Let me introduce you to puerh. It’s way darker than normal tea, but it won’t taste bitter unless you make it as black as coffee.

Did you know, these new gasoline engines are also “carbon positive”. The more you drive, the more carbon you deposit into the atmosphere! Everybody wins!

And why is it that people don’t want to see any ads at all? Some people argue that ads can help you discover products and services you might want to buy? Well, I tried that.

Got a separate computer just for this experiment. Installed Chrome, used online services that have ads etc. I exposed myself to tracking and ads for a while, and the ads I saw on that computer are still completely irrelevant. I’ve even told some sites exactly what I like, and the ad targeting still sucks.

Nobody benefits from this, except for the ad companies. Advertisers loose their money, and they get no sales in return (at least not from mme). Ad companies and related platforms get the money for showing me stuff I will never buy, while the ads infuriate me at every turn.

Even in the best case scenario where the ad companies have all of my data, they still can’t figure out what I might want to buy. The whole idea of ads is just completely broken. On my other computers where I actually do more serious stuff, I use every tool in my arsenal to block all of this digital cancer.

Energy is a peculiar word, because it’s used by new-age loonies (and scammer), sci-fi authors and even real scientists. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist use the longer term “energy field”, but the first groups certainly seem to love it. When scientists speak of fields, they prefer to specify exactly what kind of field it is (e.g. magnetic or electric).

If I ever get to own a (farming) field of my own, I’m going to name it “Energy Field”, just to mess with everyone. Maybe I should set up a solar panel there, so that the name actually made sense.

That article says it’s 32 768 Hz, which is strangely close to some of the figures you can find on wikipedia.

I don’t even need to come up with my own BS, when I can just copy some crazy nonsense written by other people. Here’s a sample:

UNDERSTANDING CRYSTAL VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES

Every crystal on Earth possesses its own energetic signature, measured in Hertz (Hz) or megahertz (MHz). These frequencies interact with our body’s energy field, creating resonance that can promote healing and balance.

As if sources even matter when traversing this deep in Crazy Town, but there you go anyway.

Used to see lots of those on Reddit, but I’m not touching that place again.

Usually, it was a map of Europe with the favorite food, national animal or whatever of each country. In the comments you could read about all the mistakes of that map. People would disagree about the favorite food, claim that it only applies to certain part of their country, find out that they even have a national bird, claim that the national bird was changed and the map has been outdated for 30 years etc. It was a wild ride pretty much every time.

Judging by the number of suggestions and corrections, this reminds me of one of those maps that manage to trigger everyone in some way. Also, goes to show that translating is hard.

Here’s an idea though. Make a “buy European” translation post in every European language specific community out there. Explain the core message of “buy European” in a a few sentences. Explain what the feeling, emotion and atmosphere would ideally be. Should be it be a command, recommendation, encouragement or something else. Ask which option fits best in that linguistic, historical and cultural context. Collect some options from the discussion. Make a poll etc.

That’s pretty cool. Tell me more about your system. Is it fully consistent, or only partially?

Hmm… that’s a good point. Basically anything other than a flat surface will have these bizarre properties.

Wow. That would be truly bizarre kind of space to live in.

If you draw a triangle on different parts of a toroid, would you get different angles?

How about a sturdy 10 mm lynch pin? When it snaps into place, you’ll know it.

And a bunch of other microbes too. A single species may dominate the population, but it’s highly likely that there are several other species hanging around as well. Adding some vinegar will make the conditions more challenging for most of them, so many will just die while others may struggle and grow very slowly.

In ELI5 speak: Gross bugs growing in there. Add vinegar to make it a bit nicer.

Yes, and if you extract work from the system, what would happen to the positive and negative energies? Would they both come closer to zero, or would only one of them change?

If you have some place with negative energy and another one with positive energy, can you use the difference to make the pair do some work? You know, like a voltage difference, potential energy difference, pressure difference, concentration difference etc.

Asking for a friend.

Been keeping an eye on the temperature forecast, and it looks like I won’t be touching the tires any time soon. Maybe next month.

You can skip the part where someone gets a crowbar in the face, trip to the ER, 24 stitches and other exciting events like that. Just tell us what the weather was like when you went to buy your 5th pack of painkillers.

Yeah, that’s t true. Even steel utensils come in a variety of prices. The nicer ones look cool, have interesting shapes are heavy etc. Moderately priced ones are just stamped steel, but still good and durable. The cheap ones, are stamped out of the thinnest low grade trash you can find. Those will bend if you just look at them wrong. Also, some cheap fruit knives have a plastic handle and aluminum rivets. Stick that into a washing machine and you’ll find out how soluble aluminum is at high pH.

Dumb foreigner here, so what’s the deal with silverware? I mean, if you really want silverware, you get forks and knives that are actually made of silver and come in a fancy wood box. Do people use that word for common steel forks too?