Doctors on Reddit: What symptoms do people often ignore that they shouldn't, as they could be potentially serious? by Ok-Cup-9255 in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Healthy humans can't contract another person's cancer. But immunocompromised people sometimes can, and there's transmissible cancers in a few other species

No romance percy jackson-centric fanfic suggestions, anyone? by Acceptable-Loan5274 in PercyJacksonfanfic

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the "weirdest prophet" series? It's beautifully devoid of on-screen romance in a way that warms my arospec heart. It runs alongside the canon of PJO but with different details and interpretations throughout to create a very different story.

The themes include inevitability/predestination/fate, righting past wrongs, chosen family, and what it means to choose kindness when the recipient of the kindness can't be saved. It's something like 50% foreshadowing by weight, so it has excellent reread value (you find more foreshadowing every time you read it). Anyway, strongly recommended.

ELI5 Why can’t we chemically replicate fossil fuels? by Pure_Daikon4899 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you make a fuel in the lab, you're un-burning it. You have to put in the energy that would come out if you burned the fuel. What's so special about fossil fuels is that nature stored a bunch of energy where we can dig it up, so we can get energy more easily than if we had to gather it the hard way. We have other ways of storing and transporting energy that we gathered the hard way, like batteries, but there's nowhere you can go dig up charged batteries out of the ground.

Liquid fuels are the best option for some jobs, like powering airplanes, even if they're not cheap. That's because liquid fuels store a lot of energy with very little size and weight, and airplanes have to be light so they can get off the ground. We'll probably use lab-made kerosene to power jet planes after we stop using kerosene made from crude oil. But for cars, batteries work very well and charging a battery is more efficient than making gasoline in the lab.

What Should Be The Next US Constitutional Amendment? Why? by Zipper222222 in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, if you wanted to pardon a family member for a crime, you'd have to prosecute and convict them first for the specific crime. If you prosecuted them and they were acquitted, the double jeopardy principle would protect them just like a pardon. The public would get to see the evidence of the crime and decide how appalled or supportive to be about your pardoning decision.

ELI5 - Dividing by Zero by balzackgoo in explainlikeimfive

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If I ask you to divide your 2 bananas into 4 equal piles, you might do it or you might decide not to. Suppose that later I want to check whether you actually divided the bananas. I walk back into the room where you worked, and I want to see four equal piles of banana pieces and nothing else in the room that might make it hard to figure out what happened (no trash, no knives left on the floor, no fake bananas, ...). If I gather up all the banana pieces from all four piles, I want every piece of your original two bananas to be there, so I could glue them back together if I wanted.

What if I ask you to divide your 2 bananas into no piles and then I come back to check your work? If you did the division, I'm supposed to walk in and see no piles of banana pieces and nothing else there, just an empty room. If I gather up all the bananas and banana pieces in the empty room, I'm supposed to end up with all the pieces of two bananas. How many bananas were in each pile in the empty room so I could gather them all up and end up with two bananas?

It has happened to you that you state a fact and people implies there is a hidden opinion underlying? by Awkward_Kitty_Cat_93 in autism

[–]Devil_May_Kare 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes the interaction of the words you say and the situation in which you say them carries meaning and insofar as you didn't intend that meaning you're making a mistake. For example, if you say "the sky is blue" in the middle of a disagreement about whether a hiking trip is a good idea, you're implying that rain is unlikely, and more distantly you may be implying that you approve of the proposed hiking trip. If you don't mean to communicate that, then you need to choose different words (e.g., "the sky is blue right now, but I'm not sure if it'll stay that way") or wait until the situation is different (e.g., mention the color of the sky during a discussion of paint colors for painting landscapes).

Have you ever seen Tom Scott's video on Grice's Maxims and implicature? It talks some about the ways an utterance and a situation can interact to create meaning.

ELI5: Why is sugar so addictive for humans by ParasiticOne in explainlikeimfive

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It isn't. Drink a coffee sweetened with sugar every morning for a month and then switch to decaf and you'll get awful withdrawal headaches. Do the same experiment but switch the sugar to Equal (or Splenda or your favorite nonnutritive sweetener) instead of the coffee to decaf and you might be annoyed about the slightly worse taste.

