Nah, not true.

Sure, nicotine is only part of cigarette smoke, and likely not the most dangerous. But nicotine raises blood pressure, and slows wound healing. Former can cause heart attacks, or any of the other health problems high blood pressure causes, while latter can lead to infections or neuropathy (generally, not causing them, but worsening them, if you have diabetes or the like).

This is because nicotine a vasoconstrictor. It causes your blood vessels to contract. This can actually be a good thing in some circumstances: if your lost a lot of blood, or have dangerously low blood pressure for some reason. But with the prevalence of high blood pressure in the population, its definitely more dangerous than anything else for the average person.

Also, the ablism in reducing schizophrenia to ‘person yell at object’ is very gross

Is that still carving? Looked like pressed leather, or whatever the word for the process is

It’s not praise to say it’s successful.

More than that, it’s sorta funny that this is the movie chuds are mad about, when Nolans movies are just classic blockbuster stuff. It’s not woke in any meaningful way, it’s not high art or anything. It’s just what Nolan always makes.

I don’t really mind it. But I do agree that it just… Doesn’t feel necessary. Mina the Hollower was another game I overall liked, where the soul dropping mechanic was just, superfluous

I think looking at the wider world is always going to be bleak. If you look, you can always find humans being terrible, killing, lying, cheating, polluting.

But the opposite is true too. Everywhere, people are fighting for justice, for love and peace. Working to provide for their families, to survive and help others. Harder to find such stories online, as misery and anger goes viral much harder than heroism.

You can’t control others. Only ever your own actions. It’s hard, to find a purpose for yourself. Survival always comes first, and while online veganism stresses purity, I think the ‘as far as is practicalable’ line in the ‘definition’ is important. You can only ever do your best, and you can only do your best while you live.

I’m not sure exactly your own outlook, on veganism, what your core drive is. But no one can live an absolutely harm-free life. It’s noble and right, to do what you can to lower that. But when speaking to what drives you, you should focus more on what you can create. Those people you have connections with in your life. Meeting and connecting with more people. I think a lot of the poison in the world, magnified by social media, can be lessened by talking with people face-to-face, finding common ground.

Yeah, agreed. But ‘customer is always right’ is a slogan made by businessmen, so it’s no surprise it’s capitalist BS.

It’s a marketing term anyway, said by them as advertisements for their businesses, same as like, BK’s “have it your way”. Just another case of ads sticking in pop culture well past their actual relevancy.

No, it’s not. This and other ‘rewrites’ of phrases to mean the opposite thing (like ‘blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb’) all have no evidence of being ‘the original saying’.

Whether you touch type per the formal method or not, if you don’t know what the lines are for, ot means you weren’t taught (or weren’t paying attention) typing.

I was taught it in school in typing class, so the meme is accurate, but could be rephrased to something like: What do you mean you don’t know that the lines are for? Are they not teaching that in school anymore?

Yeah, exactly this. These ‘natural testosterone’ supplements are snake oil.

Yeah, I remember lots of drama back in the reddit days around her, in part because redditors couldn’t be normal around a woman who has an onlyfans (though, she also couldn’t help but feed the trolls, so she’s not blameless).

Umm lots and lots of kids, and some adults, have that kind of cereal for breakfast most mornings

Generally speaking, no.

I like getting out of the house, and I find I’m more efficient, better at focusing, in the office/field. Maybe That’d be different if I had a separate dedicated ‘work office’ at home, but I don’t have space for such a thing.

But, I do like having the option to WFH. Bad weather, car trouble, feeling a bit sick (but not enough to call off).

You aren’t wrong for liking what you like. But I love subtext, make me riddle out the meaning.

I know this isn’t all ‘non-subtext’ works, but I hate when theres a beautiful passage that neatly implies what a character is thinking and feeling indirectly… Followed by them just blithely stating their current emotional state out loud. Hits like a sack of bricks every time.

Nah, that’s silly. Asia obviously has the longest coastline.

Sure, based on that paradox, the specific measurement of a given coastline will differ. But if you pick a standard (i.e., 1km straight lines), Asia is easily the longest. Doesn’t matter what standard you pick.

The only way the paradox matter here is of you pick different standards for different coastlines. Which, os obviously wrong.

Okay, but technically, incubus/succubus means demon who lies on top/beneath

Its summon top or bottom, not summon male or female

Yes. No photos would be better than the ai-slop. Like, they aren’t even relevant to the article, they’re just ‘’ pop-sciencey’. If you’re gonna use ai images, you could at least make them relevant to the topic?

If you were playing Bilbo in DnD 5e, the class that makes the most sense to give bilbo is Rogue. Commoner isn’t a class; bilbo could only be one if he was an NPC.

Does he exactly map onto the DnD rogue chassis? No, he doesn’t, but he maps worse onto every other class.

Rogues aren’t really designed to be good at everything, they are designed to be very good at a few skills (in 5e). Bards are the ‘generalists’ (which, imo. is blatantly OP considering they are also good spell-casters).

PF2e is where they just kinda get all the skills (along with investigators).

I mean, if we’re talking DnD 5e, rogues are one of the weaker classes.

In part, its cause they’re only okay at combat. Pretty good damage (but not amazing), only moderate control options, and little defense, while relying on modes of attack that require work to function (sneak attack, stealth)

And, they do work as a skill monkey, but Bards are just kinda… better, at almost everything, on that front. Magic is just generally overtuned in its effectiveness, so really, a Wizard can be a better skill monkey, if they prep utility spells that day.