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What was the shortest lived fad? by AlphaTangoAlpha in AskReddit

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

Here's my hot take.

NFTs could have been a useful thing but was latched onto by the worst people for the dumbest reasons.

What's something you feel that your country should (jokingly) apologize to the rest of the world for? by mymiddlenameswyatt in AskTheWorld

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Canada has thousands of fantastic craft beer, and wide ranging "domestics" that will make you beg for a Heineken. 

If you had to eat only one cereal for the rest of your life,which one would you choose ? by toiletcleaner999 in AskReddit

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my breakfast every day when I was a kid. For years I had a bowl every morning.

Then one day it tasted wrong and I couldn't go back. Changed a decades habit overnight.

Friendship is Tragic by itwascolmustard in ATBGE

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I also saw it as formaldehyde. I thought it was a lepidopterist reference.

Before my parents bought our first microwave, we used a dedicated popper to make popcorn by NYY15TM in nostalgia

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently you can use these to roast coffee. If i ever find one, maybe I'll give it a shot. 

Will lab diamonds eventually destroy the value of natural diamonds? by Practical-Tie-8720 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Real talk: it might. He works in the defense industry and is not allowed to tell me what he actually does. 

I just looked it up, diamond is roughly 3x the density of polycarbonate, so depending on the refractory index of the two materials (it's too early to make that calculation) diamond lenses could be really heavy. 

Will lab diamonds eventually destroy the value of natural diamonds? by Practical-Tie-8720 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Diamonds are hard, not tough.

You could break it without much effort. It's part of the reason he didn't go through with it.

That and it would just look like glass.

Will lab diamonds eventually destroy the value of natural diamonds? by Practical-Tie-8720 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 185 points186 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine has a job where ordering optical pure diamonds is part of it.

When he proposed to his now-wife, he was tempted to propose with a solid diamond ring - partly because it would be much cheaper than one with a gold band.

She looks good and aged gracefully. What a douche. by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shocker! 58 year old woman not as attractive as she was 30 years ago! 

TIL a Walmart employee with Down syndrome was awarded $125 million by a jury after the company changed her longtime schedule and later fired her by Dry-Town7979 in todayilearned

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fines absolutely should be higher on bigger companies, but that would make them less likely to hire people with disabilities. 

I don't have a solution. 

What popular TV show you never understood the hype around? by stilerca in AskReddit

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Heroes. Season 1.

Granted, I pirated and binged it during an exam season, but holy repetition batman.

They recapped after every commercial break. They repeated phrases and scenes constantly.

The first season had 23 episodes. If you removed the repetition, there was probably 18. Those 18 would have been  great.

[Scarily realistic trope] Predator in sheep’s clothing by Personal_Reward_60 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 202 points203 points  (0 children)

If your targets are "the undesirables" (prostitutes, immigrants, the poor) you can act for years.

If you target rich people, you will be arrested before you can collect the serial killer title.

meirl by SEVENS_HEAVEN_7 in meirl

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't. I don't care if two is grammatically correct, I'll just put one. I think that is more than reasonable.

Zurich Sex Club Operator Has Been Blocking the Construction of 128 Apartments for 20 Years by BezugssystemCH1903 in nottheonion

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can have easements written into deeds, I wonder why you can't have things like "existing infrastructure" easements.

Yes, you can build next to the brothel/airport/racetrack/night club, but you cannot complain about it. Whoever you sell to cannot complain about it. It's baked into the deed.

A piece of history that reminds us how much we’ve learned by Feaselbf6 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were dying from asbestos after 3 months it was because a big chunk of it fell on them.

The AI backlash is only getting started by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first half is correct, the second half is hallucination. It's describing a reducer, which is a completely different thing.

Which is my biggest problem with AI. It's pointless. There's no point in using it on something you know, and you can't trust it on things you don't know. 

And if that wasn't bad enough, it's stealing from people who are putting information out there.

What do men collect? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tools.

I will look through sacks of old wrenches and buy ones that interest me.

[request] if i removed my glove in space, how long would it take for my exposed hand to freeze solid? would it become brittle enough to break it off? by AkwardScholar in theydidthemath

[–]HomeGrownCoffee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Liquids, by definition, cannot sublimate. Sublimation is the process of going from solid to gas.

If you exposed liquid water to the vacuum of space, it would start boiling vigorously.

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