Droggelbecher
@Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 1 week ago:
You are 100% the person this post is about, and 100% American. Those are 100% of the relevant percentages.
- Comment on Sweet ancestry 1 week ago:
My mum used to work in a town where they make a kinda popular chocolate in middle Europe, like small step up from store brand type stuff (milka, in case anyone’s faniliar). She’d always bring home their factory shop ‘mystery chocolate’ that was very openly literally this: the bars right after they’d switch flavors, and they would be a non predictable mix between the two. I loved that stuff more than the actually store bought chocolate as a kid because you’d genuinely never know what you’d get. They came in these super non distinct plain white wrappers too, which added to the charm.
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 1 week ago:
Tangential, for ambulance cost only.
Once a year, I get a sort of info letter that lists every bill my healthcare has paid for me that year. So, I know what medical costs actually are in my country where healthcare prices aren’t being artifically inflated by healthcare being privatised.
I had a short ambulance ride in 2020. It was billed for about 90€. That’s what it would actually cost if they couldn’t charge whatever tf they want due to privatised healthcare.
- Comment on Niche species 1 week ago:
One of the most disappointing facts when learning English was how many different animals are just called goat or deer
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
Love my job. Still wouldn’t spend a second doing it for zero pay.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 2 weeks ago:
Half of these are still in use simply because some people think they’re cool, or when someone prefers to not have to rely on technology (e.g. paper maps don’t run out of electricity while you’re on a long hike).
- Comment on 👁️ 👁️ 2 weeks ago:
Im in the EU thankfully, it’s not legal to record strangers (except like, a crowd where you can’t make out individuals that well). They may be watching me from the window, but they don’t talk like village folks do.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I sometimes view nutrition as an impediment to my bed rotting, but that’s because I have depression Also, I would kinda like to be able to skip lunch, because meal prepping is tough when you work til 0930 and takeout add up, cost wise
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
This is not meant to be a counter, I’m curious: have you? Cause I haven’t, and I’ve always wondered who the target audience for that stuff is. Everybody I know thinks it’s stupid, and I’ll at most use drinkable food for health reasons (as in, if they have really sore teeth and can’t chew or sth like that, or can’t keep solids down) or if they’ve misplanned and can’t have real food (like between two appointments).
- Comment on 👁️ 👁️ 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I got that that’s what the meme is about, but thought the comment might be about nosy humans anyway.
- Comment on 👁️ 👁️ 2 weeks ago:
You mean because of people watching? I get this so much worse in the village than in the city, because village folks will remember and talk about your patterns, while city folks won’t.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a colloquial term. My best friend is a psychologist and she taught me that distinction (I’m not a native English speaker), and I genuinely didn’t know some people took offense to it. Never meant for it to be tiered. I know psychology is a science, and a natural one at that. You’re the one acting like your field is somehow special and better than others. I tried to be general and you said your field doesn’t fit in, so ‘you already said stem’ makes zero sense.
Either way, I never said it was normal to pay for a PhD? I said it’s a huge pay cut vs working and industry job, which not everyone can take. Some people have others financially depend on them, and they can’t just decide to accept eating half of what they could otherwise for self fulfilment purposes.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, should’ve specified, hard sciences
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 weeks ago:
Paid PhDs are only the norm in stem, and those are the exact subjects where academia is a huge pay cut compared to industry. Hell, I’ll be taking a huge pay cut (in terms of net hourly wage) when I finish my master’s and quit my part time job, that requires a bachelor’s, and start a PhD.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
Wow thanks for sharing, I never would’ve thought! Glad my toilet is in a seperate room from the bathroom (and that that’s pretty normal in my country).
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
That leaver causes microscopic bits of poop to be sprayed everywhere unless you close the damn lid
- Comment on Nom nom nitrogen 2 weeks ago:
Not live under capitalism where food needs to be min-maxed like that because the goal is profit over sustainable nutritious production (and yeah I know we can’t just decide that as individuals). There’s plenty of peoples around the world and throughout history who have done and continue to do that.
- Comment on Aussie travellers who criticise US most at risk as Trump administration proposes social media disclosures 3 weeks ago:
Travelling to authoritarian country rapidly descending into fascism turns out to not be entirely safe, more at 11
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 3 weeks ago:
That’s true but not at all what you said in the post. But thanks for clarifying here!
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 3 weeks ago:
I could also go on about what I think is harder or easier to read, but that’s neither here nor there. The post claims there is/are a font or fonts that were specifically created with the intention to be harder to read for the disabled, and I want to know whether that’s true.
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 3 weeks ago:
Quite interesting, but doesn’t speak to the creation of fonts specifically to make reading harder for the disabled. It even says evidence that Calibri is easier isn’t conclusive. Doesn’t say anything about whether any font was created to make reading easier or harder for anyone.
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 3 weeks ago:
Ya got a source on that? Sounds interesting
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely, I’m glad we’re not doing that. I don’t get why there’s so few statistical studies, like ‘people who have been using (e.g.) chewing tobacco have x health stat compared to y in the general population’. It’s frustrating, especially with how many young people are using snus and vapes in recent years. It’s tough to make informed health decisions when the information is hard to come by.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
Btw for the capsaicin thing. It’s one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.
(I know spicy plants don’t grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
Just curious, is this true for smokeless tobacco too? I mean not the tar bit obviously, just the paralysing.
- Comment on Powerbar 3 weeks ago:
People who have access to hrt usually also have access to a fridge
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Yes, because of US exceptionalism. That’s a bad thing, and we can try to not play into it.
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 3 weeks ago:
I’m sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won’t. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don’t know who’s pregnant. Maybe that contributes.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
They said that to point out you said ‘America’ when there’s a north America and a south America and your statement is only true for one country within one of those. We all know what you meant, but let’s stop playing into US exceptionalism by using the name for two whole continents as a synonym for it.
- Comment on No it won’t 3 weeks ago:
I love my cork one. It’s been holding up for many years now. Metal is ofc the only choice if you care about RFID protection though.