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- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 1 week ago:
You might want to consider a priest for the damned lakes (which were presumably corrupted by the damned rain?)
- Comment on EUROBEE 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but people don’t make a big deal about “save the deer!” and then start a cattle ranch
- Comment on EUROBEE 2 weeks ago:
This is one reason why I love my native lupine plants. They occasionally get honeybee visitors, but I’ve noticed honeybees struggle with getting the flowers open to access the nectar. Bumblebee lands and his big fat body causes the flower to open right up. Gee it’s almost like they co-evolved!
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
Fukisima
- Comment on Forams 1 month ago:
“Hoshi-zuna no Hama” (星砂の浜) literally means “Star-sand Beach”
- Comment on epidemiology 1 month ago:
Oh shit, is that why nobody attended the 2009 Time Travelers party? No one wanted to be the person who killed the great Steven Hawking
- Comment on Review: Heaven's Design Team (Anime TV) 2 months ago:
I think it slipped under a lot of folks’ radars! “Delightfully silly and educational” is a pretty good summary. It’s also one of the very few “family TV” anime out there: nothing questionable for the kids, nothing obnoxious for the adults, hopefully interesting and engaging all around.
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- Comment on 'They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families as millions struggle to feed their children, researcher says 2 months ago:
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed
Has it?
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- Comment on Dog Trap 2 months ago:
This is just a shitty version of an old Stupid Fox comic.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing is coming to grocery stores 3 months ago:
Like, customers do not want the price of their Kvikk Lunsj to go up while they’re shopping. So while the supermarket is open, prices shall only go down. Price increases happen overnight
Okay, so how do you deal with having all your customers shop exclusively during the last hour of business because that’s when prices are guaranteed to be at their lowest?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Holy crap that’s complex. And for what? We know that the more complicated a system is the more prone it is to loopholes and abuse. If you’re a single parent working three jobs, or a foster kid who just aged out of the system and are newly on your own, or mentally disabled, or undereducated, or simply trying to keep your shit together while trying to deal with something like addiction or mental illness or recent homelessness or what have you, you’re undoubtedly going to be leaving a shitload of money on the table by not having the time/energy/wherewithal to fully take advantage of this convoluted system, even though you’re part of the exact population that needs the most assistance. UBI experiments (and similar examples from the charity world) have been pretty clear: just give people the fucking cash, no strings, no fine print, no hoops, and that will have the best result for the recipients, and the least overhead for the givers.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 3 months ago:
You shouldn’t really use metal on stainless steel; stick with wood or silicone.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 3 months ago:
At least upgrade to silicone. I’m baffled that cooking utensils even come in nylon. Options should only be metal, wood, silicone if intended to use near heat.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 3 months ago:
Firewatch is more in the visual novel category. I did in fact give it a replay with completely different choices to see how it changed things, and was disappointed to find that all choices are merely for aesthetics and make zero difference in the plot. However it’s a well-made enough game (especially dialogue and voice acting) that it was still kinda fun to play again.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 3 months ago:
I would somewhat disagree with Subnautica. There are lots of different settings you can try to make the game harder or more survival-oriented that might be worth a try if your first play-through was on a simpler/easier mode. Plus there are the creation modes where you can create your own base without restrictions. However as a story-oriented game I’d agree it has lower-than-average replay value.
- Comment on Knock-off pokemon was wild 3 months ago:
Wait till you find out about Yu-Gi-Oh
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I still struggle with reading it quickly and fluently compared to hiragana (although that’s often because the words are clunky af loanwords), but I’d still much rather it exist than not. かれはぼうなすをもらったらおうすとらりあに行くつもり is a bugger to read without katakana.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I leaned Japanese in a mixed-nationality school where I was one of the only English-native students. I did not envy their struggles with katakana, as I’m sure the Chinese-native students did not envy my struggles with kanji! (Meanwhile everyone else just struggled lol.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
As a Japanese learner, katakana is a godsend. It’s like reading a scientific paper in English and having all the Latin in italics, as an indicator that “don’t worry this is a foreign word, you’re not an idiot for not recognizing it.” Especially because most katakana words are derived from English (or words you’d recognize as an English speaker) so it’s just a matter of saying it over and over until the pieces click into place. Example: オーストラリア = Oosutoraria = Oh-s-t-rah-ree-uh = Australia.
Also outside of picture books for young children, Japanese doesn’t use spaces and has way fewer sounds than most languages which results in a LOT of homonyms and similar words that all blends together (see other comment YouTube link). So having three writing systems in one really helps convey meaning and makes reading much faster.
- Comment on If I put a gallon of 10% cider vinegar in a shallow pan and let 1/2 gallon evaporate, will that make it double its strength? 4 months ago:
I would try Bon Ami first. Less toxic (don’t need to wear gloves or worry so much about inhalation) and less abrasive (I’m assuming the plant trays are plastic). But I’m not sure if either would work great on lime buildup; maybe after some vinegar application to soften things up first?
- Comment on Our food systems are the greatest 5 months ago:
For years I avoided seafood for the microplastics issue, then that study just dropped revealing that it’s in chicken, beef, and plant-based meats too. Fuck
meall of us, right? - Comment on Here as well 6 months ago:
This little bit of news has been hitting the media circuit this week: [www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/…/ar-AA1lGv3y](Americans are eating a meal’s worth of calories in snack foods every day)
…the average American had between 400 and 500 calories worth of snacks a day, which is typically more than what they ate at breakfast. Even worse, the snacks usually carried little to no nutritional value
All food has gotten expensive due to inflation/greedflation, but (at least in my area) snacks, desserts, and some sugary drinks got hit especially hard. Except maybe for people living in food deserts, snacks are way more of a luxury good than “whole” foods are nowadays.
- Comment on Challenge accepted 6 months ago:
Columbia should be Jefferson. Alternatively Columbia could be Oregon, then Oregon becomes Columbia.
- Comment on Tesla's reputation slumps as GM, Ford climb - Tesla ranked 62nd by reputation among the 100 most visible brands, tumbling from 12th last year and 8th in 2021. 6 months ago:
They rank lower than Volkswagen! I didn’t think that was possible given the VW emissions scandal that just happened in [checks notes] 2015?! My god everything from 2016 onward has just been a giant blur hasn’t it
- Comment on xkcd #2862: Typical Seating Chart 6 months ago:
Imagine a coast-to-coast red eye in the bumper car seats. Or a transatlantic flight. RIP anyone on a non-stop from Singapore to NYC. And that’s assuming there’s no turbulence…
- Comment on xkcd #2862: Typical Seating Chart 6 months ago:
Fully honest audit of my cycling abilities: we never left the ground in the first place
- Comment on We're all residents here. 6 months ago:
A psych PhD I know once said of their fellow grad students: “most of them could have saved a lot of time and money if they’d just gone to therapy instead.”
- Comment on xkcd #2862: Typical Seating Chart 6 months ago:
Everyone’s going for the gunner seats… An I the only one whose restless legs are excited to have the opportunity to pedal?