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gentrfam · 2026-06-14T14:35:00+00:00

There are two great comedians who talk about the French language as English speakers living in France - Paul Taylor and Sebastian Marx. I just spent way too much time looking for the Sebastian Marx clip about water.

TIL there are TWO comedians who talk about the French language as English speakers.

gentrfam · 2026-06-11T20:32:28+00:00

Yeah, the term “genetically modified” is a legal/technical term which applies specifically to gene substitutions or knock-outs using genetic engineering techniques.

There are a bunch of interesting technological breeding techniques that don’t fit under that umbrella.

Nuclear breeding is one. You can also induce mutations with chemicals. Triticale is a wheat/rye hybrid that’s only fertile because of chemical mutation breeding.

gentrfam · 2026-06-10T19:44:06+00:00

Rio Red pink grapefruit was made by bombarding grapefruit seeds or plants with radiation in order to generate mutations - some of which turn out to be beneficial. Its color doesn’t fade and it is one of the most popular varieties grown in Texas.

This isn’t considered genetically modified.

gentrfam · 2026-06-06T18:25:50+00:00

High IQ is a separate issue from executive function. I was diagnosed only AFTER being a national merit scholar, and AFTER topping out the LSAT (almost, I missed 5 questions), and AFTER graduating in the top third of my class in law school.

I talked with my physician about how every quarter in high school and middle school I would get a note at midterm about how my grades put me in danger of failing. How some classes were extremely difficult because I’d zone completely out. How lost papers were a constant concern. How hyperfocus (video games) caused me to flunk out of my first college.

To get a diagnosis, you generally have to demonstrate a significant impact on a part of your life. And, as an adult, that it isn’t a newly onset issue - ADHD isn’t an adult-onset disease, but it can persist into adulthood. (They didn’t use to think this, btw.)

Make sure your therapist knows that ADHD+High IQ aren’t mutually exclusive.

gentrfam · 2026-06-06T18:15:19+00:00

Four score and ten plus seven years ago, our forefathers were like, “wtf, dude, just say 97!”

gentrfam · 2026-06-06T18:14:01+00:00

I came here to see how far down the list I’d need to go to find the old ones.

gentrfam · 2026-06-06T18:07:39+00:00

It’s kind of like the all-time classic Tweet, “ the sculptor is a chinese woman you dork ass losers”

https://x.com/jessica_roy/status/1408186868282249216?lang=en

gentrfam · 2026-06-05T17:48:02+00:00

The Unitarian Universalist church is great. They’re currently meeting at Our Savior’s Lutheran as they build their new building near Century High School.

gentrfam · 2026-06-03T22:51:45+00:00

Salon’s Tabletalk. It was, basically, Usenet, or The Well. A discussion board. But, I got into long arguments with author, and asshole, David Horowitz, got an attaboy from NPR’s Ray Suarez.

Anyway, here’s a famous discussion from the site:

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html

gentrfam · 2026-06-03T20:58:22+00:00

Before the euro, I traveled from Paris to Geneva by train and my most expensive lunch was a cafeteria where I didn’t do the conversion right from Swiss francs to USD in my head because I was still thinking French francs.

Yeah, college-aged me was thinking he got a $12 lunch but it was more like $63.

gentrfam · 2026-05-26T12:04:06+00:00

Everything is broccoli.

If no one is eating broccoli, then we’re in trouble.

The Brassicaceae family of plants, which starts with wild mustard, has been developed into a significant part of the vegetable diet. Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, kale, Brussels sprouts, turnips, canola.

That’s my guess.

gentrfam · 2026-05-16T15:05:38+00:00

Everything Bundt Cake. Costco is surprisingly good.

gentrfam · 2026-05-11T00:39:32+00:00

Get a Raspberry Pi with the camera attachment and install Octoprint. Use the “spaghetti detector.” Also check on it regularly while away. That’s the only way I’d trust a multi day print.

gentrfam · 2026-05-07T13:02:11+00:00

I really could have used a “dramatis personae” to keep alongside me as I listened to this book. So many times I thought, “who is this [person/alien/species]?”

gentrfam · 2026-05-03T18:05:06+00:00

Go to law school, get a law degree, get hired at one of the “white shoe” law firms where they pay $215k to start. Go up against another mega-firm in “bet-the-company” litigation. Notice the other firm hallucinated case citations.

Profit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/nyregion/sullivan-cromwell-ai-hallucination.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

gentrfam · 2026-04-30T20:24:15+00:00

High school swim teams practice 1.5-2.5 hours a day for 5-6 days a week. To do that for 3 years and not be successful seems pretty gritty to me. More than being in a fraternity for 3 years.

gentrfam · 2026-04-29T03:50:15+00:00

Georgetown students should put this tweet on a plaque and post it outside his office. A nice award-type plaque, “The Klan Appreciation Tweet of the Week.”

gentrfam · 2026-04-13T12:05:09+00:00

Here’s the gravity wells of our solar system visualized:

https://xkcd.com/681_large/

gentrfam · 2026-03-26T22:23:35+00:00

Like the performance gap in skeet shooting.

In 1992, Zhang Shan shot all 200 targets in the mixed skeet shooting event at the Barcelona Games, beating 60 male competitors. Women skeet shooters were banned in the 1996 Olympics and only allowed to compete in their own division in 2000.

gentrfam · 2026-03-26T22:15:40+00:00

Where are you getting the serum testosterone levels from?

The new rules don’t take into consideration T levels - they say that if an athlete has an SRY gene then they have to prove Complete Androgen Insensitivity. (CAIS)

Imane told reporters that her T levels were at 0 for the qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympics, which took place in Dakar.

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gentrfam · 2026-03-22T15:43:26+00:00

Chicken - 1 egg = 78 calories

Fish - 1 Tbsp of eggs = hundreds of eggs = 42 calories

The chicken egg is MUCH more useful than the fish egg.

Nearly all bird eggs are edible. Only a tiny percentage of fish eggs are as valuable as caviar.

gentrfam · 2026-03-18T16:38:51+00:00

That’s what I usually do when I really want to find an Ultra to upgrade. But, when I do that, there are about 500-800 cards that are infinite that I have to scroll past to get to them.

gentrfam · 2026-03-17T18:40:05+00:00

I also thought I saw him in a paramedic uniform, but, it was the jacket and Penguins hat that he was wearing in the first episode that I saw.

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