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- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
I showed it to my brother who’s flavored straight vanilla and he didn’t get it, either. I’m glad to know we’re not alone. Lol.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, same. I chalked it up to the homosexuality, but I’m not sure after reading some of the comments.
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 2 weeks ago:
The taste is generally okayish, it’s the texture that gets me. It’s always so granular and just… Eugh. The impossible burger, to be clear, is amazing in both taste and texture.
Now, to be completely fair now that I’m really thinking of it, most of the meat replacements I’ve had were cooked by my brother’s ex fiance, who also ruined tofu for me for years. And my vegan buddy is the one that made me try tofu again and I loved it, and the impossible burger…
You know what. In retracting my comment. It’s absolutely possible that I just didn’t like it because she was an awful cook. I will go about trying them all again
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a real shame about the web boards. I miss real forums :(
- Comment on It's still a crust, mom 2 weeks ago:
My mom told us that “taste buds change every 7 years” but that each individual tastebud was on its own 7 year cycle, so one could change at any time. Try it today, you may hate it. Try it tomorrow, you may love it.
Made us very adventurous eaters as kids, and if we didn’t like something she never forced us to eat it. But we were always willing to try it again later on.
Except for raw oysters. That’s a texture thing. Shudder
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Former smoker, current vaper. I know inhaling anything other than clean air isn’t good for me, and I know nicotine addiction isn’t good. I plan on quitting, and I’m making decent progress to that point.
But it bugs the shit out of me when people try to act like it’s worse than cigarettes. It’s not. Shitty Chinese vapes marketed to kids that we don’t know the ingredients of? Sure, ban em. Black market vapes made in some dudes garage with oil? Absolutely track em down and end that man’s whole career.
But properly made, regulated vape juice in a rebuildable tank? Leave me the fuck alone. Please. Please do not take the thing that has helped millions of people quit smoking!
Can you link me any decent articles to help the next time someone says some dumb reactionary shit?
- Comment on Call 1-888-GOT-GUNK NOW! 3 weeks ago:
My poor little boy gets his eye gookies cleaned daily, but I would never wipe them back on him! That’s just cruel
- Comment on human geography 3 weeks ago:
We had “the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan” and sometimes really old people would finish it with “on Sunday”
I seriously have no idea where the fuck this comes from, and it’s so weird and I love it
- Comment on Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef? 3 weeks ago:
As a lifelong meat eater, anytime I’ve been in a situation where I abstain from meat for whatever reason, I avoid meat substitutes. They’re just not good. Black bean burger? Fantastic. Beyond burger? Satan’s taint. Stir fried veggies with fried tofu? Delicious. Qorn chicken stir fry? Beelzebub’s unwashed ass.
It’s so much better just to stop trying to imitate meat, and just focus on how frickin delicious veggies and stuff can be. They’re very good, all on their own!
The exception for me is the impossible burger. I legitimately like it better than a regular burger. It’s like if meat could be sourdough. I love it so much. But it truly is an exception.
- Comment on Which way? 4 weeks ago:
Huh! TIL. I had that for years and years on both feet, then one day it snagged on a pair of jeans as I was putting them on and the one on my right foot got ripped out. Hurt like crazy and bled like you wouldn’t believe. Still have the left one, but the right never grew back. Always wondered why, and I guess the answer is it had its own nail bed and I ripped that out
- Comment on Eugene 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what I thought!
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I forgot the largest and most widespread: NASCAR racists!
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 5 weeks ago:
As a lifelong southerner, I can attest to a veritable cornucopia of racists. There are:
Swamp racists, marsh racists, bayou racists (all are different), mountain racists, valley racists, low country racists, beach racists, ocean racists (totally different species, unrelated, with overlapping territory), woods racists, forest racists, and countless other unknown and tiny micro communities of different racists.
- Comment on Stripes! 🐅 5 weeks ago:
If you could figure out what your pattern was, and were the total body tattoo type, it would be cool as fuck to get a full body tattoo of your individual invisible (now visible, I guess) uniquely you skin pattern!
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 1 month ago:
About to go through there tomorrow. Is it as bad as I’ve heard? Only flown twice before (to Mexico and back from Tennessee), went through Knoxville and Atlanta on the way in, then Detroit and Knoxville on the way back.
- Comment on Magic Rocks 1 month ago:
I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled “on looking eleven…”
- Comment on heaven 1 month ago:
Did Randy Newman answer your question personally?
- Comment on Mice 1 month ago:
'tis truth, friend. And it’s absolutely fucking adorable. YouTube “popcorning guinea pigs” or rats or whatever, it’s so fucking cute.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 month ago:
Most of my internetin’ is done on mobile, because I’m very rarely at my desk, and when I am, I’m normally working on school. Are there any solutions to handling this easily on mobile without having to manually erase part of the pasted link when I go to send it to someone? A few people have mentioned that’s it’s not 100% guaranteed that the anything after ? Is worthless, so I don’t know how to ensure I’m not breaking a link
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 month ago:
If you want trump to do, here’s what you’ll need to do:
Make the bottom border go straight across and connect to Mexico, then build that giant wall along the new mexican-us border.
The added benefit here is a larger border with Mexico, meaning he can run around screaming about the now larger border with Mexico, while simultaneously cutting off Mexico’s west coast from the ocean, fucking their supply routes. He’d absolutely be on board for this.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 1 month ago:
That’s the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say “the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle” instead of just saying “500 mil bottle” and it blows my mind. It’s so much less awkward to say. I’ve even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It’s a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!
I know it’s a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we’d switch:(
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 2 months ago:
Fairly short read effectively, it’s never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it’s speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.
- Comment on oops 2 months ago:
I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.
This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn’t go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 2 months ago:
I was pretty stonery in m’youth, and lemme tell you, I was not about to wake up early enough to brunch
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 2 months ago:
What the fuck is this place?
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 2 months ago:
Same thing that’s wrong with mine: the brain is really good at working collaboratively with other shit, and that means if the phone can remember the numbers your brain will happily give that task to the phone. I can remember so many number from before I had a cell, and almost none since then.
It’s also got to do with repetition. We used to dial the number each time, now we almost never type the digits in, just pull up a contact (or more likely, a text from them) and hit call
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 2 months ago:
I know the number is exaggerated for comedic effect, but it blows my silly little 'murican mind that phone numbers in the UK have variable length. All of our numbers are the same length. Country code (1), area code (757) prefix (368) and then the line number (0441). I’m sure something else might exist for super niche things or something, and we’ve got the 3 digit important numbers, like 911 (emergency/cops) or 988 (suicide prevention hotline), but personal numbers are always 7 digits plus the area code. It’s just weird to my brain that the length can be variable within a country.
Also, try giving that example number a call…
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 2 months ago:
Look, you’re gonna have to face facts. People like you. Yes, your meme collection is great and mighty and powerful, but the fact that you collect all the memes that people love speaks to you. You saved those memes because you loved them, and then you selflessly decided to share them with a fledgling community to bring joy, and the people loved them. You bring joy. Santa doesn’t make the toys, he delivers them. You’re the lemming Santa. Stamta.
Also, you are literally famous. It might only be locally, but you are, factually, famous 'round these parts
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 2 months ago:
Stamets publicly acknowledging me? I can feel my Lemmy clout growing!
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 2 months ago:
Don’t worry, I fix