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uphillbothways, (edited ) to memes in Funds
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Even then, only in a shortsighted, politically deceptive manner. Taxation driven by sales in a thriving hub with free transit also pads the budget. But, taxes are unpopular and people like sports teams and arena shows and overpriced shitty beverages. They give the bigger dopamine hit.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to comicstrips in "Hibernation" by War and Peas
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As someone who never had kids, I'm glad everyday that I never did.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to science_memes in it's got the juice
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That nitrogen is fixed inside root nodules on the root system of the bean plants. It's taken up by them immediately. It's not available to the corn or anything else growing nearby.

And, you misquoted me.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to movies in Why is everything a sequel, reboot or remake?
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There's the corporate side of it, which other comments have covered, but consumer mentality is a big piece, too. Seems like we're so awash in content there's a widespread jaded expert mentality that's taken hold. A lack of naive willingness to try new things, possibly paired with or caused by a feeling of being overtaxed financially from all sides and having too many things demanding our time.
A lack of willingness to spend time or money on something we don't already identify with as being good, on both the sides of consumers and producers.

Late stage capitalism has changed us all. Feels like there's a lot less room for experimentality in this huge carefully curated experience. We've all seen too much.

edit to add: Maybe the popularity of reboots are us yearning for simpler times. We can't reboot society so we reboot our movies, music, shows, etc. Meanwhile, constantly rehashing old plots prevents the renewal we really want.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to memes in Did I press this button the first time?
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Depends on how the site is written to handle it. There's plenty of shopping carts, for instance, that do this. Other stuff, too. Here's a discussion of how it can be done with PHP on the server side. There's other options, as well.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42379157/can-sessions-work-without-cookies-if-so-how-does-a-session-work-without-cookie

More info:

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_sessions.asp

uphillbothways, to risa in Dunder Mifflin working hard to beat Wall Street
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Wow.... So, Kevin gets done so dirty he doesn't even make the photo, and Stanley is the alien security guard....
TOBY!!!

uphillbothways, to memes in Skyrimposting
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"Skyrim universe"
Haven't even played an elder scrolls game in over 15 years, and I know it's called Tamriel.

uphillbothways, to lemmyshitpost in A genre of Country Music...
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Wasn't meant as a personal attack. Shoulda put it on the Amidala meme, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

uphillbothways, (edited ) to risa in *Record Scratch*
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She said surrender, we said NO!
Jordi fires up the engines to GO!
Now we're stuck in a tractor beam FLOW!
Assimilated? Find out next SHOW!

uphillbothways, (edited ) to memes in I've unfortunately made this mistake at Costco of all places.
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A lot of Americans don't realize how small European refrigerators are. And, that storage space, in general, is more limited.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to asklemmy in Why do most people refuse to accept that they are wrong
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Ego has been mentioned. Sunk cost fallacy plays a part. Combine those and people tend to over value the effort they've made to form their opinion, either through some form of information consumption or synthesis of known ideas/held opinions, while devaluing/doubting the existence other people's previous efforts. So, you often end up with two people who both think they're informed and assume the other person is just making up an opinion right now and failing to see their valuable insight.

uphillbothways, to memes in day 10, there's so many stock photo memes here now!
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Seed comes almost entirely from the female plant ovule. The male gamete, transported in pollen, makes but a minor contribution in catalyzing the process. Hell, many plants form fruit and sometimes even unfertilized yet viable parthenogenetic seeds without male genetic contribution. Seed is a poor metaphor in this instance.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to cooking in Do You Need To Wash Rice Before Cooking? Here’s The Science
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Rice cookers are nice, but pressure cookers are better. Not just because you use less water, energy and cooking time, the consistency improves too.

ETA: Pressure cookers also result in a more food safe result, which I always forget about. See response re: Bacillus cereus, below.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to memes in All pollinators are important but...
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Mosquitoes don't directly cause death, though.
They are susceptible to diseases. They pass those diseases on. Those diseases cause death.
Bees cause more direct deaths due to anaphylactic shock from allergies to apitoxin.

Mosquitoes just catch all the blame.

uphillbothways, (edited ) to asklemmy in How do you keep yourself from eating all your candy-stash in one sitting?
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Usually abdominal pain, severe indigestion and/or diarrhea. Being barely able to eat and actually digest enough normal food to survive along with near constant stabbing pains to the gut have really helped me stave off any concern of over eating and obesity.... It's terrible. Don't recommend. And junk food makes it worse. Which just sucks more cuz that shit is delicious.

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