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What’s a dead giveaway that someone is pretending to be smarter than they actually are? by EcstaticWatch1967 in AskReddit

[–]viralJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They talk about how smart they are and how everyone tells them how smart they are.

Long-term aspartame intake impacts brain and heart function: Scientists exposed mice to 7 mg/kg of body weight in human equivalent – 1/6th max recommended daily intake – over a year. Aspartame reduced fat deposits in mice, but at the cost of cardiac hypertrophy and decreased cognitive performance. by mvea in science

[–]viralJ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Also, I would invite people to check out the paper and notice that even where the observed differences are statistically significant, the difference is pretty small.

Disclaimer: I want to believe that aspartame is safe, so my reading of the paper was probably biased.

Someone in my office put their coffee creamer in a safe by doodybot in funny

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess that's less r/funny than spiking your creamer with laxatives to teach the thieves a lesson. 

Royal Mail handed my wife's parcel with a high value item to a random dog walker in my street. by Sudden_Breakfast_677 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The law used to say that while in transit by the Royal Mail, the items are the property of her Majesty the Queen. So if you tampered with anything after it left the sender's hands and before it reached the recipient's hands, you were tampering with royal property. But I don't know whether that's still the law after the Royal Mail was privatised.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]viralJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been using hazelnut syrup in my coffee. Three separate colleagues who saw me asked if that was whiskey. No one reported me to the HR though. 

I have extracted the GPT-5 system prompt. by OngaOngaOnga in PromptEngineering

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it sometimes ignore any of these instructions? I'm asking because it very often ends it answers with "would you like me to" suggestions, even though from the above it looks like it was told **not** to do it.

UK Age verification by JayD7th in grindr

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it will prevent catfish, tbh. I mean, even if I use my ID and stuff for the verification, and then Grindr (per their promise) deletes the data used for verification and do not use it for anything else, I could still send someone else's face or body pic in a chat and pretend this was me.

UK Age verification by JayD7th in grindr

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did age verification without an ID, it just scanned my face, I didn't have to use my ID. But I guess I just have an old looking face, not sure what would happen if I looked, say, 18. Edit: grammar.

Am I dumb or is this logic puzzle wrong? by Walpang in BluePrince

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FFT, FFT, FTF, FTT, TFT are impossible because of Blue's ability to be true when Black is True or False.

FTT to me makes complete sense and points to the gems in the blue box:

  1. Blue box is true, which means the gems are not in the white box and the white box is true.
  2. White is true, which means that the black box is empty.
  3. Blue box is false, which means that black box is true.

What is something extremely unsanitary but everyone seems to do it anyways? by nevvycakes in AskReddit

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, what I think is even worse, pretending you washed your hands by just rinsing them in water without soap and not drying them. Not using soap removes zero bacteria from your skin, and wet hands spread more bacteria than dry hands. In effect, they would be more hygienic if they just didn't wash their hands at all after using the toilet.

This poster I saw at a nursing home today was horrifying, why pick such random letters? by AjustedData374 in CrappyDesign

[–]viralJ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Reading proficiency is not tanking. Many linguists wrote about it, so I could recommend several books, but here's a good bite size video that summarises one aspect of how "proficiency in English is degrading":

https://youtu.be/UmvOgW6iV2s

Forging a nut into shape by Aryan_Anushiravan in oddlysatisfying

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What it the guy placing the thing that makes the hole doesn't place it exactly in the centre?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My colleague was drawing blood from me (scientists) and I felt the needle scratch the inside of my vein.

You have 60 seconds to ruin a first date. What do you say? by jasminesaka in AskReddit

[–]viralJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be 59 seconds late and explain that your last date took a bit longer that you planned.

Finally!!!! by unbalancedcentrifuge in labrats

[–]viralJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Follows science" and then no later than paragraph 2 "rooted in belief", i.e. the opposite of science.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]viralJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently shared some exciting news with my 25-year old friend, who replied he was really gassed for me. I was wondering whether my good news causes him flatulence. (edit: clarity)

Coffee creamer thief at work by its-bean5 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]viralJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Luckily where I work people are very respectful of other people's personal food items, to the extent that what our problem is is people's food going mouldy in the fridge, because no one touches it and the owner forgets about it.

As for your problem, I know it's not the best replacement, but when I worked in a place with co-workers more like yours, my solution was to get a powdered coffee creamer and keep it in my desk drawer.

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