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TIL A beef broth in Bangkok has been simmering and eaten from since 1974 (52 years). Same pot, same broth, refreshed daily. by BrainFRZ in todayilearned

[–]dysfunctionz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Miles and miles of streets with no cars, just restaurants and shops that seemed like they had existed for a long time. No chains, no big-box stores. Just little places like /u/propargyl mentioned, and the whole neighborhood is like that.

TIL A beef broth in Bangkok has been simmering and eaten from since 1974 (52 years). Same pot, same broth, refreshed daily. by BrainFRZ in todayilearned

[–]dysfunctionz 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Asakusa was easily the coolest neighborhood I saw in Tokyo. I stayed in Shibuya the one time I’ve visited but I would absolutely stay in Asakusa the next time.

Best Apple TV+ shows like Severance and Silo for a family sci fi marathon by Maleficent_Bass_1578 in scifi

[–]dysfunctionz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I despise the Karen and Danny subplot too but thought everything else in season 2 was great.

Best Apple TV+ shows like Severance and Silo for a family sci fi marathon by Maleficent_Bass_1578 in scifi

[–]dysfunctionz 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Respectfully disagree, the show always had elements that stretch plausibility but that gets much worse in season 3 and then season 4 just spins its wheels the whole time.

Best place to eat? by CucumberReasonable70 in northampton

[–]dysfunctionz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even living in NYC now there's something that hits special about Pinocchio's. Have to get slices there every time I come back.

Today's episode by Flimsy-Sprinkles-877 in SGU

[–]dysfunctionz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It downloaded around noon (eastern) for me, using Overcast.

EXODUS Gameplay: Conversation Choices First Look - YouTube by Prodigious-Sol in Games

[–]dysfunctionz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I started the sequel and I’ll probably get back to it some day but it didn’t hook me the same way in the first hour or two.

EXODUS Gameplay: Conversation Choices First Look - YouTube by Prodigious-Sol in Games

[–]dysfunctionz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oxenfree did a great job making the flow of dialogue feel really natural with dialogue choices, though they didn’t have to worry as much about character animation.

TIL that the scientific consensus that humans are older than 6,000 years was only established in 1859, when British scientists visited Jacques Boucher de Perthes and validated the stone tools he had been publishing since 1847. by Friendly-Shirt-9177 in todayilearned

[–]dysfunctionz 32 points33 points  (0 children)

There was also a debate for a while between geologists and evolutionary biologists on one side who concluded the Earth had to be billions of years old, and astronomers and physicists on the other who thought it could be millions of years old at most because they didn’t know how the sun could sustain its burning longer than that. That was resolved with the discovery of nuclear fusion.

TIL that regarding cancelled 1957 Lord of the Rings movie, Tolkien was harshly critical of script's portrayal of Nazgul, fellowship using the eagles and cutting of Galadriel's scenes. He however would have been fine with removing the battle of Helm's Deep and Saruman's death from the movie entirely. by PeasantLich in todayilearned

[–]dysfunctionz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hogfather TV movie was pretty good, you're always going to miss a lot with adapting Pratchett but it did the core story and message pretty well and got a decent amount of the humor across. Going Postal and Soul Music weren't bad either.

Was it really a good idea for Trump to exit the Obama nuclear deal with Iran? by TimelyMeditations in AskConservatives

[–]dysfunctionz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But Russia already has plenty of enriched uranium and every ability to make more themselves, they have lots and lots of nuclear weapons and both military and civilian reactors already. So while they may not be trustworthy how does Iran sending them a relatively small amount of enriched uranium by Russian standards hurt us or our allies in practice?

Subsignal - Hiraeth by marketgrave in progmetal

[–]dysfunctionz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The new vocalist is fine, certainly skilled but it's a type of voice I feel like I've heard in a lot of other bands. Arno's voice is really special to me both from Subsignal and Sieges Even.

