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Trees wouldn’t exist, so life would definitely look different.

Then your judgment was entirely correct, my b

Imagine realizing you made the wrong call by hearing the screams of children.

Hard disagree about that being the wrong call, even though it killed him.

Ime, Germans love shitting on other Germans’ English skills. I’m an English (and German) speaking immigrant in Germany, and I honestly think most people do pretty well, but nobody here finds it as impressive as I do.

My dad is so, so smart in so many ways. Unfortunately, he’s completely incapable of some forms of introspection (thankfully not all). He believes that he’s even smarter than he is, and rejects anything that doesn’t fit his worldview.

I do understand him a lot more as time goes on, because my siblings and I have learned that our whole family is autistic and our parents were just dealing with that their whole lives. They did a great job with us, specifically in regard to us being autistic.

For example, my dad would warn me before he sharpened our knives, so that I could get at least two blocks away before he started, and they never cared if we wore clothes inside out to avoid tags, as long as they were otherwise neat. They educated us early about nutrition, so we could choose what we wanted to eat ourselves, but it had to be balanced. They most importantly explained that things don’t always make sense, but that sometimes people have an emotional connection to them or for seniority or similar reasons don’t want to hear us say that it doesn’t make sense.

Most effective for me specifically: my dad explained two things to me in exactly the right way for me to act in the way that was most helpful for me. He told me that I might be smarter than any given cop, but I’m not smarter than all of them together if I were to commit a big crime, and that if I kept stealing petty shit, I’d eventually get locked out of jobs where I might have been able to embezzle a lot more money. I stopped stealing and did eventually get a job where I could have embezzled a lot of money, but by that time I was better at thinking through consequences and no longer wanted to. I don’t know if that advice would work for everyone and frankly it seems like irresponsible advice to give a kid, but it absolutely helped me.

Autism aside, they were also both completely correct about how important caring for your teeth is.

The worst part: postpartum women have lower levels of microplastics than other adults.

Salt was not expensive for people living near the coast/inland salt mines. It got very expensive for people not living near centers of salt production, where ships don’t help much with transportation. It’s heavier than water by volume, because it’s a rock.

I was adding to your comment, because you skipped over the shipping costs, which made up the majority of the price for people not lucky enough to live near salt production.

It’s like mangoes today. If you live where they grow, they’re cheap as fuck. If you don’t, they’re expensive, but not impossible for most people to purchase.

It’s also because salt is heavy as fuck, so transporting it from coasts and places with salt mines was expensive.

Oh shit, I actually have ten on my head alone, good call.

Pssh, I’ve got seven on my head alone. Everyone forgets about the ears, but who doesn’t like aural sex?

I once wondered aloud how they get tanning beds to emit vitamin D. I then immediately corrected myself by saying that it was photosynthesis, which is technically correct, but doesn’t sound right in the context of animals. I did not feel smart.

That was true for Iran in the 70s, too.

The best German etymology website considers “mal” [time, instance] to be the root of Mahl(zeit) [meal(time)]. Apparently mahlen is unrelated? My mind is also blown.

“Time time” is a wild thing to call meals, but I guess we know what the focus was.

We’d need less land for crops generally if we were allotting it to human food instead of livestock feed.

Onions should be in everything savory with melded flavors.

Because we use the land that could be used to grow enough food to feed many people to grow food for cows, which then feed fewer people. By buying into this system, you’re propagating inefficiency.

They all are, once, unless people are selling unsealed jarred goods. I don’t remember what it was exactly, but it would have been something I used when cooking breakfast, so maybe salsa.

Yep, I was PISSED. I can’t even eat pork and was just being a good houseguest the morning after a party, and then suddenly had to clean up a bunch of shattered glass and pork fat in someone else’s kitchen.

Canning jars are made to withstand temperature changes though.

I pour when it’s hot to the touch, but not unpleasant, so probably around 50-60 C

I had almost the opposite experience.

I used to do a lot of community folk dance (the median age was at least 70), and I dated a guy who was somewhat cocky about inviting me to his kickboxing class. I was down, but a little concerned about embarrassing myself, especially because it was at a very intimidating boxing gym.

I didn’t even break a sweat until 20 minutes in. It turns out, jumping up and down in place for ninety minutes several times a week is really good conditioning for basically any cardio.