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Guy who becomes a useless bumbling dad constantly belittled by his wife to match his children’s TV-shaped expectations of fatherhood
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Ireland used to be seen as a gloriously dim beacon of Catholic obscurantism, and now every native Irish Catholic is some kind of teilhardian turboprog
A new senior Vatican official has reaffirmed her previous push for female deacons, saying that women “hear the call to priesthood”.
✍️ Michael Haynes
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Weird to think it wasn’t that long ago that swaddling your baby and leaving it home alone for a few hours as you went to run errands was normal parenting practice. We’ve gone from that to “if you’re not at your baby’s side in 10s when it makes the slightest noise you’re abusive”
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Absolute treasure scored from the library clearance shelf, a 50 year old engineering master’s degree thesis analyzing the then-recent zoning and public transport plans for my town
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Tfw I never got the chance to be featured by a third world engagement farm as a precocious child genius bc by age 11 we had to know multiplication tables up to 30x30 by heart
🚨: The Brazilian Júlia Pimentel, 11 years old, created a simple formula to calculate square roots and was featured in a scientific magazine.
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Just drink cereal coffee like a normal person
Most decaf coffee is made with methylene chloride. It's the solvent that used to be in paint stripper.
The green beans are steamed, then washed in methylene chloride, which pulls out the caffeine and not much else. The beans are steamed again to drive off the solvent and then roasted at over 400F. FDA allows up to 10 parts per million. When a lab tested 24 decaf brands in 2020 it found the solvent in 10 of them at about 0.05 to 0.1 ppm, around 100 times below the limit. The industry calls this the European method.
There are 3 other ways to do it. Ethyl acetate, a solvent that can be made from sugarcane, which the trade calls the natural method. Carbon dioxide under pressure. And the Swiss Water process, which uses hot water and carbon filters and no solvent at all. Peet's says all of its decaf is water process. Starbucks has told reporters most of its decaf is the direct contact method, meaning solvent.
EPA banned most uses of methylene chloride in 2024, but food is FDA's job, so decaf wasn't part of it. A petition to pull it from food has sat at FDA since December 2023. FDA reopened comments on it in May and hasn't decided. If the bag says Swiss Water or water process, no solvent touched it. If the bag says nothing, you don't know.
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I find that I really enjoy the “hunt fantasy monsters to cook sumptuous meals made from their parts” premise in fiction, but I don’t know anything that does it aside from Battle Chef Brigade and Delicious in Dungeon
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Randomly remembered one of my all time favorite tweets
me: (sipping tea and reading Chaucer) oh ha is there some sort of "sporpsball" game afoot? haha, oh, I see. I didn't know because I've been busy enriching my life with the great works of the Western literary tradition. My wife fucks the mailman
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My art teacher in middle school was really proud of his (shit) degree piece and the only feedback he’d ever give us was “this isn’t how you do art, there needs to be a certain quality to it, like in my degree piece”
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Russian Jew spreading hate against Europeans, wow, this is a completely novel concept in history
What’s happening in Paris and Milan is no surprise to anyone who has spent time around young people in Europe during the 2010s:
Virtually all of them were working on their 4th masters degree in social welfare, were unmarried, attended communist dinners every night, and regularly participated in riots.
Now the economy is suddenly transforming and they have nothing to show for it.
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Modernity, having succeeded in eliminating all metaphysics from culture, failed to eradicate basic human impulse towards religion, so now we have new and exciting liturgical periods like “spooky season”
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Black Friday (now accompanied by “Cyber Monday”) or, in some countries, long running annual nationwide competitions are other examples
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