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Brawnfire posted:If I lived on my own I'd absolutely eat brown rice for 95% of meals Same but rear end
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Brawnfire posted:If I lived on my own I'd absolutely eat brown rice for 95% of meals Do you mean literally just brown rice, and not like, a dish, cuz literally just brown rice will leave you malnourished and dead, which is why literally 99% of all of humanity went crazy for meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and dairy.
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Brawnfire posted:Which is frustrating when I'm like, trying to find a song I like and all I can remember is wheemem ooo anana AY New Sims soundtrack sounding good.
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Feb 7, 2022 04:19
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100% of my meals are random flavors of noodles I buy at the store. Annie's brand, I think? I don't even know. I'm vegan, but I don't like vegetables, so I don't use the freeze-dried toppings. I keep a drawer in my house full of them, in case I guess I want a salad?
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Feb 7, 2022 05:37
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Do you mean literally just brown rice, and not like, a dish, cuz literally just brown rice will leave you malnourished and dead, which is why literally 99% of all of humanity went crazy for meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and dairy. Don't threaten me with a good time  But seriously, yeah some other stuff, but it would be centered around a huge bowl of steamed brown rice
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Feb 7, 2022 05:41
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Brawnfire posted:Don't threaten me with a good time I am shaking you like the skeleton: you need to cook beans
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Feb 7, 2022 05:44
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Ah christ you sound like my wife
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Feb 7, 2022 06:04
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Killingyouguy! posted:"oh I'm not the kind of person who can eat the same thing every day" Though there is quite a distance between "I can't only eat beans and rice every day!" and "I have to eat something else before I get into the leftover pizza or I'd feel weird."
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Feb 7, 2022 06:57
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Random irritating thing: when there's a non-fictional documentary (podcast, etc.) on some kind of supernatural topic like ghosts or aliens, and the people representing the skeptics' side give ~rational~ explanations for the observed phenomena, but they say the absolute dumbest things. Things that are even less rational, more debunkable, and more reaching than "it was ghosts!" It makes me cringe; I'm a skeptic, and I feel like they make skeptics look more foolish and gullible than the believers. FOR EXAMPLE. There's a BBC podcast on the "Battersea poltergeist," an alleged haunting of a house with mysterious phenomena which lasted for over 12 years. The guy representing the skeptical side is constantly offering up ridiculous arguments that don't actually explain anything away. For instance, the haunted house at the center of the podcast is a row home which experienced loud banging sounds throughout the house, so loud that neighbors called the police for noise disturbances, so loud you could hear the sounds outside from the street, every day for 12 years. None of the other houses in the row experienced these sounds in their homes. The skeptical arguments presented are things like "maybe it was the sound of icicles dropping in an underground sewer" (uh...every day of the year, even in summer, for 12 years straight? which none of their neighbors could hear in their own homes on the same row?), "maybe it was the sound of subway trains" (again, only affecting this one house and not their neighbors?), and the worst/best one -- "maybe it was the sound of someone cracking the knuckles in their toes". How do these lameass explanations actually explain anything? (NB: if the sound of someone cracking their knuckles in their toes is so loud that their neighbors call the police on them and describe the sound as "the sound of someone ripping up their floor boards," WTF man, this is not the satisfactory pat answer you make it out to be -- this is an unprecedented medical marvel itself begging for investigation.) Another example: the Marfa lights in Texas. Skeptics will say that the lights are caused by cars' headlights. But the lights have been reported since before cars were invented, and they don't move in straight horizontal lines like car lights move, but fly vertically, make figure 8 patterns, change colors, etc. "It's just car headlights" is not a rational explanation, because the conclusion doesn't address the features of the phenomenon as they've been observed. (It's not unlike that true crime case where a woman's body was found submerged in water, bruises around her throat, ligature marks around her wrists and ankles...and the coroner declared she had died of a virus. Madness.) And THEN, often a lot of skeptics present rationales which are very close to saying, "Well, since we can't explain it, it must not have happened." That is abominably lazy thinking; that's not rational, scientific thinking at all. FFS, especially when you're going to be interviewed for a documentary, make some actual effort and do some research into the given phenomena, so you can A) not sound like a dumbass, B) not make skeptics in general look bad, and C) actually figure out what's going on? Really, I'm just pissed that I listened to 14 episodes of a story involving dozens and dozens of people reporting loud banging sounds in a row home for 12 years, and not one person had spent the intellectual effort to honestly and scientifically investigate the cause of the sounds, nor any of the other phenomena experienced in the house. It's either ghosts or toe bones with these people. 
