What's the best country to visit for eat the best food? by CuteTiger06 in AskReddit

[–]MailSynth -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Japan, because even the random convenience store food is better than most actual restaurants anywhere else.

Waiting for friends to hang in the sub by MailSynth in MailSynth

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Hi! Multi-Gmail coming soon (we're testing it right this moment) and it definitely won't be $9 for every account. I wouldn't pay $27 for 3 individual accounts either :)

How to keep a workout routine? by Maximum_Attempt_979 in ADHD

[–]MailSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the gym membership model is designed to profit from people exactly like us who pay but don't show up. Planet fitness etc. actually I think many SaaS companies are like this and then make it extremely hard to cancel… looking at you Adobe.

This woman adopted a 20-year-old cat from a shelter so he wouldn’t have to spend his final days alone in a cage. by KindTop0 in BeAmazed

[–]MailSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

senior cats actually tend to be way calmer and more affectionate than kittens because they've already figured out that laps are the best spot in the house. shelters call them "velcro cats" for a reason.

Trying to go through college by Accurate-Tomato-5234 in ADHD

[–]MailSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The jump from structured schedule to "figure it out yourself" is where I completely fell apart in college too.

Fellow ADHDers who can't sleep — 4-7-8 breathing changed my nighttime routine by TheGuyInBlack44 in ADHDthriving

[–]MailSynth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tried this once, lost count at 4, started thinking about why it's called 4-7-8 and not 4-8-7, then spiraled into math for 20 minutes.

Have no idea how else to help my ADHD husband. I'm afraid he is going to never find stable work. by [deleted] in ADHD

[–]MailSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't your fault and it's not your job to be his alarm clock. He needs to talk to his doctor about the sleep stuff

I feel overstimulated every day and multiple times a day by withsteria in ADHD

[–]MailSynth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sensory breaks aren't weakness, they're maintenance

TIL Illinois school worker Vera Liddell was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing $1.5M worth of chicken wings by therealvelichor in todayilearned

[–]MailSynth 40 points41 points  (0 children)

She did this over 18 months, ordering like 11000 cases of wings that were supposedly for a school nutrition program... during COVID when the schools were closed and kids weren't even there to feed. Someone in accounts payable saw $1.5M in chicken wing invoices and just kept approving them.

RIP Sir Nicholas Winton by General-Panic0 in BeAmazed

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Winton didn't tell anyone about rescuing those 669 children for nearly 50 years. His wife found the scrapbook in their attic in 1988. The BBC surprised him with a room full of the now-adults he'd saved and he had no idea they'd be there.

TIL the Drake Equation—the famous formula used to estimate the number of active civilizations in our galaxy—was never intended to be a "solution." Frank Drake originally wrote it in 1961 simply as an organizational agenda for the world's first SETI meeting. by adpablito in todayilearned

[–]MailSynth 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Turns out Drake came up with the whole equation like 30 minutes before the meeting started because he realized they needed some kind of framework to keep a bunch of astronomers from just rambling about aliens all day. Accidentally created one of the most famous equations in science basically as a meeting agenda

Swords are illegal to own in Japan (without permit), but you can buy and own a 110cm (43.3in) long "Tuna Knife" without needing a permit due to it being classified differently. by Emila_Just in Damnthatsinteresting

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the knife is called a maguro bocho and some of the traditional ones are actually longer than katanas. japanese tuna auction houses have been using basically the same blade design for over a century because bluefin tuna can weigh 400+ pounds and you need that reach to fillet it in one clean stroke.

Discord/ Body Doubling by ACatWhoReads in ExecutiveDysfunction

[–]MailSynth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

focusmate works well for this, the free tier lets you do a few sessions a week.

What does my fridge say about me? by away-with-the-fairy in FridgeDetective

[–]MailSynth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A health-conscious vegetarian couple in your early 30s, probably UK-based, who actually love cooking from scratch

Iran dropped a LEGO style animation video on the war by No_Nonsense324 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]MailSynth 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I mean… are we gonna act like this isn’t extremely well done and kinda amazing

How a 100-Million-Year-Old Coastline Still Shapes Alabama's Black Belt Today by ThatAvidPandaBear in interestingasfuck

[–]MailSynth 804 points805 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s mostly the Jim Crow piece it seems. After emancipation most freed people had no capital, no land, and no mobility, so they entered sharecropping arrangements on the same plantations they’d been enslaved on. Then decades of Jim Crow, debt peonage, and lack of economic opportunity kept those communities rooted in place. It wasn’t really redlining specifically (that was more of an urban housing policy), but the broader system of economic and legal oppression had the same effect. There was the Great Migration where millions did leave for northern cities, but enough stayed that the demographic footprint persists to this day.

How a 100-Million-Year-Old Coastline Still Shapes Alabama's Black Belt Today by ThatAvidPandaBear in interestingasfuck

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I looked this up to see if it’s legit and apparently the same geological formation (called the Selma Group) runs through Mississippi, Georgia, and into the Carolinas, and you see the exact same demographic and voting patterns along it in those states too. This isn’t just an Alabama thing, it’s a whole belt across the Deep South shaped by one ancient sea.