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- Comment on Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever? 8 hours ago:
Because they don’t want to do anything to make brands not buy the spots during the episode.
So if an episode has product placement for pasta sauce A then pasta sauce B, C, and D don’t want to buy commercial spots for usually the entire run of the show.
It’s not set in stone but having it be that way for all your shows makes it easy to sell big blocks of commercial spots spread across the network.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 day ago:
It’s rough but the other option is death. The cold would kill you if your immune system wasn’t doing this to you.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 days ago:
Or accessing it if you have a security clearance. I’m not allowed the look at any of the documents Snowden leaked. Because even though they are easily obtained they have not been declasified. I don’t have a need to know or the necessary SC.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
He did say kids should see public executions.
“Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation…What age should you start to see public executions?” -Kirk
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 1 week ago:
Hetalia: Axis Powers is this during WWII.
France (フランス, Furansu) is an overly-romantic, carefree man. In the series, he is shown to have a long-held rivalry with England. He makes sexual passes at many characters. France explains away his long history of military defeats as a joke from God, but he believes he is gifted with his “charms” and his supreme cooking skills.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
I spent way to much time thinking that was a pink slipper. The first two made sense but then I was lost.
- Comment on Stranger Things Season 5 will be set in 1987 3 weeks ago:
Sure but that’s usually adult actors who are selected to look like a teenager. Not kids who look like adults now.
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
It varies a lot. From sweet banana, to tomato based, to the original fish sauce.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
Quit using up all the oxygen.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Not a dumb question. I think it’s because the Occipital lobe is an evolutionary old part of the brain. It’s right on top of the brain stem the oldest part.
The newer parts developed between the eyes and the older parts of the brain. Pushing the eyes forward. That’s my understanding but I might be wrong.
Hopefully if I am wrong someone jumps in and provides a correction.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
No blind spot and better light detection. The light having to pass through the nerves causes a lot to be lost.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 4 weeks ago:
Cephalopod precursors evolved eyes and then brains developed from the eye so their eye is structured correctly.
Vertebrate precursors evolved the brian first and the eye evolved out the brain as a sensory stub. So it’s upside down and inside out like in picture.
The nerve cluster goes through the back of the eye splits and folds back to end in light receptors. Light hase to go through the nerves before hitting the sensor.
There is even a reflective layer after the sensors that gives the sensors a second chance at picking up the light. This is what causes the red eye or green eye you sometimes see in flash photography.
It would require a genetic rebuild to fix this and the intermediate steps evolution usually use would be so disadvantageous they are selected against. So the right combo of mutations to give us a working octopus eye is VERY unlikely to happen.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 5 weeks ago:
It’s a companion piece to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
It’s not that diversity is a negative. It’s a plus and a core part of Star Trek from the beginning. NuTrek has great diversity and terrible story telling that feels like it’s using the diversity as a crutch.
It’s like Ben and Arthur. I totally support the message that gay marriage should be allowed. However the movie is complete garbage because of how bad the story is told.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
Kurtzman is by all accounts a good person. He is however terrible at making good entertainment and a specially good Startrek.
- Comment on Makes sense 5 weeks ago:
I know of one instance. Pirate plundered a ship ruining a false flag. It was actually from a nation he was friendly with. Buried the treasurer in the hope they wouldn’t find out.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 1 month ago:
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 1 month ago:
Most are older games with sequels or newer games by the developer. So they are probably hoping you like them and buy the sequel.
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 1 month ago:
My culture is not your costume.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 1 month ago:
You mean Taco Bell lied to me!?
Seriously though a good classic street taco is amazing.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 1 month ago:
I think the important bits are easy to pickup in context. There is a war and it’s not going well. Sisko is trying to bring a powerful neutral party into the war and is willing to do very questionable things to do it.
As a Star Trek fan I had given up on DS9 during the original airing of the first season. Latter I caught Pale Moonlight by chance and it impressed me enough to watch some more. Then I went back and watched all the earlier stuff. Now it’s my favorite Star Trek.
When I first saw it I knew Star Trek quit well but had no idea what was going on in DS9 and had no trouble following the story.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 months ago:
And counties that have their own sales taxes. So not even within the state is the rate the same.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 months ago:
People like porn involving characters they like. Look at all the rule 34 content. Games give you a chance to engage with the characters before the fucking.
There is also a bit of T&D as you build anticipation while playing the game.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
So depending on why you might be able to train it. If you don’t have a lazy eye and have good vision you may want to look into it.
If your brain is just not fusing two good images there is a good chance you can train it to do so. Having done experiments in this field I can tell you it makes a measurable difference in performance.
A good read on the subject is below. The part where she first sees a tree in 3D is a good example of what you are missing.
Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R Barry
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 2 months ago:
Yes. They require stereoscopic vision. When I was doing research on 3D displays about 10% of subjects had to be rejected because they were stereo blind. They had no idea they were that way.
One woman said that explains why she had the nickname clunk in high school. She had a habit of rearending cars.
- Comment on RimWorld - Odyssey expansion and update 1.6 out now! 2 months ago:
Custom storytellers. I also like Vanilla Outposts Expanded. Send pawns to form defensive outposts that reduce raid sizes.
- Comment on RimWorld - Odyssey expansion and update 1.6 out now! 2 months ago:
I’ve played a lot of rimworld and I think the main problem with it is the developers solution to difficulty after the early game is just more and bigger raids.
Everybody starts building kill boxes to deal with raids being the only challenge after midgame. Developers response is new types of raids that bypass kill boxes (drop, breacher).
Give us some different threats or ways to mitigate raids like paying off raiders or building outposts.
- Comment on Two steam VR game keys up for grabs 2 months ago:
Nope red is the fastest. I have a degree in ork science.
- Comment on Some worms have bones. 2 months ago:
Or one of the world’s great directors. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/verotika
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Same. Heritage Foundation involvement is another red flag.
