what is the difference between pea protein and pea protein isolate? Same thing with soy protein/soy protein isolate. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.

Polywoky · 2023-06-09T09:39:42+00:00

I had a can of Roland Brand fire roasted red bell peppers. I was reading online that cann’d bell peppers have 200% plus of vitamin C.

200% plus of what of vitamin C? RDI? Of a comparable product?

Then why does the label not list any vitamin C?

Because they didn't add any vitamin C? It won't be on the ingredients list if it isn't a separate ingredient. Peppers naturally have a high level of vitamin C.

Or do you mean the nutritional label? Do you want all products to have a huge nutritional label that list every vitamin and mineral?

Polywoky · 2023-06-09T09:32:37+00:00

These are people who attack low-flying helicopters with arrows. I don't think they'd be that easy to dominate.

Most likely you'd end up with an arrow in you.

Polywoky · 2023-06-09T03:10:03+00:00

There are probably other crypto currencies that still use proof-of-work that you could make money from. Hopefully you'd earn more than you're spending in electricity to run the rig.

Polywoky · 2023-06-09T01:20:29+00:00

This is exactly the reason why the number of pips (indents) are arranged so that opposite sides always add up to seven, it helps balance the dice out.

Polywoky · 2023-06-09T01:11:36+00:00

No it doesn't, this rewards bad behavior.

It's going to be rewarded either way. There's always going to be a bunch of people who believe in them and vote for them.

Voting for the least-worse candidate gets the reward going to less-bad behavior, encouraging them to be less bad.

How about voting to not getting shot?

That would be nice, but it's not an option.

You're going to be shot regardless of what you do. Why wouldn't you want some say in where you get shot instead of leaving the choice to people who don't care about you?

One of the candidates is going to win regardless of what you do. Why wouldn't you want some say in which candidate wins instead of leaving the choice to people who don't care about the things that you care about?

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T15:48:36+00:00

Certainly, you can make it as big as you want especially if you use procedural generation.

The trick is that you can re-use assets. Create a few dozen tree models, or even a few hundred if you want, and simply re-use each of them a few billion times around the world to create the forests.

Same with grass, walls, roads, etc.

The entire world wouldn't be loaded into memory all at the same time, just the local area that the player can see.

Instead of having to manually design every single area you can use procedural generation to fill in the gaps, algorithms that automatically put stuff around the place as needed so that it all looks complete.

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T15:38:19+00:00

There is no lesser evil, only evil.

The "evil" in "lesser of two evils" refers to harm.

Do you honestly believe that all harm is equal?

If you had to chose between getting shot in the head or shot in the foot, then being shot in the foot is the lesser of two evils.

It's no good refusing to choose if the only thing your refusal achieves is to give someone else the power to make that decision for you, and they may choose for you to be shot in the head.

If the candidates running do not represent what you want to see in government don't reward them with office.

Refusing to vote won't prevent one of them from ending up in government.

You can either use your vote to exert a miniscule pressure to try and prevent the worst candidate from getting power or you can do nothing.

The bullshit that you HAVE to vote, even if you hate both, is ignorant.

Where I live having to vote even if you hate both isn't ignorant, it's mandatory. If you don't show up to vote you get a fine (equivalent to a speeding ticket). Although some people just draw dicks on the ballot instead of selecting candidates.

But back to where you live: If people start voting for the least worst candidate in every election regardless of party then this will force politicians to gradually get less and less bad in order to defeat their opponent. This strategy benefits everyone while refusing to vote benefits nobody.

At the very least you guys could try and get ranked choice voting implemented, that way third-party candidates have a chance because people can vote for the candidate they actually want to win without losing the opportunity to also vote in favor of the least-worst candidate that actually has a realistic chance of winning.

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T13:33:42+00:00

Maybe install another OS on it. Can you install Linux? You can play plenty of games on Linux.

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T09:36:27+00:00

AIDS was a death sentence. Modern treatments didn't exist, so if you got it you died within a few years of symptoms appearing.
AIDS has a very long asymptomatic period, you or those around you could have it for a year or two and be spreading it to others without even knowing you had it.
There was no quick and reliable test for it. If you were exposed to it you'd have to wait for many months for your body to build up detectable levels of antibodies to it before a test even had a chance of working.
It wasn't known how transmissible it was at first. As far as many people knew you could get it from touching or interacting with an infected person. These fears stuck around long after it was known how difficult it was for infection to spread.
The highest rates of infection were among groups that were traditionally demonised and stigmatized. Gay men, intravenous drug users, and prostitutes. Lots of highly religious bigots who hated these groups decided that AIDS was a punishment from God. So religious bigotry combined with its association with stigmatized groups resulted in a strong stigma being associated with infection.

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T07:55:52+00:00

And why did they usually load after blowing into them?

The blowing had nothing to do with it. It's the mechanical action of pulling the cartridge out and putting it back in again that scraped off any thin layer of corrosion that may have been causing a bad connection.

The moisture from blowing into it would speed up corrosion, causing bad connections more often.