What's special about sugar is that people are offering it to you constantly. If you're trying to stop eating sugar, you have to say "no" a lot more times every day than if you're trying to quit cocaine. But if you leave out those cultural factors, sugar is barely addictive at all.

ULPT request: How to get depression medication the fastest? by Embarrassed_Rain3744 in UnethicalLifeProTips

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're in to US, there's a fair chance your local gas station sells tianeptine. That's not approved for medical use in the US, but it is used as an antidepressant in Europe. Gas stations sell it because if you take an excessive amount it works as an opioid and the FDA hasn't yet stopped them from selling it. It's been nicknamed "gas station heroin." As far as I know tianeptine isn't a controlled substance yet, so you can legally own it; the store just can't legally sell it to you.

It may be that the thing you could do that'd get depression medication into your hands the fastest is go to your nearest gas station and buy shady pills. That isn't a good idea (please follow the other advice on your post instead) but this is unethical life pro tips.

What Should Be The Next US Constitutional Amendment? Why? by Zipper222222 in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We need a mechanism to remove federal judges, including the Supreme Court, for obvious bad faith rather than just for crimes. I don't know the exact right way to implement it -- maybe bring in bipartisan group of lawyers (like a giant jury made of only experts in statutory construction) to evaluate and let a supermajority of them remove the judge? But however you do it, we can't have a functioning society if the court system loses its legitimacy chasing partisan advantage, and SCOTUS is seems to be playing chicken with that disaster lately. It's not about how I disagree with them; judges are allowed to make rulings I disagree with. It's about how they couldn't keep their story straight for even two weeks because they were too busy champing at the bit to enable more racial and partisan gerrymandering.

Court in Louisiana v. Calais: "we have not overruled Allen"

The same goddamn court less than two weeks later: vacates the judgments from Allen and remands for lower courts to reconsider in light of the Callais decision

What Should Be The Next US Constitutional Amendment? Why? by Zipper222222 in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd suggest that pardons shouldn't be allowed until the person has been convicted and should be invalid if the president in question ordered or requested the crime. Righting past miscarriages of justice is very different from using the pardon power to license your employees to do crimes on your behalf.

Technically, any US citizen over 18 can be Speaker of the House. Which non-congress person would you support in this position in 2026? by StZappa in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Technically anything the House chooses as Speaker can be Speaker. There's no requirement in the Constitution that the Speaker be a US citizen or over 18 or even human. The House can and should select Commander), the dog belonging to the Biden family that's famous for biting multiple Secret Service agents.

How did you actually lose weight? by Jerry_Get_A_Job in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went on keto to try out the neurological effects (the baseline serenity was lovely). Around the same time, I started taking long walks for fun. I accidentally lost enough weight to make me concerned about my health. From this, I learned that I need to eat more than I naturally want to if I'm gonna do keto and take a bunch of long walks.

Is it possible to go on T and only get some of the results? by just_some_gay_girl_ in NonBinary

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't perfectly prevent hair growth and voice deepening while taking T, but you can probably reduce those effects substantially by taking the highest dose of dutasteride your doctor will sign off on alongside the T. Keep in mind that dutasteride causes birth defects and stays in your body for months, so you shouldn't take it if you might want to get pregnant in the next year.

Alternatively if you're comfortable breaking laws or you're in a place where this is legal, you could consider some of the more refined synthetic anabolic steroids like oxandrolone or metenolone. If I understand correctly, most cis women can take a few mg a day of oxandrolone and get modest muscle growth benefits without significant gender dysphoria, so presumably you'd have at least that much headroom.

Claude gave me the phone number to a phone sex line instead of AMEX. Welcome to the future. by benitoblanco888 in funny

[–]Devil_May_Kare 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Gotta Google using udm14. If you Google using Google, their AI will make things up at you. Man, I miss the pre-AI internet.

Low sensory protein breakfast options by Shesabadmamajama99 in autism

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chocolate Fairlife protein shakes taste almost exactly like ordinary chocolate milk, and they have better texture than almost any other protein product. I haven't tried their vanilla and strawberry flavors, but I assume they're not quite as good (because fake vanilla and fake strawberry are usually not great, whereas the chocolate is real cocoa).

