If I read the cited sources and they turn out to be a bunch of untested hypotheses based on poorly conducted studies… I’ll be mad.

Just skimming through it makes a bad first impression.

…I’m not even trying to be derisive. I’m just really angry at how much “there’s a study” has become “there’s proof”. And I shouldn’t even be mad because communicating that difference should be the authors’ job.

If you value your time, don’t read any further because I’m just going to vent a little:

So I lack any formal education (apart from ficking school). The best thing I can say about myself is that I can hold and mostly understand a conversation with people who are actually educated in their field.

But some studies are bad. Like bad-bad. So bad that I think, most people who can read should be able to recognize their flaws if they actually read them.

For example:

I read a study a while back about genetic (as opposed to learned) prepositions of monkeys in relation to their biological sex and preference for toys.

The methodology was bad, but here’s the shittiest part imo: At the end of the study, the researchers found that of the 130 or so monkeys, only about half showed any preference for any kind toy. So the researchers excluded the unbiased monkeys from the test. Of the remaining monkeys, still only the males showed any preference for the “male” toys. So the females were also excluded. In the end, only 30 monkeys actually counted, because they showed the hypothesized difference in their preferences. And even those only showed a delta of 10-30% in the time they spent with the toys.

The study should have concluded that most monkeys don’t give a shit if a toy has wheels (like a shopping cart, which apparently makes it a “male” toy) or if it’s soft, like a plush (which is “female” because boys would never touch a plushy, of course).

Instead, they found that their hypothesis turned out to be correct, after disregarding anything that invalidated their hypothesis.

Where did I get this study from? From social media, of course. Where a bunch of meat heads “proved” that all women genetically want to be tradwives and trans people don’t exist or some shit.

Fuck everything about this.

Man. Last time I just wanted to check if my new laptop was working properly, so I booted up it’s preinstalled Windows. I literally had to look up how to get Windows to get me into Explorer without creating an account or connecting it to my network.

It took me about 25 minutes and Windows was already installed on the damn thing.

It took 15 minutes from booting a prepared Fedora stick to logging in.

I honestly believe that, by now, Linux is no more difficult than Windows. People are just not used to the differences.

Tbf, furries are ⅔ LGBT.

There’s research on that. Thanks, Canadian goverment.

Edit: ITT: Someone spends 10 fucking hours responding to every single reply thats even remotely empathetic towards furries, while being a wedge-issue little shit. This is so sad.

Furry or not; we are stronger together.

SUVs, anyone?

No?

We also have crossover SUVs.

Maybe a SUV mixed with a coupé?

Still no?

How about a Combi mixed with a SUV?

Our cheapest option?

That’ll be 30.000€.

Electric? No. That one isn’t electric.

For that you’ll have to upgrade to our eSUV.

Why… why are you leaving?

As someone who grows figs in their living room:

Most commercial (and even hobbyist) fig varieties are parthenocarpic, meaning they don’t require pollination.

And fig wasps don’t look like that. They’re tiny little guys that most people would probably mistake for a very small ant.

And even if the fig was pollinated by a wasp, it uses enzymes to break down the insects body, to protect itself from mold and other pathenogens that such may cause.

Basically; fig waps are itsy bitsy wittle wupies, while figs are digesting their dead mothers corpses, because they are metal as fuuuuuck.

“Du kannst dir meine Klabusterbeeren vom Arsch pflücken und behalten!”

Tja. Wird wohl heute doch noch die übrig gebliebende Flasche Cocoroco geext, um das wieder zu vergessen.

Also als jemand, der inzwischen 3 Mal auf’m beleuchteten Fußgängerüberweg umgekackelt worden ist: Mich sieht man scheinbar auch nicht.

Und wenn ich an den Natenom-Beitrag denke, dann sieht man auch Radfahrer in Warnveste mit eingeschaltetem Licht bei guten Bedingungen nicht.

Die Mutter von 'nem Kumpel sieht beim Einparken nicht mal durchgängige, 1,8m hohe Wände.

Wenn’s danach geht, dann müsste die Welt eine komplett glatte, asphaltierte Kugel sein.

YSK - You should know (angelsächsisch, bah, pfui) DSW - Du solltest wissen (deutsch, kühl, geilomatiko)

DSW:

Eine helle Nutzerschnittstelle in einem hellen Zimmer schont die Augen. Anders rum, anders rum.

Pluspunkte gibt’s für einen Bildschirm, mit vernünftigem Weißpunkt und einem automatischen Nachtmodus zum Abend.

Das ist lustig. Weil ‘dual’ klingt eim bisschen wie ‘du Aal’. Das ist ein Wortwitz, weil der eine denkt, dass der ihn als Fisch bezeichnet hat. Aber das meint der garnicht. Der meint sein Studium.

(Für normale Menschen, welche sich gerade am Kopf kratzen: Der Aal Witz)

Find’s gerade nicht mehr, aber mein Highlight von vor ca. 'nem Jahr war mal die Aussage, dass man mit den Wölfen “Wettrüsten” würde.

Jepp. Mhmm. 300km/h. Muss man wissen!

I’m really sorry but that’s straight up misinformation.

B12 is synthesized by certain bacteria. Plants do not create B12. Water does not somehow randomly contain B12. It’s ONLY synthesized by bacteria.

I’m not even saying it’s disgusting. I say it’s easy to supplement. I’m not sure what’s going on, but there seems to be a wild misunderstanding.

If Wikipedia is not for you, here’s a random paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29216732 Please. It’s not in water. It’s not in dirt or floats around in outside air. I’m not saying it’s disgusting. Quite the opposite, in fact. I’m just saying it has to be considered and vegans are more at risk in this particular way, that’s easily treatable.

Nono, I’m refering to the properties of B12 itself.

Its oral absorption is just very poor. Apparently only ~1%. So the doses must be immense. But humans only need miniscule amounts. The solution I use has 20,000% MRV. And most supplements have insanely high doses to solve this problem.

On the other hand: B12 is also available through dairy products or in egg-based foods. So it’s usually only a problem if one is completly vegan and, as stated, easily subverted.

But you have to be aware of it. Because it’s not “always absorbed in tiny amounts” just because you eat something. To quote Wikipedia:

Vitamin B12 is […] the only vitamin that must be sourced from animal-derived foods or supplements.

Also, cool hack:
It’s also bright red and can color drinks. That’s cool.

Except B12 / cobalamin.

B12 is a ass of a nutrient. It doesn’t even get absorbed properly.

But it’s also availible in liquid form. So there’s that - and tastes kinda nice too.

The initial comment resonated so much with me, that I feel the need to answer, even though I wasn’t even asked: YES

A few years ago I was in a really dark place. I lost 3 kg in 2 months and when I wasn’t at work, I was lying in my bed on the verge of crying, half-listening to YouTube just to scare the thoughts away.

But the thing, that finally got me out of the loop, was getting myself a houseplant, after watching a plant YouTuber for a while. And when I got home, rather than cry, I obsessively cleaned every speck of dust off the leaves, measured the soil moisture with a stick and just watched it be. And something just clicked inside me and I realized that I had found something I wanted to do; probably forever, if given the chance.

Still have the same plant; cut, repotted and propagated. And while I’m at a much better place now - physically, mentally, financially - just thinking about giving that (houseplants) up feels like going back.