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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

3 years? Probably 10kg of dark chocolate, 15L of hazelnut syrup, and 50kg of protein powder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

So I cheated a little, because I'm at a table right now, so I didn't visualise the table just the ball on the table. It was about tennis size, but no texture, kind of light blue shading into lilac. The person pushing it was really just a hand.

So sounds like the only work I did was imagining the ball. I wouldn't say I knew in advance, and I wouldn't say I chose what it looked like. It just appeared and it was light blue.

Edit: the ball started rolling when pushed, but not long enough for me to know whether it fell off the table or not. But the rolling was just a concept. I can visualise things, but I can't visualise motion. Which I only discovered recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Haha luckily yes!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

UK. Cold and hot water coming from separate taps. WTF? I was once told that it is because hot water boilers used to have their tops open to the outside, which meant the hot water could contain some debris, so it was important to use it only for washing and not let it mix with cooking water. But in bathrooms in some modern builds that definitely don't use that kind of boilers you still get separate taps. I told one of my British colleagues about how it's been bothering me since I moved here and she said "oh yeah, I never realised that I've never seen that in any other country". She also told me that kids are just taught to wash their hands quickly under the hot tap, so that they don't run the water long enough for it to turn scolding hot. WTactualF?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can pretreat flour to make it safe but obviously the question is, did the cookie maker bothered. And raw eggs can be a concern, apparently 1 in 20,000 eggs contains salmonella (inside, not on the shell).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

As a kid, it was a cartoon - The Little Mermaid. As an adult... It is a cartoon - Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2009? It will expire in 5 years and we'll be inundated with devices that require you to get up from your seat and yell out the name of the brand to end an ad ☹️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I've just asked Gemini about cheese that slides off pizza, it didn't recommend glue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I took my second-hand car to an authorised dealer and they offered to extend my warranty from 3 to 10 years. For money of course but it wasn't ridiculously expensive, and had no excess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (9 children)

New cars. After a car has been owned by one owner, for however short a period of time, it dramatically reduces its price. At least in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh I didn't take it as such 🙂 I just disagree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Although using "data" as both singular and plural is acceptable in modern English, I once sat through an online training stating "[there can be] negative consequences if data are misused or falls into the wrong hands" which is just so cringe!

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I once applied for a job where one of the requirements was "minimum 5 to 10 years experience in X". My friend told me to submit a CV saying I have 3 to 6 years experience in X and see if they shortlist me.

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