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Occam's Razor is absolutely skeptical, scientific thinking. "They made it up" isn't a satisfying explanation, but since the alternatives are "ghosts exist", welp. In addition, the burden of proof is on the person saying a thing happened or exists, not the one saying it didn't/doesn't. To your point it's possible that shows produced by or aimed at the credulous might not be able to attract the best skeptical experts, or might deliberately select ones who sound ridiculous, or edit them that way. The family member who lives with us NEVER eats her leftovers and it's brutal for me to watch good food just sit there in the fridge and rot until it gets thrown out. Not just healthy stuff! There's a container with fried, breaded chicken tenders that's just been sitting there for about five days now. I'd ask if she'd mind if I eat them but it's the kind of relationship where I don't like this particular person feeling like I owe them a single god drat thing, not even a "thank you". Imagined has a new favorite as of 23:54 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Feb 7, 2022 23:44
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Recycling and sorting all our rubbish into seperate piles so it can go and be illegally burnt in a developing country is obviously all a stupid pantomime anyway, but nevertheless it annoys me when I get stuck behind the bin lorry and the bin men are just openly throwing all the food waste in with the plastic and glass etc.
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Feb 8, 2022 00:08
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There is an alarm in a building behind our house that went off at roughly 7am this morning and has now been ringing for about 16 hours. The building was until recently a pub, but that business has gone into liquidation, so apparently nobody's now taking responsibility for it. neat cheetos
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Imagined posted:Occam's Razor is absolutely skeptical, scientific thinking. "They made it up" isn't a satisfying explanation, but since the alternatives are "ghosts exist", welp. In addition, the burden of proof is on the person saying a thing happened or exists, not the one saying it didn't/doesn't. And now to your second paragraph: that had never occurred to me before, and this seems like the most plausible explanation behind it all. It's not skeptics being genuine albeit dumb, it's the media making skeptics (and Skepticism) look so irrational that belief in the supernatural is rational in comparison. gently caress! ...Thinking about all of this reminded me of an experience I had with my dad when I was a kid. One summer, we went on a family vacation through Europe and stopped to visit the main cathedral in Lisbon, Portugal. All over the floor were strange symbols carved deeply into the stone. There weren't that many of them in total, but they appeared in every area of the floor -- you'd see them under a pew, in the middle of the aisle, up by the altar, all over. They didn't look like any religious symbols I knew, either, more like alchemical symbols. So I asked my dad what they were. My dad said, "Ehhh, they don't mean anything. People probably just carved them while they were bored in church." Even as a little kid, I saw his answer couldn't hold up to scrutiny. You mean to tell me people just so happened to carry hammers and chisels with them to church, and in the middle of Mass, they'd get bored and would get up to go kneel in the middle of the aisle -- in full view of the priest and the whole congregation -- and just start chipping away at the floor? And everyone else was okay with this? The priest just carries on saying Mass, while some guy is making loud stone chipping sounds in the middle of the aisle? No way, man. Besides, that doesn't explain why they're carving strange alchemical symbols and not, like, the medieval equivalent of Dickbutt. So I asked my dad to go ask someone else, like a tour guide, about the symbols, but he refused and just repeated, "People carved them because they were bored." Years later, I'm flipping through a library book on the construction of medieval cathedrals, and I see a page of strange alchemical symbols carved in stone. It turns out they're masons' marks, and they were used to guide the placement of the stones when assembling floors and such. "People carved them because they were bored." 
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Feb 8, 2022 19:29
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There was a mason's mark on one of the stones used in my primary school and that was the subject of a lot of playground urban legends.
