ericatty

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blessica Blimpson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blisa

  Maybe the Simpsons will still be on air…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a stupid question?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the safe space to ask a question you have that you are afraid other people would find stupid.

  It’s especially good for things some people feel are common sense, but that others just managed to miss growing up.

  Here’s an example. My husband is really smart. But he moved schools a lot over a 3 year period. He managed to completely miss kids being taught 1 is January, 2 is February, etc for dates. He just never learned it.

  He knows his birthday in number form. But if he needs, say May 23rd in number form, he’ll look it up or ask me which number May is.

  Some people would classify that as a stupid question and be a dick about it. I just answer him. I know he’s tried to learn it, he’s just never sure if he’s right and knows I know.

  This sub operates under the good faith that there are no stupid questions, just people who legit missed something along the way.

  In life, I would argue, there are stupid questions. But for me, it’s only in situations where someone is clearly just asking questions to make you break, or clearly not listening and asking the same questions over and over without even trying to pay attention, and lastly, weaponized incompetence where people are acting like that because they don’t want to do something and won’t just say no. Basically questions that are exclusively to waste someone else’s time are the only really stupid questions irl imho

  But here, you get the benefit of the doubt if you don’t know how to properly brush your teeth, or why May is 5 and July is 7.

  I believe the name originated on reddit, and an accurate name would be “thereAreNoStupidQuestionsHere” but the shorter version is what got the brand recognition, but the confusion is understandable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a stupid question?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I shake the fuel nozzle. After dribbling gasoline down the car’s paint more than once, I always tap tap before I pull it completely out.

  • source, am woman
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it possible that praline pecans have less calories than regular pecans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconding this. 28g of sugar has 108 calories.

  Which roughly just over half the amount of calories in 28 g of pecans (193 calories)

  So simple math.

  28g sugar + 28g pecans = 108 calories sugar + 193 calories Gives you 301 calories total

  28g sugar times 2 = 216 calories 28g pecans times 2 = 386 calories

  Sugar has significantly less calories per gram than pecans.

  When you go by weight, you can really play with the calorie content by substituting calorie dense food (like fats, nuts, oils, avocado) that has a lot of calories per gram with foods that are the same weight but less calories per gram

  Carbs like sugar have less calories per gram than fats, and salt has 0 calories, but it adds grams of weight

  The pralines are substituting some of the high calorie weight of the pecans for lower calorie sugar and salt. So the weight is the same, but the total ingredients have less calories because of the non-pecan stuff used to top off the weight to get to 28g)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe wake up, new VLC update just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, one should always be aware of the risks.

  But also, VLC crashes a lot for me lately, so was hoping this was a joke that the next version would be more stable and the kinks would be worked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe wake up, new VLC update just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the base looks flaired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100x one 100 thousand times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sleep paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When it hasn’t happened in a while (or it’s one of the first times) you can forget in the moment.

  It’s like swimming under water and realizing you are running out of air so you start to surface, but something wraps around your foot and you can’t go up anymore.

  Almost everyone feels panic at this. Your brain and body try to fight, your heart is racing. It’s the terror of being trapped in the dark, not knowing what caught you.

  With that type of terror most people don’t think to just go to sleep and the problem will go away. We panic and struggle.

  Imagine that feeling, except you can breathe (usually) but you are trying to scream, to move any part of you and fall out of bed, or to get someone’s attention so they’ll help you. But no one hears you, they stand near but don’t help, and you realize you are paralyzed. Bonus points if you can see and hear them (while in reality no one is there and your eyes are closed, but you don’t know this yet)

  You don’t know if what is happening is real. It seems real.

  Are you really paralyzed or is it a dream? If you go to sleep, will you wake up back to normal, will you die, will you wake up later still paralyzed? You want to cry because you can’t remember enough of yourself to be sure what will happen.

  Time is distorted. This could be mere seconds, minutes, or hours. How long has it been?

  If pink elephants in silver tutus start smoking pipes and debating the best cheeses, you feel relief. For me, the sleep demon showing up is a relief, because the brain starts to calm down and think wtf, this is a crazy dream.

  At this thought you finally snap awake.

  Hopefully next time you can realize sooner and control it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider cats⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the common vernacular, the spider gives them kissy kisses