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  • 💀🌈🙏🌈💀

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  • Honestly it's weird how adamant people are there have always been people who solely preferred one sex over the other. While it's generally true for modern society, people wouldn't have even understood what you mean in ancient times by "sexual orientation", really. I mean you could obviously explain it and people could answer to a degree, but...

    Well, think of this, we have left and right in our languages. We all know those are relative terms. My left and your left are different, most of the time. Anyway, there exists a tribe who don't have relative words for directions, and they only use cardinal directions, all the time. As in if they're hanging a painting, they'd say "no, no, a bit to the north" instead of "left". On a tangent, it makes them very much immune to getting lost as they have incredible sense of direction for that reason. My point being that to us it's simple that you just use left and right, why wouldn't you, when people know what it means and it's simple. So why doesn't that tribe use them? Idk, it's just not in their culture. Just like such strict classifications of sexual orientation weren't much of a thing in ancient and prehistoric times.

    Bill And The Romans Talk About Sexuality | The Eaters Of Light | Doctor Who

    Cornelius: Yeah, don't worry, Bill, Lucius will look after you.

    Lucius: Shut up, Cornelius!

    Bill: Ahh, Lucius, erm, right, listen there's, erm, something I should explain.

    Lucius: What?

    Bill: This is probably just a really difficult idea. I don't like men that way.

    Lucius: What? Not ever?

    Bill: Nah, not ever. Only women.

    Nah...not ever.

    Lucius: Oh. Alright, yeah, I've got it. You're like Vitus then.

    Bill: What?

    Lucius: He only likes men.

    Vitus: Some men. Better looking men than you, Lucius.

    Lucius: I don't think it's narrow-minded, I think it's fine. You know what you like.

    Bill: And you like both?

    Lucius: I'm just ordinary, I like men and women.

  • I don't know the reason why.

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  • Where? In EU and Australia at least tobacco is taxed to high heaven and costs like 10+ western money units (take whichever, dollar or euro, still roughly applies) a pack/pouch

    I pay 14.30€ for a 30g pouch of rolling tobacco. And it's probably more expensive the next time I buy because the pack before that was 13.50€. There's a few price-hikes every year.

  • Reddit car crains at it again

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  • And not just for the humans using the road either.

    https://yle.fi/a/3-7094020

    ##Glittering antlers to improve road safety

    Employees at Finland's Reindeer Herders’ Association are testing two different reflective sprays on reindeer's antlers as a means to make the animals more visible to motorists on Lapland's dark roads.

  • Reddit car crains at it again

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  • Finland here, third gen professional driver, dad had "Gentleman of the Road" taped to the back of his taxi-van. You couldn't find a more patient driver (unless he was driving us to a bus and we're running late or if the liquor store was closing.)

    No matter how carefully you drive, human brains just can not pick out a dark thing that's practically stationary against another dark thing when you're in a vehicle moving >50kmh.

    And our kids walk to the school by themselves if it's less than 3km iirc, and lots of those roads don't have sidewalks. Lots do, most probably, but in rural areas not every road has a sidewalk. And it's dark most of the year.

    So you really get taught to wear at least a small reflector. It's not because of inconsiderate car-brained drivers. It's because humans don't have HD thermal vision that keeps perfectly up at high speeds.

    This video might illustrate it better. (Pun intended.)

    https://youtu.be/38xkAV8YC4k

    Someone with a reflector can be spotted roughly 150m away, whereas some one without one from about 40 meters. Going 60km/h you travel 40m in 2.5 seconds. The average reaction time for general road users is put around 1.5s. Leaving you a whopping one second (1s) to slam your breaks, and even then you won't make a meaningful difference. Whereas the driver seeing someone with a reflector has almost 10 seconds, leaving them with 8.5 to reduce speed and dodge the pedestrian a bit.

    So while I don't own a car, but an ebike, and take public transport and am against car-brained culture, in this instance it's you demanding everyone in countries with long winters spend all of their driving time driving about as fast as one can run, in order to have enough reaction time to avoid pedestrians without reflectors. And I think you understand that while we all dream of better public transport and less car-brain, in this instance wearing a tiny reflector you literally get for free from most places (my bus pass holder is one, for instance, because hauling hailing down buses is a lot more effective with a reflector than a dark mitten) can't be such a bother. Also you can just take it off when you get to where your going and pocket it if it so bothers you.

    Also, what about pets?

    Most pets nowadays here have either reflective "clothing" or leashes/bands with small leds. And a lot of the time you just spot a dog in a reflective harness and perhaps a leash hanging in midair until you see the person.

  • Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked

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  • No?

  • [QUESTION] What is the best way to learn to cook and improve?

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  • Seconded, good advice from them.

    I was just thinking about the egg thing before reading.

