AFKBRBChocolate
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world
Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
- Comment on Giving the neighbors a laugh 6 days ago:
According to translate, the side of the van says “Home delivery service, we always come.”
Does that pun actually work in both English and German?
- Comment on eggs in japan 1 week ago:
The protective barrier is true, but you’re either making assumptions about the rest or you’ve been misinformed. There really aren’t major issues in any of the developed countries today, but the washing and refrigeration is still the safest with the longest shelf life. It isn’t the condition the chickens are kept in - there are countries where it’s much, much worse than in the US - it’s just that chickens very easily carry salmonella.
Many years ago, more countries washed, but there were some escapes, especially one from Australia with the eggs exported to the UK, and it got a bad name, so some countries dropped it, but the US figured out how to make it work consistently. Most countries require chickens to be vaccinated, but the US hasn’t needed to because of the washing and refrigeration.
Lots of good info online. Here’s a USDA article on it, and here’s a higher level NPR piece.
- Comment on eggs in japan 1 week ago:
It’s just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn’t trivial.
- Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps (dir Matt Shakman) [2025] 2 weeks ago:
I always liked the F4, but they’ve yet to make a good move out of them.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, just the default messaging app on their phone.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that most people don’t want multiple text apps, they just want one. I had gotten a number of people using signal, and it was secure when we talked, but when signal dropped SMS, almost every one of them stopped using it, so then none of their conversations were secure.
- Comment on Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too. 3 weeks ago:
I always try to explain to people that the key is the last two letters: language model. An LLM is a model of what a conversation should look like. Ask it a question and it’s intended to give you a response that looks like the right kind of thing. So if you ask it for a mathematical proof, it will give you one, but unless the thing you’re asking has the same proof written the same way in lots of places online, what it gives you won’t be correct, and probably won’t actually make sense mathematically, but it will look like the right kind of thing.
So likewise, if you ask it for relationship advice, it’s going to give you something that looks legit, but you’re an idiot if you get your relationship advice from an LLM.
- Comment on how normal is it to snore at 13/14 years old? 4 weeks ago:
It’s often a sign that the person is overweight.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
My first thought was “How is this a boomer thing, I see people of all ages doing this.”
- Comment on So that's how they're made. 5 weeks ago:
Most likely another fake one, by the way.
- Comment on When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying 1 month ago:
I understand why it looks that way from good reaction, but there was nothing my dad wouldn’t have done for my mom. I’ve never seen two people who loved each other more completely, trusted each other more thoroughly, or gave a bigger priority to each other’s happiness. But apparently they had an awful lot of sex.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 1 month ago:
Several people have mentioned budgetary restrictions, which is a huge part, but there are practical considerations, regardless of budget. Even with a big budget, it’s only recently that they’ve been able to make convincing non-humanoid aliens that interact with other actors (mostly through CGI). Earlier, there were good examples of movie monsters or aliens that were done with stop motion or puppets, but not in a way that they shared the screen with the human actors in a meaningful way. Can you imagine if, say, the Vulcans on the original Trek series were wildly non-human - how silly it would have looked? The technology just wasn’t there to pull it off.
Also, most aliens, even in books, are some variation of earth life. They’re reptile-people, big spiders, intelligent bugs, or whatever. I think that’s mostly because it’s pretty hard to envision something truly novel/new. So lots of books, movies, and shows come up with some rationale for why everything in the galaxy looks like some kind of earth life to excuse that.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 1 month ago:
I’d say that’s more of the excuse/rationale for it. The underlying reason is hot much not expensive it would have been to do otherwise.
- Comment on When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying 1 month ago:
Sharing an overly personal story because I think it’s funny.
When my first marriage was swirling the drain, and my wife and I hadn’t had sex for a number of months, I was visiting my parents, who were in their late 60s at the time. I noticed that my mom kept getting up to go to the bathroom, so I asked my dad if she was okay and he said she had a yeast infection that was bothering her and they didn’t know what to do about it. I told him that those were generally pretty easy, she can get a cream that will take care of it in about a week. Not much else to it other than avoid sex for a couple weeks.
