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Droggelbecher

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  • American exceptionalism 🫡

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  • Btw for the capsaicin thing. It's one of the going theories for why warmer places all around earth tend to traditionally eat much spicier foods than colder places. Food spoils faster in the heat, and the spice both masks the spoilt taste and can help, or is thought to help, cleanse you of parasites.

    (I know spicy plants don't grow in colder places, too, but the tendency holds for colder regions that would have had access to hot plants)

  • American exceptionalism 🫡

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  • Just curious, is this true for smokeless tobacco too? I mean not the tar bit obviously, just the paralysing.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • Yes, but law enforcement can absolutely do something about this. Whether it makes it through court is a different question. Clear cases like that go either way all the time.

  • Girl Powerbar

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  • Oh interesting! Is susceptible to heat as well?

  • Girl Powerbar

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  • People who have access to hrt usually also have access to a fridge

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • I literally have that book at home because of how much I agree with this. A friend highly recommended it and borrowed it to me when I was ~15. I never gave it back purely to avoid having to tell them how eye roll inducingly fake deep I found it. To be fair though, I don't remember much of it either.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Sometimes, a piece of fiction does not want you to understand every part of the fictional world from the get go. It's part of the art. For Dune in particular, it's a hard vs. soft world building distinction. Some fiction, harry potter comes to mind, builds up the world slowly and eases you into it, explaining every little thing that makes it different from our own. Some just dumps you into it and lets you experience it as an outsider slowly gaining understanding.

    From what I gather, most people nowadays are much more used to the first method, to the point of expecting it and thinking they're missing something when the second method is used. I think stuff like that, including Dune, would be more enjoyable to many if they realised they aren't, in fact, missing anything and that's how the experience of consuming that piece of media was intended to be like.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • To my understanding, that is only true for civil offenses, not criminal ones. Rape is a criminal offense pretty much everywhere, so cooperation of the victim isn't necessary to prosecute, especially with a confession on a silver platter like that.

  • Living language

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  • Understanding something eventually isn't the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don't have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.

    I'm not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can't help it. That's ok. I'll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won't mind at all.

    But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won't give you the time of day forever.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • Yes, because of US exceptionalism. That's a bad thing, and we can try to not play into it.

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  • Basically there's a rapid response cognitive process that you don't even have to consciously decide to apply that'll give you a quick answer to posed questions. Anything where the answer is something you've mostly memorised and don't need to calculate or deduce, such as 'what's your name?' or 2+2. That's system 1.

    System 2 is anything you have to consciously apply a thought process to find it. Brains are lazy and like to conserve energy, so you need to decide to do it.

    Obviously, what falls into which system depends on your personal habits and experience. Someone who works with numbers a lot, such as a waiter or a bookkeeper, might have the post question fall into category 1, but the average person will have to decide to solve it consciously, even if it only takes a split second.

  • Machine go brrrrrrr

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  • I'm sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won't. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don't know who's pregnant. Maybe that contributes.

  • Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job

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  • They said that to point out you said 'America' when there's a north America and a south America and your statement is only true for one country within one of those. We all know what you meant, but let's stop playing into US exceptionalism by using the name for two whole continents as a synonym for it.

  • No it won’t

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  • I love my cork one. It's been holding up for many years now. Metal is ofc the only choice if you care about RFID protection though.

  • People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts

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  • You use a different towel every day?

  • People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts

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  • Perfectly cleaned with soap does not equal sterile. I don't want e. coli in my eye.

    (Lil ETA. You also think people who recommend those with a vulva wipe back to front even when peeing to avoid a UTI are all gross? No, e. coli is there even if you're fully clean.)

  • i am not good at small talk

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  • Protip, you don't HAVE to do smalltalk. I mean, it can be a helpful way to get a real convo started. But you can just text people a picture of your favourite dinosaur and explain why they're your favourite. You can even text them 'do you believe objective moraliy exists' if that's your cup of tea. Nothing bad will happen to you. If they still git you with the idk, at least you'll know you don't share that interest. Yes I'm autistic, how did you know.

    Edit: I officially work to much. My phone autocorrected hit to git.

  • Shrekxtruder

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  • Yeah I'm so fascinated by the apparent 3d printing of some sort of construction product that I'm barely noticing the Shrek. I want to learn what that is

  • Rename football in America, Trump says, because soccer owns that title

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  • Georgia is also a country. Gets confusing because some Americans will tell your their state when asked where they're from, even when overseas. I've complimented someone who'd said they're from Georgia on their English before.

    (On a side note, can you imagine travelling to the US, being asked where you're from, then going 'oh I'm from alto adige originally')