Okay, afaik, there’s no listing anywhere of tensile strength of living tissues of various critters. There might be, but I’ve never run across one, and my life being what it is, you’d be amazed how often I’ve gone looking for similar information for one question or another someone asks.

That being said, I have dealt with recently dead snakes. We country as fuck up in the this piece, so we got a few snakes similar in size to a rattler, and I’d guesstimate that the average blacksnake is going to be close enough for government work to the average rattler.

So, yeah, I’d guesstimate you could strangle someone with a recently dead snake that was long enough to use as a murder tool. If you ever have to extricate a dead snake from something like a dryer vent, or the various mechanical parts of a car, you have to tug on the damn things pretty fucking hard. Even with sharp and/or hard bits involved to make holes in a snake, they don’t just pull apart. The few times I’ve had to pull a dead snake out of a car, the only thing that pulled off was whatever injury did the snake in.

In other words, if the skin and muscle are damaged enough, it’ll tear apart there. But otherwise? It’ll only come apart where it’s snagged on something, and I’m a big dude, so I can haul on things decently.

I’d say the overall toughness involved is at least similar to a decent leather belt

Ehhh, a well roasted robusto is definitely going to be different than arabica, but it isn’t always sour, or terrible. It’s definitely more acidic on average, and it’s often used to make cheaper coffee, so little or no effort is put into it. But robusto has its place

Looking at what you actually wrote instead of anything else, you’re mostly dead on.

Almost all things food related are subjective, and that extends to all the items you listed.

That being said, some aspects of flavor and scent are going to be damn near universally perceived as better. As an example, while it’s fine to enjoy plain old Hershey’s chocolate bars, trying to claim that they can match a decently crafted chocolate that puts effort into their process is going to be silly because they aren’t really the same thing when it comes right down to it. They just share basic ingredients.

And, it is entirely possible to refine one’s palate. It doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means, and it absolutely doesn’t mean what snobs think it means. Refining your palate is the process of training your senses to pick up even minor differences. That’s it. Nothing else. Your opinion of those differences is still subjective, but you can absolutely develop the ability to not just detect, but describe the differences between two coffees, or two cheeses.

When it comes right down to it though, some things are going to be so universally preferred that it’s accurate to call them “better”. A mass produced cheddar from Wal-Mart is just not going to have the same complexity as a locally produced, well crafted cheese. And complexity in cheddar is what makes a good cheese good rather than just edible. It isn’t that you have to like it because other people like it, but you also can’t invalidate that when enough people prefer something, using the word “better” is acceptable and accurate because of the word itself.

I’m with you. I fucking despise food snobbery. But part of your post here is its own form of snobbery. Yes, it is. You’re saying that your subjective impression of foods is superior to others by virtue of not relying on their set of subjective values. That’s food snobbery.

I’ll also add that sometimes the “better” thing isn’t necessarily the more enjoyable thing, particularly with ingredients. Using a deeply aged, complex cheddar in mac n cheese is very likely to suck, as an example. For something like chocolate, making a dip for apple slices and using some really precisely selected, single origin chocolate is going to make the experience of chocolate sauce dipped apple slices way less enjoyable.

However, if you’re making a fruit and cheese plate, breaking out the right cheeses to pair with each fruit is likely to make the overall experience better because each given bite can be a unique thing, as the compounds in a cheddar that go so well with apples or (sometimes) pears make it a poor choice to go with berries, where something like a brie is going to do more in the mouth. Better would still be subjective to some degree, but exploring the senses in a well organized way can be said to be better than just randomly cramming things into your mouth and seeing what you enjoy the most.

I’ll also say that brewing a cheap, poorly roasted coffee well can make it better than throwing it in a percolator.

Food is like jazz. You get as much out of it as you’re willing to put into it.

If one ignores the semicolon, it is at their own peril; they’re too useful, even when used slightly incorrectly

Been there. And, my physical health precludes it sometimes too.

Nothing I can say will help, but you ain’t alone, you aren’t the only one, and if you ever do have a day when you can do that kind of self care, don’t beat yourself up if/when you have the next one where you can’t.

We all gotta get by as best we can, and nobody gets out alive.

I’ll take the hitla.

