SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.world

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Muffin in non-North American English refers to a part-raised flatbread, like a crumpet. In North America, muffin typically refers to a sweetened quickbread baked in a mold like a large cupcake, but shockingly even less healthy. The rest of the English speaking world generally refers to this as an American muffin.

In North America, biscuit refers to a levened, typically unsweetened quickbread. For the rest of the English speaking world, a biscuit is flat, unlevened, and often sweet, like shortbread. This would be referred to in North America as a cookie.

We do love to confuse each other.

Ugh, imagine alien life encountering them and thinking they're representative of our species. Agreed, they can burn here.

I can mod too. I have past mod experience from the big R and was only accused of being a power tripping shit bag once!

We've done this before. We also have an attachment that vacuum seals mason jars and we've put two eggs in a small jelly jar, vacuum sealed the lid, and thrown it into the deep freeze.

I agree, it's not that simple. No relationship I've ever been in has compared with how fervently I loved my first love, who was also my first serious adult relationship. I loved her so much it was unhealthy.

We dated for about four years, then split up rather unexpectedly. It took me several years to get over it, even going through another two serious relationships in the meantime. A new relationship doesn't just erase the experience and the pain. Distract for a time, maybe, but it's still there until you work it out.

I think different people accept the loss of a relationship differently. I'm a big ol' nerdy nerd so I had to do it intellectually: I started mapping out what the relationship was actually like versus how I felt it was like. I was surprised to gradually discover it was toxic as hell. I began to see how the ex I loved and practically worshipped was also immature, noncommutative, and manipulative. I also saw their positive attributes for what they were and that, despite my brain screaming at me I'd never find someone like that again, they were actually pretty common. That's when I really started to understand that my ex was a regular person just like anyone else and I had put her on a pedestal. The intense feelings of longing and loss then gradually subsided with time, especially as these realizations caused me to stop thinking about her as often and especially to stop fantasizing about seeing her again or even getting back together. It wasn't just that I no longer had the desire to see her again - I actively wanted to never see her again. She was awful.

That's just my experience, hopefully to give you some additional perspective. I'm an open book if you have any questions.

It doesn't make sense. People like these build their careers around the fear of the other: foreigners, immigrants, crossdressers, homosexuals, transgender, socialists, communists, etc. Any group that's small enough that a significant portion of the population doesn't know any members. They spread lies about how these evil minority groups are out to get special rights and your stuff, then campaign on protecting you from them. They're absolutely the worst kind of people.

What the kids really need to be protected from is these hateful motherfuckers. We need to put the lot of them in a rocket and fire it into the next sun over. Not our sun, that's still too close to home.

Give yourself some credit. That's at least half as bad, so your decision was twice as good.

The poop stool combined with a bidet has been life changing. How did I go so many years pooping like a savage?

I'm in! The original TP USA ruined my ability to gauge if Charlie Kirk is photoshopped or not. Looking forward to it continuing to wreck my mind on Lemmy too.

These jackanapes get to yammering about secession every few years but haven't actually done anything about it for decades. It's all performative.

He never said how much. I'll donate $0.05 to be forever excluded!

I work next a group of guys who are the "know better" crowd. Just a few days back, I overheard a conversation these dolts were having on diabetes.

According to the latest in bro medical science, diabetes is due to the body losing its sensitivity to sugar, causing it to no longer release insulin. Complex carbohydrates should be avoided as they break down to sugars more slowly, meaning the body is subjected to prolonged spike in blood sugar, leading to sugar insensitivity. Simple sugars are only an issue when people consume them consistently through the day, so it's safe if you eat a bunch all at once. Furthermore, diabetes can be cured by staying on a keto diet as saturated fat causes your pancreas to release more insulin.

What. The. Fuck.

Another another +1 here. Does that make it +3 now?

We don't print a ton so we bought a basic monochrome Brother laser printer/scanner and used the included demo toner cartridge for almost two years. When that ran out, we swapped it for one big knockoff toner cartridge over four years ago and it's still printing like a champ.

Pro tip: if a Brother printer says it's out of toner, it's only estimating this based on the number of pages printed. You can override it (at least in every model I'm familiar with) and keep on printing.

Ahhh yes, they must have accidentally destroyed every university. Oopsies, right?

/s

I feel the value of negative results is underrated by the scientific community. So they tested one or more hypotheses and achieved negative results. Now the next research team knows what not to do or what to do differently next time.

It's all knowledge and it's typically all useful in some way, but society, especially American society, is hyperfocused on achieving results that lend themselves to a marketable product, not the betterment of the quality of life of our species.

Disclaimer: I'm biased as my thesis was one giant dud.

Leave a factually incorrect, unprompted whataboutism about socialism or communism in a thread criticizing capitalism and I bet you could rival this comment count.

So what we're looking at is sanitize vs sterilize.

A sanitize cycle typically gets the temperature of the water up to about 65-75°C and holds it there for at least 1.5 hours. This kills the vast majority of pathogenic microbes as human pathogens typically live at around human body temperature. You'll see ads on how this cycle kills 99.999% of microbes, but the fine print typically states something along the lines of "foodborne microbes" or "pathogenic microbes". Anything outside of that may survive, especially if it's a species that forms endospores or a toilet brush.

Sterilizing by definition kills anything living and deactivates viruses. You won't get sterilization by heat in any dishwasher, which is why laboratories and medical facilities sterilize with an autoclave. An autoclave utilizes pressure to raise the water temperature up to around 120-135°C without it boiling. This still won't sterilize everything, particularly the aforementioned endospore forming bacteria, but it's functionally sterilized for most purposes. For true sterilization, certain autoclaves can reach much higher temperatures and pressures, in excess of 600°C and 0.5 GPa, respectively, which obliterates fairly well everything, but those are extremely uncommon and for niche uses as temperatures that high may just melt your glassware.

Oh totally. If I had a dedicated shitwasher, sure, but not in the dishwasher with my dishes and utensils. I'm a microbiologist so I'm pretty cavalier about my everyday microbe exposure but that's a really bad idea.

Yeah, you need a dishwasher with a proper sanitize cycle. Most residential dishwashers, even some with an alleged sanitize cycle, aren't up to the task. This is why laboratories will pay top dollar for an industrial dishwasher that looks nearly identical to a residential version but it actually will sanitize its contents.