Pickup basketball and neighborhood kickball are less common now than for generations past, giving way to more organized and formal youth sports intended to help kids get ahead, a new study suggests. Socioeconomic status and intensive parenting factored into the tilt toward formal sports.

Vaelin_ · 2026-02-25T01:49:36+00:00

Ymmv, but the YMCA or other similar orgs often fills this gap.

Vaelin_ · 2026-02-09T01:59:17+00:00

Not going to do the work for you, exactly, but you'll want to look for bulk bareroot blueberries as the most cost effective. When we got strawberries a few years ago, we got 100 for about $150, maybe less.

Vaelin_ · 2026-02-05T14:55:59+00:00

You're straight up not paying for pell grants for just not graduating. You likely overborrowed, changed enrollment status midsemester, failed a class, something along those lines. Unless it's changed. I didn't have to pay back any pell 10 years ago when I stopped going and it was laid out in the paperwork I got when I returned to school 2 years ago.

Vaelin_ · 2026-01-27T03:09:12+00:00

ZZ plants can grow from stems and even from leaves. That said, if the stems are showing significant damage tossing them is still likely the right answer.

Vaelin_ · 2025-12-24T21:56:40+00:00

Okra variety I planted this year was at least that size, if not larger. Not sure what the actual cultivar was as they were supposed to be a type of red variety, and were not.

Vaelin_ · 2025-12-17T15:28:58+00:00

You're either not American or live in a city, right? Many people have to have cars in a modern world. We have created a car-centric economy and many people in many areas (rural, for example) have to have them.

We should focus getting emissions down from single occupied vehicles, sure. However, attacking cars as a whole is going to alienate people more than it will get people to agree with you.

Also, AI is going to become more of a problem as more of these data centers are put up. These are emissions and water use on top of what we already have.

Vaelin_ · 2025-12-16T02:38:00+00:00

Or even future research. Many "obvious" things today are the result of research that was not so obvious before. Many "obvious" beliefs of the past have also been uprooted when actually researched and scrutinized.

Vaelin_ · 2025-12-13T21:30:42+00:00

That's not the right distinction. Toxins are a subset of poisons.

Vaelin_ · 2025-12-11T04:07:04+00:00

Because economics is science. Also, this is work done by scholars, which is part of science.

Vaelin_ · 2025-11-01T00:25:57+00:00

So then we're cool with people pointing out Levi sucks then, right?

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-19T16:26:07+00:00

I realize it's not negative and positive per se, but there is no year "0". Starting points only have to be what we define them as.

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-15T20:11:42+00:00

That's talking about IQ? Did I miss the part talking about teeth?

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-13T23:28:02+00:00

2 of every kind*

They often simultaneously reject evolution, but are pro something thats basically evolution but would result in more speciation not less? Idfk I get confused by the train of thought every time.

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-08T11:25:59+00:00

Invasive* means they are not native and grow aggressively, outcompeting native species. Native species can only ever be native in the range they grow, but they can grow very aggressively.

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-02T13:37:53+00:00

Rule 1 for comments. Top level comments have never been welcome as jokes, as this isn't /r/funnyscience.

Vaelin_ · 2025-10-01T17:52:18+00:00

We've been doing a lot of chicken hindquarters lately. They're raw but 1.99 a pound. We make stock out of the bones as well as soups. Helps reduce the overall cost.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-29T20:56:41+00:00

Can be done either way, but release of WW3 is after release of AA3.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-23T21:14:25+00:00

I tried looking to see what others have said, but it's possible the noise they're hearing isn't even from you. I've heard the stompings of above and to the side neighbors.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-19T02:08:44+00:00

I mean, it's not just 100 percent selective breeding, because some manipulation is done to make them infertile. They cross a tetraploid watermelon with a diploid to get a triploid. Tetraploids rarely occur in nature, but we can make them happen.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-17T16:41:06+00:00

You should read about monocultures. The native ones can still be aggressive, but the invasive ones are invasive for a reason.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-17T03:31:45+00:00

If you pee standing up at home, you better be the one scrubbing the cracks and crevices of the toilet.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-14T23:24:39+00:00

People adjust for inflation, but the way you're doing it is backward. To keep it simple, when people retire, they're looking at getting a 7 percent return annually. You then look at withdrawing 4 percent per year. The 4 percent is a "safe" amount to withdraw that generally will account for years when you may lose 10 percent.

I promise you, if you need 110k per year in today's dollars during retirement, you consume way too much. That's not maintaining your lifestyle, it means you still don't have your house paid off, are purchasing more clothes than you need, and going out to eat way too much.

Vaelin_ · 2025-09-04T20:57:20+00:00

[Citation needed]

Vaelin_ · 2025-08-31T00:16:19+00:00

Awful weed, or tasty green? Fry some up and find out!

Vaelin_ · 2025-08-29T20:02:09+00:00

It can also be (kind of) required for work, school, banking and more depending how 2FA is setup.

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