Cut vertically (with the veins). You basically get no stinging that way (until you start cutting horizontally)

I’m not sure “expendable labor” is really the most accurate description. My understanding was that the pharoahs hired skilled artisans and craftsmen during winter seasons in exchange for food. They didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids, to my understanding

I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. Not even an LLM can hallucinate an analogy this abstract

You described what an MCQ is, but I still don’t see the relation to life.

Interesting, thanks for sharing that. I wasn’t aware that there has been newer research countering the tooth wear model

There’s a reason grass is so common - it’s because it’s a wildly effective life strategy. Grass is actually quite hard to eat - there’s basically no nutrition in the leaves themselves, and grass evolved to incorporate silica “needles” in its leaves, so that it wears down your teeth when you try to eat it anyways.

Not to say that it’s impossible to eat grass, but you need to undergo a ton of highly specialized adaptations to make it possible. For most animals (including humans), it’s just not worth the effort

I haven’t heard of any controversy, but I think you do important work. May not be glamorous work, but having a consistent flow of news on Lemmy helps me keep up to date on the goings-on of the world. I assume most people think similarly

That seems the exact opposite of capitalism? I would assume capitalist propaganda encourages you to throw away old things and buy new. Preserving old things is antithetical to that

I notice it when I eat cheese mixed with something acidic or spicy. Quite a discomforting taste but it doesn’t typically stop me from eating it anyways

Better safe than sorry. Take plan B. I can’t speak on the side effects, but I at least didn’t observe any when my SO took them.

Also, get tested for STD’s.

If you’re in a legal state, then sure. Start with small doses. I will say though, it does feel somewhat underwhelming. At least for me

One of the important things that you learn over time in a high stress situation is that you can only commit around 70% of your effort before you start burning yourself out.

As in, yes, you can definitely try harder and get more things done, but that can only be done in very short bursts. After a while, you would not be able to bring yourself to do anything. And so, the followup lesson is that you shouldn’t beat yourself up for only committing 70%. Take some time every once in a while to ask yourself: on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is the maximum conceivable amount of effort I can imagine myself giving, how would I rate the amount of effort that I am currently putting in to my work? If your score is 8 or above, then that’s your issue. You’re experiencing burnout.

If you have work piling up but you’re already committing 70%, then you just have to acknowledge that there is more work coming than you can reasonably handle. So what can you do? I don’t really know what your current career status is, so I can’t give solid advice. But you can consider either declining to take on more work or letting some tasks fall to the wayside.

If you are concerned that your 70% effort is noticeably lower than an average person’s 70%, then that’s a different issue altogether. You might just have depression. In which case, talk to a therapist.

If you have any concerns or questions about your relationship, it is a really good idea to talk to him and sort it out before it becomes an issue.

The relationship being something other than what you wanted isn’t the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is if you didn’t know that that was the case.

Hmm… Interesting question. Not a lot of time, on average. Even at home, there’s always some sort of management or planning to do. Always need to think about what comes next. But the busyness comes in waves. Occasionally I get a week with really nothing to do. And then, inversely, there are weeks where everything is happening all at once and it starts to feel like I can’t keep up and things are starting to slip. I’m currently in one of those weeks, but I’m sure it’ll pass. Just need to get through it. That’s the life of a researcher for you. There’s definitely a level of masochism required for this sort of lifestyle

If you’re curious, then I would recommend you play around with Linux before something breaks. It’s a horrible experience to have to scramble to figure out what to do when you’re tight on time - better to learn the lingo first, so that when something does break, you can switch with no learning curve.

Plus, you might end up really liking Linux anyways. That’s kinda what happened to me 2 years ago, I’m not honestly sure why I haven’t tried Linux sooner

The answer, even with other OS’s, it’s typically yes you should shut it down. I always use sleep, but if I know that I don’t have anything important open, I try to shut down

I’ve got some unexplained phenomena that happen from time to time at my lab (workplace). Valves closing for no reason, oddly specific equipment failures, that kind of thing. I don’t believe it’s ghosts, but also I genuinely can’t think of any reason for why those kinds of things could happen. I just say that it’s ghosts anyways because it’s fun.

