I'm sorry... the very feminist South Korea?
“didn’t read article, going to toss off an ill considered remark anyway” at its finest.
Readit Newsrelaxing commented on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
> large vegetables
I'm not sure why, but I've noticed that smaller vegetables taste better. Small cucumbers are tastier and sweeter than the big ones (that taste like water), cherry tomatoes are more flavorful than large ones.
Because large size was a selected-for trait by breeders, at the expense of the good tasting genes.
relaxing commented on Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps maphappenings.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/altilunium
relaxing commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre
> Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause
This sounds like a red flag to me if you're trying to isolate the COVID vaccine as something safe. Table 2 data showed less drownings, less car crashes, less falls, less deaths related to chromosomal abnormalities... How can there not be a confounding variable or two here?
Not being an idiot who takes dumb risks like being unvaccinated certainly does seem confounding.
> I remember they tried to say once many years ago that snuff videos don't exist. How could they make such a blanket claim?
I'm curious about that too. Is there an archive link or something you can provide? I can't seem to find that claim.
You’re going to argue with the Snuff Videos Truther?
This is the funniest example of “Which views exactly? / Oh, you know the ones.”
What ever happened to the marketplace of ideas?
When you have to rely on indoctrination and censorship your beliefs lack merit.
> What ever happened to the marketplace of ideas?
It has the same flaws that plague the marketplace of goods and services, but fewer consumer protections.
The Jag XK platform had 45+ year run. I'd bet that as long as the 911 is made, it'll have an inline 6 and to someone's thinking it will be the same platform as the air-cooled version from 1964.
Engine architectures tend to last unless they are bad. They can do a lot on one also, the Toyota GR platform started out as a fairly vanilla V-6 but it has variations with GDI and variations with turbochargers and has been used a lot of different vehicles. A lot of different variations with different levels of compressions and such. It's basically the block and cylinders configuration.
I'll shout out the K-series though, it's a shockingly good platform. Lots of little details have been thought through, it's relatively simple, inexpensive and reliable and maybe one of the easiest engines to work on. If you were new to cars and wanted to start wrenching, the K-series is a pretty good place to start. It can take boost and make power and has lots of aftermarket support. I know civics aren't everyones cup of tea and it's not a big V-8, but I've yet to meet an engineer that isn't at least slightly impressed by the k-series.
There is zero commonality between a ‘64 911 and a modern 992.
relaxing commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
If you can parse the academic jargon and get past the ad hominem, the article is a basic meditation on how the state of information technology continues to support both centralization and distribution of decisions.
This ambivalence mirrors the paradox of American empire, where the United
States sees itself simultaneously as a guarantor of global order and a
bulwark against world government: the “world’s policeman” unbound by
international law.You’re allowed to use ad hominem when you’re writing a profile feature. Addressing the man is kind of the point :)
relaxing commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
While it's possible this is true, I would have preferred that the article make its own case on why Thiel is crazy and not just cite the Guardian. The article is written for someone who already agrees with the title.
Jacobin magazine is a leftist partisan publication, so yeah.
It feels to me like "dark mode" (which is a merely single color of customization for an app). We expect so little from our software and services that even these little, previously common features are supposed to be a treat.
Anyway, Last.fm was great -- I never used it that much for discovery, but rather to get insight into what I was listening to. Largely, it didn't say THAT much about my habits because I mostly just listened to my collection on random. My top bands were, for the most part, the bands I had the most of.
Eventually the stats became live updating and a bit of fun was lost.