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- Comment on Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks so much for the suggestions!
Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to try out Yorkshire Tea (I’ve heard they’re amazing), they don’t ship internationally, so as I live in the USA, I don’t think that’s an option for me. :C
- Comment on Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside? 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, although admittedly a nitpick, I will say I never said that the caffeine dehydrated you, just that the teas and tisanes do, the latter of which may or may not have caffeine.
That being said, I looked it up and yeah you’re right. The evidence does seem to demonstrate that the diuretic effect of the caffeine in teas not substantial enough to really affect hydration levels.
However, it does lead me to wonder why my body seems to dehydrate if I drink more 2 cups of tea in a day. Like, it doesn’t cause me to pee more (at least not more than an equivalent amount of straight water would cause me to pee); my body just dries out.
- Comment on Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside? 3 weeks ago:
As an American who wasn’t ever raised on tea of any kind but is starting to really love teas, I have to ask: how the hell do you manage to drink 8–10 cups per day without dying of dehydration? If I drink more than 3 cups a day I start to really feel dried out!
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 4 weeks ago:
I have not once in my entire life heard anyone say it like that. Where are you from? Maybe it’s a regional thing…
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 4 weeks ago:
sen-tar
“sen-” like “cent” (like 25 cents), and “-tar” like “a tar pit”
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 5 weeks ago:
......Okay, I’m gonna be honest. I don’t know how to respond to this.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 5 weeks ago:
Jesus, 12+ hours a day… That is not healthy.
I hope he’s doing okay…
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 5 weeks ago:
Oof.
Yep, they’re a goner.
Rip the homey.
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 1 month ago:
- Profit?
- Comment on What's the Standard Operating Procedure for if someone steals your phone while you were using it and its unlocked? 1 month ago:
This is why I still use a card instead of those newfangled “phone wallets”. If I go on PayPal or my bank website, I do so through my browser. (and log out when I’m done—that’s most important!)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not a bad set of promising suggestions… Thanks!
And yeah, I’ve found Proton to be invaluable for making things soooo much easier, but if a game doesn’t have a page, it’s not as easy. Lol.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 months ago:
Pshh, hardly.
Make no mistake: things can always get worse.
- Comment on What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 2 months ago:
They cancel each other out, collapse into a black hole, and rip apart the Universe. /j
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Linux Mint for the last 1–2 months (or so) and one of the things I miss the most is how on Windows, games just run (typically). Now, on Linux, one of the very first things I do upon wanting to play a new game is check the ProtonDb page. I am not always able to play the game I want. There’s often not even any ProtonDb page for a lot of older games, notably in my case Jazz Jackrabbit. (For example, even though the Jazz Jackrabbit Collection on GOG has a Linux installer, for some reason it won’t run.)
Make no mistake, I ain’t never going back to Windows for my personal use if I have anything to say about it. The sense of personal security I feel from not having my every move be captured, scrutinized, and sold by Microsoft is way too important to me. If I can have that feeling of relative comfort by forgoing a few games, it seems like a worthwhile price to me.
Nevertheless, the “plug-and-play” nature of games designed for Windows is something I miss.
- Comment on In 2020 I couldn't swing a stick without finding independent livestreamer links for protests. In 2024, I am having a very hard time finding livestreamers. Help? 2 months ago:
Not OP, but dear gods thank you. With how scary the US is becoming, I genuinely needed that laugh.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 5 months ago:
Twitter is the only thing I will ever be okay with deadnaming.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 6 months ago:
though, my understanding is that the opposition to clotheslines is a mostly US thing. Especially in places where the weather is warm year-round.
That’s fair. I’m not personally knowledgeable about said rules; I just thought I’d point out those couple things.
(specifically its the HOA’s because HOA’s are the devil.)
Agreed. I would say they need to go fuck themselves with a cactus, but really now. What did the cactus ever do to deserve that?
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 6 months ago:
19 states have some form of “right to dry” legislation, most of which would protect drying on patio space.
Two points which I would like to interject here:
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OP (of either the post or comment above) may not be in the United States, and
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Even if they are, there are 50 states and 1 capital district. That’s only roughly a third of the United States. Odds are they are not in those states.
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- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 6 months ago:
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- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 6 months ago:
It doesn’t have one. I was making a joke.
Hi = High Fanta = Fantasy Po = Post(-apocalypse) Dys = Dystopian Fut = Future
Hifantapodysfut = High-Fantasy-Post-Apocalypse-Dystopian-Future.
It’s in the title.
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 6 months ago:
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 6 months ago:
I really like the term “Science Fantasy”. It acknowledges the parallels with Science Fiction but respects how they differ as well.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 6 months ago:
I figured they meant that as well. I’m just saying their rules may not be as hard and fast as they seem to be presenting them.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
Just concepts of a plan.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 6 months ago:
Agreed. Getting something second-hand is almost always better.
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 6 months ago:
While I completely appreciate your perspective, I do have to ask: what with how the world is today, wouldn’t pretty much everything violate at least two or three of those rules?
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 6 months ago:
IIRC Temu makes it business from super cheaply priced items.
Super cheaply priced generally means either super cheap quality or some really iffy labor rights violations* in third-world countries (I know that term isn’t the term to use nowadays since it’s a cold war relic but I can’t think of a better term—lemme know if you know of one), usually both.
*Up to and including slave labor. (Yay capitalism!)
