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- Comment on Who needs a seatbelt anyway... 8 hours ago:
What you’re seeing here is a significant case of body dysmorphia. The kind of man who’s attracted to this kind of woman understands this vulnerability
- Comment on Trump Halts Orsted Wind Project in Another Blow to Industry 1 day ago:
They’re definitely not only in red states, CA has a ton, for example. They’re certainly overrepresented among red states though, because the wind blows hard on the plains
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Assuming the house is large enough for everyone to have a bit of space, I don’t see any problem with it. Your kids are old enough to be able to handle this. Just wondering…is your ex planning to live with you long term? What happens after your youngest turns 18? It seems like at some point you’re going to want your ex out of the house, have there been any discussions about timelines, alternative arrangements, etc.?
- Comment on Tubi TV 3 days ago:
Forrest Hump
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
Gen X is the only category for which the CIs don’t overlap at all
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 1 week ago:
Always keep a year supply of dailies on hand
- Comment on Have men really stopped reading? We take a deeper dive into the data 1 week ago:
Yes, it means could be the same, not are the same.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Shit, my parents were boomers and raised me on 50s and 60s music. The oldest boomers would’ve been 35 in 1980
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
I haven’t had any issues like that, it’s been working fine for me
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 week ago:
No, that’s an English rock band from the 60s
- Comment on what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet? 2 weeks ago:
Scraping with plastic is a good way to create microplastics. Better to use a wood or metal tool
- Comment on what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like chainmail
- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 2 weeks ago:
Just one drop of soap within a foot of this guy would suffice
- Comment on F*ck off Arnie, you're out of your element! 2 weeks ago:
They’re saying the constitution explicitly delegates this power to the states, meaning in order to enact something in this area nationally, it would require a constitutional amendment
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 weeks ago:
I’m no expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I found this study indicating among a samples of people with rheumatoid arthritis, having a previous measles infection was overrepresented, and then I found this discussion indicating scientists are already studying immunotherapy methods that may give you the effect of an immune system reset but in a safe and targeted way. The measles virus itself likely just has too many potential short- and long-term effects to be worth the risk, but that doesn’t mean studying how it works won’t be useful!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The negative impacts of our systems of consumption and exploitation are different the number of humans that are on the earth, though. We could easily sustain everyone on earth with much less of an environmental impact with current technology and a more just economic system
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In ecology, animal populations grow in a distinct S-shaped pattern up to the environment’s carrying capacity. Globally, the human population has been following a similar curve, and we’re already past the inflection point, where population growth rates have begun to fall over time. The global population of humans is projected to reach steady state sometimes between 2060-2100. This could change though, what with humaty’s proclivity for making things awful
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
The sort of event you’re describing is incredibly rare, and I can still only assume you haven’t been to a concert with a GA section in decades. You’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to a concert than by a crowd crush at a concert
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
Like where?
- Comment on HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA 2 weeks ago:
This is devastating and, of course, not at all based in science. mRNA vaccines have the potential to give us vaccines for diseases that had previously been impossible with existing vaccine development methods. The Trump Administration and RFK Jr are deciding that the United States is going to rely on importing foreign-made vaccines in the future when we no longer have the knowledge to make the best vaccines in the world.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 weeks ago:
For roughly six hours the tide will take the swimmer ‘up’ the Channel, and then as the tide changes direction, the following six hours will take the swimmer ‘down’ the Channel. This up and down movement of the water is relentless and unavoidable.
When traversing the English Channel, the boat pilot pays respect to the aformentioned tides when heading for France, which means the tidal affect will be perpendicular to the direction of the swimmer. It is incredibly rare for a swimmer to ever be swimming with or against the tide.
The moon’s position relative to the earth and sun changes, creating different strengths of tide. The smaller tides are called neap tides, and the bigger ones are spring tides. Historically, swimmers have made their attempts on neap tides, as the belief is that this reduces the effect of wind against tide. It also reduces the risk of the swimmer missing the land target of Cap Gris Nez in France.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 weeks ago:
if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that
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- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that at all, I have great friends of both genders. My point is you need to communicate with him, because you came in here thinking it was probably a date and asking us whether he wanted to sleep with you.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 weeks ago:
There you go, if your reason for going out with him is to be friends, communicate that
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 weeks ago:
Is there any comfortable way to bring up this topic without making me sound like a narcissist who assumed a guy wants to sleep with her just because he asked her out🥲.
I’m less interested in knowing his motivation than I am in your motivation for saying yes and going out with him. Whatever is motivating you to go out with him, that is what you need to communicate, rather than just saying “I’m not going to sleep with you.”
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 3 weeks ago:
Uhhh…the average new college student is fresh off of going to school before 9am for the previous 13 years
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 3 weeks ago:
Given that the soup and rainwater would mix together, the question of how long it would take to get that last molecule of soup out is one of probability. I’m not qualified to give you a calculated answer, but I can tell you the most likely outcome is that it’s going to take a lot of spoonfuls. The soup will begin tasting watered down very quickly and will basically be a bowl of >95% water for a long time before you get those last molecules
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Cursed
- Comment on change_org 3 weeks ago:
How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
- Comment on MIT researchers have unveiled a portable, window‑sized device dubbed the atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW) that can extract clean drinking water directly from air, even in death valley 4 weeks ago:
You know absolutely nothing about what makes water drinkable or how we as a society have already solved this problem