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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only that, on the other end of the graph it is known that poverty is a great stressor requiring constant mental bandwidth - that therefore can’t see used to “be smart”. So poorer people are not less smart, they allocated their mental resources to take care of their situation first and only later try to look smart in the test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday and every way I keep getting better and better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the system wants it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been mulling it over since the previous post. I got taught that French was read-as-written and repeated it. But now, I realize there is more.

  Mangent is like rangent but not like gent - because mangent is a verb and is pronounced practically without the -nt. On the other hand intelligent is like gent, because it’s not a verb. The question is also obfuscated by nge being a different sound than ge and that intelligent and gent have the accent on the last syllable, while mangent and rangent have the accent on the one-to-last syllable.

  For a better example of the difference in pronunciation between verb and noun, mangent and tangent would be better and there is indeed a difference.

  Furthermore, (I think) tangent needs to have the accent on the last syllable because gent is a long sound here. While in mangent the last syllable is not long, therefore the accent recesses.

  My teachers lied to me and I blindly believed them. Sorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How the sugar is packaged is also important. Standard white sugar is refined to be easier to digest - less gets pooped out. Fruits and berries sugar is (mostly) fructose with fibers and other elements. In the mouth fructose tastes equally sweet but the stomach has more troubles digesting it and converting it into usable energy. So you absorb way less and poop out way more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say, same prononciation different accent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you give me an example?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know Danish, but French is at least consistent in what is pronounced and what is not. So seeing a word will tell you how to pronounce it even if it’s the first time you encounter it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not only vowels, but consonants disappearing or just having a different flavor of sounds in each word. Like word, sword, swan…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The last point resonates with me! 😭 all other European languages are actually write-as-you-speak. Why, English, why???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I attempted this. I enrolled on an evening course and followed it for a year, doing all the exercises and so on. After one year, I had a rudimentary understanding of the simplest symbols (no kanji) and could do a minimal baby talk. From there, there is a lot of vocabulary. I abandoned. It’s not an easy path, but maybe missing other languages in the same family helps. For me, Japanese was my first non-European language. Fascinating but haaaaard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used for a bit a tiny pillow under my lower back to ease back pain. It has to be the right size, otherwise it makes it worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨psycho killer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree, except in the Epstein case the problem is not (only) that there are a bunch of pedophiles. I would say that the problem is that there is a broad, rich, influential network of pedophiles, that could be easily dismantled if the Epstein files were properly investigated. The magnitude of the event makes it all the more revolting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this essay...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are missing some properties of successors (uniqueness and s(n) different than any m<= n)

  That would avoid “branching” of two different successors to n and loops in which a successor is a smaller number than n

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shiny!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Love this community because it sends me back to Wikipedia at least once a day to expand my world view. Thanks 💚

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider that the full number is world wide. How many of them are US based or US involved?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard anything about it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this thought has been hanging in the back of my brain for a while. As soon as I had a little money, I asked myself how to maximize my protection against climate change. (I am still mulling over it) So I would expect billionaires to really care about it, at least for their own personal wellness. But that’s not how it seems. It looks like they are warring over the same old resources, not noticing how the world of tomorrow is going to be drastically different from the world of today. Or maybe they are setting up personal guerrilla groups to defend themselves? I’m lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blaine!

  In the Dark Tower series, there is indeed a horror train. Great section

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hopped around in Europe with no problem: applied online to jobs, as soon as i got a job found a place. If you are young with little commitments and there is no bureaucracy hindering you, relocating is super easy. Nowadays, with a family with young kids, relocating is much more of a commitment. Luckily we really like it here, so we are not planning a new move any time soon.

  Brief timeline:

  • did my bachelor in my hometown
  • did a 6 months student transfer
  • decided I didn’t want to go back, applied for a new university outside the EU (no visa needed for students)
  • found two internships during my master in two different EU countries (no visa needed, unpaid so no tax hurdles)
  • found a phd position in a new EU country (no visa needed, moved with two suitcases and an easyjet plain ticket)
  • moved to US for a temporary position (this was actually bureaucratically demanding, the move took 8 months between getting the job and being there)
  • moved back to EU without a job prospect, found a temp job in a country I had already visited (no visa problems)
  • moved again for a fixed position (last move, with a kid, took some 3 months to plan out)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll apologize first: Sorry, kind internet stranger, you walked right in one of my pet peeves. (Now I feel morally justified in starting my rant with a level of emotional involvement that is totally and admittedly unjustified)

  WOMEN’S POCKETS ARE A F****ING JOKE! Have you ever tried putting anything more that the glimmering sparkle of a summer night in a woman pants pocket? It either falls right off or tries to stab the kidney once the poor girl sits down. Usually both.

  Because pants need to be stupidly skinny and form fitting, not made for comfort or for carrying anything!

  My toddler’s pockets (2 years old) are bigger than mine!

  /end rant, feel free to ring me up for extra rants on the subject

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should my character be 21-23?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me way too long to notice this is a shitpost 🤦‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Plastic Mr. Fantastic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I avoid so many things lately because of packaging!

  My biggest pet peeve at the moment is milk. There are so many dairy farmers nearby, all single use plastic containers :( while the same companies would have yogurt in glass jars that they ask back from the consumer and reuse. Why the difference?!

  I barely shop at normal supermarkets anymore, and I’m glad I’m able to eat the cost increase (~10% overall).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet rent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into it, and the law is fuzzy, because it states that you are allowed to have “small animals” but it never defines what a small animal is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  will keep me going for a long time along with the money

  This depends entirely on you. I chose my path in life thinking “what can I do today and still be passionate to do tomorrow?” And here I am, some 15 years later, still liking my everyday tasks.

  Some comments: not many writers have an income stream out of their work. Many have a little extra at the end of the month, most have their name on a book and that’s it. The Steven King/Rowling/… are few and far between.

  A degree in Physics opens many doors if you do it seriously: physics research and coding being the two main one, but not only.

  All comments we can give are local to us, your location and the society around you really influences the options. Talk to your seniors and professors and anyone willing to answer your questions about the job market. Think outside of the box but look at the data around you before jumping ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking 😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found a plastic handle for the mandoline. If you mess up, the handle gets cut but your fingers survive unscathed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking 😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A second hand mandoline a game changer in that regard! Chopping/slicing/cutting evenly suddenly to a fraction of the time. Would drivel recommend (second hand because first hand are stupidly expensive if you rent good quality)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking 😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know the half of that, and I was mildly happier for it :(

  Usually Chinese garlic is also a different plant than European garlic. You can notice it by the fact that the roots of the garlic fall off in a neat chunk for Chinese garlic but stay attached for European garlic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking 😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes the onions fry quicker in oil!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went into a deep dive on the matter. Many countries have food pyramids, but they look potentially very different. For a laugh, look up the Italian one, with pizza and pasta at the base! I nowadays refer to the Harvard food pyramid, seems fairly legit to me.