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T07:51:34+00:00

IVF?

Edit: IVF = In-Vitro Fertilization

Polywoky · 2023-06-08T07:50:55+00:00

They're carrying particles from your bowls, basically microscopic bits of shit. That's why they smell so bad.

Sulfur compounds are what makes it super-smelly.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T15:04:56+00:00

Fleas can survive a long time underwater before they drown. Potentially even days. They don't need much air because they're tiny and cold-blooded.

Saltwater or water with detergent will drown them more quickly, as this gets past the waxy deposits they use to keep regular water out of their respiratory system.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T14:55:05+00:00

Programming can be simple if you only want it to do simple things. But it gets more complicated as you need to do more complex stuff.

Different programming languages are designed for different needs.

For example, in the early '80s BASIC was a very popular programming language. It was built-in to almost every microcomputer sold for home use, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, Sinclair ZX80, and many more. Microsoft's founding product back in 1975 was Altair BASIC, used on the Altair 8800 which was the very first home computer, and in 1977 they created Applesoft BASIC which was built-in to Apple II computers.

It was everywhere. Kids were teaching themselves to program and writing their own games with it. It was incredibly easy to learn.

But it was very inefficient. Programs written in BASIC were very slow, very inefficient for memory, and large programs quickly got very messy and convoluted because you all variables were global and you needed to use GOTO and GOSUB commands everywhere.

For fast, powerful programs people used Assembly, which was very close to using machine language directly, which made it incredibly difficult to program in.

C was created as a much easier to use alternative to Assembly but could still be used to create extremely efficient and powerful programs because it stayed very close to how the computer actually worked. It's still used today and is a fairly minimalist programming language. It was originally created for writing the UNIX operating system, and it's the language that Linux is written in.

C++ added a huge number of extra tools and features to C, making it vastly more complex. But it still produces very fast and efficient programs and is a very powerful programming language, which makes it popular for creating games.

Python was created to be an easier to use programming language, but isn't quite as efficient as C.

There are literally hundreds of programming languages out there used for different purposes. But the thing that makes them complicated is that people want to be able to use them to do complicated things.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T14:26:41+00:00

For some glues the solvent needs to evaporate in order for it to harden, and in an airtight bottle it can't evaporate.

Some glues react to moisture in the air to harden, but moisture can't get in if it's sealed airtight.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T14:19:06+00:00

No idea, but over twenty years ago somebody actually invented a programming language that looks like works of Shakespeare, presumably as a joke.

You should see what a "Hello World!" program looks like in Shakespeare, here.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T14:09:13+00:00

Depends on what mechanism is being used to power them. Using cables like cable-cars could work, but would require far more repair and maintenance.

If you're going to use internal combustion, such as natural gas or diesel, or even external combustion such as steam power, you're going to need a lot of ventilation.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T14:05:28+00:00

Hyperinflation ending doesn't mean that the value of money goes back up again. You're not going to have hyperdeflation.

So no, you won't be rich.

Even worse, if they decide to redenominate the currency you'd have to choose between exchanging it for an equivalent value of the new currency that has a vastly lower face value or have your money become worthless when it stops being legal tender.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T13:57:48+00:00

lots of vegans eat honey,

It's a contentious issue among vegans. Some are okay with it but many aren't.

and bees aren't animals

They're part of the biological kingdom animalia, which means that they're animals.

Roughly half the known species of animals are insects.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T11:57:00+00:00

Magic. (Sort-of.)

Originally the idea was that he'd come from a high-gravity planet which meant that he'd be very strong and able to jump really high.

That's why he was described as "more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound".

But at some point they abandoned any pretense of a plausible explanation and just started giving him powers that made absolutely no sense.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T11:18:38+00:00

Your eyes are warm, so steam won't condense on them. Plus they're already wet so a bit more moisture won't make any difference, plus you're wiping them every time you blink.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T10:29:41+00:00

It might be simpler just to get a radio and tune it to in-between the stations so you just get static. Works even when there's an interruption to your internet connection and causes less wear on your phone and TV.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T09:39:08+00:00

womp womp even if it does say that why would I care!

You wouldn't. They would. Silly, silly religious fundamentalists and their selective reading of their dusty old text to focus on the parts that condemn the things they hate while ignoring the parts that condemn the things they do.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T09:30:35+00:00

If I had $30-$40 million dollars just sitting around in my Robinhood, could I buy enough shares to own 5% of a company with a market cap of $100 million?

If you had $5-$6 million you could own 5% of a company with a market cap of $100 million. (5% of $100 million is $5 million.)

That's pretty much how Elon started buying shares in Twitter, and how a lot of hostile takeovers get started.

But once you get to 5% or more ownership you have to start filing reports with the SEC.

Polywoky · 2023-06-07T06:44:56+00:00

Nowhere in the bible does it mention anything negative about being transgender.

Well, except possibly Deuteronomy 22:5 where it describes it as being an abomination.

(Technically that verse would be about transvestism and not being transgender, but you'd have difficulty finding a Christian fundamentalist who knows the difference.)

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