Definitely looks more like a Pippin to me…

Call my name and save me from the dark

True story. Am a controls engineer. I program stuff like the production processes for pharmaceuticals, F&B, etc.

I come from a time where most games were single player you couldn’t pay to win. Not all games had cheat codes.

What we did have were memory/hex editors, game files, .ini stuff.

With what little instructions you could find online, you had to dig around and figure out where to find stuff and how to edit them so you got unlimited gold or super powerful equipment, etc and not crash the game at the same time.

Little did I know, this built my foundations for controls programming and troubleshooting. There are so many parallels like using memory editors is so similar to our debugging software where we want to find individual parameters that aren’t behaving or communicating properly.

The cans were changed cause the skinny cans cost less in materials to manufacture. It’s all in the smaller diameter lids which are the thickest part of the can.

https://youtu.be/7Qi6oIOHbDg

The price would have gone up regardless…

Lemmy is a stupid god awful name.

The first result you get on google is a dead singer. Every other search you will have him on the front page instead of what you’re trying to find. Contrast this to searching for something from reddit.

Case in point guitar reviews lemmy vs guitar reviews reddit

I can’t understand why every other fediverse name is so stupid as to be off putting to the average user.

In this case it inadvertently kept people alive

Minor addition:

In Europe, to make drinks like beer you had to boil the mash, which unknown to them sterilized the water, which made beer generally safe to drink.

In east asia, as you mentioned tea was a common drink. But before that there were numerous herbal remedies that had to be boiled and served hot as well. People who drank the herbal remedies got better (mainly because hydration and clean drinking water are important factors for well being). Other than attributing the recovery to just the herbs, they also attributed it to the temperature.

So lacking tea or herbal drinks, the ancient chinese believed drinking hot water was somehow beneficial to the body. Add that to the fact that many who drank cold untreated water fell sick, you can easily see how the myth developed.

Another side note. Hot water is expensive (fuel wise) so drinking hot water was a sign your family was comparatively well to do and something a lot of villagers emulated in an attempt to show that the family was well off.

Announcer: Red starts off the match with a savage low blow. Will the ref do anything about it?

Just do Onlyfans like that other PhD person

Put in there just as a cheap way to get emotional reactions from the audience, it’s the story telling equivalent of having the dog in the story die.

Just like Jesus, He didn’t even really die. He went away for a few days and on the third day he rose again so that all may follow him and enjoy everlasting life.

https://youtu.be/O4rfQSgkZOE

Baby panda sneeze

Jesus H Christ. These are oddly specific and terrifying are these actual reasons people at your company got fired for?

They are certainly very affectionate birds and great fun to have around.

My only word of warning to a potential first time owner is that they are messy eaters and even messier shitters. They are also noisy AF. I loved their tunes but I’m pretty sure I pissed off the neighbor with their screeching.

Colorful parrot bird is a rainbow lorikeet if anyone is curious.

A long time ago one of these guys found their way into my house. I’m not a bird person so I had no idea what this was either. I thought it was some sort of parakeet, it loved fruits and climbing on people but it had no interest in seeds or biscuits, which I found strange.

I brought it to the nearest pet shop on my shoulder to get it ID’ed and it stayed on my shoulder the whole time till we got back home. I adopted it and we had many good years. I still miss the colorful parrot bird sometimes.

Liver, Fava Beans and Chianti

Crocodile eats bigger number is way easier to remember

We have seemingly reliable accounts of archeologist/explorers cooking and sampling frozen mammoth meat they excavated.

The meat was good enough to eat without them falling sick. Apparently it tasted like muddy meat and it had the texture of what you’d imagine bad elephant jerky would be like.