bstix

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take your protein pills and put your helmet on⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well that’s from where I learned English, so my vocabulary might be a little froody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take your protein pills and put your helmet on⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to take moment to appreciate that Space Oddity was released 54 years ago and still hits my daily feed.

  Bowie always presented himself as just some dude doing whatever he wanted to do m, and while I never did much to seek him out, he still constantly pops up in my life in the most peculiar ways.

  Hopefully future historians will be able to explain what he actually did, because I have no clue, but his influence obviously transcended the medium that he used for doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe theyre talking about newborns there.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …and you know this because…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plates⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of lighting. The text also suggests the wrong way first.

  If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plates⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.

  Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The correct spoken way is to say 5 past 6.

  I don’t really see a reason for including the zero unless it also says all the digits at other times. Like 6:45 would be six-four-five, which makes very little sense when spoken. If it’s capable of saying six-fourtyfive, it should also just say six-five for 6:05. But again, in the case of 6:45 the proper spoken way would be “(a) quarter to seven”

  It seems like a lazy solution just to say the digits.

  It doesn’t have to be difficult to do right. The code should just include a small table with the correct words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stock vs stock cubes + water⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It dissolves better directly in water. Otherwise it may lump up on something else in your food.

  However I don’t usually make a liter of it. Just a 1dl cup is fine. If I do need more fluid in the food I can add the water directly to the food.

  It depends on the dish. If you’re slow cooking something then you can just toss the stock cubes on there, no problem.