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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but brussel sprouts still taste like shit.

  Broccoli is and always has been really good, if cooked correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  270bar pneumatics… Fuck that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I work with industrial hydraulics, the forces involved in big gear are truly insane.

  Working pressures is around 270bar…on ~1.4m^2 of cylinders. Millions of kg of force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner took an “anonymous” survey at work once.

  When the results came out, it categorised the results. Site, m/f/o, role.

  Turns out that there was only one female engineer at her site… So everybody knew she was annoyed about some specific things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A 1.8%pa degradation over 10 years would be, 83.39%.

  Linearising it to make it “more intuitive” I guess.

  But 2%pa degradation gets you very close to the 18% over 10 years figure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes because fair skin implied that you were rich or upper class. White/pale skin = not working the fields or as a maid cleaning and getting dirty.

  That notion got turned on its head relatively recently, when in the 1920 Coco Chanel got a sun tan whilst in the French Rivera. Being tanned no longer meant that you were “low class”.

  A lot of old fairy tails are about paths to becoming rich. When Snow White was written it had little to do with race, if anything, and everything to do with classism. There was virtually no social mobility, if you were born poor you stayed poor! These are not aspirational stories designed to motivate you to better yourself, they are there to remind you of your place in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They nailed it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I feel inadequate, I have only been online since 87.

  I also hadn’t seen this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I read was “natural hangi pit”

  We have those all around where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a combination of this and the power of propaganda.

  When you can control the information that people consume, you can have a huge influence over what they think.
  If you can influence the thoughts of a big portion of the populous, you can create control structures. You use these control structures to move people into their emotional decision making more often. The more often you can keep people in their emotional decision mode, the easier you can control what they do.
  The thing is, the easiest way to keep people in their emotional thought mode, is to pull the fear and anger levers. Keep people afraid and angry, and you can steer society.

  The other problem with this is, the people who see through this kind of thing are not the majority.
  The people who can see through the techniques, are not always the traditionally “smart”; but higher intelligence is certainly an advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote a non-computer savvy friend from a few years ago. When he was talking to someone else, I just over heard the conversation.

  Na, I use VLC player. It always works, it will play a slice of cucumber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Examination you say? What kind?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it is nice to have a sign to tell me where to go. Weird that it is in the OB ward though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is why FOSS software is often faster, no traffic jams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO Krita is better than GIMP for the quick simple edits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drag has a point, I bet gun control laws would follow quickly.

  (said from the safety of New Zealand)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was rigged?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can happen, but statistically adult man vs adult woman is not a fair fight.

  I knew a guy at university; started going out with this smoking hot girl. She was a regional champ in jujitsu; it didn’t last long, turns out she was a violent piece of shit. Beat him up twice, he left after the second one. She had major anger management issues.

  But you turn that story around a little, similar situation, girl has same anger management issues, but without the training etc, she is unlikely to be a threat to any adult guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you are all out of fucks, doesn’t really have anything to do with the finite/infinite nature of all fucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope this is real.

  What a great story. I especially liked that the cousin had joined a badminton club and was going out to enjoy opera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or is this a terrible idea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My 3 boys, and various friends loved that toy.

  Yes; a lot of things get hit, even themselves.

  To anyone saying that these are a bad toy. You are wrong! There are so many learning opportunities for babies and toddlers in this toy.

  It is super cool seeing a really little kid “building” the duplo with their little hammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was surprised by the reaction to this movie. I really enjoyed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get this, other than Pulp Fiction, I dislike all of Tarantino’s films.

  I don’t like the style or the pacing, I don’t like the revisionist take on events.

  But people generally like his films.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a really big popular movie last year, I think it was called “The Barbie Movie”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this Kinder toy I got. What? How? Who?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that as scro-TU-mass, took me a second to figure out what you were saying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions physics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is one bold assumption right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is pretty much this, same reason lawyers use “legalese” in contracts. That word has an accepted meaning, when used the meaning is clear to others in the field. You don’t need an extra document to define each term as it is expected that others in the field will understand the language used.

  In saying that, sometimes it is just complication for the sake of complication.

  There is a saying, usually attributed to Einstein but could also be William of Ockham:

  Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.

  People often focus on the first part while ignoring the more important second part. When something is made too simple, you lose the nuance and fine detail that makes it a useful concept. Not everything can be ELI5’d, somethings are just really complicated.

• Oscar the grouch, is an ambush predator
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loses weight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t rush.

  Base it on how you feel. If you still feel unhealthy, then sure, put on a few extra kg. But if you feel ok, then don’t worry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loses weight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Earlier in the year I was in hospital for a while, had to have surgery. I went in at 80kg and after 5 weeks was just under 66kg.

  I’m 175cm tall, BMI 26.1 (technically over weight, but was very fit) down to 21.6, which is considered “normal” but I felt very skinny and unhealthy.

  The BMI thing is a little bit bullshit, since it doesn’t map fitness level.

  As for getting back to a healthy weight, take it slow, eat really healthy foods eat mostly nova 1 & 2 foods, some nova 3 and avoid nova 4 if possible.

  Also if you have been on antibiotics while in hospital, eat ferments like kimchi or sauerkraut, maybe drink some kombucha to rebuild your gut flora. But take it slow as it can really mess you up if you dump too much in at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOTY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you miss the opportunity to use “correspond-ass chess”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife Photography⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but he can also rip your arm off and beat you to death with it…

  When wrestling with a toddler, your stance doesn’t really matter.