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- Comment on But of course we don't want to poison our child. 6 hours ago:
It stimulates the salivary glands, and saliva does prevent tooth decay.
- Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America 9 hours ago:
The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse
- Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America 11 hours ago:
Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol
- Comment on From Reddit: What the hell is happening?? 18 hours ago:
Well of course she doesn’t have one, she dropped out
- Comment on Dune explained 1 day ago:
It’s truly wonderful, as long as 0C isn’t painful for you.
I’m much better adapted to the cold, so it’s in no way painful (unless I were to pass out in it or try to build a snowman without gloves or something). For me, German summers are so unpleasantly warm that I can’t eat enough calories without being fully nocturnal. People tend to have a temperature and humidity range that works well for them, and they only adapt to new environments slowly
- Comment on I choose innovation. 4 days ago:
They want the blinds to deal with the privacy aspect, but they’ll still install a liner for the water aspect. They just thought blinds instead of a traditional curtain (but not to replace the liner, which is often separate from the shower curtain) was cool or funny.
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 4 days ago:
I’ve seen what I know as “te” today written “the” more than once by a seeming native Spanish speaker (I’m not one). Do you know if that’s a dialect, trend, autocorrect from people who use English a lot, or something else?
- Comment on Luigi Mangione's motive for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO is coming into focus, NYPD says 1 week ago:
I suspect that’s because kill is often used as a synonym for murder, and pulling a trigger with the intent and result of ending a person’s life is not necessarily murder, that needs to be proven in court.
Imo, the denotation of “kill” is actually neutral, but it’s got a pretty rough connotation.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
You’re good, I meant it literally about disinformation, so I don’t doubt you read it somewhere that seemed credible.
I’m from Connecticut, and we’re all still mad about it, so it always sticks out to me when someone thinks he was a democrat at the time (he did generally caucus with democrats, but was very pro-business. He was not elected again.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
The amount of misinformation about this guy…
Joe Lieberman had been an independent for years when he voted against single payer, and he died in 2024, after 11 years of retirement.
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 1 week ago:
Saltwater it is!
- Comment on Phone noises 1 week ago:
Those cats are from Pawnee
- Comment on Jay-Z accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 along with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs 1 week ago:
Statues of limitations for criminal cases of child molestation typically don’t last 24 years
- Comment on This spoon. 1 week ago:
Nah, there’s no wood paneling!
- Comment on This spoon. 1 week ago:
I bought cutlery a few years ago and decided to get exactly what I wanted, not what was standard, and I not only ended up with golden-colored, wood handled cutlery that everyone else thought was hideous, I only got fully round spoons, in both teaspoon size and standard soup spoon size.
I loved that cutlery. My old roommate… gratefully tolerates it. I just have a giant mouth and never realized it could be an issue, but even the small ones were surprisingly unpopular
- Comment on KØUTÜLLER 1 week ago:
He basically abandoned the baby. Frankenstein is the real monster
- Comment on Lesson learned 1 week ago:
Holy fuck that seems like a tedious, difficult, messy job. I’ve also never heard of it, and I feel like the homeowners I know would have bitched about it to me before if they had to do it. I looked it up, and there’s all sorts of scenarios in which they might not have to do that (anode rods and tankless water heaters both seem pretty cool and there are services for it), but I might just send out a couple of texts. Water heaters are nothing to fuck with.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Everything is a fluid. Sand is a fluid. Sand and water? Only sometimes.
- Comment on Live Updates: Police Hunt for Gunman After UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Is Killed in Midtown Manhattan 2 weeks ago:
However, the world’s most abundant protein is RuBisCO, an enzyme that catalyzes the first step in carbon fixation.
ThoughtCo supports the probably yes (they seem heavy on the pop, light on the science, but I blame my search terms)
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Entropy is ever expanding, so there’s no way to do no harm, though ideally we each try to do as little as possible. There are some parts of our lives where there’s no perfect answer, like technology or clothing, because for the most part, those are both generally exploitative and necessary to support yourself. In these cases, buying second hand can help, but it’s still a secondary market for products that benefit from slavery and/or it’s a separate, new evil like Goodwill or the Salvation Army. Taxes are also necessary, and the only workable remedies for the awful things that are paid for by those taxes are petitioning and electing as representative a government as possible or bringing it all down (which would itself include quite a lot of violence).
This is a totally different thing. This is investing excess money into an evil thing so that you can profit. There’s no requirement here, it’s an entirely voluntary worsening of the world.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Then it really seems like you’re providing funds for slavery and wishing it wasn’t harmful.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Are you organizing in any way to see that you can cooperate with like minded people? I’m not trying to be rude, but you should really think about the effect you want to leave on the world (not just you, everyone should).
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
That makes the world worse though. Do you really want to make the world a worse place?
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
I saw a video once of a guy asking students at an Indian university what they studied and what k meant to them. I can’t find it now, but there were easily a dozen answers and then the joke answer at the end was “it means she’s mad at me”
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 weeks ago:
I think of the meme of first world problems as unimportant. Obesity is straight up killing people though, so I don’t know if it really fits. Especially because it’s so strongly inversely correlated with wealth. It’s literally a problem associated with living in the first world and being poor.
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
Because they’re a part of the society you rely on and they are quite literally serving you. I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about people, regardless of whether others care about them
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
If I were taking advantage of their services, I would tip them too. As I’m benefiting from a first-world plate carrier’s service, I’ll tip them. Participating in a society by only doing things that help others when you might suffer consequences (via poor service on a return visit) is poor manners at the very least.
I don’t think this conversation is going to be very productive (at least on my end), so I’ll cut it off here. Have a good one.
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
Ensure would be the right word here, but tep doesn’t sound as nice
- Comment on Anon creates a business plan 3 weeks ago:
Because you care about other people?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 4 weeks ago:
We can also hear the difference between hot and cold water from the sound it makes while being poured into a cup