Not because of political bullshit, but because damn near any other maker is going to be a better choice. Telsa is run like shit, has tons of reliability problems, and I don’t see anything else being worse.

That being said, if more information about the hitla brand’s reliability and quality were available, it might change the answer.

For fucking real, at this point in my life, idgaf about anything in a car but it being there, ready to go, when I have a fucking appointment. That means minimum fucking bullshit with sourcing parts, minimum bullshit with being able to put them in myself, and hopefully that they’re also affordable parts. It could be named Hitler, and made by the mustache fascist himself and I would not fucking care as long as I could go a fucking year without something fucking up.

My car was like that for the first fifteen years or so. Basic maintenance unless I did something stupid, and I’m spoiled on that. Even now, with it being almost twenty years on the road, having had three tree limbs fall on it, having had two cars run into it (front and back, plus one from the side, but that was barely a bump), and my dad driving it like an idiot, it’s still relatively reliable. Shit, the only reason I’m thinking of replacing it is needing something I can get a wheelchair in and out of easily. It’s a two door hatchback, and the hatch is high enough that lifting a chair into it just ain’t happening regularly.

So yeah, gimme a Hitler if it gets anywhere close to that level of reliability.

Jeff be a perfect ally

A little milk for the wee folk never hurts anything :)

They’re business gear. Nothing flashy, nothing really well marketed as a personal computer. A lot of people don’t even know they exist.

Some folks? They see that they aren’t super expensive and assume that means they suck. But because they’re designed for business use, they tend the be built really well. Durable; light enough to be portable, but not flimsy.

Legit, it’s the way to go. Even with the memory fuckery ongoing, you can pick up decent used ThinkPads all day long for way less than anything else. They won’t be great gaming platforms, but you can do some gaming on them.

Pick any of the most recommended “distros” you want to try, make thumb drives that can boot them, and you don’t even have to install any until after you’ve seen that they can handle your needs.

Me? I’m a mint guy. Next to zero chance of it not working on anything I want it to, easy to use and a good package repository. PopOs is good, Ubuntu is okay. And there’s a good handful of other solid, noob friendly ones out there.

First, ask Linux users what distro you should use.

Second, laugh maniacally as they devolve into an Anchorman style rumble to the death

Third, ?

Forth, go boldly

Fourth, profit

Seventh, realize you skipped some steps, go back and see which Linux user is the least dead, loot their bootable “live” thumb drive, and install whatever is on it.

Man, fuck them pronounce! Me and all my homies hate them pronounce!

They got so much wrong it’s hilarious.

About the only thing they got right is that we have chickens and like comfy clothing, and one mention based on a five year old review. Literally everything else was junk.

Neigh! It’s the elves riding her

Hey! Hey, now!

All those COBRA troopers were providing cover fire! They weren’t supposed to hit anything.

What were they providing cover for, you ask?

Ummmm

Stuff.

And thangs.

And serpentor.

Wattpad is a company/site/app for independent self publication. Fairly good user base, and enough awareness that movies and traditional publishers have found authors there.

With lemmy (and, I think piefed), you can set a display name in your user profile settings. There’s a character limit, but it can be almost anything.

Most foods taste more when at least warm. Notice I said more, not better.

That’s because once things get cooler, scent molecules don’t hit your nose as well, and fat soluble flavors aren’t as available to the tongue. Whether or not that’s “better” is subjective, but you can test it out fairly easily

Damn! That may be the most unpopular opinion I’ve seen on this community!

However, you aren’t entirely alone. I’ve known a few people that are right with you. Not many, but enough that I’ve tried some things cold but fresh, as in putting it in a fridge until it’s fully cooled.

Gotta say, I do not share the opinion for the vast majority of foods, and I found that some things are even worse cold than warm (things I didn’t like already).

That being said, some soups are nice cold, and some varieties of pizza are as good, though the crust becomes untenable.

THAT being said, you rock on with yo sef. Ain’t enough room in the world to be a food snob. You like what you like, and screw what anyone else thinks (just don’t do it to them lol)

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Ad asstra. It’s a web comic. It’s hilarious, and half of it involves sex with space ghosts (not the famous one), including oral; much ectojizz is splurted.