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Acamon

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  • Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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  • It's hugely valuable. I love my partner deeply, but I often fall into a trap of imagining that life was simpler an dmore fun when I didn't have to care about another person's needs and could just be the goblin inside. But when I actually get the chance, the novelty wears off pretty quick and I'm so happy when they're back.

  • Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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  • Eat at arbitrary times when I'm hungry, and eat lots of spicy food. Smoke weed and play computer games. Feel a bit lonely.

  • Fictional

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  • Anyone come up with a good measure of distance that makes the speed of light a nice round number? I like the metric system, but the meter feels pretty arbitrary. We could do better!

  • What's something you do that is not "age appropriate"?

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  • Sleeping with a cuddly toy. My parter converted me and they're great. Tbh, they actually make a lot of sense as a middleaged person. Now that I'm old and less flexible, I end up with a sore back or shoulder if I don't have proper support when sleeping. And I'd much rather have a big lion buddy than some weird orthopedic pillow or Dutch wife.

  • What if Q-space/the Q-ocean is real? (More in post body)

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  • I guess if that was the fundamental nature of reality, then stuff would be exactly as it is.

  • why do so many people think the brain is somehow totally isolated from the body?

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  • Descartes, and Protestantism.

  • Banana

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  • Totally. The smell is awful, ive always associated it with smell of an ripe bag of garbage. I don't know if it's because bananas just smell bad, or because the smell of old banana peel in the trash is the scent that I notice the most, but it's not a good association.

  • Banana

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  • The taste. I've tried to like them. Had them in smoothies and banana bread, had the is savoury and sweet things. I even made myself eat one everyday while hiking cross country, thinking I'd learn to associate the taste which much needed energy. Nothing worked, they just taste like garbage smells. And the texture! Firm and soft each have their unique horrors.

  • The Worst Thing to Say to Someone With ADHD

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  • Nothing surprising in there for me (although I've met some people who would benefit from reading it...) but then I started reading it from the perspective of self-talk.

    I know I wouldn't accuse someone with adhd of "always overreacting" and I'd never tell them "you'd have so much potential if you just try harder.” But I wonder how often I think that to myself, and how little good it does...

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • Not sure your scenario is really about being friends. Choosing to take care of a child is more about my situation, than how much I might like them. If you are only taking care of a child because you like them, you are putting them at a lot of risk. Even great kids will be challenging, and a decent person cares for them even when they are unlikable or downright awful. That's pretty much the definition of unconditional love (though, reading through the comments here it sounds like a lot of lemmings didn't get that growing up).

    As for, would I like myself? 10 year old me, sure! We share a lot of interests (I'd love to dm a game of dnd for him), and although a kid can be quite annoying, I think I'd be pretty fond of the little fella. I suspect I'd also gain a lot sympathy for my parents, and would love to try supporting him with some of his creative projects that he was always starting and never finishing.

    20 year old me? Probably too wild to be close friends and I'd think he was an arrogant idiot at times, but probably find him kinda hot so I'd let it slide (my 'type' is pretty much younger me...). 30 year old me? Not all that different, could definitely be friends!

  • What are your thoughs about YouTube clickbait?

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  • I think it's a spectrum. I mostly hang out in fairly nerdy and middle-aged corners of YouTube, so I don't see the worst of shitty clickbait. If a video from an unknown creator is suggested to me a clickbaity or ragebaity headline will probably make me avoid them.

    But I don't mind an attention grabbing title "These AWFUL ingredients were ESSENTIAL for medieval peasants" or "This IMPOSSIBLE theory lead to the discovery of oxygen". It's kinda lame, but it still says what the topic of video is. Worse, imho, are things like "Why do smart people keep believing this" which uses the mystery / anticipation to suck you in. From a creator I like, it won't put me off (tbh, I probably won't even think about it as clickbait because I know their work is usually good) but it's not cool, and would put me off an unknown creator.

    Basically, I don't care that much about headlines (or the stupid YouTube faces), but I hate shitty, shallow content. And a lot of the time, a clickbaity headline indicates a shallow video, so it has a negative effect on my interest.

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  • Well, my close friends and I felt similar when we were young. Now we're middle aged and realised we had a mix of undiagnosed neurodiversity, and are now are now on doctor-prescribed cannabis and/or stimulants.

