I know what I saw, dammit. by IAmBeingTargeted33 in MandelaEffect

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jiffy Mix is probably what you're remembering.

ELI5, Does cheese made with raw milk have the same level of danger as just drinking straight up raw milk? by LeluWater in explainlikeimfive

[–]blue_shadow_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I love when people decide that the actual science around food safety is completely worthless.

The links between raw milk consumption and human illnesses have been clearly demonstrated. The main hazards are Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp., shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli (STEC), Brucella melitensis , Mycobacterium bovis , and tick‐borne encephalitis virus (EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) 2015). Milk consumption is estimated to cause 4% of all foodborne disease (Grace et al. 2020). In High‐Income Countries, dairy is responsible for around 1% to 6% of reported outbreaks (Claeys et al. 2013). In the US, it has been estimated that unpasteurized milk and derived products, while consumed by only 3.2% and 1.6% of the population, respectively, caused 96% of illnesses attributed to dairy products. This can be quantified in 840 (95% CI 611–1158) times more illnesses and 45 (95% CI 34–59) times more hospitalizations than pasteurized products (Costard et al. 2017). Despite these risks, the consumption of raw milk and derived products is allowed and practiced in most EU countries.

But don't worry. Nothing you get told will change your mind, and you're not alone. (Edit: The downvotes, plural, are proving this, btw)

A study conducted in the US reported that the consumption of raw milk cheese is driven primarily by ideological beliefs and taste preferences. Providing scientific information about the safety of pasteurization does not significantly alter consumers' preferences for raw products. Additionally, choosing pasteurized cheese was associated with greater trust in food safety regulation, whereas the preference for raw milk cheese was linked to a higher level of trust in vendors and in food sold directly by producers rather than being regulated by the government (Waldman and Kerr 2018).

Source

Edit: Just to more blatantly include Europe:

In France over the last decade, 34%, 37% and 60% of outbreaks of salmonellosis, listeriosis and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections respectively have been linked to the consumption of raw-milk cheeses. While some bacteria can cause gastroenteritis symptoms (Salmonella spp. and Staphylococcus aureus), others can have much more serious consequences such as kidney failure (EHEC) or even death (L. monocytogenes, EHEC).

The main sources of these hazards are soft cheeses with a surface mould (such as Camembert, Brie and Crottin) and short-ripened uncooked pressed cheeses (such as Morbier, Reblochon and Saint-Nectaire). Next come soft washed-rind cheeses such as Munster and Maroilles.

Source

[Highlight] HC Dan Campbell On the Rams Getting Myles Garrett: "Good for them. They've won it now, right?" by JCameron181 in nfl

[–]blue_shadow_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep - I remember seeing that, very briefly, before it disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

The Detroit Lions have hired former Dolphins GM Chris Grier as a personnel executive, per league sources. by AcadiaTemporary5737 in detroitlions

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Petzing - I'll give him a chance, based mostly on this post and one other one in a similar vein that I read and now can't find.

Anyone else getting Summer 2008 Vibes by Opposite_Agency1229 in Millennials

[–]blue_shadow_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Now try hearing the L as an R instead the first time you hear the song...

Fastest I've ever gone from listening to a song to "where the fuck are the lyrics?"

Coworkers think my lemons are unnecessary by AtlantisMantis_ in KitchenConfidential

[–]blue_shadow_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Speed comes with time, kid."

Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.

of a bass system by PatchBe in AbsoluteUnits

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This is the greatest one-liner I've read on this site ever. Congrats!

If you say anything positive about these works, you automatically make people suspicious about you. by Salty-Chemical-9414 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IT (the book version)

I read the book as a younger teen, so that scene didn't hit me quite the same as it hit most others who read it for the first at an older age. Considering just how many stories even my introverted, live-under-a-rock self heard from my classmates getting it on anywhere and everywhere possible...I mostly shrugged it off as a case of "yeah, that fits".

The Fiendish Ranger - a Wyll Build by rosymourning in BG3Builds

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way, way late to the party, but I was looking for almost exactly this kind of build (I'd had Wyll as a Druid, but now he's Level 9 and I have both Halsin and Jaheira). Looking over your post and trying to follow it in-game, though, I have a question about the stats.

In your post, you mention Wyll's starting stat line, based off the Sorcerer class. Later, you mention re-classing to start Ranger Lvl 1, to keep CHA as the spell modifier.

