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attofreak, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

I don’t care about balding (and I have been since 20s). Just a healthy body reset every decade or two/whenever necessary. Get the metabolic rate up, clean up all the junk from the environment that has polluted the DNA and reduced the telomere lengths (whatever the correlation/causation there). Just a “take the body to the shop” type of repair possible. A chance to live for centuries.

itslilith,
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Have you read the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton, by any chance?

waz, in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

Whirley-Pop.

Opend it up, realized it was a cheap piece of garbage. Went to return it to Amazon, and apparently it can’t be returnd.

I love some homemade stovetop popcorn, but it is way easier to make and clean up using a regular stainless pot than that POS.

Usernameblankface,
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Aw man, I use one of those often. IDK what about it is garbage, it works great and hasn’t given me any issues in years.

Fogle,

Yeah my girlfriend loves her whirleypop. But I don’t know what Amazon trash they’re selling now hers is quite old

Usually_Lurker,
@Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world avatar

You can get a new top with metal gears for cheap from their website. This thing is a tank and will never need to be replaced. Also for clean up it gets wiped out with a paper towel when cool, and placed back on the kitchen rack. Whirley-Pops are awesome. Simple does not equal cheap.

waz,

The one I got has metal gears. They are the main point of frustration. They don’t really make a full rotation without getting bound/jammed up. Slow, fast, or somewhere in-between, it always felt like I was fighting to get the only moving parts to move.

I’ve no problem with simple. I like simple. For me, this thing isn’t simple, it’s frustrating.

Maybe I just got a bad one. A lot of people seem to have an appreciation for it that matches yours. I’d be inclined to exchange it for a different one. Sadly, Amazon refuses to accept it as a returnable item.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll have to look into the metal geared top. Mine has the plastic gears, and those have held up fine for me. Still, I wouldn’t mind an upgrade.

nucleative, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

The breathing hole and the eating hole are separated

Squizzy,

Half of taste is in our nose though so I don’t want to lose out on that

Agent641,

More holes, you say?

BlackPenguins,

Everyone gets really thick necks.

claycle, (edited ) in What are some of your cheap eats hacks?

Cabbages, dried beans/peas/lentils, and collards. Learn to cook these “poor foods” in ways you like - they are cheap and plentiful and amenable to lots of different methods (cabbage, especially). Extend/bulk all the above with rice, farro, polenta, tortillas, or a solid southern cornbread recipe (not sweet and more cornmeal than flour).

I do both collards and beans in an instant pot (not together, though), which cuts down on mess and time. One of my favorite things to do with cabbage is make Kim chi or sauerkraut. Kraut is easier (and a little cheaper, it’s just cabbage, salt, and time) and opens up a realm of easy Euro-ish meals (kraut, lentils/potatoes, and sausages, for example, is highly economical, tasty, and filling).

Mango,

All of those things taste awful. Beans can be pretty ok at least.

YoorWeb,

Good stuff.

Also, kimchi, one word.

claycle,

I think that was autocorrect…for whatever reason in decided to capitalize Kim and separate chi…

Toes, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

Can I also get no aging, no unwanted body hair and flawless health?

Tattorack,
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Yeah, the slow and painful deterioration of aging Couid get right the hell out.

Toes,

Yeah I’d like to go back to 15 before my autoimmune stuff started

Presi300, in What are some of your cheap eats hacks?
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t tell anyone this, but the ducks in the park are free, you can take as many of them as you want

Mango,

😵

mwproductions,

I saw a guy do this when I was a kid.

Decoy321,

Yeah but you gotta catch em first

shinigamiookamiryuu, in Beyond Wikipedia, what are some of your favorite online learning resources?

TV Tropes

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Warning: Do not go to TV Tropes unless you have a lot of time to burn, and enjoy having 97 nearly identical tabs open at the same time.

captain_aggravated, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Baby teeth last longer. What’s this bullshit about your first set of teeth lasts 5 to 10 years, then you’re supposed to make it 60+ on the only other set you get? I’d make baby teeth last about 20 years.

A_Random_Idiot,

Or just be like a shark and grow new teeth every 20 years or so.

Wahots, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Appendix not coming from the factory is a big one. A slightly better immune system that can get through the blood/brain barrier and kill rabies/amoebas, and other brain infections like TB (without shredding brain tissue) too. If a virus like rabies gets past that barrier, you are 1 0 0 % B O N E D as your immune system is largely locked out.

Wider uterus/vagina too. Human babies have massive heads that don’t fit through too well. It’s like an orange on a toothpick. Making a smaller baby could be a possibility, but survivability would potentially go down.

