AFKBRBChocolate
@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 10 hours ago:
Doesn’t look like this will affect everyone. From the release:
- Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting.
- Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands.
- Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users.
- Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know.
- Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers.
I don’t use any of those.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
Where I am, they’re very often cut into rounds and served with a meal.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
I have not and stand corrected
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
Apparently it’s just not a thing where I am. I’ve seen them used for little hors d’oeuvre things, but not for a meal-type sandwich.
I stand corrected.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
The sandwich bread is mass produced, baked in racks of loaf pans, designed to give very consistent and convenient slices for making sandwiches.
The second pic is the way many people prefer to bake a more rustic loaf. The dough is just placed on a flat sheet, so there’s much more crust, and it can just rise however it does. It’s less convenient for sandwiches.
No baguettes aren’t used for sandwiches, they’re used to serve bread with the meal. If you’re eating dinner, you don’t really want a slice of sandwich bread, you want something more convenient to hold in your hand, dip in you pasta sauce, or whatever. Plus it has a higher ratio of crust to insides, which can be nice.
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
Nice, I missed that one
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
I have a friend who had the license plate “ALEPH NUL” which I thought was good nerd humor.
- Comment on Anon and Rusty 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, she’s still clingy, but doesn’t seem bad like before.
- Comment on Anon and Rusty 4 weeks ago:
My cat is 15 years old, and has never really been alone for more than a few hours. My wife was normally home, and we had enough animals that when we went on vacation we had someone stay at our house. But my wife and split up early last year, and I ended up with the cat (and a bird), so it’s been just her and me for the better part of a year.
In November I had to go away for a week, so I had my brother come by once a day to feed her. When I got home she went nuts. Running along at my feet howling when I walked, instantly in my lap, rubbing her face against my chest when I sat down. The sad part was that, for a few days after I got home, she’d wake up in the middle of the night and start making this mournful howl. As soon as I’d say something or put my hand on her, she’d go right back to sleep. I think I gave the poor thing abandonment issues.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
I’m American, but I’ve heard in a lot of countries they hate how we start talking to someone who is still kind of far away. Like when your friend is approaching from the other direction and you say “Hey, how’s it going?” but you have to talk more loudly because he’s several paces away.
- Comment on 94.3° F 5 weeks ago:
It does seem so. Cats’ internal temp is a bit warmer than ours - like 101 or 102F. Lots of blood vessels near the surface in a butthole, so it’s warmer than most other areas, though would expect it to be slightly cooler than internal. Not 8 degrees cooler though.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
Hmm, I don’t think so. I’m in my 60s and I’ve always paid my credit cards in full each month when they’re due. Until very recently, I did have a mortgage and paid the regular payment (with occasional extra payments for principle), do they did make money off of me there. My credit rating has pretty much always been at or near the highest it can be.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
That one actually makes sense to me. A utility bill isn’t credit, it’s a different debt, so paying it when you’re supposed to doesn’t demonstrate responsible use of credit. On the other hand, if you can’t pay off any sort of debt on time, you probably aren’t a good risk for loaning money to.
- Comment on Makes sense 1 month ago:
I started working at a company in the mid 80s, and stayed there for 40 years. They did Christmas parties until the f early 2000s or so. Honestly, I was kind of glad they stopped. There were always idiots getting drunk and doing/saying really stupid stuff.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
I think I hate vampires less than mosquitos
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
Huh, interesting, hadn’t seen that.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
No joke - my wife and I were eating so much of it for a while that you could smell it on our sweat.
Also, what they say is true: we got zero mosquito bites during that time.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 1 month ago:
Oh, it’s amazing. Get a head of garlic and rub off all the exterior papery stuff (but not the skin of the individual cloves. Some people also cut the pointy tips off. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast until soft. Get some nice bread, warm bread. Pull off a clove, hold it by the bottom and squeeze it like toothpaste onto a slice of bread. Enjoy the most wonderful garlic bread variant.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 month ago:
Yeah, this is 100 percent true. It doesn’t even have to be what you do for a living. I used to really enjoy cooking, but once I got a family and had to cook meals every day, whether I felt like it or not, it became a chore. As chores go, it was still better than most, but it stopped being something I looked forward to.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 month ago:
Because it’s a very popular, traditional ingredient in a lot of soups. You would have the same problem if you didn’t like onions or carrots.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 month ago:
I don’t care for crunch in soup, but a like the celery flavor. I’ve added celery seeds to things I don’t want actual celery in. I’ll make stock with celery, onions, and carrots, and then strain them out.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 3 months ago:
You can buy it in half gallons and quarts, too, but a lot of families go through a gallon in a couple days.
- Comment on Banana 3 months ago:
The one that no longer exists where banana flavoured candy derives its flavor from.
That’s actually a myth. See Wikipedia.
The Gros Michel has a higher concentration of isoamyl acetate, the ester commonly used for “banana” food flavoring, than the Cavendish.[12] This higher concentration is responsible for the myth that banana flavoring was based on the Gros Michel, but artificial banana flavor was not based on any specific cultivar.
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 3 months ago:
Your friend was feeling attacked, and you walking away made her feel abandoned and unsupported. She just wants to know that you have her back. Yes, standing beside her to help show a united front would do that some.
Usually to defuse a situation like that, I would try to understand what Karen was actually upset about, and let her know she’s being heard (which is, ultimately, what she probably wants), but also let her know she’s taking it out on someone who doesn’t deserve it. Saying “calm down” is just going to piss her off. Saying “Hey, I understand you’re upset, and I would be too, but the staff here has no ability to schedule your father for surgery when there aren’t any doctors, and you’re yelling at the wrong person” might.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
I should have included those things an individual does to help their direct offspring - those also help you pass along your genes. Whether it’s nurturing your young, or dying and letting them feed off your corpse, anything you do to help them survive can be part of natural selection too. Don’t those things increases the likelihood of that trait being found in the population. Ear hair isn’t one of those things.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
I’d bet you’re right.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
I’m not a geneticist or anthropologist, but apparently that’s a debated, not proven mechanism. The theory being that natural selection works not just on individuals, but on societies. So if older members of a society are more inclined to help take care of the young, that society is more likely to survive, so that trait is more likely to get passed along and become more common in the population. That mechanism would only apply to social/pack animals (like humans), so wouldn’t apply to, say, turtles.
But it’s hard to argue that ear hair in old men helps their society thrive. More likely, it’s just one more trait that is a result of aging and not selected for, like grey hair or wrinkles.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
Natural selection works when you have a trait that makes you more successful at living long enough to pass along your genes or at attracting a mate to pass them along with. Your offspring are more likely to inherit that trait and so they’re more likely to pass along their genes as well, so the trait is more prevalent in the population. Conversely, if you have a trait that makes it harder for you to live, you’re less likely to pass along your genes, and so that trait is more likely to be less present in the population. If you have a trait that doesn’t impact your ability to live long enough to pass along your genes or attract a mate, it has no impact on natural selection.
So if you have a trait that only appears after you’re past the baby making stage, it’s not playing into natural selection. By definition, that trait didn’t help you survive or attract a mate or whatever before having kids and passing it along. It just happens, like lots of other traits.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
I remember in college, there was a human sexuality class that used what was essentially porn, but with really old people, to reduce the number of people who took the class to watch porn.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 3 months ago:
Unlikely that anything happening when your old is selected for - you’ve already passed on your genes if you’re going to and nothing is helping you do it more.