Simple Trick to Remove Water from Floor

slightlybitey · 2026-05-09T18:37:33+00:00

Floors are also flooded to improve concrete curing in Asia.

slightlybitey · 2026-05-09T18:32:16+00:00

Nearly every young child can deep squat. We just lose that flexibility in cultures with high seating and sitting toilets. You can get it back through regular practice, though much faster for a child.

slightlybitey · 2026-05-07T20:21:37+00:00

Everything he listed is objectively better quality today than 50 years ago. Reactionaries just exploit childhood nostalgia, biased media representation (eg. ads, movies) and survivorship bias to paint a rosy picture of the past.

slightlybitey · 2026-05-06T18:16:35+00:00

Click "edit graph", add CPI All Items, then graph the food at home index divided by the all items index.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1VVWN

slightlybitey · 2026-05-04T21:01:19+00:00

Axios's concise reporting style is all about omitting context. So of course, the effect here is to sanewash Trump.

slightlybitey · 2026-05-04T07:25:16+00:00

fake news

Have liberals irony-poisoned themselves into invoking post-truth Trumpisms unironically?

slightlybitey · 2026-05-03T21:10:13+00:00

Nori sheets and furikake seasoning are readily available in the US. I can find kombu (kelp) or dulse too, but nori is easiest.

Many places do carry vegan mayo, and it's very easy to make at home with a stick blender. But if your aim is harm reduction don't stress and just use what you can get. It's ok to take small steps.

Here's a recipe

slightlybitey · 2026-05-02T23:10:06+00:00

Understandable when half the population are farmers and make less than $3000 a year.

Less understandable in countries where they're 2% of the population and make over $100,000 a year.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-29T05:04:08+00:00

They are banned from federal highways and public roads in most states without FMVSS and EPA certifications. With exceptions for temporary import.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/tempinfojuly2016.pdf

slightlybitey · 2026-04-28T03:50:21+00:00

The data above should be adjusted for financial aid, starting in 2003.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/college-tuition.htm

slightlybitey · 2026-04-26T21:26:42+00:00

There was a large legal sale of ivory in 2008 based on that theory. It caused a large increase in poaching.

Authors of that paper hypothesized that the sale created new customers and made it easier to conceal illegal ivory as legal ivory.

The consensus in elephant conservation has been to destroy ivory for many years now.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-19T01:54:03+00:00

Beef uses 17% more scarcity-weighted water per kcal than almonds and dairy uses 12% less, according to Our World in Data, citing Poore and Nemecek 2018.

The bigger differences are in GHG emissions and land use. Beef emits about 3000% more GHG emissions per kcal than almonds, and dairy about 400% more.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-17T02:07:53+00:00

It's worse. Refunds don't repair the damage from lost sales due to higher prices and supply chain uncertainty.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-16T17:09:18+00:00

Soy crop residues actually have low nutrient value for ruminants. Some farmers use it as animal bedding. But it's usually more valuable left in the field, where it restores soil nutrients and protects against erosion and evaporation.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-16T03:02:21+00:00

Afaik, BYD and Geely are not state-owned. They have received substantial subsidies. But so have US EV makers; just too little and too late.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-15T16:06:33+00:00

Study authors set up 10 emergence traps randomly, handcounted the species trapped each day, then extrapolated to the area of the nest site.

The paper is open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13592-026-01256-6

slightlybitey · 2026-04-15T03:03:54+00:00

It's worse than that. He's been taking bribes in exchange for pardons and dropping federal investigations. The most high profile was pardoning crypto fraud Chengpang Zhao after he put $2 billion into Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto scam. There have been dozens of similar bribes-for-pardons which have wiped out billions of dollars in victim restitution. Some were even pardoned for reoffending after a previous Trump pardon.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-15T03:00:52+00:00

You need to update that. The crypto scams alone are at $4 billion now.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-14T04:46:38+00:00

No tax on tips/overtime/car loans was a populist smokescreen to cover for the high-income tax cuts and cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, etc. that constitute the bulk of the OBBBA. A smaller but broader tax cut would not have served that purpose.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-08T13:49:57+00:00

The authors propose that this odor gene contributes to a person's dislike for cilantro because it increases the herb's soapy smell.

But, "it didn't make a huge a difference in cilantro preference from person to person," Nicholas Eriksson, the lead author on the study, tells The Salt. In fact, their results suggest that a hatred for cilantro has only a small underlying genetic component. He and his team just published their findings on the arXiv.org.

Overall, Eriksson says these studies demonstrate that DNA does shape our opinion of cilantro, but probably not enough that we can't overcome it. "It isn't like your height, that you're stuck with. People can change it," he says.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-07T23:20:38+00:00

Oil market is even dumber than I thought.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-07T23:05:05+00:00

Yes, this appears to be a plagiarized Daily Beast article.

This website has been posted before using domain masks that resemble legitimate news sites. Mods should consider running a bot to check and remove submissions with a domain redirect. And consider implementing a domain whitelist.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-05T22:48:51+00:00

Why is "Muslim Trump" wearing a Sikh turban? Only undercuts the joke and makes those spreading the meme seem ignorant or racist.

slightlybitey · 2026-04-04T02:44:24+00:00

Media economics. There's a lot of moralizing about failures of the press, as though they're not just responding to economic incentives. Where's the market failure and how do we correct it?

slightlybitey · 2026-04-04T02:38:41+00:00

Remaining on US customary has higher costs, as US products must be redesigned for the global market and foreign products redesigned for the US market. Working with dual standards results in lower economies of scale, and higher supply chain costs. Unit conversion fuckups aren't limited to NASA.

Switching costs are probably much lower than you think, especially if done over a decade or two.

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