For very tall people: a larger and stronger heart organ. A second one acting like a smaller turbo would also help. Heh. Failover cluster hearts. You’d probably have to have stronger veins and tissues as a result though.

captain_aggravated,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’d correct the “birth canal through the pelvis” issue. That’s just bad cable management.

AngryCommieKender,

Doesn’t your appendix actually do something, unlike your spleen?

RizzRustbolt,

Your spleen is the dude who watches the watchmen.

lseif,

this. i cant believe their still shipping that deprecated piece of bloat to production.

nikosey, in What gifts that you received for Christmas this year are already in the trash?

My grandmother got me some uranium because she knows I’m into reactors. I didn’t have the heart to tell her she got scammed & it was all depleted.

mvirts,

Lol so you threw it in the trash? 😹

Azal,

woosh

mvirts,

Yeah I feel like this is some kind of reference I’m missing

Stalinwolf,
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Can a man truly be wooshed when he doesn’t possess the required knowledge in the first place? I say not. This is an unjust woosh.

Abird1620,

NAY I SAY! This man cannot be wooshed for such a folley! Truly unjust, as you say.

Anticorp,

Nah, he threw it on the ground. DUH!

blazeknave,

That’s not my dad!

Anticorp,

That’s a cell phone!

blazeknave,

Thank goodness… I feel in good company on this site age-wise, then I’ll drop what I think is an obvious one and crickets

verysuchaccount, (edited )

It’s a made-up story. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enrichment and places that do uranium enrichment aren’t even going to talk to you unless you have a host of government licenses. Depleted uranium only has a few applications like:

  • Armor penetrating munitions
  • Counterweights for aeronautics
  • Ironically, as radiation shielding

This makes it very hard for collectors to obtain (it can take people years) and actual samples of DU are going to be more expense than regular uranium. The story makes as much sense as your grandmother buying cubic zirconia jewelry and being “scammed” with actual diamonds.

profdc9,

Well, the DU could have been scavenged from spent munitions a warzone after it had obliterated something.

SharkEatingBreakfast, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

The spine

FIX THE SPINE

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, upgrade the spinal column with a duranium/cordonite alloy, similar to data.

cheesebag,

This should be #1

Wahots,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

Just out of sheer curiosity, are there diagrams of what a redesigned spine might look like?

tory, in How to cope with existing right now?

Sounds to me like all your problems would go away with money. I wish I had a solution for you, sorry OP.

solomon42069, (edited )

Pretty much! I’ve been sales prospecting since November but it’s just a baad time to be doing that in terms of time of year and the pinch on a lot of company budgets out there. Uncertainty everywhere makes people nervous and not want to spend money on new contractors offering advanced 3D visuals etc.

blazeknave,

This was the worst Q4 I’ve had in 18 years of b2b sales. It’s not you. I think when people get back in the saddle, they’ll start buying late this month. Hang tight. We’re all struggling to survive. You’re so not alone. 2/3 of the US are a couple paychecks and an emergency away from a collapse from middle class to homelessness. It’s fucked up.

RizzRustbolt, in What are some small things we should change about the human body?

Add ability to see what color magenta actually is.

Persen, (edited )

Is there a difference between magenta and purple?

RizzRustbolt,

Very much so.

attofreak,

it’s…something between blue and red (and a little bit green)

sagrotan,
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The color out of space…

Kit, in What are some of your cheap eats hacks?

Meal planning carefully to take advantage of sales, buy in bulk when possible, and eliminate food waste. I have my meals planned out through the end of January and I do this every month. The money I spend on groceries has halved since I started using this approach.

jballs,
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As weird as it sounds, paying for a meal delivery service has really cut down our cost for food. We used to be poor planners, so would just go to the store and buy staples without having actual meals planned out in advance. More often than not, nothing really looked good or we wouldn’t have all the ingredients to make a meal, so we’d order out.

For the price of ordering out once a week, we now have ingredients for 3 or 4 meals delivered to the house every week. Then it takes the guess work out of planning, because it narrows down our options to what we had delivered.

Sure, it’s more expensive than doing the planning ourselves and going to the store to buy the ingredients. But it sure does save us a lot of money overall, since we now eat out less than once a week, instead of multiple times per week.

Kit,

Ain’t nothing wrong with those meal kit services. They’re reasonably priced and great for taking the planning out of the equation. I tend to sign up for them for a week at a time when life throws me a curveball.

suriyuko, (edited ) in Are there any good free alternatives to brilliant.org?

Perhaps “Khan Academy”, although I’m not sure if it’s better. Never tried it myself.

jeffw,
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Used to use Khan academy for math stuff in undergrad and it was great!

NightAuthor,

Same, Khan is good for math.

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