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My actual pet peeve is that Free Masonry is just a cosplay/dinner party club for old guys with too much money and time on their hands and not actually as shadowy and spooky as the pop culture makes it out to be. I mean sure they probably do worship JAHBULON but them controlling society is a mere side effect of members largely being old and wealthy and not a vast conspiracy unless you think old dudes being overrepresented in finance and government is a conspiracy.
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Feb 9, 2022 02:48
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credburn posted:I'm vegan, but I don't like vegetables how are you not dead
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Tree Bucket posted:how are you not dead Just eat the fake meat
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*eats edamame and washes it down with one of an infinite list of amazing tofu dishes, enjoys a black bean burg gently caress you, dies* "fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkk if only I had eaten more nugggggsssss"
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Feb 9, 2022 03:22
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Tree Bucket posted:how are you not dead You sound like my doctor.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:*eats edamame and washes it down with one of an infinite list of amazing tofu dishes, enjoys a black bean burg gently caress you, dies* "fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkk if only I had eaten more nugggggsssss" credburn posted:100% of my meals are random flavors of noodles ... I don't use the freeze-dried toppings.
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Feb 9, 2022 04:53
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Tiggum posted:Beans are vegetables. next you'll tell me tomatoes are fruits, sunsets are bland, and vacations are just going to another place full of humans, water, dirt, and buildings in various orders.
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Feb 9, 2022 05:02
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I tried being vegan once, but I found leftover lentils repulsed me
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FreudianSlippers posted:My actual pet peeve is that Free Masonry is just a cosplay/dinner party club for old guys with too much money and time on their hands and not actually as shadowy and spooky as the pop culture makes it out to be. Am a mason, can confirm or can I???
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Feb 9, 2022 05:58
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:next you'll tell me tomatoes are fruits, sunsets are bland, and vacations are just going to another place full of humans, water, dirt, and buildings in various orders.
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Tiggum posted:Are you saying beans aren't vegetables? How would you categorise them? Edit: Musical fruit credburn has a new favorite as of 17:17 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Feb 9, 2022 09:18
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credburn posted:Musical fruit
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Feb 9, 2022 09:40
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I'm a member of the Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers and I can confirm we are, in fact, allowed to have one
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My pet peeve is millennials who use Simpsons references as a substitute for humour. Just kidding, it's all I have.
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Microsoft released an update to the Windows weather app that no longer shows the time in hourly It's bad and unnecessary.
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Tiggum posted:Are you saying beans aren't vegetables? How would you categorise them? Depends on what kind of categorization you're looking for! In culinary terms? Sure, they are. If you're asking for a scientific categorization, then no, they are not. "Vegetable" isn't even a valid scientific term. Scientifically, beans are legumes.
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Brawnfire posted:I tried being vegan once, but I found leftover lentils repulsed me But that's when they become the best!
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Silver Falcon posted:Depends on what kind of categorization you're looking for! In culinary terms? Sure, they are.
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Silver Falcon posted:Depends on what kind of categorization you're looking for! In culinary terms? Sure, they are. In culinary terms no, beans are not vegetables, what the gently caress Are there seriously people out there who hear "vegetables" and think black beans? At that point you may as well start insisting rice is a vegetable. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 9, 2022 14:38
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In culinary terms no, beans are not vegetables, what the gently caress
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Beans are a swing role between veg and protein, it just depends how you eat them.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In culinary terms no, beans are not vegetables, what the gently caress 
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I think there are enough beans with enough diversity that they simply get to be categorized as "beans".
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In culinary terms no, beans are not vegetables, what the gently caress My brain went to "thing used in vegetarian cooking," was my logic. So what are they? Protein? Something else?
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Phosphine posted:I think there are enough beans with enough diversity that they simply get to be categorized as "beans". It's this. I'm genuinely baffled. Like if beans are a vegetable then why isn't rice a vegetable? Why aren't oats? Is hummus a vegetable slurry? What does that make mushrooms? Beans or legumes or whatever you want to call them are a whole category of their own.
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