Eq0
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- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Ohhh daaaaam!!
- Comment on Finding people who vibe with you is so hard 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely! I just moved to a city that significantly sponsors third places, there are so many clubs and activities for free or almost (archery club fee at 45€/year, dojos go between 45€/semester to 100€, swimming pool at 2€/hour, film festivals for under 10€, knitting club and language club are free, additional discounts come with social security benefits). It makes such a difference! Meeting people becomes seamless when costs are not a constraint. It has been so much easier to build a social net.
Previously I was in a big business city. Everything costs so much, it was hard to justify. Free activities were few and far between. After years there, all my social contacts were through my work.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t there be other possible plants that would provide the same alkaloid compounds?
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 4 weeks ago:
We haven’t crossed the point of no return. We are accelerating because we keep press on the acceleration. If we stopped (as we did temporarily during Covid), stuff would get back on track. We have to act now
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it… I’m getting to the point that i dislike receiving most presents because i don’t have a use for them. Like: “ thanks for thinking about me and getting me this… plastic cheap Christmas decoration/little toy/picture book that I will never use”
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 4 weeks ago:
Like a mildly modified version of geisha? Wow!
- Comment on Racism restaurant 5 weeks ago:
I think the key word was unaged. Cheese tends to become yellow when aged, starting very quickly. But stuff like cottage cheese and mozzarella are indeed milk colored
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 5 weeks ago:
Some time ago, my colleague tried to pitch to our boss to turn the coffee room into a ball room. Unfortunately, cost and sanitation problems were impossible to fix :/
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
Ironically, I work a lot with Fourier Transform. Still feels like magic. I even taught it! I’m trying to develop more intuition about it (vs hard knowledge)
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
Magic!
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
That explains just a tiny part. There are so many different sounds at the same volume and frequency
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 5 weeks ago:
I have a career that required me to move internationally every 2-3 years. I definitely did not want to buy and sell houses at such pace, without even having a credit record in the new country. Scalpers should be treated like cockroaches though.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 5 weeks ago:
Such an extremist take is difficult to implement in practice. A healthy rental market gives significant power to the potential renters. Key word: healthy.
Low income housing can get taken over by the state but that’s not the only section of the market. White collar workers have also seen an increase in their mobility, for example.
- Comment on Living the dream... 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes I feel like a boomer being my years. I can’t watch a show and be on my phone. I either stop one or the other.
- Comment on So much... 1 month ago:
Big Math comes knocking: “you mean Big Physics?”
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 month ago:
Keeping the floor dusted removes overall dust everywhere
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 month ago:
You are insane and I like that!
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 month ago:
I had one like that, it’s so dumb it had to go at random and often loses the way back home. I assume they still exist. The technology has definitely improved and you can jail break most of them. Last I brought was a little spy bot, honestly, but with some attention you can either overwrite the software (and keep the physical improvements) or block it from accessing the internet. [details figures out by my partner]
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 month ago:
Since that’s something you care about, I will offer an out of topic advice: robot vacuums (in general: vacuuming a lot) decreases the amount of dusting you end up doing.
- Comment on Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages 1 month ago:
But you are not Amazon. By this I mean that Amazon is not going to stop at old as-of-yet untranslated books. It will try to monetize it as hard as possible. And the next “Harry Potter” or “Dune” could be machine translated, losing a lot of subtext and dumbing down to the minimum any work of literature.
There are indeed so many ancient texts only available in their original language. So much “medicine” from the renaissance that’s waiting as a hidden jewel. A first rough translation could be a first step towards detecting new elements as of yet hidden. So many positive uses, none that Amazon will pursue.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 month ago:
I will add my own story. Woman, in STEM, I mostly don’t care about what I wear, but sometimes I want to rock it just because. Put on make up, do my nails, wear a skirt. I kept that out of the office until I moved to a department with a flourishing gay community. If they can wear nail polish and skirts, so can I! I’m still usually the only woman in any given room.
As a counterpoint, for a while I was the fanciest dressing person of the department because none of my T-shirts had holes 😒 also got told, jokingly, to not overdo it the one time I wore a shirt.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 month ago:
Would you go in a field in which everyone wears short shorts and you get stared at if you don’t?
Would you “not mind” if your company dress code (for a well paired white collar job) is pink shirt with orange blazer?
Make it absurd and flip it to yourself. Suddenly, you want to wear “normal clothes” but you stick out like a sore thumb if you do. Would you feel comfortable? Day in, day out?
- Comment on What 1 month ago:
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
Troubleshooting is such a big one! Like, you should be able to distinguish between a “I can fix it” issue, a “somebody can fix it” issue and a “my computer burned to the ground” situation… and act accordingly. I’m also okay with the first option being very limited! But please Google your problem until you vaguely understand what’s wrong.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 1 month ago:
I might give it another try, the first time around I found it forced and bland. Like Asimov tried to connect pieces that were not meant to connect, while not having a lot of inspiration