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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually if you faff around with vouchers and buy an extra pizza and change the garlic bread to wedges oh and spend another £5 to make it into the deal, you can bring the price down to only slightly overpriced!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it but I haven’t seen a good way of doing a long quote. Do I need the > on every single line? I’ve no idea why this time it put it into a code block, maybe something to do with my app (sync). The comment actually looks fine in a code block on my app so I thought it was good enough. Didn’t realise how shit it looked on desktop until you brought it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t do it on purpose, I just copied and pasted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an attempted explanation

  Quinones are produced by epidermal cells for tanning the cuticle. This exists commonly in arthropods. [Dettner, 1987]
  
  Some of the quinones don't get used up, but sit on the epidermis, making the arthropod distasteful. (Quinones are used as defensive secretions in a variety of modern arthropods, from beetles to millipedes. [Eisner, 1970])
  
  Small invaginations develop in the epidermis between sclerites (plates of cuticle). By wiggling, the insect can squeeze more quinones onto its surface when they're needed.
  
  The invaginations deepen. Muscles are moved around slightly, allowing them to help expel the quinones from some of them. (Many ants have glands similar to this near the end of their abdomen. [Holldobler & Wilson, 1990, pp. 233-237])
  
  A couple invaginations (now reservoirs) become so deep that the others are inconsequential by comparison. Those gradually revert to the original epidermis.
  
  In various insects, different defensive chemicals besides quinones appear. (See Eisner, 1970, for a review.) This helps those insects defend against predators which have evolved resistance to quinones. One of the new defensive chemicals is hydroquinone.
  
  Cells that secrete the hydroquinones develop in multiple layers over part of the reservoir, allowing more hydroquinones to be produced. Channels between cells allow hydroquinones from all layers to reach the reservior.
  
  The channels become a duct, specialized for transporting the chemicals. The secretory cells withdraw from the reservoir surface, ultimately becoming a separate organ.
  
  This stage -- secretory glands connected by ducts to reservoirs -- exists in many beetles. The particular configuration of glands and reservoirs that bombardier beetles have is common to the other beetles in their suborder. [Forsyth, 1970]
  
  Muscles adapt which close off the reservior, thus preventing the chemicals from leaking out when they're not needed.
  
  Hydrogen peroxide, which is a common by-product of cellular metabolism, becomes mixed with the hydroquinones. The two react slowly, so a mixture of quinones and hydroquinones get used for defense.
  
  Cells secreting a small amount of catalases and peroxidases appear along the output passage of the reservoir, outside the valve which closes it off from the outside. These ensure that more quinones appear in the defensive secretions. Catalases exist in almost all cells, and peroxidases are also common in plants, animals, and bacteria, so those chemicals needn't be developed from scratch but merely concentrated in one location.
  
  More catalases and peroxidases are produced, so the discharge is warmer and is expelled faster by the oxygen generated by the reaction. The beetle Metrius contractus provides an example of a bombardier beetle which produces a foamy discharge, not jets, from its reaction chambers. The bubbling of the foam produces a fine mist. [Eisner et al., 2000]
  
  The walls of that part of the output passage become firmer, allowing them to better withstand the heat and pressure generated by the reaction.
  
  Still more catalases and peroxidases are produced, and the walls toughen and shape into a reaction chamber. Gradually they become the mechanism of today's bombardier beetles.
  
  The tip of the beetle's abdomen becomes somewhat elongated and more flexible, allowing the beetle to aim its discharge in various directions.
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word literally makes me so irrationally angry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was playing a video game with a buddy recently. I was in the middle of a flank and he said he was out of ammo. I said “literally 0 bullets?” And he said “yep literally 0”. I aborted my flank to run back and give him some ammo but got killed as I ran back. Just then, he starts shooting.

  I don’t think context makes the word “literally” clear. We ruined the word and now we need a new one to establish we’re not exaggerating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the reason I stopped playing pubg and I couldn’t get my head round it either. In theory people may enjoy it more because it’s easier to win, and who doesn’t like winning? Yes it’s not a real win against bots but the bots are a secret so maybe it feels like a real win?

  But it’s obvious that you’re against bots. If people enjoy playing against bots why not just include a bot mode?

  I see a few possible reasons

  1. Most people are ignorant to the bots. They play a few games, they win, they’re happy. They don’t realise they only had 4 humans in their lobby.

  2. People eventually realise they’re against bots but the devs are stupid. They did some focus groups and detected people being happy. These people would have eventually realised they’re against bots and hated it but the focus groups didn’t detect that. Like a pepsi challenge.

  3. Blissful ignorance? People kind of know they’re against bots but turn a blind eye and wins still feel good. They wouldn’t play a specific 100% bot mode because they want a “real win”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not supposed to make sense...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember explaining something regarding special relativity to my colleagues once, and they replied that I must be wrong because “That doesn’t make sense at all”. Of course it doesn’t make sense, that’s how you know I’m right!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember playing Assault on the Control Room on Halo 1 and one of the doors glitched and didn’t unlock. I must have walked around those hallways for hours trying to work out where I was supposed to go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like they just did it for a laugh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You fool you just typed it and spoiled your experiment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m part of those people. The usual argument is that everybody’s phone is listening all the time, without agreeing to permissions or showing the mic notification or anything like that. I’ve never seen any proof of that. This article is about a bunch of shovelware apps (Pool 3D, Beer pong: Trickshot, Honey Quest etc) that aren’t even listed anymore. There’s nothing about them skirting permissions or hiding the notification.

  People see the headline and assume it’s Facebook et al.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I FUCKING HATE GIFT VOUCHERS.

  I have a little stack of vouchers for places I almost never visit, all expiring at random times in the next year or so. I have to remember what shops I have them for and make sure I spend money there before they expire. It’s just one more thing to worry about. “Oh, I have to buy this from Screwfix - do we have the vouchers for them? Maybe! How much? I don’t know, it doesn’t say on there. Has it expired yet? Not sure. Do they work online? Oh it’s not working maybe we used it and forgot to bin it”. And then the annoyance of spending money somewhere and forgetting to use vouchers. Why do people burden me with this and consider it a gift? Do I look like somebody who shops at John Lewis?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it’s becoming less common for people to start comments with “Imagine…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you agree on the correct pronunciation of schedule. Fuck the people that say schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He never had it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3034: Features of Adulthood⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a lot of effort being put into teaching us to stop, drop and roll if we were ever on fire. Kinda thought that knowledge would have been put to the test by now, but I haven’t even been on fire once!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have 8 seconds.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, who gets phone numbers these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh it’s better than making plastic shite to deliberately throw away