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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely opposite for me. Full bush keeps everything more “airy”, whereas shaven is underwear directly against the parts that bleach them, plus it all gets all sweaty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can European intelligence substitute the American one?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not disagreeing, we should strive for good or at least civil relationships with our neighbors, even if we don’t exactly like each other, but the problem is that

  • any agreement or peace deal with Russia isn’t worth the paper it’s written on, they’ll just ignore it when they want to
  • make peace with one country in Middle-East, you’ll anger another
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I consider myself bi or should I just say straight if I want to date women but just can’t find any that attract me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When True Men fuck, women just get in the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work hard enough, and you can replace exhaustion with burn out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ignore it for long enough, you can replace burn out with depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat that ramen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  allows you the luxury of studying to increase the value of your work output

  I’ve always wanted more value from my work output! Or contentment and self-actualization, it was one or the other.

  luxury of ennui that gives you philosophical dread on your idle hours

  I’m assuming you mean that those idle hours are the luxury? Because I’m pretty sure tedium and boredom existed in the fields and cobalt mines long before it got a fancy French name.

  others would kill to be on your not-working-in-cobalt-mines shoes while being fed and safe

  Relative privation?

  Also, is eating ramen being fed? Is it safety if you’re one illness and insurance fuckup, or a job loss and six(?) months, away from homelessness?

  this while having thrived up to an age that for most of human history has basically senility

  Extreme infant and childhood mortality explains most of the short historical lifespans. 30 was never senility.

  The same logistics and industrial development… is the one that gives you the climate change.

  Every step of towards lessening greenhouse gases brings us closer to the fall of western civilization! Fly more, abolish public transportation, eat only beef, set your AC so low you have to wear a sweater!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat that ramen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In your 40s your body begins to break down. Often your mind slows down too. And you’ll have people relying on you, whether at work as a senior colleague, your children, your aging parents/other relatives, your friends whose bodies have begun to break down, or whatever responsibilities/opportunities you’ve taken in your various communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how out of reach. Stocks exchanged in other, possibly hostile countries? Property in other countries that allow it (eg. most of EU does afaik)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a metaphor you like in your language?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Lukee kuin piru Raamattua” (Finnish) Literally “to read like the Devil reads the Bible” Meaning to examine something in bad faith. Never heard it used it in context of the Bible or anything religious, but eg. when interpreting law or contract, looking for the crumbs that could be twisted for your purpose, rather than what the text attempts to convey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Homeless. My country has decent social security and “housing first” policy, it’s reasonable to expect to be able to exit the situation soon.

  US, same, but exit for edgier reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused. Are women on social media interfering on man-to-man friendships?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to admit the “leftist” ideologies tend to be about working together and supporting each other, and the “right wing” ideologies about encouraging individual accomplishments, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, it’s not that hard to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the aliens monitoring our planet know that we are idiots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason to celebrate in a way all participants/effected find enjoyable is a good reason. Not very intelligent aliens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yule Tidings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also liked the idea of New Year’s bingo, things you’d enjoy doing the next year and then seeing if you get bingo/s.

  But nah. In 2025 I’m going to start a company that will cheaply generate near-unlimited clean energy from greenhouse gases, pollutants, and (only discarded) plastics. I will install it for free and provide the energy at something like 10% of oil/coal equivalent. By threatening to turn it off, I’ll extort those in power to stop wars (yup, within the year) and obey the experts on how to improve the wellbeing of the bottom 10-50% in individual countries and globally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… I kinda think that’s an experience every omnivore should have. Raise something with your own hands, then kill and eat it. If you can’t do that, at least you now know your hypocrisy.

  I’m a hypocrite, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bulls, yeah, that’s a planned pick-up to a meat farm or to the slaughterhouse, easy to distance yourself from mentally AFAIK. Not the heifers you’ve named and intended to keep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ingredience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my relatives have a dairy farm. One time they had to put down a young cow and had it cut for beef/veal for themselves, since it was so sudden and unplanned. They told the cow’s name, what had happened to it, what its temperament had been like. That was enough to make the eating experience weird and a bit offputting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it doesn’t give her the ick and she likes the classic styles, used jewelry is the way to go. It’s already had the “walk out of store” depreciation and I think engravings on most rings are pretty easy to replace.

  As a more personal recommendation, when I ahem “outgrew” my own engagement ring and was too lazy/cheap to resize, I got a “temporary” replacement 10? years ago from here. It was supposed to be moissanite in titanium, did an XRF analysis and the band material was some sort of nickel-less maybe steel IIRC. No idea if the moissanite is genuine, but it’s held up way better than any CZ has, and the band has kept better than silver so props to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is on your "things to 3d print" list?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Replacement mouthpiece for a vintage flute that had a plastic one.

  Flute pad hole punch aimer thingy so I can make cheap China pads into open-hole ones for not-so-great flutes without having to buy a bunch of open-hole ones (version 1 was already made and proved the idea, now it’s just to iterate).

  E facilitator prototypes before I CNC them (still learning CNC and I don’t like it).

  Flute airstream aimer clip-on thingy for older people who have lost their embochure due to dental operations and such. (after I get the hang of the replacement mouthpiece; this is probably the most difficult one, due to precise mouthpiece shape needed)

  Model for manually engraving the right size & shape replacement piece out of bone, for a badly cracked teapot.

  Spherebot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Girlfriend⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Condoms aren’t 99% effective as contraception even if you use them correctly, which a lot if people don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with the 'Thanks' people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In my language “thanks” and “please” can use the same word, sometimes it spills over into my use of English. Hopefully the tone of voice carries the sincerity of the hopeful-but-not-demanding request anyway, but that’s not available in online communication. Then again, online I usually have time to get my "thank you"s and " please"s in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does matcha tea need to be combined with milk or can I use water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a tea like matcha that would be good to cold brew?

  Sencha or any other green tea can be cold brewed.

  I’d add to this that if you want cold brew green tea that tastes anything like matcha, stick to Japanese greens. Just general “green tea” is IME usually more Chinese in style and a different (though also delicious) beast altogether. Sencha is the quintessential Japanese green tea and most easily available, and IMHO makes a very nice cold brew in summer.

  Actually cold brewing might also be a good experiment for any possibly remaining mid-grade matcha you may have, since the method tends to reduce astringency and bitterness; just use it like a normal tea (larger amount) and don’t stir towards the end, let the tea powder “gunk” settle at the bottom. I have not tried this.