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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conditional soap⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, testosterone helps maintain your hair looking nice, at least until your body says “I’ve had enough” and it makes your hair thin and fall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A simplified universal phylogenetic tree showing the relations of fundamental types of life form on the Earth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are there only yeasts under fungi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard it tastes better than milk on coffee. Gotta try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like some nut juice with your bean soup? (Adding almond milk to coffee.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the young? Fucking boomers ruining the colony!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good Save the Queen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Her fascist regime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Discovered a Creature That Breaks a Fundamental Rule of Biology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The UAG codon is like a fork in the road, where it can be interpreted either as a stop codon or as a pyrrolysine residue,” Shalvarjian said in a press statement. […] Preliminary findings suggest that the archaea’s choice isn’t completely random. When the amino acid is flooding the cell, the microbe tends to interpret UAG as integrated pyrrolysine and turn it into the appropriate protein. However, when less of it was around, UAG often acted as a stop codon, which yields a different protein entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does this count as a science meme? :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could of done worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOLO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a terrible day to be literate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🥵 🥵 🥵⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one angry that the Puerto Rican tody is the Tordus Mexicanus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does this count as a science meme? :3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re mixing your ofs and haves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold and despair!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People share their location to Zuckerberg?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets enemy zoned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what about America?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska ftw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I concur, their momma is mighty fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP is native American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, is was taking about English. Sorry it wasn’t clear.

  German is quite hard grammatically, with its dative case and inconsistent use of genders for non gendered things. It’s got some phonemes that are quite hard for adult learners too. The one thing it’s got going for a lingua franca is the consistent pronunciation rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say better, just easier to learn the basics.

  For instance, it is a mostly incomplete language from a conjugation standpoint. While I love the communication power romance languages have in verbal conjugation, they do present an obstacle for learning.

  Plural is also quite easy in English, as are basic adverbs.

  If only English had consistent pronunciation rules like German, it would be a near prefect lingua franca.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨o Christmas tree⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The guide lines on Fibonacci bother me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ad hominem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not angry at all, thank you for the concern.

  And yeah, English is terrible, the absolute divorce between writing and speaking being the most salient point for me. But it’s the lingua franca, you can’t not speak it if you want to interact in the world stage. But, for all its faults, I’m glad it replaced French in this role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucking far off. I can’t stress how bonkers your number naming is. I speak two romance languages and two Germanic ones, and I’ll not try French because this and many other bullshittery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas beetles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s not like this shiny carapace, it’s rather satin. The elytra is light brown with a golden-green shimmer, and the thorax and head are of a darker green-brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas beetles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like this, but I could never match the picture with an ID: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas beetles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A similar golden beetle showed up in south America. Anyone has the scientific name?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the Earth was scaled down to the size of a billiard ball, it would be the smoothest billiard ball in existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread, December 19th, 2025 (#920)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t go fully against it, I go something like 60 degrees from fully against. Might have to increase the angle. I now that at 180 (with the grain) the shave looks like a day or more older. Thanks for the feedback!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friday SOTD Thread, December 19th, 2025 (#920)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a full beard and only really shave my neckline.

  • Prep: warm shower w/ shampoo and conditioner.
  • Bowl: Proraso kit bowl
  • Brush: Proraso kit brush
  • Razor: Henson
  • Blade: RK stainless
  • Lather: Proraso sapone da barba rinfrescante
  • Post Shave: cold water rinse
  • Fragrance: Dolce&Gabana the one

  Not particularly happy. I have sensitive skin and to get anywhere to a close shave I end up with a few red spots. They don’t hurt, but don’t look good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the world except USA*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dubya said nucular, must be right.