ValiantDust

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a lot of the stigma surrounding sex work in the modern day (that doesn’t just boil down to misogyny/gender norms/religion) is based on the fact that selling intimate aspects of one’s self places a set value on something that many see as sacred

  The fact that most of the times the stigma only clings to the person selling and not the person buying makes me think that this is actually a negligible part of the stigma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though, there are way more cows than crocodiles, snakes, sharks or deadly spiders in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding to what the other comments have already said: Don’t bring an unleashed dog on a cow pasture. You’d think that’s common sense, but apparently it’s a bit of a meme in Austria and Switzerland that every few months some German get’s trampled by cows because their totally friendly dog ran towards the cows and they felt threatened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also stopped dating them at some point apparently, so I’m not sure what you are trying to say. It’s not like the early stages of dating usually involve mowing the lawn or cleaning the house together so that’s something you only find out after having already found plenty of other things to like about this person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd: Machine⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, yours looks much more difficult than mine. I just had red balls coming out on top and having to leave at the bottom. Guess I’ll try another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess would be motion sickness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain why authors do this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m afraid I’m not following. The solution to what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain why authors do this?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only more readable than A and B but I would argue it’s also easier to remember who did what a few sentences or paragraphs earlier since Alice and Bob invoke slightly less generic mental images than A and B. For example one is a woman and the other one is a man, maybe even some person or character you know.

  And now that I’m thinking about it, the different gender also makes it easier to keep track of who does what because different pronouns are used (at least in English and many other languages).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, idk what OP is talking about. I had a snowball fight with my brother and went sledging with my cousins a few weeks ago and in summer I regularly meet up with friends to go riding our bikes, swim in a lake or explore the woods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best type of food to eat in an active shower?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe that no one mentioned the famous shower orange yet. On Reddit there is a whole subreddit dedicated to it.

  A cold orange in the shower perfect – it’s refreshing, it smells great and you don’t have to deal with the usual mess of eating an orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every goddamn time⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird sunglasses are also important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Abbreviate keeping the first and some random later consonants (and sometimes consonants that aren’t in the word at all) without using punctuation: Dr, Mr, Ms, Mrs

  I think it’s usually the first letter(s) and the last letter(s). In older English handwritings I’ve come across M.ʳ etc. So I think that’s were those came from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find this type of pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a moment I forgot about the omnipresence of AI generated pictures and wondered what the hell the thing in the second picture is supposed to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨walkie talkie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What I took away from this is that we urgently need to find the person in question and let them name everything. Alternatively the person who came up with the names in the post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does someone with no experience learn to make food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When starting to cook on my own, I always found it very stressful, because I felt you had to do so many things in parallel and then you look away for too long at the wrong time and something burned.

  What helped me is reading the whole recipe very carefully and then prepare everything before actually starting to cook. Many recipes tell you something like “while x simmers, cut y / prepare z”. That’s fine, when you have developed a feeling for how long things take, but as a beginner, it’s better to do everything sequentially. It takes longer that way, but it makes it much less stressful and overwhelming.