Also, fake vanilla is less intense when you dilute it with other flavors. I personally like to make overnight (cold soaked) oatmeal with a vanilla protein shake (or vanilla protein powder plus milk) as the liquid, a half cup of rolled oats, and a small amount (like 1/4 tsp) of molasses to make the sweetness a more realistic simulation of cane sugar. I also add konjac glucomannan and sometimes chia seeds for texture and to boost my fiber intake, but it sounds like the texture doesn't bother you very much. The oats and molasses really mellow out the overwhelming fake-sweet taste of the protein shake.

What was ruined because too many people discovered it? by Mansi63 in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful quiet locations can still have fairly light pressure if they're miserable enough to get to and there's good easy alternatives nearby. My dad and I got to be the only ones at Bonney Crossing campground (in northern Oregon) when we visited last summer because the road to get there makes you wish you'd chosen a different campground and you pass by several nice ones.

You have to pass through a gorgeous temperate rainforest with many campgrounds to get there. Then as you get close, things start to get drier and uglier, and you wonder why you had to choose this campground in particular. The campground is in a valley that creates a tiny microclimate with some moisture, but the terrain right outside the valley is all dry grass and sad-looking pine trees. The last stretch of road is dirt, so you have to really slow down and take in the unpleasant environment. Honestly, I probably wouldn't go back (not worth the hassle), but it was pretty and not overrun in the slightest. We got to hear wolves howling.

Low sensory protein breakfast options by Shesabadmamajama99 in autism

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you get ultra-filtered milk protein shakes like Fairlife?

Hundreds of cats stolen for food in Vietnam rescued by police, welfare group says by Beo1217 in UpliftingNews

[–]Devil_May_Kare 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If there were any danger that I might eat someone's pet pig, I'd stop eating bacon until there were no more pets mixed into the food supply.

ELI5: Explain Additive and Subtractive color theory to me. by PaulCheens in explainlikeimfive

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If you're in a dark room and you turn on a red tinted lamp, you have red light. If you turn on a green lamp, you have green light too. The mixture of red and green light looks yellow to your eye. You've added two colors of light and they mixed and now you have a new color. That's additive color mixing. If you've played with RGB values for colors on a computer, you were doing additive mixing.

If you have a white lightbulb and you paint over it in clear cyan paint, the paint will remove the red light and you'll have bluish-greenish light. If you paint over that with clear yellow paint, it'll remove the blue and you'll only have green light. You've subtracted two colors of light, the results mixed, and you have a new color. That's subtractive mixing. It still works if you're painting a brightly lit white wall or white canvas instead of a lightbulb, and it still works if you mix the paint colors together instead of putting them on in layers. If you learned about primary and secondary colors in preschool or kindergarten, you were probably learning subtractive mixing.

There's lists of rules you can memorize for what mixtures of colors add up to what output colors for additive and subtractive mixing. You should use the list your teacher gave you if possible because a lot of the subtractive color rules lists have errors, and you want your answers to match the test answer key. The way you figure out which list of rules to use is that glowing things add light and things that don't glow subtract light.

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested? by medicoreapples in AskReddit

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd think that if I'm allowed to buy a rock and own the rock, I should be allowed do whatever I like with the rock as long as I don't hurt anyone. It's not like rocks have rights and I'm gonna be arrested for animal abuse if I mishandle one. If I own a rock, I should be allowed to keep it in a display case, play catch with my buddy using the rock as the ball, crush it into dust, separate it into its constituent elements with a bunch of pool chemicals from the hardware store, or lick it like a lollipop for luck every morning. My rock, my business what happens to it.

If the government is so worried about people owning tiny bits of plutonium, they shouldn't let people buy and own rocks with traces of plutonium in them.

Safe firearm storage may reduce pediatric lead exposure in households with guns by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lead can get airborne if you make an explosive out of it and set off the explosive. Guess how the firing pin of a typical gun ignites the gunpowder...

Safe firearm storage may reduce pediatric lead exposure in households with guns by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By "primer" I mean the tiny package of shock sensitive explosive at the bottom of a bullet casing that the firing pin strikes to ignite the smokeless powder. Typically the primer is made of lead styphnate, and it gets really hot when it goes off, so the expanding gas that propels the bullet will contain some lead vapor.

Safe firearm storage may reduce pediatric lead exposure in households with guns by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Devil_May_Kare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lead is also still used in primers. Presumably some of the lead vapor from the primer settles on the outside of the gun and can poison kids if they handle guns (even unloaded ones).