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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To decrease gas from dried beans: while soaking change the water once (roughly one hour in) or boil them 2-5 minutes before the soaking and throw the boiling water. This second method also shortens the soaking to only an hour if I remember correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has a phase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! You go in with negative expectations, and end up pretty surprised!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has a phase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lost City of D is a masterpiece in light weirdness definitely highlighted by Harry Potter popping up and messing things up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You know one snippet of my father in law. Is it really sufficient for you to judge the whole man? I sure hope never to be judged so harshly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In my case, they are overall nice and caring people with, sometimes, a bit of a blind spot. I was very glad when they came around on the climate change issue, that was the only sore spot between us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This gives me flashbacks to the one time in my life I really wanted to answer “okay boomer”

  My father in law was supporting the claim the climate change might exist, but it’s nothing we have to concern ourselves about because it’s going to take decades to do anything.

  And I was like: you have grandkids, they will be there in decades! And: you just experienced the first drought of your country, how is that not climate change??

  After half an hour going in rounds I gave up and bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship. Two years later he admitted that maybe there was something about climate change nowadays…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild Robot!

  I cried so hard watching it. Told a friend, they lightly made fun of me but accepted the suggestion. They cried the whole movie too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more far fetched: Italian fascism considered itself the continuation of the Roman Empire (the middle ages did not count, somehow). Does it mean that they were 2000 years old for a bit? But then, nowadays Italy consider itself the descendant of fascism (with a tinge of shame) but not of the Roman Empire. Can we pick and choose our lineage?

  China consider itself ti have been a consistent country since (handwave) basically forever. Is that enough?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nokia solos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine was lost in a pile of frozen snow from Christmas break until defrosting, roughly April, when it was found in a puddle. Dried, charged and worked several years more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fix the problem just change the parameters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I also wonder: what’s the goal of teaching this? Sure, a cursory lesson is a good idea, but making it a fundamental step seems nonsensical in a world that doesn’t require it at all. It’s like teaching how to sharpen a quill, it’s not needed anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This does not belong is shit posts. This belongs to “giving me a kick in the stomach” section.

  Minorities know they are the first ones in the list. That’s why they are the first ones protesting, but also the ones try to fawn their way out. But after the minorities (pick the best ones to gather consensus), it’s everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God article, honestly really poor title

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What works incredibly well with my 2 year old is eating them yourself and not care that he doesn’t like them.

  Offer, accept the rejection, continue on your own, compliment the cook. Offer again and again in the meantime, not force, compliment the food again, keep eating. He usually wants to figure out what the hype is about and try a bite. Often scarfs the rest of the plate. Happened again with shrimps yesterday, first time he saw them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carrot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I find big carrots they always end up woody and tough, definitely not as nice as smaller carrots. And you are telling me it’s a difference in type of carrots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. Seriously hit my mental health because I was feeling so isolated. Even just two days a week from the office was better, the best for me personally is 4 days in the office, one or half from home.

  My criticism towards most WFH set ups is that it erodes the unity of workers, making it easier for managers to pick on them. You end up knowing your coworkers less and therefore working less as a team.

  • again, my personal experience.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm too stupid for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone both studying and teaching math: there should be two different ways to teach math - for other mathematicians and for non-mathematicians.

  For mathematicians you want to use all the formal proofs and sharp definitions and so on. But we have so much fun teaching that way, we forget when we switch classes that engineers don’t like/care/are motivated to think the same way. We should pivot towards application-based, result-oriented teaching but we often just don’t. And students have to deal with it because the other class managed (pure mathematicians).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone interested: Welcome to Night Bale is a great horror/surrealist podcast. Definitely recommend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Tylenol in the room with us right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no reason to build it at the bottom it would be equally effective build anywhere underwater

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Always nice to see comments putting the info into a larger pattern, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More like head spinning, like when you look at the stars are you loose your reference frame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I have been moving the opposite way. There are so many bullshit websites, wading through them is a pain. Instead, I directly jump to Wikipedia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨some days i cant even⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not fully the type of answer you want, but there is an Italian book called “the revolution of the moon” that is 90% written in dialect. The first pages are mostly Italian with some words in Sicilian dialect, then the dialect part gets more and more prevalent until it’s only dialect.

  It’s not exactly what you mean in the sense that the Sicilian dialect really exists and that the book clearly exploits the similarities between the dialect and Italian for the reader to understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same (kinda), Germany vs US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Recommendation] Hands down, one the most beautifully drawn Manga.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely! Just finished volume 5 and the beauty doesn’t let up! The world is interesting, the villains relatable, some specks of mystery and unsettling. All so pretty!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let us not!

  Low yield due to overly specific conditions that are hardly met

  Low yield due to short production window

  Low yield due to long growth time

  Low yield just because

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Resist cultivation or have some other undesirable properties. Often low yield, short harvest, low yield, difficult picking or transporting.

  A favorite example of mine: oak’s acorns are sometimes edible. Roughly one in ten oaks produce edible acorns. They are indistinguishable from inedible ones unless you try them out - but inedible ones are fairly poisonous. The gene for edible acorns is recessive and it takes at least a decade before you know if a newly planted oak produces edible acorns or not, with a 10% probability of the former. It is just practically impossible to select for this criterion. Thus, we don’t eat acorns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to talk more, feel free to dm me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on the field. I will talk about fields I know: fundamental math - one paper every 2-3 years is a good pace, every paper 50-100 pages. AI - a paper a month is the usual, with a hard cap at 10 pages, often less.