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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I wonder how carbon-negatove a bamboo forest would be if you harvest it, turn it into charcoal (or bury in a bog or something?), rinse and repeat. Afaik charcoal sinks carbon fairly effectively (???), unless you burn it obviously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I got stretch marks on my flank during those growth spurt years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are they "forks" or are they "built on top of"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

As my stat mech professor said, "what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

100 words per minute

Post says words per second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My favorite hypercorrection (a hyperforeignism, if you like) is "habañero," and really stressing the "ñ" when you say it.

Except it's just "habanero," plain ol' "n." The confusion is presumably due to "jalapeño" having an accent.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

And I'll say it until I'm blue in the face, that shouldn't matter. Because we should have universal vote by mail.

My state does this, and as far as I can tell there are zero downsides (eXcEpt iT wAsTes taXpayERs' MoNeY). Like the social aspect of voting on election day? Drop your ballot off in person, or just change your mind and vote in person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Pressure cooker


dry beans are way cheaper than canned, and prep time for dried beans is substantially faster with a pressure cooker compared to conventional stovetop. (I love my Instant Pot!)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The setup in most of these could be translated to Seinfeld episodes...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Speaking completely out of my ass, I think mail-in ballots would do wonders for down ballot engagement. My state has this, and it's invaluable


often there are weird down ballot measures which are confusingly worded, and sometimes local elections have a "vote for 10 candidates out of the 34 who are running." Voting at home means I can tackle it at my leisure


no memorization or cheat sheets required.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I want a button that skips back 10s, turns on subtitles, and then turns off subtitles when we're back to where we started.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Median would be the more generally correct number to use, but apparently IQ (debatable as a proxy for intelligence...) is roughly normally distributed, so either is likely close enough.

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