My dad looked incredulous. He said “A couple WEEKS? Like two full weeks? No sex at all for TWO WEEKS? If we don’t do that, will it go away on its own?” My dad, pushing 70, was having a hard time coming to grips with the thought of going two weeks without sex, while I was in my 20s and hadn’t had sex for four or five months.
I remember driving home and thinking, “Well there’s something I didn’t need to think about.”
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 1 month ago:
Sounds tasty
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 1 month ago:
I make a pretty good living and my family really loves cheese, so I buy fancy stuff pretty frequently, but I check the prices because some of them are just ridiculous. The ten to twelve dollars I spend on a chunk the size of a deck of cards or two is bad enough, but some are two or three times that price for the same amount and I just can’t bring myself to do it. I could do it, but it’s just hard to believe we’d enjoy the cheese that much.
- Comment on That perfect Christmas gift - a picture to hang on your wall commenorating when you wore that classy orange jump suit 1 month ago:
Who is she?
- Comment on Is this container safe to be reheated in an air fryer? 1 month ago:
Aluminum foil is fine in an air fryer. I don’t know about that black paint on the outside though.
- Comment on Any relations experts? 1 month ago:
I’m my late teens and early twenties, I had several occurrences of gay guys hitting on me, to the point where I started to worry that there was something about me. It seems funny to me now, but I really did have a period of wondering if I could be and was just repressing it because of my Catholic upbringing. But ultimately I realized that I just didn’t find guys attractive at all, and even the thought of kissing a guy was kind of a boner killer. So I get what you’re saying, even though on the surface it sounds funny to say you wondered if you could be gay.
Sometime later I ended up with a couple of close gay friends, and I mentioned it to them. They said it was probably because I put out a very non-judgemental vibe and didn’t seem like a homophobe, so it probably didn’t seem risky to hit on me.
- Comment on Bird Bath 2 months ago:
Oh, well, silly me then. No, like the other guy said, it’s very stretchy. If you have your own scrotum, it’s easily confirmed. If you have girly parts, the skin is very similar to the outer labia: very sensitive to scratching, but it doesn’t hurt to stretch it.
- Comment on Bird Bath 2 months ago:
I don’t think they’re asking about the stretching, but about having a puddle of alcohol on your scrotum. That was my first thought as well. Probably okay if it’s wine, but not sure about something high proof.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 2 months ago:
When I do bcc to a big list, I describe the distribution in the email header. Like “To: all users of the xxx application” or “To: All Engineering employees at the yyy site.”
- Comment on Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are? 2 months ago:
There’s a huge contingent, even here, who loves both those guys, but maybe more importantly, they’re supposed to be on our side. Hell, Trump is the president! Putin is the dictatorial ruler of an enemy country, we expect that he’s going to do and say stuff that’s terrible.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 2 months ago:
That’s only after the electoral college votes.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 2 months ago:
Heh, understandable. I’m one of the older Lemmy folks, I’d guess. I’m a software engineering manager for an aerospace company.
- Comment on Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming 2 months ago:
My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we’ve done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn’t find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.
- Comment on Sleepy Bees 2 months ago:
For those wondering, this appears to be true. Most sites that say it all reference the same person, whose study doesn’t seem very scientific, but I found this much more controlled study that did indeed replicate the conclusions.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 3 months ago:
That seems high, though I guess if they’re doing it in a state with high renewable energy, that’s what they’re using. It uses a crazy high amount of energy though.
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 3 months ago:
I wonder what fraction of Bitcoin mining energy comes from renewable sources. I bet it’s teeny tiny.
- Comment on Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?! 3 months ago:
Farting as you relax and when you bring your knees up towards your chest (common when you sleep on your side) is pretty normal. It might also be a timing thing based on when you go to bed relative to when you’ve eaten.
You might look into why you fart so much if it’s excessive. For instance, I have an odd food intolerance called fructose malabsorption - excess fructose doesn’t get digested, so it just ferments in my intestines. If I eat a lot of it, I’ll get massively painful diarrhea, but usually I just get some gas.
The same thing happens with people who are lactose intolerant: they can usually have some amount of lactose and they just get gassy, so some people don’t even realize they have it.
Other things can also cause unusual amounts of gas.