[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

And minimum wage isn't a liveable wage in most of the US now. Well, unless you split rent amongst 4 working people in a single bedroom apartment. That's only an exaggeration in some of the US.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's a health food craze in the US that stemmed out of rampant body shaming. Which might be largely because of American portion sizes. And they think that nutritional fat makes you fat. It doesn't. Excessive calories make you fat. And even that has caveats, but it's the best rule of thumb.

When did we start splitting milk? I know part of it is to make cream and high fat stuff while repurposing the skimmed off grass water. ::Googles:: WWII as a means of selling the byproduct of butter. Okay. Then in the 50s physicians started calling it health food despite the fact that the fat is used in your body during the digestion of many fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K, and thus skim milk is pretty close to the opposite of health food.


And the money thing is kind of rampant. It's a big reason why things with larger price tags, like Rolex watches, are thought to more impressive by Americans than equivalent or better watches. Rolexes do have a very high quality, but then the mark up on top makes it strictly something I do not respect, and others do not share that opinion with me. Same for a lot of things.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 2 months ago

Of Mice and Men? But I think it was a rabbit usually.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

The master branch in git isn't the same though. It's closer related to the word "remaster." Master used to mean the original document is still used everywhere in tech and outside of it.

Main makes more sense since a master copy should be something that doesn't change in my opinion. But that's semantics...

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 6 months ago

I've noticed a lot of things that are considered autistic in the states specifically may be normal practice in various cultures, having worked with people in Germany, and from a large swath of Asia.

It interests me a bit, but I think the takeaway is that autism tends to manifest in a number of quirks, and the ones that don't align with the current culture the autistic person is in are the ones that are paid attention to. That and there tends to be a bit more obsession over said quirks than in those cultures, sometimes to the detriment of the autistic person or their social life.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 8 months ago

There are times where intersex babies need surgery to prevent complications. For anything else, let them wait until they can decide. Agreed 100%.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 9 months ago

It depends on how far the doctors went when they removed a part of you without permission or consent. There are levels of skin tightness that some people are on the unfortunate end of, if the doctor took an excessive amount. And in general, there are a huge number of nerves in the foreskin which are significantly more sensitive, so cut members will need more stimulation than they would have, and that can lead to chaffing when attempting to receive the same results as they could have with foreskin.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 9 months ago

The term originated in religion, not government. And it has no definition that limits it to government creation. It's not even limited to politics.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, the average newborn is smarter than the average politician, so maybe it's not as bad as we think.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

looks at home instance name That I hang out with furries. Still considered a more controversial thing than actually evil things in politics in my country.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

An overwhelming desire to never be taken seriously by the average user.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don't have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community... So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.

It's an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I'd lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.

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