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Windex007

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  • Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library

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  • In university my entire dorm floor was in on insisting to my ex that it wasn't "Big Bird", but instead "Big Bert" (as opposed to regular sized bert)

    It came up for the 100th time at a party, and I was like "go ahead, look it up" and was able to get in an edit JUST before the page load. "Big Bird (Or "Big Burt" for Canadian rebroadcast)"

    It lasted for maybe 20 seconds, but it was all we needed.

  • There was a rubber hose that you drove your car over

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  • 60-90 cents a liter was such a short time frame that I imagine I could guess your age with pretty reasonable accuracy

  • Well done Canada!

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  • I was a big fan of those.

    Safeway was like "Geeze, we can't afford to sell Bicks pickles anymore due to the teriffs" and I was just "sweet, thanks for making it super easy to know exactly what thing I'll never buy again for the rest of my fucking life"

  • Owl-natomy: Why Bird Feet Don't Freeze in Winter

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  • Thermodynamics Simulator

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  • You probably didn't expect that comment to make me feel so old.

  • Something's not math-ing

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  • There are some places where they are not ethical.

    There are some places where they are.

    They're both actually saying the same thing. I don't understand how two people saying the same thing could possibly be invalidating each other.

  • That boy is all right

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  • I thought it required energy to process wood into charcoal?

  • That boy is all right

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  • Carbon neutral?

  • Something's not math-ing

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  • Two local people shared different local experiences and I'm not sure why you think either is more valid than the other.

  • Anaesthesia

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  • I had a hernia at risk of strangulation. I was in the ER and, basically, the plan was to chill it and have a doctor try and just jam it back in.

    Buddy was like "I'm going to wail on you pretty hard, you want fentanyl?". I was like "You're the doctor".

    Anyhow, when that shit hit my veins I very loudly blurted "AAHHH, NNOOWW I GET IT".

    The staff was like "what?" And I kinda fumbled out a "Never understood why people fuck with something so deadly, until now"

    Anyhow, totally opened my eyes to why street drugs are such a problem for the homeless. They have tons of problems... but you get those drugs and within moments... all your problems just evaporate. Completely understand how wildly alluring that proposition would be.

  • Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans

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  • Your right to privacy ends where your actions that impact the public begins.

    Allowing elected officials (allowing, not even MAKING) to sign NDAs with private companies provides cover to do shitty things and get influenced by lobbiests.

  • ‘A chilling assertion’: Trump officials falsely claim citizens must carry immigration docs to prove their status

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  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • I think we agree in principle.

    I think if one conceptualize "deliciousness" as a "property that induces joy" and "not deliciousness" as a "property that induces suffering" as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don't value "deliciousness".

    If you conceptualize "deliciousness" as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness.

    Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values.

    I'm considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that's where the gap is. I think ultimately we're in agreement.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • I'm not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.

    People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another's style as tacky.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:

    food is just nutrition

    I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)

    I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It's a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I've always wondered if any real culture fit that.

    Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun "hedonism", food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.

    I understand what you mean now. I'm just disappointed.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • You guys

  • My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories

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  • People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.

    I'm not saying you're wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?

    From an anthropological standpoint, I'd be fascinated.

    Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food's mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.

    So, of the many, just even tell us one.