elucubra
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- Comment on Mama mia 19 hours ago:
- Comment on Mama mia 19 hours ago:
In Spanish “Una burrada” is used to describe a massive amount, an excess. I guess it checks out.
- Comment on Mama mia 20 hours ago:
I like cheese, but I didn’t know I liked Mozzarella so much
- Comment on Just meet an 86 year old Vietnam veteran with 2 People Hearts, and he said "Platoon" 1986 was the movie that best portrayed his Vietnam experience. 1 week ago:
I saw it when it came out, in a theater. When the movie ended you could not hear anyone, nobody moved and when we exited, the silence was eerie. I was exhausted. The movie is intense+
- Comment on Anon holds her bf 1 week ago:
My exwife of 18 years dumped me when I went into a period of depression, fueled by the death of my father and a business failure. As soon as I ceased to be the rock, I became value less.
I had been there for her for two serious bouts of depression.
I have heard of similar things from friends. Men are not allowed to show weakness. Remember men were not supposed to cry until recently.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 weeks ago:
By assassin you mean the one who got the bullets, right?
- Comment on 'Powered bv SteamOS' gaming handheld validation leaks in Valve documentation, Asus ROG Ally may be among first handhelds with official SteamOS support 2 weeks ago:
How is bazzite as a daily driver?
- Comment on Perfect Christmas Gift for your boyfriend or husband 2 weeks ago:
I used to date a girl who told me that she had dated a guy with an XL dong. I have very standard equipment, and she said that it was great, as it was fine in all occasions, while the other sometimes created problems. I obviously chose to believe her :) That said, I think that the majority of penises falling within a certain range, is an evolutionary thing, making the average work well more times, thus enhancing the chance of offspring.
- 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:
While I admit that I used to think trading was gambling I now know that while there is an element of gambling, there are a lot of measurable factors that make the “gambles” much more informed, even market psychology to some extent.
- Comment on Good to see AAFES looking out for my health 2 weeks ago:
I have smoked and vaped alternatively. When I’ve vaped I have breathed as bad or worse than smoking. Vape liquids are polyethylene glycol (or some other glycol, can’t remember) and glycerine, often in 50/50 or a close ratio up or down. When vaping you are coating your lungs in oil. Probably not better than smoke. Different type of harm, but definitely very harmful. Just think about it: oil in your lungs…
- Comment on Reincarnated into the exact opposite body 3 weeks ago:
Seems like a downgrade. Apparently Andre was was great human being
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 3 weeks ago:
Among the many factors, I think that we shouldn’t lose sights on the fact that statistically there is a percentage of any population who has no “normal” sexual orientation. This means that there a percentage of conservative/religious fundamentalists who are non-heterosexual CIS in the closet, who fight against sexual diversity to defend their chosen belief structure. There cannot be queers, thus they are an abomination that must be stamped out.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 3 weeks ago:
This
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 3 weeks ago:
I find this disingenuous, infantilizing. Racial discrimination and warring has been happening since the beginning of (recorded) time. It stems, among many, many other things (this thing is incredibly complex), from the fear of the other’s “unknowns”, a somewhat justified fear of others, given humanity’s penchant for conquering the neighbors. Another factor is the use of each own’s feeling of superiority over the other’s, to cover for one’s underlying fear of inferiority in some way. Take the example (one of many, not singling out here) of the Jews assertion that they are god’s chosen people, thus everyone else being inferior.
While divide and conquer has been used since the dawn of time, and adapted by the capitalists, the sad and simple fact is that people fear that which doesn’t conform to their comfortable life scheme, that people want certainty, and having a “different” is unsettling for many, and demonization is an easy way to prop one’s belief structure. People who exchange critical thinking for a “safe” belief structure, find it threatening to have others challenge that, so they fight back, to try to have that attack defeated. This can be exploited by others, to rally against that perceived common enemy. Wave a flag, and all who have a common belief of that flag representing their values will rally.
People don’t want to think, and/or challenge their beliefs. It’s a comfort thing.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 weeks ago:
It’s not microplastics that worry me. It’s heated plastics, which is why I don’t use plastics in the microwave or use non stick cookware. BTW, the fancy air fryer seems to be all metal, like the toaster ovens.
Also, why the downvotes to a reasonable question?
- Comment on Yeah really helpful 1 month ago:
Trump, that you?
- Comment on Asian Beauty 2 months ago:
I was once at a convenience store, run by a Chinese man, and this 30ish girl in a tank top, obviously a regular comes in and says @look I got my sons name tattooed. Then she says, “look, Aitor@“. The guysmiles nervously. She leaves, and I ask the guy, who es shaking his head, and he says that it was some random mataré sign.
- Comment on Asian Beauty 2 months ago:
Tristán is a proper local name in Spanish
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
The big ass rocket engines in the back fueled by the massive fuel tank may disagree with you
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
I hate Musk and his personal everything, but Like SpaceX. However, when people gush about reusability, they seem to forget the 135 Space Shuttle missions (2 fatal failures , yes.). All done with 5 vehicles. Yes expensive etc, but truly amazing.
Also, I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary. Impressive? Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.
Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.
- Comment on And don't get me started on "Sean" 2 months ago:
“Apparently, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was fond of pointing out the absurdities of English spelling by proving that “fish” could be spelled “ghoti”, That is, gh as in rough, o as in women and ti as in palatial”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Pretty shitty photoshop. Disrespectful to those who’ve been bombed
- Comment on jealousy 2 months ago:
You forgot the /s at the end of “fix your teeth by chewing on a pencil for 15 minutes a day”, right?
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 2 months ago:
They are cold blooded, so cold blooded…
- Comment on Since cats don't pant like dogs how do they release trapped heat? 2 months ago:
Not the unipant, or the monopant, for that matter.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 3 months ago:
In Spain a lot of stors disabled the system during covid, for highiene reasons. Some have returned and some still have tbe coin system disabled. Most people return them anyway. There is always the occasional asshole.
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
It’s no just Wuropeans, but the majority of the world
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 3 months ago:
I’m in Spain. I usually shop at Lidl, Aldi, or Mercadona, a large chain of medium size stores, generally well regarded, with a very good selection, and high quality house brands. Mercadona puts customer satisfaction first, and employee satisfaction second. This seems to be true as employee satisfaction is high, rotation low, and satisfaction levels of around 70%, which in this type of sector is very high. They also pay up to 150% of the median income for these types of jobs.
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 3 months ago:
This is a Carrefour, right? I’ve quit shopping at Carrefour a while back. I find their selection getting steadily worse, their house brands quality very low, their price not competitive. Nowadays I shop at medium size chains, and most of non food online, trying to use Amazon as a last resort.
- Comment on little hopper 3 months ago:
Birds are dinosaurs. Humans are not mammoths
