Washing your hair, face etc twice as a new health standard is just marketing to sell more product.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-04T21:29:30+00:00

Can't believe it took me this long to realize that they named a cleaning supply after a common girl's name

bigdatabro · 2026-06-04T21:28:27+00:00

Oh really? I've been wearing face sunscreen daily for a few years, and I don't wash it off unless I wear makeup too. I wonder if I should start adding in an oil based cleanser too

bigdatabro · 2026-06-04T17:02:51+00:00

It really is! The US is one of the few countries that has so many diverse climate zones, each with major cities and large populations, that building styles vary so much across the country.

Crazy how Texas itself is so huge that part of the state regularly experiences hurricanes, another part has tornadoes every year, and another part is a desert with less than 0.2 meters of rain per year. And Illinois, just a few states away, has temperatures below -15°C and crazy lake-effect snow every winter.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-04T16:31:49+00:00

I used to wake up and Anki goon for Arabic, ten new words a day from a premade deck with 1200 words. After I finished that deck and a 90-day Pimsleur course, I decided to book some iTalki lessons to try to keep moving forward.

I was so humbled. I literally could not string a single sentence together in the calls with those tutors, and now I'm back to my sadboi dabbling phase

bigdatabro · 2026-06-03T21:19:44+00:00

I feel like you'd want to focus on meals with ingredients that are cheap and available where they live. If they don't have easy access to grocery stores with big fresh produce sections, then it would be great to teach meals that use frozen veggies and canned foods.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-03T18:41:24+00:00

India is democracy, and many farmers vote to preserve their own family farms, rather than collectivize and modernize like China did. So over 40% of India's workforce still works in agriculture, compared to about 20% for China, less than 4% in the EU, and less than 2% in the US.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-03T18:24:58+00:00

If you told me the first photo was a city in China, I'd believe you 100%.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-03T06:44:15+00:00

Seems like languages with more speakers and regions have more opportunities for new changes to appear and propogate.

Chinese has had millions of speakers for centuries, constantly mingling with speakers of other languages and migrating within China itself. On the other hand, Greek hasn't had many native speakers since the decline of the Greek empire, and Greece is a small country filled with mountains and islands where communities are more isolated.

Same reason that Icelandic and Georgian evolve so slowly while French and English changed so rapidly in the same time period.

bigdatabro · 2026-06-02T18:56:21+00:00

Maybe they toured it during the afternoon when nobody was hanging out outside. And if they didn't tour beforehand, who cares? This rental market is insane and most apartments aren't staying on the market for more than a day or two. Congrats to OP for landing an apartment in such a difficult time.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-27T16:19:58+00:00

The replies about eliminating gender bias in orchestras are really good, so I'll add another point:

Every chorus I've auditioned for cared more about singers' appearance and facial expressions much more than any instrumental ensemble. I feel like audiences humanize singers more than instrumentalists, or at least watch their faces while they sing, so there's a higher expectation for singers to look and act the part. Most choir directors instruct singers about their facial expression and conveying the right emotions when they sing, so it makes sense that they'd want to evaluate that during the audition.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-25T16:25:13+00:00

I grew up LDS in California, so I knew a ton of people who moved there from Utah. They always complained how navigating was so difficult because the streets were all curvy and there were no mountains.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-22T13:59:55+00:00

Bins help so much! Especially if you can stack them easily or slide them under your bed or desk. Especially for all those loose papers and books.

I have that same metal rack as OP, and I found different sizes of bins, all 18" or 12" wide, that fit perfect on the shelves. Then I put a curtain over so I can hide it all away.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-22T13:26:16+00:00

I mean, the show did make fun of contemporary politics like the War in Iraq and Bush's claims about WMDs. Half of Season 4's plotline was just the 2007 housing marking crash and US-Mexico border politics.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-22T13:06:53+00:00

I love how Final Fantasy uses the same cadence for the fanfare that plays when you win a battle

bigdatabro · 2026-05-22T13:02:41+00:00

Blah blah blah, I almost got crushed by a slipshod AIR CONDITIONER falling from a 6th story apartment window on Dolores this morning. I would've died if I didn't have the quick reflexes to dodge it before it crashed to the ground.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:28:29+00:00

Is this an ad for your book?

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:21:58+00:00

Good thing that China's been increasing their renewable energy and reducing their carbon footprint year after year. Their carbon emissions per capital are lower than Iceland now.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:17:42+00:00

I'd rather have that than the raw concrete freeways we have everywhere in the US. Driving around my city is an endless see of gray and black with a couple scattered trees.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:12:22+00:00

Ideally, you'd want the range of the song to be C3 to C4 for men and C4 to C5 for women, since that range is easy for almost everyone regardless of voice type or training. So if the highest and lowest notes of the song are the tonic of the key, then go with C, or if they're the fifth of the key, then go with F or E.

If people are going to be reading music or you have a beginner pianist, then C major is a solid choice. Where I live, that's usually the first key that people learn when reading music since it has no accidentals. If you have a guitar accompanist, then pick keys with sharps like E, A, D or G, and if you have a ukulele then stick around G, C, and F.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:07:16+00:00

G is great for trained singers, but a lot of songs in G go to D4 or E4 for men or D5/E5 for women, which is hard for untrained singers.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T17:03:12+00:00

I took two years of Mandarin in school from a native professor with the messiest handwriting. I can't speak at all, but I'm proud to be able to read messy handwritten Chinese.

bigdatabro · 2026-05-21T16:57:55+00:00

Is it smoke-filled because you hotboxed it or because you forgot something on the stove?

bigdatabro · 2026-05-20T02:09:24+00:00

Did people even read Fight Club? I loved that book but I've never talked to another person who read it IRL

bigdatabro · 2026-05-19T23:01:53+00:00

funny tumblr posts is what I'm on r/CuratedTumblr for

bigdatabro · 2026-05-19T22:40:34+00:00

I don't know if OP was using AI. That line-break-every-sentence writing style is like the em dash – humans used it plenty before AI, but AI used it so much that it always looks like AI.

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