In any case, my belief is that out of all supernatural phenomena to possibly believe in, ghosts are the least horrible thing to believe in, so anyone who believes in ghosts gets a pass from me

Nothing serious, but he’s well known for being impossible to work with. He has gotten into multiple arguments because he refuses to follow kernel development rules. When called out on it, he makes a big stink about it. Obviously his code doesn’t get merged. Then he does the exact same thing again 1 month later.

He has gotten into multiple arguments with Linus Torvalds over his refusal to simply follow the kernel development rules. During those arguments he has made cheap shots at completely unrelated people, which then drags those people into the argument.

It’s gotten to the point where apparently a significant portion of the kernel developers feel like he was negatively impacting the kernel, and Linus eventually removed his code from the kernel.

He’s what you might call a Linux lolcow. And now he’s doing even more lolcow things by… Getting weirdly attached to his LLM-sona

There’s not much fanservice in Dungeon Meshi. I would say it’s exactly like how you would expect it to turn out if you just played DnD and then hired someone to animate it. Complete with the player stupidity and boss cheesing.

The series does take time to build up - it starts off feeling like a generic gimmick anime, but the story and lore gets deeper the more you watch. And the gimmick (eating monsters) ends up becoming a lot deeper than you would expect. (I’ll talk about it more below.) The storytelling is, in hindsight, extremely efficient, but the writers just never draw attention to the info that you’re supposed to remember. So I think it’s one of those series where you really have to rewatch afterward in order to pick up all the lore tidbits that the characters just toss around.

Speaking of lore, I would say that the worldbuilding is one of the most extremely detailed that I’ve seen in any media, where it touches on really mature topics like implicit (and explicit) racism, tribal tensions, political feuds, cultural differences. And every little thing must have an explanation. And there’s actually different races of humans in this world, each with their own nation and culture. I think it all ties back in to the core theme of the series, which is that eating is so fundamental to life that it influences human culture. And, inversely, that because eating is the one universal constant across all cultures, it is the one thing that can unite people. Over the series, you stop seeing “eating monsters” as a gimmick and it starts becoming more like a thesis. Like, “yeah, of course it would be a show about eating. What else could be so fundamental to discussing the human experience?”

Touching on the typical icks with anime (oversexualization, often with minors, harem, OP main characters, etc.): the series actually avoids all of the typical anime pitfalls. There’s no sexualization. Characters don’t talk or hint about sex at all. No revealing clothing, and all characters dress appropriately for their job/environment. There is one single scene where one character tries teaching another character about sex (giving the “birds and the bees” talk), but it’s not sexual in nature and IMO it is really meant to highlight a common implicit bias in this world (the character receiving the talk is actually a grown adult, but due to his race, gets infantilized frequently). Speaking of grown adults, every character in the show appears, acts, and is a fully grown adult. And as for power scaling, the main characters don’t have any OP skills and never learn any OP skills. They’re just a standard party of adventurers, and it’s made clear that the only reason they’re successful is because of the party’s deep understanding of monster biology and dungeon ecology and their willingness to use creative solutions to difficult problems (aka: cheesing every boss).

As a complete side note, I think it has one of the best and most accurate representations of autism that I’ve seen. I’ll leave it vague, but there are several characters that are strongly autism-coded, and the writers really went above and beyond to show how autism is interpreted differently by others when the person in question is a male or female.

Overall, I’d say I highly recommend the anime. It instantly became one of the best animes that I’ve watched, and it’s an anime that can be enjoyed casually, or analyzed for lore to hell and back, or analyzed for its literary merit. (If it wasn’t clear, I’m part of the 3rd group. I really enjoyed how coherent its thematic messaging is and how skilfully it tells its story)

Other than locking the janitor in the bathroom, feels like a funny and harmless senior prank