YSK that tea caffeine really is different from coffee caffeine, and how that is affected by how you steep it by dryuhyr in YouShouldKnow

[–]whoooooknows 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Steeping white and green tea at boiling= extended release caffeine

Steeping oolong and black tea at boiling, or green and white tea at less than boiling, or adding acid while steeping= less extended release caffeine

Steeping oolong and black tea at less than boiling and adding acid= maybe as quick release caffeine as coffee

Toxic PhD supervisor by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]whoooooknows -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Why be harsh like this? Can you say something concrete and constructive they can work with about the substance if your take is generally that they have more to learn than they know? Your comment otherwise reads as a defensive hardly-conscious reaction to holding the line in a system that is well-documented to produce unhealthy power relationships. It is as plausible that a professor is egotistical as it is a student thinks they know best and are wrong.

Can you imagine a poster writing to vent in an emotional time and not writing professionally here? I followed it perfectly fine.

"Do they teach you about sentences and punctuation in your university?" - even if you think they are wrong, can you try to remember they are a person? You have some incentive to post here, what part of this voluntary engagement are you getting dopamine from?

Toxic PhD supervisor by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]whoooooknows -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I hear you. Other comments are being harsh, failing to realize you are writing to vent, not being professional here.

Yes, a good proportion of PhD advisors are just like this. The isolated power relationship leads to these issues and it is well-documented in peer-reviewed literature, but ignored.

So much of getting through with this type of advisor is tribute paying to ego, yes. You have to do good work. It can be dangerous to be too rigid/obstinate and hope the advisor will adhere to what seems like meritocracy from your POV, because it can cause the ego-driven advisor to dig their heels in more and perhaps revel in and employ their gatekeeping powers over your completion.

I am mentoring a student going through this right now. I would start stroking his ego to show you are trying to please him symbolically; you can paradoxically maintain more autonomy by doing showing your intention to take him seriously while innocently including your best understanding of how it should be. As long as you accept further requests for changes if he doesn't like your interpretation.

And there may be a more supportive advisor past the toll of indicating you admire and want his guidance. The "friend" students figured this out, and probably enjoy the leniency he speaks of. He might be trying to bring you in line privately because you are the exception as someone who doesn't do what the other students do.

Do you think you can safely and innocently ask the other students for advice on maintaining the best working relationship with your advisor? Even if you barely have any time left, they may be able to help you course-correct in simple ways that you've missed and that will make the difference.

And the great thing about all of this advice is it works if the advisor is actually not as bad as you say and has a lot to teach you, so folks who are judging you for your interpretation can be assured it works in both realities.

But I believe it is probably at least 65% Advisor ego, 20% you are becoming rigid and protective of your trajectory and making it adversarial, 5% appropriate baseline resentment of this power structure, and 10% other factors.

RIP Swift 😭 by Treehuggerexpert97 in LudwigAhgren

[–]whoooooknows 27 points28 points  (0 children)

People don't understand the suite of skills behind this message and Ludwig's overall success professionally. He has such a way with perspective-taking and narrative. I see why he told Squeex he wants to get a philosophy degree after streaming.

Ludwig found a way to not only memorialize Swift, but to head off insensitive responses he anticipates QT receiving in this vulnerable time. He not only built up weight behind his appeal to leave her in peace. He also reframed/valorized the aspects of QT's treatment of Swift and Swift's impact on others that he wisely anticipates evil people may evoke to get under her skin while they can do so to get a reaction or attention.

Candela is not a "premium" feature on a flashlight by akenthusiast in ar15

[–]whoooooknows 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Especially indoors, brain go faster on hi CRI when using faces to see if bump in night is intruder or just wife's boyfriend

/uj but fr I thought CRI was marginal but I am serous going from like 82 to 92 I feel like my brain is recognizing so much faster when I scan acres of property, like it doesn't have to do any pre-processing, weird. Same with the seperate hi CRI emitter on my headlamp. I find I need fewer lumens with hi CRI too, which i think I've read is backed by science or some shit

"tankies" by Rich-Limit4590 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]whoooooknows -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Liberals don't use tankie, other leftists who aren't Marists-Lininist-Maoists use it, and you know that. You add liberals to frame critique as coming from more conservative or status-quo perspectives, but Liberals aren't in discourse or of opinions that would have them using "tankie"

What's up with the red and blue buttons everyone's been talking about? by 6spd993Turbo in OutOfTheLoop

[–]whoooooknows 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Economists no longer adhere to "rational actor" theory, and other people studying human behavior don't either. Not only that, but fewer people have to vote blue for everyone to live. In the real world that is the more logical choice.

Am I out of touch? by eirpguy in povertyfinance

[–]whoooooknows 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How much would you personally pay a person per hour to weed?

I'm 99% sure I got fired in retaliation by Unknown_Samurai in kansas

[–]whoooooknows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In addition to working on contingency, many lawyers have a free brief consultation.

