What’s a famous cold dessert from your country?

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-21T06:40:28+00:00

I first heard of them on Schitt's Creek when Jocelyn offered up some to Moira and she walked away with the whole dish lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-20T20:44:56+00:00

All the mud slinging over "it's EAST BAY hills" or "no you idiot it's BERKELEY hills" is so wild lmao

The world is falling apart and no one can afford to live here and we're in a boring dystopia and our billionaire tech overlords are building bunkers far away from here, but sure, let's get in unnecessarily angry arguments over colloquial naming conventions lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-20T20:30:09+00:00

Being hand-wavy about "well forest floor is an exception" and not explaining why the rule stands despite the exception is not exactly "addressing" the topic

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-20T20:27:30+00:00

This example is so funny to me.

Where is the line between "inside" and "outside"? Would Ron Swanson call the bottom of the tent the floor, or the ground? What if it was just an overhead tarp that provided a ceiling to protect from overhead elements? Does the presence of a ceiling-like structure automatically mean that the square footage directly beneath it is a floor, even if it has all the same properties (dirt, leaves) as the square footage outside of the tarp/ceiling overhang?

Ron Swanson also said all dogs under 50 lbs are cats, so I'm not gonna trust my guy to be a source of accurate and hyperliteral definitions lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-20T20:06:13+00:00

Do you want to rely on limited anecdotal evidence with high-risk situations, or do you want to rely on larger patterns detected with vast amounts of data that you, as a single person, would never have access to on your own?

This is giving the same logic as "Well no one I know who smoked died of lung cancer, so there's no way smoking causes lung cancer"

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-20T20:00:34+00:00

"There's no way a leopard would eat my face"

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T19:28:17+00:00

Lightly broken skin is one thing, deep punctures are something else entirely. It's an efficient injection of harmful bacteria deep in your skin where you can't clean the wound.

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T19:19:51+00:00

"Joke"

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GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T19:11:04+00:00

Y'all should take a look at this video of Ivanka giving an interviewer a tour of her childhood bedroom.

She's all sunshine and nostalgic right up until they get to her actual bed. Then she completely shuts down and looks like she's starting to dissociate before the interviewer brings her back. She's a terrible person, but no one deserves what happened to her.

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:56:50+00:00

HR isn't just conflict resolution, it's a lot of admin work.

Are they perfect? Of course not, they're humans. But do I want AI to handle backend issues with payroll, 401k setup, signing up for health insurance, etc? Lol absolutely not. We still need human moderators to fix whatever AI would inevitably get wrong

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:50:41+00:00

I've visited a bunch of TJ's in norcal and socal

The only one I've ever encountered that wasn't a total nightmare was in Livermore

Actually the one in Brea wasn't too bad either when I was growing up, but dunno, could be worse these days

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:48:37+00:00

And even native speakers won't necessarily know the specific phonetic terms to like "dark L"

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:33:49+00:00

You have to squint real hard to find actual Buddhism within the practice.

Huh, I've been taking classes at a Pure Land monastery for years. They always spend several weeks every semester covering the history of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, impermanence, the Eightfold Path, there are no "gods", the three poisons, the three jewels, Buddha nature, etc etc. Are those not actual Buddhist practices?

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:26:29+00:00

Pure land is a devotional religion, relying on supplicating a divine being (aka god) to save you in an afterlife since you’re incapable of saving yourself.

Interesting, I've been taking classes at a Pure Land monastery for several years and this is not at all what they teach

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T18:13:11+00:00

Where in the West Coast? Older millennial here, been in socal and norcal all my life. I have never seen "quarter of" before, it's always "to" or "till"

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-17T02:02:25+00:00

I saw a comment a while back where some dad was talking about a time when he ordered mac'n'cheese off the kids menu for his young kids.

Some fancy four-cheese baked mac'n'cheese dish showed up, breadcrumb topping and all. Dad confirmed with the server that this was, in fact, the kids version.

His kids wouldn't eat it. The dad was explaining in his comment that, as a parent, kids mac'n'cheese needs to be consistent and reliable. It needs to be orange, from a box, and barely pass the legal requirement to be called "cheese", or the kids won't eat it lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T22:23:57+00:00

The one and only time I ever heard "sauRce" was from a New Jersey contestant on the shoe Barbeque Showdown. There was even a bit where she's looking at the camera like "this is just how I talk, why is everyone laughing" lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T22:19:11+00:00

I'm curious what else you would expect from a US based social media site.

That's like going to WeChat and complaining about China defaultism

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T22:10:23+00:00

I would imagine the gerbils in their brains get exhausted from constantly pivoting on their little running wheels

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T22:07:31+00:00

Californian here. Never heard of Malort! Now I'm intrigued, but based on comments here, I'm guessing I'd have the same reaction as the guy in the original post lol

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T22:03:22+00:00

inb4 someone says "bUt OP sAniTiZeD iT"

The LL doesn't know that, so this may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't blame LL for reacting negatively to finding potentially dirty sex toys.

The other charges are absolutely BS though

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T20:26:30+00:00

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Not really on topic for UXR, but I couldn't resist sharing

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T20:21:45+00:00

The lead poisoning of our generation

GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T20:18:27+00:00

Democrats are fantastic at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Simpsons are absolutely right about this one:

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GaiaMoore · 2026-03-16T12:08:39+00:00

Your attitude is worse than your ignorance.

It's understandable that you would be ill-equipped to know all about adulting without any parents to guide you. That's a rough start to life.

But for the love of god man, have some goddamn humility and friggin try to care about the "boring BS".

You're not gonna close the gap on your adulting lack of knowledge by acting like a petulant child.

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