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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  On QI (bbc quiz show) they once said the sound you make when you sneeze is cultural/learned, so I wouldn’t be surprised the number of sneezes is also somehow cultural.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With bathing, water recirculation is more easily accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think before modern plumbing it was quite normal for more people sharing a bath one after the other, or going to large bath houses. The house I grew up in from the early 1900s didn’t have a bathroom and people would handwash and occasionally fill a bath in the kitchen. (We had a shower built in, but it was obviously not part of the original design)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring bathroom doors back to hotels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My boyfriend and me have a system where one of us always has to “quickly grab something and follow after a few minutes” whenever we leave a hotel room with too little privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I heard someone on a podcast with seizures triggered by lights and she said wearing sunglasses and in extreme cases closing one eye helped reduce the effects on her a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those warnings are called auras, and you can have visual or auditory auras warning you of a seizure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also people born that do not fit in the biological definition of male or female. Same image applies to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHAT IF WHAT IF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we also prioritize research where we suspect/hypothesize differences, so I think even if all research was published it wouldn’t necessarily be a normal distribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a relief!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born in the nineties and just moved to France. It’s a real struggle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle twinkle little star⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Science memes is more than just memes to make fun of things. It’s all things science and fun/wholesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was very confused why I woke up so early until I spotted my microwave in the late afternoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i imagine cremating fetusses is one of the lesser emotionally traumatizing things hospital workers have to deal with every day.

  Also, if the fetus is big enough to be (near) viable and the abortion happens for medical reasons or in case of stillbirths, I hope/expect parents are given the option for a proper burial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this during covid and free home workouts videos helped me out a lot. Started with just a yogamat (or towel) doing easy beginner friendly workouts of only 15-30 minutes. No need to go out, noone sees you and there are apartment/small space/downstairs neighbour friendly options. I used the fitnessblender workouts and the sense of accomplishment at the “workout complete” screen is magical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The choice is lung cancer and heart disease or diabetes and heart disease. At least us europeans die looking good /s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does the GOP need to remove the “illegal imigrants”? They are often hardworking individuals with similar or lower crime rates than the average american. What the GOP and ICE are doing right now is illigal and akin to human trafficking. From the outside looking to the US it looks more and more like they are treating immigrants as germany treated the jews at the start of the second world war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which fly came first?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I also imagine fly for insects comes from abbreviating “flying bug” or something like that, so also came after the verb to fly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, we had the same mandatory courses in the netherlands, although religion was more like religious studies where we learned about all the different religions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have recently moved to france and have been learning french for the last few years (long before moving). I still have difficulty with lunch conversation and after speaking to everyone outside of work in french I appreciate it so much that I work at an international place where everyone speaks english, even though that is also a second language for me. Imagine how tired your colleagues are at lunch after not speaking their own language anywhere but at home and appreciate that you are capable of helping them a little bit by speaking english.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we don’t throw pipette tips in the ocean, we throw them in the biohazard box. While not better for the environment, at least we don’t choke baby turtles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came, i saw, i came.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooga⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that that many women want bigger boobs. I have more friends who dislike having big boobs vs small boobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very familiar with medical terms and even I ask the doctor to write down the specifics of my diagnosis when I want to seek a second opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But FTD is used by people to talk about frontotemporal dementia.

  However, it isn’t an acronym, but an abbreviation. Abbreviations are generally not much easier to remember and even more meaningless to normal people. The reason they wouldn’t use the abbreviation in the documentary is because abbreviations are generally considered even more complex to both remember and understand than ‘long’ words. Only when a loooot of people know and talk about a disease does an abbreviation or other name become mainstream enough (thinking about flu for influenza etc) that it actually becomes useful to have the shorter name. Even at a conference about brain diseases you would only use FTD after giving the full term first so people know what you are talking about.

  But yes, if Bruce goes to a clinic and says he has FTD they will know what’s up (or google the abbreviation).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t teflon a brand name? Not standardized, just capitalized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But who does the patient need to communicate it to other than health professionals? Other people should be satisfied with a phrase like “dementia that causes me to behave different and/or have difficulty speaking” otherwise they are just going to have to look up the disease anyway.

  FTD is a rare disease (meaning less than 65/100000 people get it in their lifetime) and there are thousands of rare diseases. Who do you propose should come up with simple names for all of these, teach these to all medical professionals and make sure all info online gets both the descriptive and simple name attached?? There are enough issues with terminology in the medical world as is, trust me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would counter that the medical term is descriptive. Tell anyone with medical/medicine-related education someone has frontotemporal dementia and they know what is going on with the patient and what bodypart is affected. We can simplify with just “dementia” or a simpler term but you loose the specific meaning. Just like cancer is a two syllable simple word but a proper diagnosis includes way more information and has a more difficult term related. Equally, while the layman may prefer teflon and benadryl, the chemical/scientific name tells a trained person exactly what they are dealing with without having to look anything up, and does not suffer from different names across languages/borders. You cannot force simpler names as they will not be used in the medical/scientific community, so only if a disease is common enough to enter most peoples vocabulary will they come up with simpler terms or remember the term easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of 10. Be specific!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I immediately downvoted this fork… then scrolled back because I hate the fork, not the post. -238/10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in the Netherlands.