    I managed a very nicely boiled eggs just now. Instead of heating them in cold water, I boiled some water in a kettle and poured it on them and then waited a min or two until it boiled properly again on the hob and then took five minutes and put them in cold water. The center of the yolk is a bit runny while the edges of the yoke are still firm enough and the white is just firm enough. These will go great on a sandwich mmm.

    Or just by themselves, really. A little maldon salt on top, mmm. (That's a level up as well, changing from basic table salt to buying a bit of fancier salt for topping something. But man is it more costly per kg/lbs.)

  • between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough

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  • Russia is free again

    I really wish that will happen as well, but when has Russia actually been free?

  • Double standards

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  • "No. They aren't. You can only keep them for eggs in some places."

    I call bullshit.

    There is no U.S. state where it is illegal to kill your own chickens or where you are restricted solely to keeping them for eggs. While California has strict humane slaughter laws ( California Humane Slaughter Act) and various localities have zoning restrictions, home slaughter for personal consumption is generally legal throughout the United States, provided it is done humanely

    https://www.animallaw.info/article/detailed-discussion-legal-protections-domestic-chicken-united-states-and-europe#2D

  • Work/commuting backpack, ideally not a US company

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  • A lot of them look rather too sleek and modern to me.

    Mines more rugged imo. I don't even know what country the company is from tbh. I know a store that still sells it in a nearby mall though, just peeked in out of curiosity once. Not that I need a new bag, since this one is still fine.

    Well aside from the straps I had changed a couple of years ago, and annoyingly the new material is more plasticky and has reflectors on it. (And I don't like reflectors installed in my things without being asked. What if I wanted to run away from someone in dark woods and they're chasing me with a torch in their hand?)

  • Work/commuting backpack, ideally not a US company

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  • I have a Hedgren backpack and it's lasted through the toughest of outdoor drinking trips and daily use for more than 30 years.

    I'd suggest them, but I have no idea whether the company has the same values anymore and if the new backpacks are even comparable.

  • Can you touch type?

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  • I was like, wait, what's "touch typing"? Oh writing without looking?

    Yeah, been doing that a couple of decades prolly. I even do it on my phone most of the time. That's why I typo quite a lot unless I proofread. I do usually use the suggestions and glimpse at the kb from time to time and you can half see it anyway but yeah.

    With a computer I don't really ever look at the keyboard. My speed has been measured a couple of times I think but can't recall anything except getting the highest grade. And I think those tests limit my speed as I don't copy things as fast as when I'm heatedly constructing and argument myself. Feels like I've got much better flow then than when reading a word and then having to output it at the same time.

    I need to see whether I can measure my own speed sometime when I get into a nice argument and have good flow again.

  • New Epstein Emails Reveal Horrifying Plants He Grew And How He May Have Used Them On Victims

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  • I think it's more to do with some LLM SEO or smth. Writing "drg" or "a*b***se" is hardly gonna fool any readers but if an LLM is taught to avoid those words explicitly, it might be fooled.

    Idk I'm no largelanguagemodelologist.

  • New Epstein Emails Reveal Horrifying Plants He Grew And How He May Have Used Them On Victims

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  • Yeah this, I'm sure Epstein raped and drugged tons of minors but I don't think he needed to grow datura to do that. It's just a somewhat common plant to have. There are loads of better daterape drugs, especially for someone who is wealthy enough to own their own rape-island.

    Even the legendary Terence McKenna didn't use datura. He did try it a bunch, but apparently found little to no use for it.

    Terence McKenna - Deliriants like Datura and Ketamine vs. Psychedelic Tryptamines

  • EU Parliament bans AI use on government work devices as security fears rise

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  • Idk about others, or if this counts, but I know for a fact that social security in Finland or use AI to transcribe discussions.

    I've tried how well they transcribe and would never ever ever let them transcribe something as important as social security meetings etc.

  • What's yours?

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  • I'm so waiting on the third season.

  • What's yours?

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  • I watched TNG so...

  • Nice horsie! 🐎

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  • Literally everything in Africa has evolved to run away from humans, because when animals hear human speech and don't run away they get eaten or domesticated.

    When you look at a map of domesticated animals origins, not a single one comes from Africa. All the animals there know what humans are like no matter how we try fooling them.

    Oh yah here's the video sourcing that shit I just listened to today https://youtu.be/EqGxxWvDXsM

  • Even when I'm mocking AI bros, they don't get it

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  • It really helps gathering capital if you're too stupid for empathy.

  • W for Uncle Ted

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  • Well despite it, I think his bombings still kinda pale in comparison to the ones US pulls.

  • British and German military chiefs press ‘moral’ case for rearmament

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  • Whenever I see an article with something I'm not sure who it's being pushed by and why, I tend to check the profile.

    If there's several posts a day but several weeks since they last commented on anything, I usually disregard the article, because I'm too lazy to find out what agenda the account is pushing.