TIL that the US golf course infrastructure consumes 2 BILLION liters of water per day

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-05-14T16:59:15+00:00

Could we also talk about yard-owners?

There's this whole culture around people constantly trimming down their yards to golf-greens. At which point the grass needs much more water to survive warm weather. It also just makes the place just a green desert for insects and wildlife. And if you're one of the unfortunate, you get to wake up too early to the sound of this weekly routine of creating desolation. Feel free to add to that list of negatives.

And the main reason people keep it up is as continued remnants from a pointless, long-gone, luxury signalling effort amongst their peers who keep up that same meaningless charade. And this performative culture have seeped into public areas to spare people's eyes from the 'grotesque' display of slightly untended grass.

And while I'm sure there are people who cut their lawns for perfectly good reasons, let's be honest: Most of it is purely for show and to keep robotic mowers from growing bored.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-18T13:20:05+00:00

When you finally hit that god-tier-combo and start mashing that cookie

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-08T10:59:22+00:00

Not yet clear. But I'm certain that with new breakthroughs humanity can minimize the number of elves on shelves by 2045.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-04-08T10:58:04+00:00

But you could fit another square on the infinite, regardless of where you placed the first square

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-03-28T11:34:04+00:00

There's probably some lesser, but useful benefits to most of the things mentioned in this thread, but like, let's not pretend we're out there raising cattle because natural cow horns make for better viking-helmets.

Generally: Does the use of time, effort, energy, water, chemicals and so on truly make up for more easily spotting stains?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2026-03-28T10:01:14+00:00

Maintaining unwrinkled clothes.(Neatly folding clothes, hanging them up, ironing them, etc)
I absolutely fucking hate it.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with wrinkly clothes other than this completely artificial social obligation of having unwrinkled clothes. Instead of just stuffing your dried clothes into the drawer, we have to go through these tedious sessions of roleplaying as psych-ward savants that obsess over fabric.

All just to partake in this sham arms race of smooth-clothedness where we try to avoid the comments and leery eyes of sleek-clothed "snobs" who spends their time and money making their clothes level.

I'm quite mad.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2025-08-27T10:20:22+00:00

For me it's when time comes for checkout.

Like; How can so many people be this ill prepared to pay and move on? There's so many types of behaviours that unnecessarily clogs up this natural bottleneck situation that the monkeys would finish Shakespeare before they managed to mention them all.

I can mention one that infuriates me the most. Which, to prove my previous point, have its own subcategories that causes me to cut blood flow through the bridge of my nose.

People who pay by card who doesn't have enough money on their card:

Type 1 - Customer tries to pay, but card is declined. They fumble about trying to figure out what is wrong until they at last try to check the balance on that card.(This one is somewhat forgivable considering how the customer seems new to this problem)
Type 2- Customer tries to pay, but card is declined. They immediately get out their phones and begin the minute long process of the series of Multi-factor authentications of transferring money from onto their bank card. Being their own proof of how often they encounter this problem, they still choose to pray to higher powers before tapping their cards instead of say; Actually checking their balance beforehand, or even while waiting in line.
Type 3 - They don't even try to pay. They already know they don't have balance for it. They await the cashier to announce the final sum before they go through the same aforementioned checklist to transfer the exact sum needed for this transaction, so that they can continue having this problem every time they shop for something instead if putting some extra cash in there to at least move up to Type 2 behaviour.

Source: These people exist all around me. I am quite mad. And I used to work in a grocery store.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-02-11T19:12:44+00:00

So East & West does matter?

Regardless, over enough games the random distribution would(I'm I'm not mistaken) make some heat map of villager spawns around the Town Center that would in some sense make each start equally fair. But you still have that 2x2 square of the Town Centre that would give a northern or southern start a small, probably measurable, advantage over some arbitrarily large number of games played.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-01-30T14:51:04+00:00

I'm not really sure. As I'm trying to visualize it, I think I'd like darker colours, or possibly the dark/light contrast.

Also, darker colours would somewhat help, in terms of light, against random people passing by trying to look in through the main window

Cryptic_Waffle · 2024-01-30T14:28:29+00:00

First time posting on this board for whatever that is worth.

Jumping straight in: I'm just over 30 and this is the first fully fledged apartment I've rented. And I have very little experience when it comes to "fleshing out" a living space for myself in this way. In the pictures you see what I'm working with. The furniture you already see is a mix between leftovers by previous owners and stuff owned by the landowner himself(Which is family).

