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- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Following others: definitely do not think of avocados as fruit, it’s closer to carrots (has some sweetness, but wouldn’t put it in a fruit salad).
Great easy combos I haven’t seen suggested yet: with bread and feta/salty cheese, with salt pepper and mayonnaise, with oil vinegar and mustard.
I haven’t ever had cooked avocado.
I guess I’m in the minority here, because I quite like avocados on their own. Getting a good one changes everything and getting it at perfect ripeness is important and impacts taste too. If it feels hard, it’s too early. It should have a little bit of give when you squeeze it lightly. If it has black or dark spots inside it’s starting to go. If it has air pockets inside and/or mold you lost your shot - you can still cut off those parts and eat the rest but it will not be at peak tastiness.
- Comment on Humanity's concern with the extinction of a species depends on its complexity and cuteness. 2 weeks ago:
The “panda effect”!
Good news, environmental agencies know about it and exploit it. They select species that they call umbrella species. The gist is that protecting those species (eg pandas) also protect a lot of other less cute, more resilient, but nonetheless important species and ecosystems (eg bamboo forests).
- Comment on It's literally science 3 weeks ago:
With a standing desk, you have to be very careful in not being stationary. Standing in the same position for an hour is not great for your back at all, but the goal of a standing desk is to constantly move a little bit and relax your back muscles. Ideally, you want some sort of standing desk pad that forces you to subconsciously constantly move.
- Comment on It's literally science 3 weeks ago:
The best exercise is the one you actually do
That’s how I finally got to exercise regularly. First, I spend way too long trying to hype myself up for running. Never happened. I hate running. No amount of convenience can convince me. Then I started hiking and yoga and swimming and whatever came my way. Sure, I don’t have any sort of routine, but I do some sport very regularly!
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 3 weeks ago:
Or some ultra-Christian middle age stuff against nudity even in the bedroom
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 3 weeks ago:
Poor gynecologists…
- Comment on Chat are we cooked? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t most countries have constitutions though?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 weeks ago:
Unbelievable…
The more I see about education nowadays, the more I realize I would not survive it anymore. So many tests and assignments and whatever, students have barely any time left to think or be bored. Everything gets constantly evaluated.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
Low quality wine is much worse than its alcohol content.
Random personal anecdote: I can’t drink stout beers anymore. A single one gives me the worst hangovers. Same quantity of alcohol in other beverages doesn’t have nearly the same effects.
- Comment on Just say the word 1 month ago:
But by then they have school, so I can as well have my own job.
Sure, I wouldn’t want anymore an all-encompassing job as I had before, but a 9-5 is perfect.
- Comment on Just say the word 1 month ago:
Counterpoint: I took some months off work when my first one was born. And I hated it. I felt that all my value was as “baby-sustaining-machine”, the highest mental skill requested any given day was loading a laundry load and it was very socially isolating (not many people available during working hours for socializing). At the same time, it was stressful being constantly the only one in charge. I was relieved to drop them at daycare and get back to work.
Now that they are of early school age, I enjoy spending time with them, but I also find it taxing. I know I wouldn’t be a good parent if I were to do it 24/7. But I am glad to spend every non-school moments together.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 months ago:
“And the rest of her body?” She skinny!
- Comment on Everybody: Share Your Funniest Current or Past Desktop Backgrounds! 2 months ago:
Very pretty! Loving the fading of focus
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
Agreed on this. Polpette is supposed to be a second course, while pasta sauces are supposed to be “saucy”, not over-clumpy as polpette
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on pasta bowl of nades 2 months ago:
In the north, they exist, usually in tomato sauce, but not as a pasta sauce
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 months ago:
The market has shrunk and the prices have gone up… there are still some good items on the second hand market, at times, depending on location.
- Comment on I'm there! 2 months ago:
Googling seems quite effective, honestly. For example here
For my friend, I think was a Google search as well
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
The most groundbreaking moment in this sense for me was when I was writing course notes for an introductory course (level 300 on my specialty, I was ready). On a small topic, I had my references lined up, until a colleague shared that the obvious, well-known, widely referenced result had been disproven a couple of years prior. The new proof is far from simple, does not belong in a level 300 class and made me scrap the whole section.
For the interested: the course was Introduction to Numerical Analysis, the topic was the order of convergence of the bisection method. Widely known but wrong result Ironically, I can’t quickly find the paper disproving it.
- Comment on I'm there! 2 months ago:
Over the summer, archeologist groups look for helpers. Here is an example. It’s often mostly grunt work in a bigger group.
There are also plenty of small seminars scattered around the world with artisans teaching their techniques. A friend of mine made a sword for example.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 2 months ago:
I learned the hard way that my limit is one and a half. The half means “sometimes, a second shot is fine, sometimes NOT”
- Comment on "There Will Come Soft Rains", A Soviet anti-war animated film based on the short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury (1984) 2 months ago:
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amazing short film
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the description doesn’t really match it?
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- Comment on Off the Rails 2 months ago:
I haven’t heard of since there was a clear explanation of how the eye evolved - since that one was a specific example they were referring to
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Love your description! Incredibly fitting! It’s tasteless honey, basically. Very sweet but not much else
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Absolutely. And in the less extreme variants, there are cultures for which good food is the base of socialization - you mostly meet up for dinner or similar - and others where good food is the exception, happening for big occasions and parties but not an every day occurrence.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Dutchies eat to survive, no care at all about what it is they are eating…
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
Not drowns every flavor in corn syrup!
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 3 months ago:
In the Alps, there are already quite some ghost towns. Small towns either turned into touristic villages or disappeared over the last 50 years. Others were border towns that slowly went out of business. So many are hanging in by a thread, with increasingly old population.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 3 months ago:
Ohhh daaaaam!!