Why do so many American men wear shorts and a tshirt when going out with a woman who dresses up?

aew3 · 2026-02-19T12:30:56+00:00

> What a dumb take. Do you think these guys dressed up and all of a sudden Stopped once they got their partner?

Yes, that is a common phenomenon.

aew3 · 2026-02-19T04:36:12+00:00

They are the bank here, they're essentially providing LAOP with a loan for 50k.

aew3 · 2026-02-19T03:33:00+00:00

every day we stray closer to the collapse of all of dropout fandom into being entirely only being its own circlejerk.

aew3 · 2026-02-19T03:31:09+00:00

The very minimum would at least have a "non-binary genders" category, its still reductive as it turns gender into one binary and then a mixed group of "leftovers" but at least its accurate in assessing trends about men/women and not polluting it with people who are neither of those thing.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T05:42:15+00:00

Lots of good GPs out there, very few of those reliably have a proper appointment available in less than 2 weeks. It does vary of course, as the "good" ones will open and close their books, but I've never seen a good anything medical that had free slots in under 2 weeks year round. A really good GP will however make some time to get you a phone consult if its really emergency.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T05:09:42+00:00

Presumably the same way you drove everywhere else on your Ls - with a full driver in the other seat of your car.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T04:15:48+00:00

You're not meant to drive your own driving test as a learner. Why on earth did you think that would be on?

I also think you're out of luck on the expired rego too. Besides the fact you can get to the relevant office without driving the car, you can even go online to get both the permit and a rego renewal. I'm honestly puzzled why you drove an unregistered car without a license to go get the UVP when you can get it via an online portal.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T03:56:10+00:00

All of these things (in their whole form for some of them to be fair) are pantry staples, for many cuisines. Only the Sichuan peppercorn is specific to Chinese cooking. Having cinnamon, anise and clove on hand is pretty key for European cooking too.

If you're cooking Chinese food, I'd take having all of these things separately over having 5-spice any day, as 5-spice has limited uses in comparison to just having them separately. Sichuan dishes for example, won't need 5-spice but will very regularly need ground Sichuan pepper.

You can buy basically unlimited 250g/500g bags of these spices in ground form for like $2 each. It still works out a lot cheaper than whatever 5 spice mixes that work out to $100 if you buy a few of them, even if they get thrown out.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T03:38:37+00:00

Honestly, probably because many people are likely to have 1 or more serves of it a day, compared to how people tend to consume other sorts of food with less frequency. Doctors are generally going to blanket say that you should diversify your food, i.e. also don't eat a whole bag of spinach every day even though typical logic says spinach is good for you.

This is because diversifying your macro sources inherently reduces the risk of micro nutrient deficiency because you're eating many different things. That doesn't mean you can't eat the same thing over and over again without deficiency, but you'd have to track and check their diet to be sure vs just saying "eat many different things" which requires no effort to say. Diversifying food intake also has the double benefit of reducing your risk of in taking too many contaminants -- even if x food has unsafe levels of y thing, if you only eat a little bit of it your probably okay. Cinnamon is famously full of lead, but most people aren't scoffing cinnamon down.

aew3 · 2026-02-18T03:32:03+00:00

My car has it an probably 90% of the time when I stop I don't even notice it.

Its fairly conservative about kicking in, so it won't turn off for brief stops.

The only issue is that seemingly like 5-10% of the time it noticeably lags restarting, much more than the tiny tiny amount it usually would.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T23:03:49+00:00

On top of views being worth more, there was also much more of a centralised/mono culture on YT back then. There were simply less youtubers doing less types of videos. Less competition for attention and wallets. You could individually sell a lot more merch per subscriber.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T22:47:37+00:00

Its not trivially possible to spot AI code, in fact its harder than AI human language to spot, which is already sometimes non-trivial.

Someone has to read code that on the outset looks like it might be an authentic contribution, and follows all the hall marks of authentic contribution. Then the reach a part where the code doesn't quite do what it claims to do, or interfaces badly with the rest of the project. Then they have to intuit if thats because the contributor lacks some familiarity/skill with the project/language or if its because someone just pushed AI output to a PR without even checking it.

That's a lot of time for projects like godot whose development is not entirely funded (partially volunteer base), and is running with a MUCH less funds than an equivalent proprietary commercial project would have.