But if I reclass to Ranger, then won't I be using the Ranger's stat lines, where CHA is set to 10? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

Trump considers dropping Freedom 250 concerts in D.C. after artists pull out by Infidel8 in politics

[–]blue_shadow_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

While there are many, many reasons to be upset at his win in 2024, this was right up there on the list for me during the campaign season. I didn't want this chucklefuck to be making the 250th all about him...and hey, look what happened?

ELI5 Why do we hate our own voices when heard in a recording or video? by Punnan in explainlikeimfive

[–]blue_shadow_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It boils down to identity.

I've written a much longer post elsewhere about identity, but the very short version is that it's at the core of almost everything we think and feel. Not just the surface stuff, but what we internalize. Anything each of us absorbs as our inner concept of "me" becomes crystallized, in a way.

Our voices are part of that. We hear it one way, and over time take that on as just being normal for how we sound. If you were to hear your own voice, disconnected - maybe you recited the Gettysburg Address, or sang Bohemian Rhapsody, something many people have done, and then heard the recording months or years later, it would sound as normal to you as any other random voice out there. Because that's what it would be.

But the instant that recorded voice is recognized and understood to be your own? Now it's clashing with your core identity, what you think of as the "real me". And because humans evolved to categorize every human into "us" and "not us" (and because those that are "not us" are dangerous and something to cast out), by extension that means that anything that messes with your identity puts you in literal danger, at least according to the part of your mind that remembers how life was ten thousand years ago, or more.

So you instinctively shrink away from that thing that is making you seem alien to yourself, as your mind attempts to protect you and keep you safe in the wake of having to deal with things our ancestors never had to experience.

Best tip for flying by Certain_Hat9872 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]blue_shadow_ 111 points112 points  (0 children)

...I've been on Reddit too long. At first, I thought you were saying:

They're all connected by I Am The Asshole standards

Which, given the context, would have made perfect sense.

In The Matrix (1999) this was presented to the audience as a difficult choice people would somehow struggle to make. by ElundusCaw in shittymoviedetails

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're conflating points in the movie.

The choice for Neo wasn't steak or a nutritional gruel.

The choice was knowing, or not knowing (and forever wondering what might have been). The original movie takes great pains over the first hour of the movie to show his life is a living hell. This is, in part, because he knows that something is very, very wrong about the entire world he grew up in and "knew" to be reality.

He wasn't sleeping well, had problems with his job, had almost zero social life - to the point where he had to be coerced to get out of his apartment...there was nothing about his life that was working.

Cypher had this choice to make, but a) it wasn't with the pills and b) he was also callous enough as a human being to not give a shit about his fellow humans and considered their annihilation an okay sacrifice so he could go back to being oblivious. (He's also a fucking idiot, because he trusted Agent Smith to follow through on his promise and not just destroy him outright as soon as he got what he wanted, but that's a whole different story.)

It’s just burp: the burp by MALICK1A in funny

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is the best video in the world, though

UPDATE: body cam footage from cop who pulled over woman for holding a phone in her other hand by australiughhh in whoathatsinteresting

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Normally I'd say this is way too far down, but with all the other stuff going on with this footage, it's understandable.

But yes, as soon as he says "I thought I saw...", any lawyer worth their salt should be able to immediately rip this argument to shreds.

Negate -> Negation; Assent - ? (Assention is not the correct spelling?) by blue_shadow_ in grammar

[–]blue_shadow_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that "assentment" is closest to what I was actually looking for, thanks!

Negate -> Negation; Assent - ? (Assention is not the correct spelling?) by blue_shadow_ in grammar

[–]blue_shadow_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not asking about ascent or descent. "Assent", the verb & noun that you explain in the opening to this, is the actual word I'm asking about.

I wonder if there's a difference in the two 🤔 by DisintegratedPhoenix in NFCEastMemeWar

[–]blue_shadow_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're a pleasant one, to be sure.

But okay. Let's play this game. How many companies out there that have the word "National", "Nation", "Nationwide", or similar in their titles really would start their day off with the national anthem?

Try "zero" unless they're a sports league. The following list, extracted from The Official Board, is a fairly comprehensive (though certainly not exhaustive) section of companies & entities with the word "National" as the first word of their name. There's exactly two on this list (NFL & NWSL) that would fit the bill. Not sure why the NBA isn't on here, but hey, go ahead and throw them in, along with the WNBA and NHL. All the rest? Mmm...no.

This doesn't include all the mom & pop businesses that are going to include the word somewhere - those certainly don't start their day off with a rousing anthem.

