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PeriodicallyPedantic

@ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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  • [META] Could people here just FOLLOW THE RULES?

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  • Because being inclusive is better than exclusive, especially considering the typical sizes of these communities.

  • I don't even know my neighbors real names

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  • Say... Can you introduce me to your neighbors?

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  • These are questions for a doctor, not the Internet lol. I think you're fine but your husband might be a bit old, but idk exactly how the associated risks increase with age.

    If you're serious, ignore every single comment here and ask your ob/gyn.

  • What do you think of imitation and lab-grown meats?

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  • In practice, I have no idea how lab grown meat tastes so idk if I like it.

    In theory, the only things I care about are flavour and texture, and meat gives me the flavour and texture I like. I'd love it if something more ethical gave me those things, and if lab grown meat can do that, then I'll be happy to switch once it comes to my local grocery store.

    Some immigration meat isn't bad. It doesn't taste like any meat I know, but I'm ok with that. I haven't figured out how to use it well in recipes though.

  • Double or Nothing

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  • Why do we have to choose just one thing to fuck them for? I by no means made this the exclusive reason to fuck them.

    I'm not talking about the interest I pay on my credit card, I mean that if they're holding my money so that I can't use it, they better pay me for that.

    They'd effectively be crowed sourcing micro-loans from unsuspecting average customers, without compensating them for lending. That's icky AF. So is taking advantage of gambling addiction, but they can both be icky AF.

  • Double or Nothing

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  • What I'm trying to say is that this scheme gives the retailer an interest free loan on every purchase, courtesy of the customer, so fuck them for that.

  • Double or Nothing

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  • You typically earn interest for granting someone the privilege of the use of your money. Do products in warehouse typically earn interest, or do they depreciate?

  • Double or Nothing

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  • They had better pay me interest while they're holding my money, then.

  • Making a custom pc case for my next home server

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  • I think you're going to have a problem keeping your power supply floating in the air like that

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • Look here, pedantry is my business.

    I didn't mean literally mad. I mean people are telling me something that I'm wrong for something that I didn't say, and that I went out of my way to make clear I wasn't saying, and they're doing it in a belittling way. So yes, my feelings are hurt.

    But meanwhile I still didn't say it, and I made clear I wasn't saying it, and you're still being belittling and telling me that's what I said.

    Maybe the problem isn't that I'm wrong about what a fruit is, and the problem is that you (and whoever else) misread what I wrote. In which case, why are you still telling me I'm wrong about what a fruit is? And if that's not what you're doing, then what are you doing?

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • I didn't make my argument clear, for sure. The initial person called the dry fruit a seed. Then the other person countered with an example of a fruit with a single seed where you don't call the whole fruit the seed. But importantly they didn't establish why the first person should consider those two things the same. The first person simply didn't accept that the dry fruit was a fruit in the first place, so using another, typical, fruit for example isn't going to help.

    My example was trying (ineffectively) to show that it appears as an apples/orange comparison unless you already understand.

    But now, despite explicitly saying I know that a strawberry isn't a berry in my original reply, I'm being told that I'm disagreeing with science, rather than with their example.

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • You're having a different discussion than what I'm trying to make.

    Im aware of the difference between botanical and culinary definition. Im aware a strawberry isn't botanically a berry. Im aware a pumpkin is a berry. I'm aware that raspberries are accessory fruits, that peanuts aren't nuts, etc.

    I'm saying that your peach example isn't going to illustrate that difference to someone who doesn't already get it.

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • I can admit my feelings get hurt when someone gets mad at me for something I didn't say.

    Can you admit your failure in reading comprehension? Can you at least point out where you think I said that strawberry "seeds" aren't the actual fruit, so that I can know how I was unclear about it?

  • TIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.

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  • Apologizing doesn't affect their guilt or lack thereof.

    Canadians are allowed self defense within reason

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • That'd be a really great point, if that was even anywhere close to what I said in the comment that got down voted.

    So what am I to take from this reply? That people on Lemmy are functionally illiterate? That they can't distinguish between criticism of an example with criticism of an argument?

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • Ah I see. That makes a bit more sense.

    But I still don't think that's a great company the example, because I believe what they were actually saying was that just because it contains a see doesn't make it a fruit, in the same way that if you see a shelled peanut with the husk on, you wouldn't call it a whole fruit.

    I know they're wrong, but I don't think that your counter example addressed what their confusion was.

  • TIL that Canada has an Apology Act which states that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt.

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  • Not admitting guilt doesn't make you not guilty

  • How did you choose your occpuation for people who didn"t just follow thier passion

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  • Lucked into it, kinda.

    I wanted to be an industrial designer, but there are only a few schools that offer that degree in my country and I didn't get in, because I didn't have the illustration skills.

    My fallback (a close 2nd) was to go into engineering, so that's what I initially went to university for. But I struggled with the calculus.During my time in engineering, we had to take a programming class, and I was really good at it (compared to my engineering classmates). So I switched my major from engineering to computer science.

    I graduated with my degree in computer science and I've been a coder ever since (last 15 years or so)

  • TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.

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  • An apple contains many seeds, but you don't call each seed a fruit.

    I mean, I knew a strawberry wasn't a berry, but your counterexample was completely irrelevant.

    Edit:When people downvote but nobody responds, I have no idea what people are downvoting about.Nothing I said was inaccurate, and it illustrated why their example was inapplicable, so what do downvotes mean here?