[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Meh. I think it's pretty accurate. Try meeting up with a friend* at a random public place, like a grocery store, and then pretending to lose them. Describe them to a security guard or employee and I guarantee the clothing description you give will be better and more detailed than you trying to describe their bodily features.

Now imagine you've only met the person once, and you were in a delicious haze of alcohol, whatever drugs they used in cinderella's time/local, and the raging sex hormones of being a prince that was pursued by many different ladies. He might have the dawning sense of familiarity upon seeing cinderella's face, but if she was dressed completely differently, like a common scullion ordered about by her wicked step-family, and thus had her hair done differently, covered, and demeanor and bearing were changed, because again she's basically being beaten down by her step-family... well, I wouldn't be surprised he couldn't immediately tell who she was.

*a child, 4-10, is much better at doing this with for the experiment, but good luck getting the child to understand what you want without spoiling their ignorance for said experiment.

[-] 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 2 weeks 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 4 points 2 weeks ago

clearway

yank tanks

What in the upside down hellscape am I reading here?

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

I thought mars wasn't quite the same issue, since it has 'weather,' while the moon doesn't. Its soil should have some measure of erosion, making the dust not quite as large and jagged.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks 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

And in the US, jail can be up to just short of a year.

I'd like to point out, 'proper' jail, for misdemeanor level offenses, is 'up to a year,' but I personally know individuals who have been in jail (where people awaiting trial stay, in addition to people convicted of misdemeanors) for over three years now, still waiting on their trial.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 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 42 points 3 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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