquid soaps typically have potassium, bar soaps may use either. But I was using the term pretty loosely, people often make homemade insecticidal ‘soap’ with dish detergent which isn’t technically soap at all. Any surfactant tends to kill insects by compromising the waxy coating that keeps them from drying out.
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 2 weeks ago:
You can just make a simple soap solution to spray them with. Look up home made insecticidal soap.
- Comment on Contadont deny it. 2 weeks ago:
So someone added a “t” and switched in a mammal body and head? I feel like I’m still missing something…
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 3 weeks ago:
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 3 weeks ago:
Well, plastic lined cans, though i’m not sure that affects the thermal properties significantly. And beer coozies exist for a reason.
- Comment on 1.2 Å 3 weeks ago:
I’m taking a moment to appreciate it right now.
- Comment on Gravity! 4 weeks ago:
Ha! I am no different than she wrt things like my neighbors cars!
It frequently amazes me what people don’t absorb or remember, like whole sentences of a 4 sentence email or text message. I’m not under any illusion that I am exempt from this, but what we see and others miss is of course more apparent to us.
- Comment on Gravity! 4 weeks ago:
This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?
- Comment on Oechslegrad 1 month ago:
45 degrees in time is about 1:08
- Comment on botanical latin 1 month ago:
They are all pronounced ‘throatwobbler mangrove’.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 1 month ago:
Just grow an unkempt beard and wear overalls.
- Comment on Nanananana 1 month ago:
That’s the ‘here, have a banana gesture’.
- Comment on same, honestly 1 month ago:
wears the candles Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
- Comment on Is it wrong that I want one? 2 months ago:
You will fission your sides with laughter!
- Comment on Perplexity.ai is offering a free month of advanced AI access 2 months ago:
About that “cites real sources”: yes it cites its sources but it can still hallucinate. I have had it give me wrong answers, and when l looked through its cited sources, none of then supported its answer.
I do however still use it and find it extremely useful, simply because regular web search has gotten so bad, and sifting through all the garbage from a regular search to find the meat is time consuming drudgery. I think of AI as useful for doing certain kinds of informational drudgery, but you have to always keep in mind how fallible it is.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 months ago:
Isn’t the butt end, the end you normally look through? I’d think the end facing the stars would be the front end.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 2 months ago:
The unfunnyness and homophobia of the joke aside, this kind of joke doesn’t expect people to actually believe that statistics work this way. Part of the joke is the ridiculousness of expecting statistics to work that way. While there may indeed be some people so stupid/ignorant that they DO expect statistics to work this way, that’s not really the way this kind of humor is meant to work.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 months ago:
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
- Comment on Fucking idiots 2 months ago:
You call that counterpoint? Bach’s Mass in D minor. Now that’s counterpoint!
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 months ago:
A light spirit lives in the battery. It reaches out across the wires until it reaches the round window which it uses to show its power.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 2 months ago:
“regardless of texture physics…” If I had been drinking milk when I read that, it would definitely have come out my nose!
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
Never mess with someone trained in gorilla warfare. Those gorillas don’t mess around.