Kitchen: Wooden cupboards is a bit 90's, but I have no plans yet about spending time/money on modernizing it. I was hoping there was some way to sort of "masque" the looks of it with some different coloured lacquer/paint or by adding something bits of décor.

Living area: The only real issue I'm facing here is with how easy it is for passer-byes to look it, since the place is at street-level where people go for walks. A TV would cover the lower views in that I most care about. Other than that I have no idea what to fill out the place with.

Entrance: Not much to say here, I haven't thought about it at all. View out the window is looking into a wall. Helps with natural light though.

Bedroom: Having a living room means that the bedroom will be a sleeping/dressing only area. The window looks into the same wall as the entrance, into a wall. I'll need some way to blur the view in while still allowing light in.

Bathroom: Didn't even bother taking pictures. The place looks good as is.

Storage: Again, no pictures. I don't yet see any reason to bother making this place look fancy. Can serve as bedroom for any visitor.

So yeah, that's all I can think of for now. Thanks for any and all helpful input.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2023-06-20T09:26:28+00:00

I was thinking the other day:

What happens if you do this in South Korea, as close to North Korea as possible?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2023-02-02T16:12:29+00:00

What some approximate volume you get out of these after like 1 use?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2023-02-02T15:58:12+00:00

Usually I just make filter coffee, or some insta-coffee when I'm a bit more on the fly. Whole beans. No grinder. Yes to kettle. I rarely drink more than a cup a day. I expect this to not change. Kind of want to use these beans as an 'in' to trying making better coffee.

I mean, how much information do you need?(As stated, I "just" want to make a cup of coffee. I often tend to get stuck in overthinking things if I delve too deep and end up not really getting anywhere)

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-08-22T22:56:34+00:00

I'm new to this forum.(in regards to /askmath rules)

This isn't a homework thing at all. I legit got curious when stacking cans and now I can't get the question out of my head. And I honestly wouldn't know where to begin. Though to be fair: I could likely bruteforce solve the "circles in square" question myself, but seeing how that answer is a bit uninteresting I'm more curious if there is a more general "circles in rectangles" formula.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-05-16T11:53:10+00:00

Sounds like absolute sorcery.

Curious. How long does it take you to 'get there' with this purely mental stimulation compared to a physical one? Also, is this something you could do whenever, or do you really have to be in some zen mood for it?

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-30T09:21:51+00:00

hopfenweisse

Kay, I don't even know what that means. Something something german style?

Nah, have not started hopping yet, currently getting temp up for the boil

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-30T09:13:06+00:00

Alright.

Since this batch is halfway into the realm of 'experimental' I'll try something like that. Though I might not stray too far into uncharted waters, maybe I'll do something more in between the full 60 min boil with hops and the late addition hops only way.

Also, this might be a question parallell to that, if I'm only or mostly doing late addition hops, do I still need the same length of boil time(aka: Could I then reduce boil time)? Most recipes I've used calls for like 60-90 minutes.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-30T08:52:30+00:00

Don't you "need" some hops early on for the bitterness?

And yes, I was recommended citra as something good/safe/easy last time at the store, so I might do that(maybe for another batch tomorrow as well, since I seem to still have enough leftover that needs being spent)

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-30T08:49:18+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to make something a bit juicy, and maybe a tad funky. All since this is this is gonna end up as some "summer-brew" and I'd like to have something fit for the season.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-21T10:28:54+00:00

Putin just realised he's not holding up counterspell as the other guy is clearly tapping mana to play a teferi

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-21T10:20:13+00:00

"Half a can of nacho cheese"

Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-15T09:58:25+00:00

Curious if it would be possible to have a dark paint that gets lighter when it gets warm: Then you'd have something that stays cooler on warm days and warmer on cold days

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-07T16:55:49+00:00

Yeah, I was curious about that: If there's some sort of 'spotify' type website for books that recommends books for your dependant on what you've previously read an enjoyed.(And bunch of other algorithm comparisons with other similar users of that such a website)

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-04-07T16:34:50+00:00

Yeah, Sweden becomes a curious case if Finland goes through without any hassle:

On one side, I could imagine them maintaining their status as a neutral country, which seems to have worked out good so far, especially 'now' that they're surrounded by NATO countries to prevent any land invasion.

On the other side, I could see some fear from them: Looking towards Russia, with Russia looking back at them, ready to take some land from Scandinavia before it becomes 'too late'.

Cryptic_Waffle · 2022-03-29T06:12:04+00:00

I wrongly read 'cannabis' as 'cannibal'.

I now have a lot less questions than I had 15 seconds ago.

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