AnalogyAddict

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AnalogyAddict,

This only applies if your morals are based on nothing more than consequences, which I would argue is no moral code at all.

AnalogyAddict,

It’s a microgeneration: the Xennials. We had all the analog fun of X and developed all the cynicism of Millenials.

AnalogyAddict,

I think many people just realized that much of what we can Christmas Spirit is just not that rewarding.

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

AnalogyAddict,

Baking is an art as much as a science. People who call it a science just don’t understand it.

AnalogyAddict,

Lots of chefs think that way. I did, too, until I dropped the recipes and started experimenting on my own. Getting a feel for bread dough, knowing what various ingredients will do. Feeling out viscosity of batter. It’s just as much an art as cooking, if you know what you’re doing. And cooking has just as much science, what with acid, maillard reactions, etc.

I mean… it’s not like average people can get consistent results with chef recipes, either, without measuring certain ingredients precisely.

AnalogyAddict,

I don’t know about transitioning, other than I probably would have thought I was trans if I’d been born later. I’m glad I wasn’t told I’d have to go through surgery and hormone replacements to be what I truly am. I was able to define my gender for myself.

But I don’t think anyone can judge another person’s choices like that. I just look forward to the day when people are allowed to freely make choices about how they live their own lives. I don’t think either political side is terribly flexible. (Though certainly, the right is far more rigid.)

I’ve seen too many people ostracized for changing their minds about being trans or changing their sexuality by people they thought were open-minded friends. Or people hated on for changing their faith by those who pretend to follow a loving God. It’s painful all around. We shouldn’t have to agree with someone on every point to celebrate and adore them.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

It’s not curiosity. I never felt like my gender. I’ve always been a fish out of water, and been extremely uncomfortable in my body. The way trans people describe feeling is how I’ve felt for the majority of my life.

But in the years since, I’ve come to terms with who I am and what my body is. I no longer feel the need to make it be anything other than what it is.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

Oh, this is a great word. Thanks! I just went down a huge rabbit hole of synecdoche vs metonym, and I doubt I’ll forget either term soon.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

I think that pronunciation has a few too many syllables. Lol. SiNEKduhkey. Not sinokideecodechodee or whatever that was.

AnalogyAddict,

Yes! Thanks.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

Oo, I got a bonus word! I spent way too much time trying to parse synecdoche from metonym.

Apparently, synecdoche is something associated with, and metonym is a whole or a part of of. So “red hats” and “trust funds” referring to people are synecdoche and my examples were all metonyms.

I’m geeking out a bit now.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.

AnalogyAddict,

If you’re crowdsourcing gift ideas, you’re already losing. Gifts should be personal.

AnalogyAddict,

It’s not hard to not buy things.

AnalogyAddict,

There were multiple. It went on a couple of years.

AnalogyAddict, (edited )

Carl’s Jr. because of that awful sexualized man campaign. Awful ad campaigns also for Dove, Axe, Jimmy John’s and Jersey Mike’s. I’m sure there are others I’m not remembering at the moment.

Burger King and Chili’s because of cavalier attitudes towards food poisoning.

McD’s, Twitter, Susan G. Komen, commercialized fundraising of any kind, and Reddit for obvious reasons.

Lots of games I won’t play and apps I won’t download because of their ads.

[question] for the chemistry types- making chicken soup. Why did lemon juice turn the light brown chicken stock almost white?

Okay, so I was making chicken soup from stock I had made using a (lightly,) browned carcus and neck. just before dumping the the dumplings into it, the stock’s color was a nice light brown. I added about 1/4 cup of lemon juice, turned my back for 30 seconds after a stir and it turned it an almost milky-off white. Eventually it...

AnalogyAddict,

It’s the citric acid.

AnalogyAddict,

It is a weak reducing agent, iirc.

AnalogyAddict,

Thanks for the details!

AnalogyAddict,

The citric acid in lemon juice is both a bleach and it denatures collagen and protein, which is probably the cloudiness.

AnalogyAddict,

To be fair, headcheese is exactly as awful as it sounds.

AnalogyAddict,

That would be because for the people in power, the parties are just a giant red herring to distract the American people from what is really going on: massive accumulation of wealth.

And at this point, enough wealth is accumulated to make the position of the powerful nearly unassailable. It doesn’t matter who wins politically, the powerful will still make their money.

AnalogyAddict,

If your pizza is worth eating, the crust is the best part. Crispy bits of Parmesan, the slight flamed brownness underneath, the warm, soft inside.

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