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  • I wish my Mum's pets got along like that. Best they seem to do is a non-aggression pact that the dogs seem all to eager to violate by playing chase when the cats dare walk around too fast

  • I suppose the question would be then was she ever aware it had caffeine in it at all?
    I've never been to a Panera, so I don't know how they advertised that lemonade.

  • Yes - which is why I specifically said "for it to kill you"

    You would experience a range of other symptoms, some quite severe, way before reaching your lethal dose - but those wouldn't kill you, at least not outright.

    Problem is there is quite the high deviation in calculating what that lethal dose is for the average person, and given that people have died intaking significantly less (as I said), testing how many of those you could knock back is not something I'd do personally or recommend anyone else try.

  • Supposedly you would need to knock back anywhere from 10-25 of those back to back (4-10g dose) for it to kill you... But people have died intaking significantly less caffeine.

    Considering the average person won't know which end of that spectra they're on until they get there, it's not a risk I'd want to take.

  • I also find it odd that his best chance of going to prison isn't even related to the fact he tried to stage a coup.
    Any other person, it would've been treason and locked up for life (if not a death sentence) for even trying - no question needed.

  • Standardisation works with weights and measures because the definition of those isn't meant to change ever... A kg should always be a kg, a km should always be a km, etc.

    But while globalisation may have slowed them down, languages are still evolving - why do you think there are still words being added to the dictionaries each year?

    You think the dictionaries just think up new words for themselves, or do you think that they're catching up on words that have entered the majorative lexicon?

    Language is one of the few things that is still controlled by majority usage, because you can't really standardise normal, everyday use of language. So if you dig your heels into the ground trying to standardise existing language, you'll be the one left behind by the majority of language users - even the dictionaries know that.

  • Yeah, I got nothing either. Maybe this is a US-centric thing?

  • Language evolves with the masses, if the majority of people think a word means something, that is what it will become regardless of any prior meaning.

    Those who try to tie it down will only be left behind by the sands of time.

  • Solution - just don't make a face... say it's some post-modern art piece on the pointlessness of individualism, or something like that.

  • Underdog? Underdog?? It's literally the default on windows!

    It's like saying vanilla is the Underdog ice cream flavour haha

  • Humanity as a whole is massively short-sighted, so I doubt we're ever going to get any of the sweeping policy changes we'd need in time without some massive external pressure.

    Peaceful protests simply won't succeed, because they're nowhere near obnoxious enough to those in power compared to the money they'd lose out on by implementing these changes.

  • Didn't realise how much I didn't miss deep-fried memes. Though this one is so cringey, it's actually kinda wrapped round to being funny again

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  • Oh would you look at that, the rich coming up with yet another positive euphemism for a problem they're causing so they don't have to feel so guilty about it

  • This stair ain't big enough for the both of us

  • Poor guy's looking at you like "Help me! My stairs got moved while you were fighting the loud beast!"'

  • If I had to choose, I'd take a solid 30 FPS over a constantly stuttering 60 FPS any day, because stuttery frames can completely ruin your immersion.

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  • This death spiral/"ant mill" is actually quite short, though still deadly - in the worst case scenarios, a death spiral can be literally kilometers long, some ants might not even make a single revolution around it, which is kinda terrifying to think about.

  • In its application, the Archdiocese said its vision is that the school “participates in the evangelizing mission of the Church and is the privileged environment in which Christian education is carried out."

    I think this is the closest you'd ever get them on tape to admitting that they want to brainwash your kids into Evangelicals

  • Does Reddit not realise that their own internal search is so bad most people will search for answers on Reddit via Google. They're gonna shoot themselves hard-core in thd foot pulling that move.

  • I assume the Paladin would either have to try to roll to persuade the other players that it's definitely not a Labrador, dispell whatever illusion the creature is casting, or they would indeed have to fight them alone (possibly with the other players trying to stop them, cause who kills a Labrador)