    I know that if my adhd meds were stopped, I'd have to go back to self-medicating with booze, weed and street drugs. But having access to reliable clean stimulants that help me do the stuff I want to do, have hobbies and keep a steady job and long-term relationships, has been life transforming. I've had a jar of weed in my drawer for over a year, because I've gone from smoking weed everyday to once every few months. And it's not because I think weed is bad, or not fun, but just because my life is so much more rich and satisfying and busy (in a good way) that I don't need to get baked to make it manageable.

    Edit: didn't mean for that sound preachy. There's no problem with not being 'sober' of it works for you. But if there's some underlying issue that the intoxicants help you deal with, I just wanted to share that it can be amazing if you can sort the issue out rather than mask it. But there's always space for a delicious cocktail, some fragrant bud or taking some mushrooms at a rave in the deep forest.

  • Is there a ranking showing how popular different hobbies are by country?

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  • Had a quick search on Google scholar, lots of stuff comparing general rates of engagement with hobbies in different countries, especially linked to helping older people. Thiscompares some countries, and observes that both wealth and wealthy inequality lead to less engagement with hobbies (which is why the US is relatively low).

    I found this one that discusses how covid impacted different types of hobbies in various countries, but I couldn't see a quick table of hobby prevalence. Just comments about stuff like cooking being more affected by covid in anglophone and Hispanic countries.

  • When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time?

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  • It's worth giving it a go! Here's a recipe that bakes a foccacia at 200°. At worst it'll be less than perfect, but it'll definitely be edible!

  • When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time?

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  • It would be helpful to know what you're baking? It might be cooking longer at lower temperature, but it might also be about adjusting the size (a larger cake is usually cooked at a lower temperature to allow the centre to cook before the outside over-browns).

  • When baking, if your oven can't reach the temperature stated in the recipe, do you then just adjust for time?

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  • While it's absolutely true that baking is a strict formula, I don't agree that not reaching a given temperature means it's necessarily doomed. It might achieve a somewhat different outcome, but for a whole bunch of baked goods a lower or higher temperature with adjusted time will produce something perfectly acceptable.

    As you say, most people have no idea what temperature their oven actually produces, or fail to adjust for the strength of fan assist or placement in the oven. Sometimes this leads to frustration and failure, but many delicious cookies have been baked with imprecission.

  • Is it true that progressives are more collectivist rather than individualist?

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  • Depends what you mean. I think 'progressives' are usually more collectivist in the economic / social democracy sense. But 'conservatives' are often collectivist in the sense that everyone should have same beliefs, same religion etc. I think that's something that people sometimes miss, that right wing people are solely motivated by bullying people for being 'different' or wanting to control people's private lives. They do both those things, but partly because some geninuely struggle to believe that different lifestyles can coexist. Everyone needs to have same sexuality and eat the same kinds of foods, so of course they want the collective choice to align with their personal preference.

    As a left-wing person, I find it mind-boggling that people don't see the unfairness of billionaires and poverty coexisting. And beyond unfairness, the existance of wealth disparity makes things worse for the poor than if everyone was equally poor. But conservatives think that its none of anyone's business what happens in the bank account.

  • Is airtags really useful?

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  • I've got some tiles on my keys and my earbud case. I'm mostly pretty good with my keys (thy have hook hy the front door), but for the occasional time I've need to find them in a rush and they aren't where they should be the tile has been very helpful. The ear bud one I use multiple times a week, and before I had it I'd regularly waste hours searching through my clothes and bags looking for my headphones (only to find that they fallen off the table and were now in a shoe or something).

    So, if you're prone to misplacing stuff they're amazing. But if you never lose stuff then I doubt they'll be very helpful.

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    TACO wants to win the Nobel peace prize so bad that he's willing to betray Putin to get one. He's going to help Ukraine win and end the war so he can claim peacemaker.

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  • This. Winning the peace prize doesn't mean you're a saint, it means you've further world peace. Most things in politics are so complex and involve so many different actors and factions that it's impossible to really boil stuff down and know whether the motivations are 'worthy'. Most peace is achieved by international arrangements that make it more attractive for decision-makers to choose peace over war, often for very selfish reasons.

    I was completely opposed to anyone winning one for the recent change in Isreal / Palestine, because until we see the fallout from it I'm skeptical any meaningful peace has been achieved. If Russia remove all their troops, and Ukraine is at peace, and Isreal are no longer genociding, then sure give him the peace prize. That's the point of awards and shit, to make it tempting to do good even when it doesn't immediately benefit you personally.