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- Comment on Cutting sucks 12 hours ago:
Once during the early pandemic, I inadvertently received 12 pounds of frozen broccoli from a grocery delivery (~5,5 kilos). I have never been too full for a piece of broccoli, and didn’t have the space in my freezer for all of it, so I decided to make a huge amount and see how much I could actually eat.
I made 6 pounds (roasted with spices and a little olive oil) and ate it all without issue. I honestly could have eaten more, but I was a little worried about causing myself digestive issues. I didn’t have any, even though doing the math, I was over 4% broccoli afterwards.
- Comment on Count yourself lucky 12 hours ago:
How long is 6000 metric miles?
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t know if they do the right e sound there, but that’s 100% how I pronounce it in English (I’m from New England, so I would assume it’s pronounced more correctly in Texas, but maybe not).
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 days ago:
Tbh, excepting maybe bail peprs, I think they’re all written phonetically for the local accent.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 4 days ago:
Just one shoe
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
asking for help moving boxes /eyeroll
Just as an aside, I would do this regardless of my interest. If I’m moving and there’s someone watching, I’m going to try to enlist help. They can say no and I won’t be offended in any way, but I’ll give it a shot, because moving sucks and it’s faster with more hands. I won’t gush about how strong the movers are or anything, but I will offer them beer/pizza afterwards.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, that niche is filled by axel springer, instead of just being empty
- Comment on kingdom come 1 week ago:
For example, I can’t think of any tuber that could sneak into a fruit salad unnoticed.
It’s not whole, but I can definitely imagine tapioca being used to thicken the juice for a fruit salad, and that comes from cassava, a tuber.
- Comment on well? 1 week ago:
Xerry kible cellow dip
- Comment on Horny🧠 2 weeks ago:
Dicks are normally more visible when aroused, but vaginas sometimes make it look like you’ve pissed yourself. Appearance aside, wet underwear is pretty uncomfortable and can lead to skin irritations. As to why the place that gets wet is the same place that grows coarse hair and slightly moves whenever you walk? Curse of Eve, I guess.
It might just be that the grass is greener, but I’d prefer to tuck an erection into my waistband than deal with soaked underwear. Absolutely no envy about balls though, they seem very uncomfortable all around.
- Comment on Horny🧠 2 weeks ago:
It’s very much like height, where it’s correlated, but not restricted to people with lots of testosterone (more relevant than having a dick). And it really sucks being Trijntje Keever.
- Comment on Horny🧠 2 weeks ago:
That’s one of the reasons I’m worried about transitioning. I’m already horny more frequently and intensely than any dude I’ve ever dated. Adding more testosterone to the mix sounds like a bad idea
- Comment on You either know what cute aggression is, and understand it...or you think the concept makes a person sound like a future serial killer who's going around squeezing the life out of puppies. 2 weeks ago:
I want a quantum superstate to exist wherein I both squeeze my cat as hard as I want and she enjoys the experience, suffering no harm.
- Comment on 12ft.io down? 2 weeks ago:
How do you do that? (ELI5, please)
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone else know how to get into the safe?
- Comment on It’s the little things 2 weeks ago:
Capillary action doesn’t happen without surface tension, so long stemmed woody plants are out. Iirc, mushrooms were not super common before trees and spread by decomposing them, so those are gone too
- Comment on It’s the little things 2 weeks ago:
Trees wouldn’t exist, so life would definitely look different.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
Ime, Germans love shitting on other Germans’ English skills. I’m an English (and German) speaking immigrant in Germany, and I honestly think most people do pretty well, but nobody here finds it as impressive as I do.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 3 weeks ago:
The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 3 weeks ago:
Salt was not expensive for people living near the coast. It got very expensive for people not living near the coast, where ships don’t help much with transportation. It’s heavier than water by volume, because it’s a rock.
I was adding to your comment, because you skipped over the shipping costs, which made up the majority of the price for people not lucky enough to live near salt production.
It’s like mangoes today. If you live where they grow, they’re cheap as fuck. If you don’t, they’re expensive, but not impossible for most people to purchase.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 3 weeks ago:
It’s also because salt is heavy as fuck, so transporting it from coasts and places with salt mines was expensive.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 weeks ago:
They all are, once, unless people are selling unsealed jarred goods. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it would have been something I used when cooking breakfast, so maybe salsa.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I was PISSED. I can’t even eat pork and was just being a good houseguest the morning after a party, and then suddenly had to clean up a bunch of shattered glass and pork fat in someone else’s kitchen.
Canning jars are made to withstand temperature changes though.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 weeks ago:
I pour when it’s hot to the touch, but not unpleasant, so probably around 50-60 C
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 weeks ago:
It won’t necessarily shatter it, but it absolutely can. I’ve done it with a jar I had washed the original product out of shortly beforehand. Just because it’s never happened to you doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 3 weeks ago:
It depends on where you’re from, glass jars/drinking glasses in Germany don’t shatter from thermal shock, but they do in the US.
I reflexively yelled at my boss once because he poured recently boiling water out of a glass and turned the cold faucet on to rinse it out while scrubbing, and I thought he was about to cut the shit out of his hand. He got contemplative for a moment and then said that he had forgotten that that used to happen in Afghanistan (where he was from), but it doesn’t happen in Germany.
- Comment on 2000's 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I just want to vomit forever. That’s so malignantly perverse
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s more sporadic in Germany, but because it’s less of a police state, they sometimes have to get creative. I don’t disagree that the US is measurably worse in basically all categories, but Germany’s not exactly good. It just goes to show that all cops are bastards.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
Orwell was writing what he knew
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
They used to be glorious though.