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- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 days ago:
Low quality wine is much worse than its alcohol content.
Random personal anecdote: I can’t drink stout beers anymore. A single one gives me the worst hangovers. Same quantity of alcohol in other beverages doesn’t have nearly the same effects.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 days ago:
But by then they have school, so I can as well have my own job.
Sure, I wouldn’t want anymore an all-encompassing job as I had before, but a 9-5 is perfect.
- Comment on Just say the word 2 days ago:
Counterpoint: I took some months off work when my first one was born. And I hated it. I felt that all my value was as “baby-sustaining-machine”, the highest mental skill requested any given day was loading a laundry load and it was very socially isolating (not many people available during working hours for socializing). At the same time, it was stressful being constantly the only one in charge. I was relieved to drop them at daycare and get back to work.
Now that they are of early school age, I enjoy spending time with them, but I also find it taxing. I know I wouldn’t be a good parent if I were to do it 24/7. But I am glad to spend every non-school moments together.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 weeks ago:
“And the rest of her body?” She skinny!
- Comment on Everybody: Share Your Funniest Current or Past Desktop Backgrounds! 2 weeks ago:
Very pretty! Loving the fading of focus
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 3 weeks ago:
Agreed on this. Polpette is supposed to be a second course, while pasta sauces are supposed to be “saucy”, not over-clumpy as polpette
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 3 weeks ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 3 weeks ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 3 weeks ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
The market has shrunk and the prices have gone up… there are still some good items on the second hand market, at times, depending on location.
- Comment on I'm there! 4 weeks ago:
Googling seems quite effective, honestly. For example here
For my friend, I think was a Google search as well
- Comment on Real 4 weeks ago:
The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.
For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.
- Comment on I'm there! 4 weeks ago:
Over the summer, archeologist groups look for helpers. Here is an example. It’s often mostly grunt work in a bigger group.
There are also plenty of small seminars scattered around the world with artisans teaching their techniques. A friend of mine made a sword for example.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 4 weeks ago:
I learned the hard way that my limit is one and a half. The half means “sometimes, a second shot is fine, sometimes NOT”
- Comment on Off the Rails 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t heard of since there was a clear explanation of how the eye evolved - since that one was a specific example they were referring to
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Love your description! Incredibly fitting! It’s tasteless honey, basically. Very sweet but not much else
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Absolutely. And in the less extreme variants, there are cultures for which good food is the base of socialization - you mostly meet up for dinner or similar - and others where good food is the exception, happening for big occasions and parties but not an every day occurrence.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Dutchies eat to survive, no care at all about what it is they are eating…
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Not drowns every flavor in corn syrup!
- Comment on Peas plz 1 month ago:
I heard the problem was with yeast interacting poorly with their digestion. Pear, power of the internet, tell me if I’m wrong!
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 months ago:
Ohhh daaaaam!!
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t there be other possible plants that would provide the same alkaloid compounds?
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 2 months ago:
We haven’t crossed the point of no return. We are accelerating because we keep press on the acceleration. If we stopped (as we did temporarily during Covid), stuff would get back on track. We have to act now
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 2 months ago:
I don’t get it… I’m getting to the point that i dislike receiving most presents because i don’t have a use for them. Like: “ thanks for thinking about me and getting me this… plastic cheap Christmas decoration/little toy/picture book that I will never use”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 2 months ago:
Like a mildly modified version of geisha? Wow!
- Comment on Racism restaurant 2 months ago:
I think the key word was unaged. Cheese tends to become yellow when aged, starting very quickly. But stuff like cottage cheese and mozzarella are indeed milk colored
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 2 months ago:
Some time ago, my colleague tried to pitch to our boss to turn the coffee room into a ball room. Unfortunately, cost and sanitation problems were impossible to fix :/
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
Ironically, I work a lot with Fourier Transform. Still feels like magic. I even taught it! I’m trying to develop more intuition about it (vs hard knowledge)
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
Magic!
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 months ago:
That explains just a tiny part. There are so many different sounds at the same volume and frequency