CountVon

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago

Playoff hockey is a whole nother level. This was during the first round of the playoffs in 2016, St. Louis vs. Chicago. The Blues gave him tickets to a game in the next round of the playoffs.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There are lots of wild foods that are poisonous, but that didn't stop our ancestors from figuring out ways to make them edible. In the case of bitter almonds I can find a reference to baking and boiling being effective methods of reducing cyanide content. Cold leaching might also work but it would take a lot more time.

I have to imagine that dire necessity was a catalyst for these discoveries. I'm guessing the thought process was more like "These are bitter as shit and they killed Bill, but we're gonna starve to death if we don't find some food, so let me try boiling these to see if the bitter goes away."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

AMD crowns the Ryzen 7 9800X3D a ‘gaming legend’

Obama giving the Medal of Honor to Obama meme

Memes aside, I'm eager to see some independent benchmarks. Been a while since I did a hardware refresh and I got the itch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I don't get it either. What I've seen doesn't look anywhere close to an 8+ out of ten rating. Will be interesting to see the player ratings on this one...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't dislike that art style in general, but to my mind it seems like a poor fit for a Dragon Age game. I guess they're pivotinf strongly away from the series dark and gritty roots, which is unfortunate because I think that was one of its strong points.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Watching Skill Up's review now, and oof. That art style... that writing. Don't know who they made this game for, but it's definitely not me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it exploitation? I'd argue slave or prison labor is exploitation because the workers have no freedom of choice. Bees are free to leave, and the queen will in fact do so if not content with the conditions in the hive. If the queen leaves, all of the bees will swarm with her and you'd be left with an empty box.

Beekeeping strikes me more as symbiosis. The beekeeper provides ideal conditions, far better than the average location that would be found in the wild, and can help protect the hive against threats like mites. In exchange the beekeeper receives a share of the honey produced by the hive.

No beekeeper takes all of the honey from the hive. Only the top box (the "honey super") of a typical hive stack is harvested. A grate below the top box (a "queen excluder") prevents the queen from entering it so no larva are laid in the top box. The workers bee are smaller and can pass through the grate to build out comb and produce honey. The comb and honey in the bottom boxes are left to the hive to feed its workers and produce the next generation of bees, ensuring the survival of the hive.

A queen excluder cannot be used to prevent swarming long-term as the drones that gather the pollen also won't for through the grate! An excluder might be used to delay swarming and buy time so the beekeeper can offer another solution, like adding more boxes to the hive or splitting it into two hives. Better beekeepers proactively manage their hives, e.g. by setting up an empty hive in advance to essentially offer a swarming hive a new ideal home whenever they're ready for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

No, the opposite actually! Any amount of exercise will help with GI motility, but intense exercise causes the digestive system to slow down (source).

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (6 children)

None of the above. The correct answer is walking. Moving around helps kickstart the GI tract.

[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh I'm streets ahead, I never took him at his word in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I don't believe it actually does grow back faster, it just seems that way. The first inch or so gives the impression of growing back faster because the hairs are thicker at the base so they're more visible and less prone to breakage.

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