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fireweed

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  • Do Americans really only shit once a week?

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  • American here. I've always heard that you should see a doctor (or at least try upping your fiber intake) if you don't poop at least once a day on average.

    As mentioned in other comments, the United States' climate ranges from tropical to arctic depending on location, so your teacher's explanation is nonsensical. Either your teacher was an idiot, a jokester, or you misinterpreted/misremembered what she said.

  • Movies

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  • How many more versions of Tron do we need?

  • But we're so evolved though

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  • Pakleds.

    (Is it racism if they deserve it?)

  • just think of the optimizations!

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  • It's definitely not pangea. For one, South America and Africa are not connected (which is the one thing everyone knows about plate tectonics). However what initially jumped out to me was India and the Himalayas (which are a relatively recent geological event).

  • Woman’s Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court

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  • HIPAA is serious fucking business (or at least, was).

  • Some Chicagoans aren't paying federal taxes in protest of Trump policies

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  • I'm pretty sure this is a typo, but something about "just deserts for Trump" feels more appropriate.

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • Two examples where erroneous usage has resulted in this paradox:

    • Regardless and irregardless
    • "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less"

  • Go. Reverse. Stop.

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  • I haven't seen Voyager recently though to comment on that series, but you're right about STNG (I had forgotten about the Traveler). The Enterprise wins.

  • Go. Reverse. Stop.

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  • I mean, wrap drive itself is kind of a cheat...

  • Go. Reverse. Stop.

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  • Ironically the DS9 crew, aided by their numerous trips through the wormhole, covered several times greater distances throughout the series than either Enterprise or Voyager.

  • What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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  • I didn't mean all supermarket apples, just certain varieties (such as the so-called "red delicious"), but I'll edit my comment to clarify.

  • What are some foods that LOOK awful but TASTE great?

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  • "Looks great tastes awful" -- fruits that have been bred/engineered for shelf appearance over taste (e.g. certain varieties of supermarket tomatoes and apples), and desserts like cakes that have all manner of pretty and intricate decorations on them, but then taste bland or off.

  • Why it's impossible to measure England's coastline

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  • Yes, yes, the coastline paradox. But did you read the context? They're getting close to completion on a hiking trail that follows the entire English Coast and connects up with another trail that follows the Welsh Coast! That means they're just a Scotland away from having a ring route around the entire island! (Granted that would likely be the most difficult part, but if the English portion takes off in popularity, maybe they'll do it.) I'd never heard of this project before and live nowhere near the UK, but I'm totally stoked for this project.

  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • Has the XKCD guy been nostalgia-watching *Bring It On"?

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    [Meta] 🚧 Under New Management 🚧

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  • The issue I'm raising here is that (again using an example from the newspaper days) you can have a singular strip that's "complete," with its own setup and punchline, that's still part of an overarching story.

    Imagine, say, Garfield, where on Monday Jon takes Garfield to the vet, Tuesday through Friday's strips take place during said vet visit (each strip featuring its own joke that could be understood on its own, but is enhanced by the context provided by the other strips that week), and then on Saturday Jon takes Garfield home, ending the vet visit saga. Posting the "complete story" would require posting all six comic strips together, even though they were published separately and (more often than not) are still understandable (and hopefully funny) even without having read the other five strips that constitute the "complete story."

  • Don't get a big head

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  • Did you mean "open ocean creatures"? While tuna can dive 500-1000 meters, and while technically "deep sea" refers to >200 meters, I generally consider "deep sea creatures" to be those that live primarily/exclusively in environments with no light and high pressure, like on the sea floor (~3500m) or in trenches (down to ~11,000m).

    But I could be wrong! Maybe a marine biologist or oceanographer can clarify? (Lemmy needs a Unidan, minus the ego and voting fraud.)

    Either way, zero overlap with any feline habitats.

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  • I haven't seen this mentioned (sorry if it was and I missed it), but I want to question rule 2a:

    Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.

    Even in the newspaper days, it was common for comic strips to have ongoing plots, with each day's strip presenting the next part in the story (with the plot usually starting on Monday and being resolved by week's end, although some were ongoing serials, iirc Dick Tracy was like this). So the way this rule reads, it sounds like you would need to publish all strips from the same storyline together.

    I think the rule is intended to prevent someone from breaking up comics that were initially presented together and intended to be read in one chunk, or otherwise truncating a comic (e.g. the meme version of "this is fine"). If that's the case, it's a reasonable expectation, but the current wording is unclear. It's hard to recommend alternative text since so many exceptions exist (what if the panels were originally posted one at a time? what about bonus panels? What if the bonus panel was only published to patreons? What if the strip was reformatted from a graphic novel for mobile-friendly re-publication? etc etc.) But maybe something like this would work: comics should be posted in their original format (e.g. multi-panel strips should not be split up). But this is already covered somewhat by rule 4a: "Comics should [...] be unmodified." So maybe rule 2a is unneeded and only causes unnecessary confusion?

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  • Angry Italien noises

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  • Japanese speaker here, confirming the translation 👍