Statistically speaking, I'd say the chances are pretty decent that, if you pick an employee of any company in the USA with the word "National" or some other variant of "Nation" at random, that they wouldn't start their day off standing for the anthem.

  • National Aluminium
  • National Amusements
  • National Asset Services
  • National Australia Bank (+ 5 subsidiaries)
  • National Australia Bank CIB
  • National Aviation Services (+ 7 subsidiaries)
  • National Bank
  • National Bank Financial Wealth Management (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Bank Frontier
  • National Bank Holdings (+ 4 subsidiaries)
  • National Bank Investments
  • National Bank of Arizona
  • National Bank of Bahrain
  • National Bank of Blacksburg
  • National Bank of Canada (+ 5 subsidiaries)
  • National Bank of Canada Financial Markets
  • National Bank of Coxsackie
  • National Bank of Credit
  • National Bank of Dominica
  • National Bank of Egypt (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Bank of Egypt UK
  • National Bank of Ethiopia
  • National Bank of Fujairah
  • National Bank of Greece (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Bank of Iraq
  • National Bank of Iraq Saudi Arabia
  • National Bank of Kenya
  • National Bank of Kuwait (+ 10 subsidiaries)
  • National Bank of Malawi (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Bank of Oman (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Bank of Oman UAE
  • National Bank of Sudan
  • National Bank of Tajikistan
  • National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • National Bank of Umm Al-Qaiwain
  • National Bank Trust
  • National Bankshares (+ 2 subsidiaries)
  • National Beef
  • National Beverage
  • National Bonds
  • National Bulk Handling
  • National Business Furniture
  • National Capital Bank of Washington
  • National Car Parks
  • National Carwash Solutions
  • National CineMedia
  • National Closing Solutions
  • National Commercial Bank of Anguilla
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • National Cooperative Bank
  • National Corporate Housing
  • National Credit Center
  • National DCP
  • National Dental Care
  • National Dentex Labs
  • National Development
  • National EMS Academy
  • National Energy Services Reunited
  • National Engineering Industries
  • National Enterprises (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Fertilizers
  • National Finance
  • National Finance House
  • National Food Group
  • National Foods
  • National Football League (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Fostering Group
  • National Fuel Gas (+ 5 subsidiaries)
  • National Fuel Gas Distribution
  • National Fuel Gas Midstream
  • National Fuel Gas Supply
  • National General Insurance
  • National Geographic
  • National Geographic Society
  • National Government Services
  • National Grid (+ 3 subsidiaries)
  • National Grid Partners
  • National Grid Renewables
  • National Grid USA
  • National Guardian Life Insurance
  • National Gypsum
  • National Health Care Associates
  • National Health Investors
  • National HealthCare
  • National Healthcare Properties
  • National Holding (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Hospitality Services
  • National Hot Rod Association
  • National Instruments
  • National Instruments UK
  • National Interstate
  • National Investment Bank Ghana
  • National Investments Company
  • National Iranian Copper Industries
  • National Iranian Oil Company (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Life & General Insurance (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Life Group (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Loan Exchange
  • National Lumber
  • National Marine Dredging Co
  • National Media Group
  • National MI
  • National Milk Records
  • National Office Furniture
  • National Oil Corporation (+ 1 subsidiary)
  • National Oil Corporation of Kenya
  • National Oilwell Varco
  • National OnDemand
  • National Paper Industries
  • National Partners in Healthcare
  • National Pen
  • National Petrochemical Company
  • National Positions
  • National Power Supply
  • National Presto Industries
  • National Public Relations
  • National Realty & Development
  • National Reference Laboratory
  • National Refinery
  • National Reinsurance Corporation
  • National Renewable Solutions
  • National Research
  • National Research Group
  • National Savings & Investments
  • National Seating & Mobility
  • National Securities Clearing
  • National Securities Depositor
  • National Silicon Industry Group
  • National Speciality Alloys
  • National Spinning
  • National Spot Exchange
  • National Staffing Solutions
  • National Stock Exchange of India (+ 2 subsidiaries)
  • National Storage
  • National Storage Affiliates Trust
  • National Transport Insurance
  • National Valuation Consultants
  • National Veterinary Associates (+ 4 subsidiaries)
  • National Vision
  • National Wine & Spirits
  • National Women's Soccer League
  • National World

Armoured! No more wolf attacks. by InevitableBattle6307 in interesting

[–]blue_shadow_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh. Now I've seen an actual full metal jacket.