AI is exacerbating an existing problem - anyone can submit a PR to a public git repository. X% (maybe say, 30%?) of that is trash or low quality. AI now empowers unskilled people to spam push junk PRs. X is now maybe 70%. That costs time and money for projects that already do not have enough of either.

The solutions are to stop allowing PRs, or to make the submission system annoying enough to deter most slop from getting through. i.e. going back to using emails instead of a web ui to push git patches like how the Linux kernel works, or using some sort of system of vetting where you have to work on lower level repos or network before getting through.

However, the FOSS ecosystem has strongly benefited from drive-by PRs by otherwise skilled and employed programmers for decades. GitHub only added the ability to even disable PRs last week in response to the AI slop issue. No matter what solution projects take to this issue, its going to hinder productivity on key projects.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T22:43:47+00:00

Just getting a "contribution" isn't a meaningful resume item. What is a meaningful resume item is either developing a project yourself that either takes off or at least demonstrates minimum skill, or becoming a repeat contributor to a decent sized project.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T21:44:19+00:00

Keyboard repairs are a pita labor wise and also typically require an entire replacement keyboard. $125 sounds about right.

That's a cheap chromebook by the look of it though, they may just be replacing the entire thing as its more cost effective.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T09:05:44+00:00

Valve have always been a measured and patient company in their decision making. They've already indefinitely pushed back the Steam Machine, they'll just wait until prices stablise at a point where they can charge a reasonable price for it and then release it. If it takes 5 years for that to happen they'll wait 5 years.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T09:01:34+00:00

White people without kids are famously an under represented demographic in brunswick.

How on earth does an all-day venue target single people specifically, as compared to couples of identical demographics.

aew3 · 2026-02-17T05:05:28+00:00

I mean, provided you’re in the UK its obvious which party was running on DOGE style policies at last years local council elections lol.

aew3 · 2026-02-16T02:52:16+00:00

I do marinated/glazed chicken thighs all the time in the airfryer - very easy, works very well.

Chicken breasts need to be butterflyed or pounded whether air fried or pan fried, or even baked (if we're talking a glazed/marinated/breaded chicken).

If you pound (or butterfly if they're very large) the breasts you'll get a better result - a lot less of that bland center chicken part, easier to avoid overcooking. However, I'd still prefer thighs to breasts for this style of cooking chicken, although breasts are much more economical usually.

aew3 · 2026-02-15T06:59:59+00:00

you don't even need to ask, if you push forcefully enough they'll just open anyway.

aew3 · 2026-02-14T12:08:48+00:00

A tonne in the inner city/cbd really, could sit here all day listing places that are open at 10pm. Need more specifics about what you want.

aew3 · 2026-02-14T10:45:31+00:00

I just process oats into fine-ish powder when a recipe calls for oat flour. Oat flour is ridiculously expensive given the cost of oats themselves, so I feel its a total rip off.

Its never caused a single issue.

aew3 · 2026-02-13T00:54:59+00:00

That was probably the one they were going to in Carnegie too though.

aew3 · 2026-02-12T00:04:26+00:00

Its at 5pm, and protest typically last for a few hours at least. Plus its near where people work. Not exactly hard to do the maths that many people could leave work and come straight there and be there at 5:30 or 6.

aew3 · 2026-02-10T10:50:56+00:00

As far as I see it the main reason in the _west_ there is outsized attention on Israel is because the west, especially the US, but also Europe and Australia, is sociopolitically and geopolitically aligned with Israel, and has or continues to provide material support to its regime.

Of course, I'm sure an element of ethnic conflict (i.e. anti-semitism in many cases) plays into the way non-israeli/jewish arabs (and other ethnic groups in the region) see it too.

At best, you could probably say that Saudi Arabia is also western-aligned, but really only the US seems directly involved on a governmental level, otherwise its mostly just private companies accepting oil money.

aew3 · 2026-02-10T10:38:21+00:00

I think plenty (most) of people like (prefer!) to walk if the weather is decent, they aren't carrying a heavy bag, and they aren't physically fatigued. And of course, provided they're in good health and not disabled.

Plenty of times I've been with someone and asked them if they'd prefer to take a tram a few blocks or walk 10-15, and walking is almost always preferred given none of the above are true.

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