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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Basketball was invented using peach baskets. So the NBA will have to become the National Fruitball League (NFL)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or BIPM

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. We run on opposite wavelengths. If the mantises go postal I want to be as far away as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want a doormat with “monosodium gluta” inscribed on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually propped up on an elbow or two. Holding the book out or letting it lay flat in the ground.

  Sometimes resting with my chin on the ground, my elbows splayed outward so I can hold the book upright in front of me and my knees bent with my feet up in the air like a fleshy scorpion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fab shops & low volume manufacturing, tool & die, construction, cosmetology, IT services, consulting, accounting firms, non-profits…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You may misunderstand me. I never said it was healthy to smash things. OP asked if it was normal to get upset over a broken mundane object and I pointed out that we don’t get to choose what triggers us to feel. How you channel the energy of those emotions is another question entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to be really sentimental/upset over a bowl I accidentally smashed? I had it since I was 17 (am 30 now) and my boyfriend was alive back then too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t get to choose when emotions will take us. This morning I broke down over a Pokémon short because it reminded me someone I love has cancer. They have no connection to Pokémon whatsoever, and I haven’t watched Pokémon in years. It was just a sweet short and it got me going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Violet Evergarden was the first thing that came to my mind, but I don’t have a strong enough recollection of the art detail to recommend it on my own. I’m glad someone with a better memory was able to give it its due.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else fotklift certified?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for long! 🍻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two words “contagious cancer”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authentism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there one that adds fold creases?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an exact match to what your looking for, but a couple things come to mind.

  Having “selective hearing” is when someone fails to recognize that someone (usually a partner or a parent) is speaking to them or fails to comprehend what was said, but is otherwise sufficiently capable of holding a conversation.

  The implication is that they are able (or choose) to ignore questions and requests when they don’t wish to answer or undertake them.

  “Willful ignorance” or “being willfully ignorant” is when someone refuses to engage in understanding something when given the opportunity or discounts arguments that challenge their presuppositions.

  This isn’t exclusive to verbal communication but it does imply they are some sort of discourse that they are choosing to ignore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if it were disguised as a “like” potion it would be a like look-alike like-like potion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… romantic love is usually the first type of love that comes to mind when you say the word “love”, but it would be interesting to other types of love represented.

  • potion of Broth/sist-erhood
  • potion of Filial Love
  • potion of Ride or Die
  • potion of Make Momma Proud
  • potion of Go Get’em, Tiger!
  • potion of BFF’s Forever!
  • potion of Fanaticism
  • potion of Fascination
  • potion of Simpage
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't act confused. Just say it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A pretty peony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are love potions always romantic in nature? Why hasn't anyone made a non-romantic variant?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was a “like” potion, then it wouldn’t be a “love” potion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it about all the maga twitter accounts having foreign origins. Or am I missing something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the console and the point in its lifecycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the type of Q&A that makes the internet so important⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint to 1: Your microbiome is massive. You are constantly emitting bacteria. It surrounds you in a cloud like Pig Pen from the Peanuts comics. The reason you have different bacteria on your face and balls is not because they can’t get from one place to the other; it is because they can’t survive/compete there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the package? Yes.
  At a restaurant? Not usually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US threatening to cut intelligence, weapons to pressure Ukraine into new peace deal, Reuters reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You gotta put the screws to the [defender] or else they’ll just keep [repelling invaders].

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it works, but its it’s not the only way to to cook a perfect egg. And it is hilariously inefficient both in terms of energy spent to boil water for 32 minutes, and effort required to direct one’s focus primarily to boiling eggs for 32 minutes (plus prep time).

  What is funny to me is that this process is just pulse width modulation which is exactly how electric stoves work. But instead of applying the duty cycle to the water to keep it at a steady sub-boil temperature, they applied it to directly to the egg to even out the temperature gradient inside the egg.

  You achieve a very similar result by just doing a 2 minute flash boil to set the outer whites and then dropping the temperature with cold water or ice and just walking away while a sous vide stick controls an even temperature for the rest of the time. Now, I don’t have a sous vide stick, but I did get a variable temperature electric kettle for tea, so I have been using that for several years now.

  What makes the periodic method consistent and ripe for virality is:

  1. It reduces the impact of the most common unregulated variables: like pot size, burner power, egg:water ratio; it uses self regulating temperatures; and it’s hard to forget about the eggs since you are constantly monitoring them.
  2. It is accessible. It doesn’t require any special equipment and it is easy to remember: 2-in, 2-out, x8.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eggs will be easier to peel regardless of age if you drop them into boiling water water instead of cooking from cold. It causes the whites nearest to the shell to cook quickly and pull away from the shell.

  If I recall correctly it’s because the proteins in the whites go through two phases as they cook. First they relax like spring partial uncoiling and then they either tighten back up and tangle with each other like, or they cross link with each other like a polymer (I forget which). Regardless of the exact mechanism, if you cook them fast enough, the proteins in the whites bind with each other before they have the chance to settle down and bond significantly with the shell lining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the G in gyro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like Halo Finite, amiright?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not intend to imply that it did. That’s why I said “one other nation” apart from the kingdom, since the nation of Wales was incorporated into the Kingdom at the time.

  I suppose with “until the two nations joined” I did accidentally classify the Kingdom of England as a single nation. My sincerest apologies. I have corrected the error.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t blame me. Blame the English. I looked it up before posting: the Kingdom of England had annexed Wales by 1536.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it called "overseas" even if a dispora population move to a place connected by land?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The word goes back to at least 1580 and at that time, and for a good while thereafter, the most prominent speakers of the English language lived in a kingdom on a small island in Northern Europe that they shared with only one other nation until the two joined into one. So for a good chunk of history and during the development of modern English, most travel between “home” and a foreign land required going over seas. Thus “overseas” took on a meaning of foreigness or awayness.