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  • This is a commonly quoted fun fact that is not really true. There are 2 different definitions of calorie. One means the absolute amount of energy in an object, the other means the bioavailable amount of energy that a human can extract from it using their digestive system.

    So every physical object that exists has some amount of potential energy contained within it which we can express in calories, but that doesn't mean it has any bioavailable calories. For example glass has some significant amount of energy contained within it, but it has 0 bioavailable calories.

    This "fun fact" mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.

    (Nothing against you OP, this is a commonly repeated falsehood)

  • Engineering mathemagics

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  • Hm, the stuff in wires is electrical current, but the stuff in nerves is static electricity based on an electrochemical gradient. Yeah i guess that all falls under the heading of electricity. No quibbles, carry on.

  • Did you you notice the second "you" in the title of this post? How do you feel about (not) noticing it?

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  • Exactly, this is what our brains are supposed to do.

  • Me on vacations

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  • This is not me.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • It might be a problem of the openboard software, not a problem of wayland. I don't know what you mean by "directly draw on the desktop", but whatever it is have you looked for other apps that might do the same thing?

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Is that a problem of Wayland or a problem of KeePassXC?

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • In what way does it not work?

  • What is the general global opinion people have on Qatar and Pakistan?

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  • Qatar: slave labor

    Pakistan: Muslim India

  • Courtesy of my friend who's a dad.

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  • Courtesy of my friend who's a dad.

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  • Bofa.

  • Who is an actor you can't stand, but everyone likes?

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  • Paul Rudd. Deeply uninteresting to watch or listen to.

  • Sad but true

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  • Inaccurate to the point of being untrue. There are some people that won't be good back to you, but the large LARGE majority of people will be nice to you if you're nice to them.

    There's a kernel of truth in there, but here it's worded as an incorrect statement. I believe the intent of the message is to say something like -

    "There are some people who won't be nice to you no matter how many times you are nice to them. So don't waste your life energy trying to win them over."

  • I made an audio thing

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  • What is it?

  • Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

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  • It makes total sense to me. A phone case is just a cheap piece of plastic that's made using cheap mold-manufacturing, and cases last for the entire life of the phone, sometimes even living on through a couple of phone lifetimes.

    But screen protectors have to be more rigorously designed, - making sure that the material works well between finger and each particular touchscreen, and it's made using relatively much more expensive manufacturing processes like curved glass cutting, and people have to replace them every once in awhile because the purpose of a screen protector is to take all the damage that otherwise would've happened to your screen.

  • Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That)

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  • That doesn't match my experience with phone hardware. Everyone i know has a bunch of old phones that've been handed down to kids and even more sitting in junk drawers, because they all still work. Yes a couple of them have cracked screens, but even with those the only reason why the screen wasn't repaired is because people wanted or already had a newer phone.

    Software is a totally different matter though. The OS and apps stop getting updates at some point even though the hardware is still totally capable of doing what most people want their phone to do. And even worse, many companies don't allow a phone to revert to an older OS version, so the company pushes out an update that slows the phone down and then there's no way to fix that.

    The HARDWARE isn't designed to fail, because the SOFTWARE is designed to let the company force the device to fail at whatever exact moment the company later decides on.

  • Do you think pH should be added to food item labels?

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  • You're misunderstanding. Yes there's plenty of scientific evidence that excessive soda drinking harms your teeth, but that's a totally different topic than whether listing pH level on nutrition labels would have any effect on public health.

  • Do you think pH should be added to food item labels?

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  • I don't think it's necessary. Generally people who get acid reflux know exactly which foods exacerbate it. And i don't believe it causes the level of effect on teeth health as you imply.

    In other words just like with all the other values that already got added to the nutrition labeling, you'd have to make a strong science-evidence-based case demonstrating that it would be meaningfully helpful to add it to the listings.

  • It's June 2025. What are you looking forward to in the next 6 months?

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  • Good weather activities! Like:

    Biking! Street Fairs! Free concerts! Farmers markets! Parades!

  • Based muslim child

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  • Hm, got a source for that? It's not hard to believe, but I'd need a source before i do