My interpretation is that the ketchup head sees the superficial similarity of a splatter of red liquid and says he can do that, but he doesn’t actually have the inherent qualities that give the bullet’s splatter its emotional and artistic meaning.

No matter what, a splatter of ketchup can never carry the same meaning as a splatter of blood and other bodily fluids, so the ketchup head’s ability to make something visually similar does not translate into him being able to make something artistically similar.

The crack of a bullwhip is caused by the tip exceeding the speed of sound, around 750 mph/1250 kph.

Well then you are lost!

I weigh my coffee/water to keep the brew ratio the same

Yeah, I developed my current routine by weighing, but because I use literally the same containers every morning I can eyeball the amount of beans or water in those containers and know that I’m basically at the ratio I used to measure. Maybe tomorrow I’ll eyeball it, and then measure, to confirm I’m still calibrated at the right level.

That’s why I love cooking communities. A lot of things really do just boil down to technique, and a substantial amount of the equipment necessary is commodity grade where almost any brand performs the same.

1. Don’t feed wild animals. For this rule, the particular type of food doesn’t matter. Wild animals are harmed from human feeding, even if the food is nutritionally beneficial to them.
2. Bread spoils fast, and spoiled foods in the environment can make a lot of animals sick.
3. Bread doesn’t contain the nutrients that many birds need, so birds (especially young birds) that eat too much bread at the expense of not eating other foods might become unhealthy from deficiencies on other fronts.

I point out these three distinct reasons because the overall points being made don’t make it OK to feed wild ducks peas or whatever else. For farmed animals, though, farmers will want the overall nutritional profile to meet some standard, at which point old bread and other scraps could very well be part of a broader diet, in a way that manages household waste.

This is great.

I also separately keep up with my 5 rep maxes, so I might do this with two columns.

Yeah that’s probably true of all Fallout Boy songs generally.

I can believe that Korean food has gotten spicier in the last 30 years, but I think it’s worth noting that Korean food was already plenty spicy before any of those financial crises, much more so than Japanese food, and all but a few specific Chinese regions.

You misunderstand, riding trains increases the amount of shitposting capacity one has.

It was a funny joke, a fun juxtaposition of the child’s book already under discussion, and a contentious and violent period in recent UK history.

My takeaway when I watched it was that it’s the fries and drink that are bad for you. He interviewed the eccentric guy who ate Big Macs every day and was skinny/healthy, probably because he never ate fries or drank the sugary drinks.

Is this…an adaptation of the Yao Ming meme I haven’t seen in about 15 years?

Making sure not to bring that energy everywhere takes a bit of practice.

I remember an interview of Quincy Jones where he was just shit talking popular music of that time (maybe early 2010s), and ran through a bunch of examples, basically explaining where every musical element (particular chord progressions, instrumental combinations, beats/rhythms, etc.) that made it into whatever current popular song, was first pioneered by some recording artist he had worked with in some earlier decade.

He obviously knew a ton about music, from classical to jazz to pop to hip hop to country, but it was an interesting glimpse into the mind of a person who was basically saying “I’ve realized there’s nothing new to me anymore.”

For some reason the music that came out when I was between 15 and 25 years old was the best!

If you don’t make a conscious effort and invest time into creating new friendships (with considerable difficulty since you yourself are tied to “adult” obligations), you can end up alone with withered social skills before you realize it.

One of the things I did when I was in my 20’s and 30’s that I’m really glad I did, was to always be willing to relocate. I did it about 5 times for new jobs, once for a new school, and twice for a romantic relationship (including with the woman I ended up marrying). I made new friends in each city, and kept those “new friendship” social skills over time. Now I’ve settled into a specific place with my family, but I have friends all over the U.S., know a little bit about a lot of cities and their neighborhoods and the local culture, and perhaps most importantly, know what I’m looking for in friendships and relationships.

I made new friends in my 30’s because I absolutely had to, living in a city where I only knew one other person. And now I’m still making new friends occasionally in my 40’s because I like to: colleagues and neighbors and fellow parents from my kids’ schools, etc.

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No, it’s a guy who edited the genes of some embryos in the hopes that a particular gene mutation would give resistance to HIV.

Only: the gene editing didn’t actually give the specific version of the gene studied to have an effect on HIV susceptibility, the gene is also associated with memory and other brain function, and the gene was incompletely edited so that there are multiple versions of the genes in both kids, when the studied mutation needed to be present in both chromosomes of the chromosome pair in order to show some kind of effect on HIV.

Even if you believe that the evidence is strong enough to support the idea that a mutation in this gene can give HIV resistance, this guy didn’t actually do it in a way that was scientifically sound, and now two real human beings have to live their lives with the effects, including any off target effects, whatever they might be.

My point being that corn only needs to be boiled to be easy to eat.

Sweet corn harvested at the milky stage, sure. But wait until the kernels are reddish brown and they won’t be great. And that’s a variety that was developed like 1500 years after the Romans were wiping their asses with sponges, so not relevant to the conversation about ancient prehistoric people developing a staple crop.

Go boil a jar of popcorn and see how practical it would be to try to eat flint corn with just some boiling.

Plus nixtamalization improves the nutrition of cornmeal so that it can meet more of human nutritional needs.

And your second “point” is a complete red herring. It applies to almost any crop outside of its harvest season.

It doesn’t apply to staple crops. Wheat, rice, millet, sorghum, buckwheat, beans, and potatoes can be stored long term, so entire civilizations came up around them millennia ago. Sweet corn harvested at an edible stage can’t be, at least not without refrigeration or canning technology.

All this is to say yeah, the civilizations built around maize as a staple crop had to figure out nixtamalization.

Sweet corn is a recent invention.

And great, you’ve got the months of July and August covered. How are you going to survive fall, winter, and spring? Corn doesn’t become a staple crop until it can be stored year round, maybe between years to alleviate famine.