I started working at the same company as my neighbour (different office), but haven't managed to bring it up in a normal human casual conversation way. Now I have to worry about him seeing my pass, or other company paraphernalia, or spotting my t-shirt drying on the line, because it'd be weird if that happened before I say something. On top of the usual just trying not to run into anyone and have awkward smalltalk moments.
I've definitely heard there's a genetic element where some people just smell or taste yummy to them. I don't have any research or anything tho. From personal experience, I think I get bitten more if I'm eating much sugar, or drinking alcohol, possibly because of a slightly higher body surface temp, or smell/taste different with more blood sugar.
The local pharmacist in my parent's village died from accidentally eating poisonous mushrooms ☹️
:`-( I miss voting in the European elections! 🏴🇪🇺💪
In terms of blood-borne viruses (like HIV and hepatitis), breast milk is considered in the same risk category as semen or vaginal secretions, only blood is higher. Whereas piss and shit are only considered a risk if they contain blood. Obviously there's other reasons why you don't want shit in your food, but it probably won't give you anything really nasty and long-lasting. Piss it's pretty much totally safe, but I reckon you could still get in trouble for secretly feeding it to someone.
It's my favourite format.
I think the original was 'stop doing math'
Yes! In Luxembourg it's just free. All busses, trains, funicular, trams, in the whole country, for everyone. Great way to encourage less car use, more active lifestyles, and improve quality of life while also helping the economy.
I don't think the drag force due to air would work the same in a system with such a high concentration of rocks. It's not like one object falling through undisturbed fluid, which then has to get out of the way, in this case the air would gradually start to move along with the rocks.
This might be better modelled as turbulent flow of a mixed solid/air suspension. But there's no 'edges' to the flow due to the looped dimension, so the viscous forces are pretty uniform... There would still be a terminal velocity, but much much higher than a rock falling through an atmosphere
Also I imagine the rocks would quickly grind themselves to very fine dust, once they pick up a bit of kinetic energy, so then it would behave more like a fluid with uniform density... Could it even end up as laminar flow?
Yes! It totally happens to everyone, once you notice it. Best self-awareness/relationship advice I've heard is say something like "Are you looking for advice, or someone to listen?". Phrasing and tone to be adjusted by the individual user, obviously XD
Since posting this I've come across www.secretsantagenerator.com , the most bare-bones and straight to the point version imaginable (holiday cheer definitely not included!), and exactly what I thought I was after. I've also remembered that one good feature of the terrible thing we used last year was being able to anonymously ask your giftee questions.
The longer I spend on Lemmy the more tempted I am to give Linux another try (had an old desktop with Ubuntu 10+ years ago, but never really got the hang of it fully, can't remember the exact details but not everything worked properly).
What holds me back is I'm in the middle of an engineering degree, I need to be able to collaborate easily on documents with word, share folders with OneDrive etc because that's what everyone uses. Even signing into the uni's portal-type thing is managed through your MS office account and authenticator app. And also I don't have a lot of spare time to fiddle around getting things to work and ironing out wrinkles, even if that only needs done one and it'll be fine in the long run...I need to be able to get on with my work reliably (maybe over Christmas I will have a bit more time to do setting up stuff).
Can anyone convince me ask these worries are unfounded? Can you still easily interact with the MS universe, or are there ways around this?
My poor wee laptop is already full to bursting with MATLAB, stm32 ide, etc so I don't think I'd be able to partition and dual boot...
A humerous combo of 'Do bears shit in the woods?' and 'Is the Pope Catholic?' Which are two jokey ways of saying 'Yeah, obviously, duh'.