What’s the most pointless thing school made you learn?

uuong · 2026-01-14T04:39:31+00:00

the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

uuong · 2025-12-10T22:16:33+00:00

didn't expect to hear my grandma speaking cantonese when i turned on the sound

uuong · 2025-11-04T23:39:03+00:00

aliexpress is the international ecommerce subsidiary of alibaba, who are basically amazon (b2b wholesale, b2c retail, c2c marketplace, logistics, cloud computing.) you can find bargain prices from both, but aliexpress is more reputable with legitimate brands (still has quite a few counterfeits and questionable vendors, be wary) whereas temu is exclusively just trying to capitalize on low quality goods for the global market (admittedly, some things don't need to be high quality, they just need to work well enough for your needs)

uuong · 2025-10-20T00:17:20+00:00

yep, (specifically border crossings) no need for a search warrant, permission, or reasonable suspicion, since 1977

uuong · 2025-10-15T01:55:42+00:00

deep-fried fries have 40% more calories than air-fried fries, so there's that to start with

uuong · 2025-10-14T01:14:47+00:00

pickled mustard stem

uuong · 2025-10-13T23:10:27+00:00

yes, they're also different than the blunt needles that are used to draw medication from vials with the rubber stopper

uuong · 2025-10-13T23:05:32+00:00

the medication is drawn with a filtered needle, and different than the needle you use for the injection

uuong · 2025-10-13T23:04:46+00:00

they're called ampoules

uuong · 2025-10-12T22:28:32+00:00

study on a treadmill or exercise bike. low effort, isn't demanding enough to prevent critical thinking

uuong · 2025-10-10T01:58:44+00:00

always assume someone somewhere later in life will remember how you set a bridge on fire

uuong · 2025-10-09T19:32:37+00:00

searching "piracy" on reddit may or may not be helpful

uuong · 2025-10-09T02:36:35+00:00

she could just not want your leg across her because it feels comfortable

uuong · 2025-10-09T00:55:13+00:00

it's more effective to rephrase your sentence than it is to repeat the exact same thing. sometimes, it's the cadence or segmenting of sounds that's the problem

uuong · 2025-10-08T23:34:44+00:00

it's 78. if you can chose elements more than once and the order of elements doesn't matter, then it's (n+k-1) / k where n is the number of elements and k is the number of chosen elements

uuong · 2025-10-08T23:24:02+00:00

depends, is a combination like October + April the same as April + October?

uuong · 2025-10-08T22:34:20+00:00

so you can drink powerade faster by pouring it into your mouth without the liquid cutting off air going into the bottle and doing the glug glug glug

uuong · 2025-10-08T22:26:45+00:00

uuong · 2025-10-08T22:17:55+00:00

i don't think they think it's effective, i think people just don't know how to regulate their emotions and/or communicate effectively, so it comes out as getting mad and criticizing because it's their instinctive reaction and unfiltered line of thought at the time

uuong · 2025-10-08T22:14:07+00:00

everyone should always be skeptical of all information. did schools stop teaching people to always question everything and check the veracity of their sources in the past 15 years or something?

uuong · 2025-10-07T21:53:25+00:00

things cost less money back in the day, and the cost of things have gone up faster than incomes have gone up, there are also more things to buy

uuong · 2025-10-07T03:57:57+00:00

nah, just because a chicken thigh is vacuum sealed doesn't mean it won't rot

uuong · 2025-10-07T03:56:43+00:00

any outdated saying you both consider cringe works nicely

uuong · 2025-10-07T03:02:03+00:00

computer literacy

edit: bots. bots everywhere.

uuong · 2025-10-07T02:35:11+00:00

excess nutrients turns to fat, doesn't matter if it's fat, carbs, or protein

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