Wiat, you don’t believe in sexual preferences? People aren’t allowed to decide what they will or won’t stick their dick into now?

Love it. I’d never have thought to look for it, but I’m glad I stumbled across this post!

Paul Erdos has entered the chat.

The 2022 movie covers the first half of the first book and that theme only really comes into its own in books 2 and 3.

Not as a quote, but as a line in the context of the book, “They tried to kill my son” repeated over and over was a great illustration of a rational, quite staid man fighting a building rage and becoming something different.

It also served to humanise the Duke right before the tooth scene, building an empathetic connection to make us care about that scene more.

A deceptively simple line used incredibly well.

For pure quotage “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion”.

The thing that breaks things broke things. The thing that fixes things fixed it.

An effect can be observable but still negligible in terms of the actual increase of risk.

You think a mercury sandwich isn’t a realistic representation of wood.

Wow, you know, after careful consideration I think you may be right. Thanks for your wisdom. Truly enlightening.

I’ll go eat some wood.

Sometimes I just don’t bother learning new stuff till the old stuff stops working for me. It’s amazing how many really simple things people stroll past on their way to god knows where.

If something is part edible and part not, then it really depends on the nature of that not edible bit. If it’s inert, then great. If it’s not, then you could be kinda fucked.

The fact that something is 45% edible says precisely nothing about whether or not it is edible.

Wood is just less than half cellulose by weight, so wood must be safe to easy.

This mercury sandwich is just less than half bread by weight, so it must be safe to eat.

The answer used to be John the Ripper, but I’m a decade out of date on this stuff, so it might not be any more.

Also, thanks, that’s awesome!

OK, but is coffee a soup?

/c/mildlyinteresting

And then responds to every answer “Of course I tried that, do you think I’m dumb?”

But it seems legit (except that is asks for my PayPal password), like really legit (I’m sure there’s a perfectly good reason the need to know my social security number and my mother’s maiden name), I’m pretty sure it’s not a scam (where did I save that copy of my birth certificate?) And its totally for it for $35.74 (oh, yeah they probably would need my left thumb sent to them in an ice box, wouldn’t they)

Here’s some basic nutrition information from the world health organisation: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet

Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks are nice and simple. 30 Minute Meals is worth a look. His cooking shoes are pretty informative and not too complex. He’ll give tips like “don’t cook the chicken on too hard gh a heat or it will go tough” or whatever.

Also, here are his “quick meals” recipes on his website https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/course/quick-fixes/

“Chicken breast on a salad” or “Steak / chops / sausages with salad” is a good go to. Learn to make a simple garden salad and a chunk of meat with a sauce or some spices out of a packet. Nandos lemon and herb spices are great.

A little unrelated, but I remember hearing that going up at the end of a sentence when talking to a baby (doing a baby voice) is almost universal, but there’s one or two places on earth where that’s who you talk to people who are extremely senior or important. I think the one example cited was an island nation without much contact with the wider world.

Here’s a source (I think without the counter example): https://www.npr.org/2022/07/23/1113206642/baby-talk-parenting-language-research