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- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 day 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 2 days ago:
The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 2 days 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 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Sometimes I just want to vomit forever. That’s so malignantly perverse
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Orwell was writing what he knew
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
They used to be glorious though.
- Comment on Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought 1 week ago:
Nah, I get background music because I don’t need “sound” for my thoughts. Generally it’s nice, sometimes it’s baby shark
- Comment on Up to half of the earth's population doesn't have an inner monologue, up to half of the earth has never had a shower thought 1 week ago:
I process thoughts visually, as typed text. It’s like a fucking ticker tape when I get going having random thoughts and I definitely experience shower thoughts.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s a British term for a lawyer who can plead cases in court. Baristas make coffee
- Comment on Shark Week 2025 1 week ago:
He was probably not intending to have two bodies’ worth of water displacement.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
I feel like most copypastas (at least the ones that I can think of) were initially received poorly. The 300 confirmed kills one and the vaporeon one are unfortunately the only ones I can remember off hand, but they definitely were
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think being a sex symbol is something you need to grow out of, but you absolutely need to grow out of relationships where you get slut shamed and I’m glad she did.
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 2 weeks ago:
Her first husband, yes
- Comment on You know which voice to use. We all know which voice to use. 2 weeks ago:
You made me look it up and holy fuck is this a dick move:
The couple, who married just four months ago, reportedly got into an explosive argument at Universal studio chief Ron Meyer’s house two weeks ago. Meyer screened Borat for Rock, Anderson, and several others, and Rock considered Anderson’s performance, of which he apparently knew nothing whatsoever, so embarrassing and infuriating that he reputedly called her a “slut” and a “whore.” Since then, relations between the two have gone from bad to worse, and Anderson announced that the split was for real on her website Monday (Nov. 27).
I figured kid rock just had a dumb sense of humor and thought it was funny to repeatedly call her “my wife,” but apparently he preferred slut shaming her. I’m also confused about how you marry Pamela Anderson without being cool with her doing sexy things on camera.
That said, it’s nearly twenty years ago and was initially reported by the New York Post, so take it with a grain of salt.
- Comment on What a fun guy! 2 weeks ago:
I have always interpreted it more like people with a build like Zach woods, not just people who exercise. And in my sexual history, the skinny ones were all smokers, which has got to have an impact.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 weeks ago:
They really always are.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 weeks ago:
The POS system at my bakery rounds up when it’s for a customer (getting half of a loaf of bread for example) and down when it calculates the 50% employee discount. That alone has a weirdly huge impact on my job satisfaction.
- Comment on What a fun guy! 2 weeks ago:
My sister used to say “skinny guys get all the cock,” which I have not yet seen disproven in 15+ years of sexual activity primarily with men (though I’m generally skeptical about things like that). She’s married now and has toned it down, so she hasn’t said it in a while, but her husband is skinny.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
They should make cases with the adapter built in, the way they used to (still do?) for external battery packs.
- Comment on Historically love sugar 2 weeks ago:
She voted against the monarchy, I don’t think she wanted to be queen
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Better or worse than a cup of Jill though?
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
Well how else would you use synonyms for a noun?
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 3 weeks ago:
I fucking love the etymology of animal and food words. My favorite is deer, which is related to the German Tier, and originally meant “animal,” because I imagine early Germanic speakers looking at a deer and thinking “this is it, the quintessential animal.” I get it, honestly.