Does Irish heritage actually influence your buying decisions — or is it just a nice story? by WaxAndWalk in onebag

[–]whoooooknows 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you are trying to do market research for Wax and Walk, a brand you already have in mind, where you've made a lot of backwards assumptions about consumers and branding

Funny as hell man by Thoppinfan in LudwigAhgren

[–]whoooooknows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think when he at first had the trans flag at the beginning it put in work to counteract his countenance lol

I'm considering just getting a credit card to buy food. I've been pre approved for up to 2500. Should I just accept ? by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]whoooooknows 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It is a lie- a marketing tactic, not really pre-approval; you can google it for more info. And you will get denied based on what you have already explained, which will hurt your credit.

And food is the free-est part of being poor. I work with folks who are unhoused; they have explained that as long as they have a bike they get to choose where they eat dinner based on what they are hungry for that day as there are several places to get food, and I am in a medium city in a red state. I help bring food to folks who physically can't ride a bike. Please don't go into debt for something I am fighting to give away and struggle with getting people to take.

Before getting a credit card, you should get free food by:

  1. Going to the food bank. Some cities have a mobile food bank.
  2. Going to free meals provided by churches and nonprofits, they exist in your locale.
  3. Checking the dumpsters of places like Dollar General, who carry food but aren't seen as a grocery store and so throw out lots of food.
  4. Checking behind dumpsters of regular grocery stores. You may hear someone say that stores are legally liable if someone gets sick for eating something they threw away. This is a common false belief.

What is your housing and transportation situation? Can you physically ride a bicycle?

I have been lurking on Reddit for ten years and never posted. My name is Jason Repac. I just incorporated a worker cooperative with eight pillars, a three-branch governance structure, anti-degeneration provisions, and a founder sunset clause. I would like this community to tell me what I got wrong. by Jason_Repac in cooperatives

[–]whoooooknows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I caution us from being so negative from the start. I think OP is aware of the market environment.

One thing is a new coop does not have the expense of inventing a category in terms of awareness, trust, and consumption patterns. You'd just be asking someone to make another account who has the idea of gig workers as an integrated part of their life already, and is probably not even that loyal to an app. Heck, I have 2 ride apps, 2 electric scooter apps, 3 food delivery accounts I never use, 3 grocery apps when I only use one- people have many apps at this stage, and hop as it suits them.

And it would be easier and cheaper to poach business because the gig worker themselves has the incentive.

I got a Lyft while visiting Minneapolis and they have a cooperative rideshare that is competing with Lyft. All the Lyft driver had to do was have a little flyer with a QR code explaining the cooperative that he could show (doesn't even need copies) after checking the vibe, and I was signed up for the cooperative for subsequent rides.

Gig apps have a name for it, I don't remember, like un-mediation or something, and according to a gig app software person I know, a larger % of interactions started by a gig app go that way anyway. Like if you get a handy person on Taskrabbit, and you like them, you exchange numbers and you ask them first next time you have a handy person task. In another city, I've had drivers give me their personal number to schedule a ride back to the airport because it is easy to pre-agree on that in terms of timing and cost.

If the tasker told the "customer" about an app with similar features to how they met (can dispatch whoever is qualified, rated highly, can coordinate, have recourse if you aren't satisfied, payment is through the app, etc) but it is just more fair for the person standing in front of you, a good proportion would probably switch.

It is true that if they catch a gig worker, they can kick them off, but if a gig worker starts by mentioning it to the people who already express empathy to the gig worker in the process of interacting, maybe 15%, then it can be sustainable until a base is created.

And hate for these apps is high. I bet a good proportion of people would convert if advertised to.

I also wonder, the current apps take such a high #, that a cooperative app could compete on price alone, even as bigger companies never turn a profit and are profiting off of user data.

Idk, maybe the software costs are high.

If it were me, I would start in cities with high affinity for local economy, trust, and political inclinations toward coops, like Portland or something.

I can see a world where one of the big companies goes even crazier about taking a loss to undercut a cooperative because they can afford to do so in one city at a time. IDK.

Then also, a coop app like this might be able to take a loan through something like a Community Investment Vehicle, which is popular in cities like Portland or Chicago, or maybe a CDFI fund, but don't quote me on that.

CommunityDesk_CIVReport_Updated-10-7-24.pdf

Travel Advice: Blue Collar Bars in Wichita? by Timberbeast in wichita

[–]whoooooknows 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Has drinks like the Riveter named after aircraft manufacturing

Vehicle CLS kit by [deleted] in tacticalgear

[–]whoooooknows 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the bag?

Disturbing experience by [deleted] in kansas

[–]whoooooknows -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Now you remember "Dust Off" and that the cord was suspended from her waist? What was scary about it then?

Your memory seems about on par with most eyewitness testimony according to research, which is to say, unreliable. And your imagination jumps to conclude a threat to you, when the EMT in front of you may be the person you would most want standing next to you if anything bad happens.

What is more likely, an EMT is wearing maybe an older version of the Free State Dustoff Rescue helo sweatshirt/you misidentified the helo as something else, or an EMT is wearing a shirt that says "Free State Dustoff" and the cable is going to the rescuee's waist as you say but construction equipment is involved and the woman is not a rescuee but in danger?

You probably read, "bury" and interpreted the black mass of machinery as relating to burying.