It helps, though. Let’s not pretend that steroid use isn’t extremely normalized among the kind of people that people think of when they imagine an “ideal beach body” (e.g. every muscular Hollywood actor). “Normies” don’t necessarily know that.

It’s an ideal beach body, not a normal one. Though you’re right that Schwarzenegger looked normal compared to what competitive bodybuilders look like today.

Now I definitely want to try it!

I mean, I’m definitely curious what the shock feels like …

It’s true in that almost every food item is made “with science” (university-educated food technicians, biochemists, engineers etc.) these days, but you hardly need science to make common drugs like alcohol, caffeine or nicotine. Coffee and tobacco are just plants, and fruit will spontaneously start fermenting all on their own.

I tried buying more physical books. I have a small stack of it, but I can’t motivate myself to actually keep reading them. And there’s always the danger that I find a page turner that’ll keep me reading the entire night …

We could just not use any power source that severely damages our environment. Solar and wind don’t have these issues to this extend, even if you include the necessary storage capacity (batteries, hydroelectric reservoirs) and include the resource use for building them (though that resource use is still a pretty big issue).

Though it’s not impossible to use geothermal energy without severely damaging the environment, you just need either a large amount of unsettled land (like Iceland) or you need to be really, really careful and limit the kinds of things you do - using geothermal energy for district heating apparently is a lot less likely to create earthquakes than what Iceland is doing.

But that’s usually not true. You can either just not do geothermal in areas that aren’t prone to natural earthquakes, force every homeowner to make their home earthquake-proof (which is extremely expensive, probably a lot more than just building batteries for solar+wind) or suck it up when they get damaged, or the owners of the geothermal plant have to pay for any damages (unlikey).

Cheetahs in captivity have, though.

Here in Germany, that hasn’t been true at all so far. For starters, there aren’t any “pretty isolated areas” in the first place, since the entire country is pretty densely settled compared to e.g. Iceland. There are still some ongoing projects, though, IIRC they are usually being done for district heating, which has to be near populated areas per definition. I think these types of projects aren’t as likely to create earthquakes as the ones for electricity in Iceland, though.

What do you mean?

I’ve been thinking that for a while. Issue is that it’s risky, if you fuck up there’s a pretty high chance that there are going to be a lot of houses with cracks in their walls (assuming you’re doing it in a relatively densely populated area that doesn’t normally see earthquakes).

I mean they aren’t lions, but are you telling me that they’re tamer than house cats? Because I definitely wouldn’t trust a cheetah-sized house cat.

The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one. Nothing new though, one of the leaders of my country’s main far right party is a lesbian woman who is in a relationship with a “brown person” (Alice Weidel, AfD party, Germany).

English does have more loanwords than most languages have words.

Small languages that are dying out, maybe. Contemporary standard German is filled to the brim with loanwords from French, Latin, English and even Hebrew.

If I remember correctly, they both stem from some proto-Germanic language and they continued development independently of each other.

Old saxon, specifically. I don’t think there’s anything proto about it, it was just an old form of a dialect that was common in Germany until about 200 years ago.

TIL French is German as fuck, apparently.

Seriously, English doesn’t even have that many more words with non-Germanic roots than German itself.

kompromat generator

The examples shown on the github page look linux-like to me.

Tiling is great and very useful, even the limited Windows-style tiling. Is your screen not large enough to make a side-by-side view useful?

Part of the issue is that the quality of the research is often really low, just a jumble of untested and untestable hypotheses that certain ‘scientists’ in these fields try to push and that get traction because they sound good. On some level it comes with the subject matter that is typically very hard to research, but too many people in these fields are entirely lacking in scientific rigour.

Source: I studied sociology and history in university.

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