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- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 4 days ago:
The cool part is you can double and triple dip. Buy bitcoin, promise to make a US Crypto reserve, sell it during the boon, make your own memecoin and profit off that as well
Then maybe do it again when you maybe waste money on a Crypto reserve
- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 4 days ago:
Shooting the mailbox twice is a line that gets me laughing every time
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
Sure did. Repairable ones. I strongly prefer wired headphones and will keep using them as I can, and I ain’t buying earbuds.
But I’d rather not let perfect be the enemy of good. I am not giving up a cellphone, so I’d rather have Fairphone trying (ans sometimes fucking it up) than give my money to anyone else in the market.
Them not being perfect in my eyes doesn’t qualify as a hostile relationship between their corporation and me.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
I have VERY few and I cherish them.
Fairphone feels great to me. I think My coffee stuff is the same (Profitec, Eureka Mignon); no app or wifi or anything, fairly available spare parts.
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 1 week ago:
I’ve had a false positive walking around the other day. False positive is no big deal of course, but it’s interesting that I’m seeing a post about it now
- Comment on Fruit 1 week ago:
For the uninitiated
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 week ago:
I would agree in places with good infrastructure. I lived somewhere with rampant power outages, sometimes for 5 days at a time.
Gas was sure nice then.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 week ago:
I didn’t realize there was AdGuard available. Is it an extension or like a standalone app running in the background?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 weeks ago:
It’s the opposite. On Android I have an adblocker. On my work iphone I have to raw dog the internet
- Comment on i'm gonna need directions 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, according to online calcs. But man I can’t remember how to count these myself.
Wanna explain for someone who didn’t have to do much chemistry?
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 3 weeks ago:
My friends and I loved your demo and can’t wait to play the whole release
- Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 3 weeks ago:
I love FFT ad FFTA but come on, give us a new one sometime. We’ve had like 10 remakes and ports of FFT
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been struggling without public transportation in Organic. It kinda works? Like it shows the path but doesn’t actually show the stops or station names
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate ans that’s a little boring :p
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 4 weeks ago:
二 (pronounced and romanized to “ni”) is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
- Comment on Uniquely American 4 weeks ago:
Surprised to see Japan at ~40
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 4 weeks ago:
Denmark checking in, it was like $3 USD for 10 eggs yesterday, and Denmark isn’t cheap
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 2 months ago:
Ah the link up there, The Room
- Comment on The concierge when I check into the love hotel with my waifu pillow [Day 34] 2 months ago:
Oh man you’re in for a great time.
See if there’s a live showing of it near you. It’s kinda like Rocky Horror Picture Show? Cult classic, lots of audience interaction when shown live. It’s earnestly bad but that’s what makes it good
- Comment on Caffeine content in filter coffee brews as a function of degree of roast and extraction yield 3 months ago:
That was an interesting read.
My takeaway is that there’s a bit more extracted caffeine in lighter roasts typically, but that it doesn’t have to be that way since you can extract more out of a dark roast?
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
Absolutely, if you’re serious about sensory science!
At the large craft brewery I worked in we trained on like… ~40 attributes? Weekly usually, with taste panel and impromptu trainings most every day.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
Yup! I know, I was an expert taster at a large brewery :)
It was fun! And a little bit ruined some beer for me.
- Comment on Petrichor 3 months ago:
It’s also an off flavor that tasters train for in beer, from water inclusion. It’s not good for beer but I don’t mind the smell at all
Very beet-flavored to me
- Comment on Fastest Animal 3 months ago:
Are peregrine falcons the fastest or something?
- Comment on Fastest Animal 3 months ago:
Wanna explain it for my friend who doesn’t get it?
- Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it? 3 months ago:
I loved the game. We put the soundtrack on all the time still. Great art form from Lucas Pope
- Comment on The FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership 4 months ago:
Lina Kahn is incredible and doing amazing things for the people of the US
- Comment on Frostpunk 2: Review Thread 5 months ago:
So I’m ~5 hours into the story so far. I was super worried it’d be a bad followup to the first game, which I loved.
It’s pretty different, without getting into any spoilers, but I’m really enjoying it at this point. It’s well done, the atmosphere and decisions are on point, and the micro management seems lesser.
A few UI complaints, I found a tiny bug, but all in all it seems like a good and long single player immersive story city builder. Exactly what I want from the series.
I’d give it a preliminary 8.5/10 because I’m biased and love the first one.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 5 months ago:
Idk where to draw the line with it being illegal for them to sell real copies. Like, what if it’s a really good fake? Are they gonna send out each and every game? They can’t spend $20 making sure a $10 game is legit.
No clue what to do about it honestly
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 5 months ago:
Oh huh, that’s interesting. I’ll definitely have to check that out