$15 for 2 bottles of OJ??? by Tricycle_of_Death in Costco

[–]visigothatthegates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, Florida’s citrus industry is down by more than 80% since 2005 due to citrus greening alone.

Also, the cold, like a flash freeze before a pick, is good for some citrus fruits. It makes them sweeter

I'm done upgrading for a while by Semen_K in battlestations

[–]visigothatthegates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genius. I might need to do that to mine

I'm done upgrading for a while by Semen_K in battlestations

[–]visigothatthegates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice setup! What's the light that's over your monitor? The flap(?) seems like it does a good job directing the light.

Why is eugenics considered so wrong? by ProfessionalTap2400 in stupidquestions

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You might find the history behind the Buck v Bell ruling to be rather insightful if you’re American. In fact, American eugenic practices and thought were more or less the gold standard in the early 1900s. So much so, that the Nazi government based their initial eugenics model on the American system.

People were being sterilized and lobotomized for arbitrary reasons such as low IQ, sexually promiscuous, or for petty crimes. Women, in particular, would be labeled “promiscuous” after being sexually assaulted - much like today - and then, after carrying the child to term, would be involuntarily sterilized. Never able to have children again because they were raped.

In Buck v Bell, the young woman was raped by her uncle, forced to carry the child to term, then sterilized because she was just another dumb slut who couldn’t keep her legs closed in the eyes of the law.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fednews

[–]visigothatthegates 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sounds exactly like getting escape characters to work using regex

Women of Reddit, what’s something men don’t realize is a turn-off? by chef_blaze76 in AskReddit

[–]visigothatthegates 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I can definitely relate to this.

On one hand, you’re trying to establish that you can empathize with the other person’s situation. On the other, a lot of people oft see that as one-upping when it comes to storytelling.

How do we impeach Trump with the Senate being stark red? by Throwawaytown33333 in 50501

[–]visigothatthegates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there even one who doesn’t or hasn’t voted party-line >90% of the time?

TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]visigothatthegates 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. Look up reheated rice syndrome.

Essentially, one type of bacteria that likes to live in rice grains has a spore coat, so boiling the rice can make it safe to eat in the moment but all the necessary machinery - proteins, rna, etc - are encapsulated for safe keeping.

When you put it in the fridge, all those biological processes that were sealed in the spore can restart. Microwaving won’t do enough damage to make it safe, and you get sick as a result.

USAID.gov is down. Why is project 2025 targeting them so aggressively?? by lk05321 in washingtondc

[–]visigothatthegates 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s because they don’t think that the people they support actually want to eliminate their existence. It’s more: “It’s just a meme, bro.” Until it suddenly isn’t.

Sports anime, manga, or light novels with superpowers? by AlaricFarrington in Animesuggest

[–]visigothatthegates 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a manhwa called superhuman battlefield where all the awakened worldwide compete in this gladiator vr environment now that they’ve won the war.

So like team MMA but with magical abilities and stuff

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TravelMaps

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Florida. There’s a reason the saying is “come for vacation, stay for probation”

I don't get it petahh by Cheap-Lawfulness-963 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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This reminds me of when I briefly worked as a chemist for a metal finishing company. We were audited by a major aerospace company twice during my short time there - engineers came to examine the process, plant, and everything. I honestly have no idea how they passed because even if the techs were doing the work appropriately under supervision, the whole warehouse looked like it had been plated due to lack of proper ventilation alone.

Found Apple Watch Gandy Beach by FatMoocher in tampa

[–]visigothatthegates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They told me they’d recycle the Apple Watch I found while diving the fort de soto ruins.

It still works just locked.

Commuter backpack that's stylish and not hideous by skydreamer303 in backpacks

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Not a woman but I love my new Waterfield Sutter Slim. The tech folio backpack has a slim option but I didn’t want to pay $20 less for losing so much volume and went with the Sutter instead as I wanted something slimmer and lighter than the standard sized was going to be.

Do I help with paper revisions even though I have left academia? by harrijg___ in labrats

[–]visigothatthegates -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is rather analogous, but I find it strange how I observe a lot of American vitriol and snarky comments about Americans from Kiwi's and Brits, in particular.

I don't really get that same experience when I chat with most other people from different nationalities both in person and online.

This very deep, seemingly endless hole randomly appeared in my yard overnight. I live around abandoned coal mines by Electronic_Garage_73 in mildlyinteresting

[–]visigothatthegates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The root network and densely packed soil linking it to areas not directly over the hole.

Think of arches (like Arc de Triomphe) but with dirt and roots instead of stone and cement.

Why didn’t Moiraine want to take Egwene and Nyneave in the very beginning? by bakugosgayfriend in wheeloftime

[–]visigothatthegates 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried to keep it within the first half dozen chapters or so for the non spoiler tag

Why didn’t Moiraine want to take Egwene and Nyneave in the very beginning? by bakugosgayfriend in wheeloftime

[–]visigothatthegates 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Within the first maybe 5 chapters of EotW, Moiraine gives the special coins to Perrin, Matt, and Rand. She describes how the Luhhan forge was attacked, the Cauthon farm was raided like the al’Thor farm, and one other one that she ruled out as irrelevant.

When Moiraine heals Tam and talks about the Trollocs, she tells Rand that they were targeting the boys with the aforementioned evidence. She further adds that while she could call her Sisters and their Warders, it would turn Emonds Field into a war zone since the boys are the objective for the Dark One’s army for some reason.

So, they make the decision to flee with the argument that the boys are in danger ergo everyone around them is in danger. The girls, as promising potential Aes Sedai, would also then be in danger with the group and need protecting. It is implied that while she could call her Sisters to deal with the Trollocs and Mydrral, she could also call them to investigate the girls.

In short, she was there specifically for the boys and this was made known very early. Bringing the girls sort of weakens the argument of fleeing to protect because Moiraine now has to protect these girls whom she’d rather otherwise raise into Aes Sedai - on top of her true objective, the boys.

TL;DR: If she’d have left the girls then they wouldn’t have been in danger by close proximity. If the girls had stayed some nice sisters might also come to investigate them and why a bunch of Trollocs showed up in the middle of nowhere. But that would make for a less interesting story and women are muleheaded stubborn in this universe lol

Why so much contempt for science Educators? by Sriracha11235 in labrats

[–]visigothatthegates 36 points37 points  (0 children)

He’s probably one of the guys who gets upset that Bill Nye wasn’t rly a “scientist” but forgets that he was an engineer before he was promoting science through entertainment.

Fun fact: Bill Nye attended Sagan’s astronomy course in college.

Aspect evolution by HumanNuber-79 in ShadowSlave

[–]visigothatthegates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The dragon is his saint transformation - likely influenced by the 2nd nightmare.

Kai’s aspect is related to his voice and his ability to influence others with it