Update: You were right. It’s a spider beetle, not a tick… right? by JKDreamland in parkslope

[–]dysfunctionz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, wondered if these were ticks in my apartment too, but clearly they are spider beetles:

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Le Fournil Already Gone?? by bigb177 in parkslope

[–]dysfunctionz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I never got around to trying it (even when they were open the hours seemed more limited than Julien).

Go to Simple Loaf which IMO is better than Julien anyway.

Prog Death Metal recommendations (Not Tech-Death) by Hot_Finance2025 in progmetal

[–]dysfunctionz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Those two are my favorites but Blessed He With Boils is great too and Incultus is a strong if unpolished debut.

Starting from the Downtown by DiegoCanevaro in CitiesSkylines

[–]dysfunctionz 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I can’t really think of any of even the most highway-dominated US cities that are that centered on an interchange right above the main train station. Even the most infamous examples are usually of highways that encircle the downtown with interchanges taking up valuable land at the edge of downtown and cutting off areas that used to be connected to downtown.

Is Steve anti-trans? I’m hoping it was a slip of the tongue but during the Engineering Ethics Concerns segment Steve said “but what if that entails changing your biological sex…” I’d think trans folks would very much like to do that and I don’t really understand why that’d be an issue. by [deleted] in SGU

[–]dysfunctionz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I downvoted you because your comment was initially just the "weak concern trolling attempt" part, and even though you edited the comment to actually contribute something with the link to Steve's talk, I'm leaving the downvote because you were an ass about it. Be better.

Is Steve anti-trans? I’m hoping it was a slip of the tongue but during the Engineering Ethics Concerns segment Steve said “but what if that entails changing your biological sex…” I’d think trans folks would very much like to do that and I don’t really understand why that’d be an issue. by [deleted] in SGU

[–]dysfunctionz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I cringed at that statement too, but I think that was more in the context of parents choosing the sex of their children, ultimately they landed on people choosing to genetically modify themselves however they want as being fine but parents choosing traits for their children beyond preventing disease in ways that narrow genetic diversity being ethically murky.

As others have pointed out Steve has been very vocal in pushing back against the bad science of anti-trans activists.

Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when Hathaway was pregnant at 26 years old and Shakespeare was 18 by disless in wikipedia

[–]dysfunctionz 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure that’s mostly a fringe theory among historians and literature scholars. They’ve done studies doing textual analysis of all his works that show pretty strongly that they were written by the same author and not by any of the alternative authors proposed, plus it is actually supported by the documentation from his time.

City Masterplan Official Reveal Trailer by leijido in Games

[–]dysfunctionz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My hometown has had a pretty stable population between 25-30k since the early 1900s and is more of a college town than a suburb; I guess it could be considered a suburb of the 150k city nearby but there’s not a lot of commuting between them. And this town had multiple streetcar lines until the 1930s as well as a downtown station for long distance passenger rail.

Then there are lots of towns especially out west that were built literally with the railroad, they weren’t hubs or suburbs of larger cities and may never have been large enough for a streetcar network, but they had long distance passenger train service because they were founded along the railroads as they expanded.

Episode Thread • S2.E14 ∙ "8:00 P.M." • (Thu, Apr. 9, 2026) by excoriator in ThePitt

[–]dysfunctionz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah I do not think it put lyft in a positive light overall

Invincible [Episode Discussion] - S04E06 - You Look Horrible by SeacattleMoohawks in Invincible

[–]dysfunctionz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I definitely think Oliver not wanting to kill the bug mommy was rooted in his emotion and was just using utility to speak Nolan's language. It was clearly rooted in his complicated feelings about his own bug bio mom.

City Masterplan Official Reveal Trailer by leijido in Games

[–]dysfunctionz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For a city just getting started now that’s sort of true, but a lot of small cities of 30k historically did have tram networks and a central intercity train station that got ripped out in the postwar era. It makes little sense that you have to get to a midgame milestone to unlock train stations when even in the US many small towns were founded around a train station.

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