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“Shit, we’re all out of candles! I meant to get more.”

cocking gun “Plan B it is then”

Do you know why they’re trying so hard to get novavax?

Maybe so, but in that case this advice turns into “reduce your carbon footprint by cutting out exercise and becoming more sedentary” which I don’t think is a good strategy.

If we were doing that, we could outlaw treadmills, since they emit infinite CO2 per mile.

This only applies if you assume people are minimizing the amount of calories they spend, but for people trying to maintain a level of physical activity, switching to an e-bike would mean adding some other exercise to compensate, and it comes out worse.

Thanks!

@WoodScientist@hexbear.net
That stand looks super helpful! I would love the file for it. Does the site 0x2640 posted work for you to upload it?

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I’m trying out 29g fixed needles for castor oil and I knew drawing would be slow, but it took probably five minutes. Should I be doing something differently, or is that actually how long it takes?

Also, while I was drawing, there was some void space in the syringe from the low pressure. Is that okay, or should I try to minimize that?

Same thing with ‘Keev’ suddenly becoming the only acceptable pronunciation of Kiev/Kyiv. The ‘authentic’ way to pronounce it uses vowel sounds that are close to Polish and are very difficult for most English speakers to get right. The distinction between the Ukrainian and Russian pronunciations was artificially reconstructed within the bounds of English speakers’ familiarity as “keev” vs “key-ev” in a way mostly unrecognizable to the actual speakers. But now there was an easy indicator of whether someone was sufficiently loyal and willing to snap to the good righteous Ukrainian way, or if they were an agent of Putin who said it the Russian way.

I was looking at this more, and if you’re going to order through customs, you should do it soon. If you order now it can still get through before the de minimis exemption ends on the 29th. After that it might be more difficult/expensive.

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That got me too, right when I was going to order. They just updated with their reopening plans, though.

In the ‘Big Apple’, the biggest risk isn’t apples

I agree with not shying away from responsibility. There’s no contradiction for us in that case. Either leftists were strong enough to swing the election, or we should have been. For the ghouls, there’s no contradiction either. Either the leftists were irrelevant in the election, or they should have been. It’s the people who support the democrats while claiming to be against genocide who have to be skilled at switching realities to argue with whatever they think the leftist in front of them is saying.

When that poll came out, it was posted here to show that supporting genocide cost Harris the election, and a lib came in to debunk it with your argument about swing states (from what I remember, the swing state numbers change things somewhat, but not as strongly as they were claiming).

We’re really going to keep having this same argument, over and over, from both directions, and libs will freely switch to whatever side makes the leftists wrong.

You can just say vomiting. Why did he need to make an announcement that he had the hiccups?

I will not be attending the Liberal Party meeting because of vomiting. Also, I have the hiccups. Also, I tried to rub my eye, but I poked it really hard. Also, I sneezed and a big booger was on my upper lip and by the time I noticed it had dried and when I pulled it off it hurt. Thank you. I’m Jair Bolsonaro

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Like the drug dealer?

Getting in to the fine details of it is important for researchers or doctors who specifically work with the tongue, but the issue that we’re talking about here is how this was commonly taught as absolute fact to young children with no nuance and seemingly for no reason other than it being widely believed.

If anyone is specifically claiming that the tongue is completely uniform in taste reception then they’re it taking too far, sure. But generally when I see this brought up, the focus is on questioning the process of how some facts make it in to what schools teach as “common knowledge” even when they are both wrong and unimportant to daily life and general education.

When a teacher tells a 6-7 year old that flavors can only be tasted on certain parts of your tongue, the problem isn’t that they failed to call it a “spatial component to our experience of gustatory stimulus”. At that age, teachers have to strip out most nuance from any lesson, and the goal is to find a way to explain things that is true enough while still being understandable to young children.

So why, if stripping out the nuance makes it basically wrong, did teachers keep teaching it for a century? Even if it were true, it’s not really important information for most people. Necessarily even, because if it were important to daily life, it would be a lot easier to notice it’s mostly wrong.
I don’t know, and I don’t think there’s an exact reason. I had teachers tell us about this, then seem to realize they needed a reason for it to matter and try to turn it in to a lesson about scientific inquiry. They told us to go home and try putting flavors on the ‘wrong’ parts of the tongue and notice how we couldn’t taste anything. I tried it once, and it didn’t work, and it was never brought up again.

Feel free to educate people about the mechanics of our sense of taste, but I think this is a fine example of myths making it in to what’s taught in schools.