[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago

fruit sugars are prolly fine

Fruits in general aren't as good for you as general thinking have them. The majority have been bred to be so exaggerated in their sugar content that, as an example, you can't feed pet primates fruit very often or they will get diabetes (without getting into the horrors that keeping primates as pets encompasses). You can quickly get an idea of this by searching for 'wild strawberries vs grocery strawberries.'

The fibrous parts of fruits is good, the 'nutritional' aspects of them are decent, but the absolute black-hole-mass of sugar on the one side of the teeter-totter is a pretty big negative for them.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The get rich quick scheme I thought was well thought out, for the 'in universe' principles that had been laid out. One galleon converted to a lot of copper, so the mary sue could take gold from the muggle world, get it made into galleons in the wizard world, trade those for a metric shit ton of copper knuts, and then take those to the muggle world to be sold for a much larger sum of money than had been used to buy the gold.

As long as you don't expect it to work forever, it would be fine. The writing was terrible, but the character established all the nuts and bolts of the operation by 'just asking' questions to the diagetic narrator: pure gold was able to be made into galleons for a fee, banks would give you your money in knuts if you asked, and the prices would work for it.

The writing was jank and the protagonist narrator insufferable, but the conclusions he drew did make sense for the world he had been placed in, as appropriate for a 'rationalist' critique of harry potter.

Edit: the part where I just threw up was where the narrator had an immediate, perfectly-thought-out-but-the-writer-couldn't-come-up-with-an-actual-thing when mcgonagoll threatened to alter his memory, but he had thought of a perfect solution to that years ago. It reminded me of terrible ttrpg players who just ad hoc added parts to their backstory so they could be mary sues in a collaborative game.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago

Uh... off the top of my head calculations, 40C is equivalent to 104F? I think my summer days get to just below that, on average. Hottest recorded ever was 109F, but that was at an airport, so lots of concrete and very high amounts of heat producing engines may have ticked that up a degree or two.

I think my rowing activities average about 30C when we start, and the courtside fun a hair or two higher. We try to stop by the time it gets close to 39C. Even with a breeze you can't really sustain activity by then. That's when we go to get lunch and then, yep, sleep.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's a difference between refreshing and better tasting though. Hell, all the beer companies in america know that, which is why you get things like the coors campaign of the mountains changing color if the beer can is cold enough, because cold suppresses your ability to taste. They know they taste like shit but because they're so cold they are 'refreshing.'

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Winters in LA or LA

You... I like you.

Also, you're sliiiightly overstating how little you can do in the summer hot times. It's not a "risking your life" scenario every time... Recreation just switches to an early morning or post-sundown schedule. I usually still get 3-4 hours of sports activities on a saturday or sunday. Plus you get fun things like all the animals that are crepuscular being out and about, so you'll have ospreys flying over your heads with a fish, or squirrels doing races around the fencetops.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

I've lived in the south. I'll take the 100+F days with high humidity. You know why? Because the heat doesn't hurt. It will make you uncomfortable as fuck because of sweat and lethargy, you might get a sunburn, which hurts later, and it can kill you over time, but it doesn't hurt. Cold fucking hurts like a bitch. In the summer, I can finish mucking the horse stalls and herding the cows, then head inside and take a shower. Instantly all the uncomfortable heat and its byproduct of sweat/grime is gone. The AC and a little air movement make the heat dissipate in moments. In the winter, I have to head inside and sit by the fireplace or in the shower/bath until the warmth actually makes it down to my bones, because they are aching from the cold, and that can take bloody hours.

Spring is obviously still the best season, but summer is far from the worst.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

I don't think it was even anything to do with being 'libertarian.' His dad was a cop. He had likely been indoctrinated since birth into thinking that criminals do crime because they're bad, and would stop doing crime if the punishments were bad enough / a certainty. He's obviously self-masturbating by telling himself how much good he's doing for society, much like a very certain type of government worker we all deride tells themself...

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Yuck. It shouldn't even be called chocolate. How they got permission to call it chocolate is beyond me, but I bet it involved copious bribing.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Forced doxxed him? Everybody on 4chan knew who he was from the beginning. He went to the conventions. Hell, the classic meme reply to newfags explaining what a troll was used him as the template!

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

Blowing bubbles is always the first thing I taught kids when they were learning to swim.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yamaha is definitely in tune with the music. I never remember which is which, but their logo is tuning forks and depending on the product the tuning forks can extend past the circle. I think their motorcycles have it extending past.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, just look at their example. Level 17+ for the math? Holy shiiiiiit. At levels 15+, you're basically living legends that are about to start conquering kingdoms singlehandedly and fighting gods. That's not "a talented musician," that's the dude who leads month long rave parties that brings in all the nobility's children and starts a religion that is then used with said children to start coups in the continental region.

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