Tar_Alcaran

I can eat the stuff that literally kills him. At home. Without worry!

“isn’t it amazing how Africa and South America seem to fit together? I wonder what caused that”

“I dunno, probably magic”

Wether or not Homer’s writings are part of the Epic Cycle is very much a matter of… strong opinions of historians. There’s good reasons to include them (They’re about the same thing) and not to (Written later, and not lost, like all the other ones, so it makes the discussions annoying). We only know about most of the epic cycle because people wrote about the poems and made summaries and cliffnotes.

No, it’s more that making rich people richer isn’t a rising tide

I got modernized out of being a parttime worker at the library, when they switched from barcodes to RFID and they didn’t need someone to scan the books anymore.

Which was kinda sad, because while that was boring, helping people find stuff was great. It’s been nearly 20 years and I still can’t stand an unalphabetised bookshelf, or one where the spines don’t line up.

Nowadays, I’m a safety consultant, and I get to fire clients. The most fun one was when they copied my signature on a plan that I specifically told them was illegal. I found out when I got a letter saying I committed environmental crimes for agreeing to said plan.

And US standards are nothing compared to EU GSR requirements. All sorts of mandatory safety systems are required nowadays.

Ohhh it’s an “at first” take? Thats kinda not how the meme works. I know the whole story, but that would normally have one person smiling, the other not.

Why the double smile?

You need to boil your string beans more, I can still see some green

Huh I remembered wrong. Thanks for the correction

Ok, I chuckled at that.

Yes, but muuuuuch shorter.

I guess they should have added some magic marker notes as well for the slowest kids.

Hey, fuck you too.

Wow, did that make my post any better like it did for you?

Oh it’s not raw. It spends between a day and a week in a barrel full of salt with some of its intestines. That way, the pancreatic enzymes can make the fish even tastier!

The only cow food I know that needs insect is clover and alfalfa. Grass, wheat and even soybeans do OK without.

Potatoes do both. Potato seeds are produced from fertilizing potato flowers, and can then grow into new plants.

But they also spread asexually via tubers, which is way more convenient for farming.

Ok but,

Cows don’t require bees. The food that cows eat (wheat, grass, soy) either pollinates by wind or spreads by root. Soybean benefits, but doesn’t rely on, insect pollination. Alfalfa is pollinated by bees, as are most forms of clover.

Cocoa trees are pollinated by midges, not bees. And the rest of the shake comes from the above mentioned cows.

Lettuce also self-pollinates, though again insects help. Commercially, they’re not really used.

Tomatoes are commercially pollinated by shaking them, because commercial tomatoes are optimized for making food and are pretty shit at being plants.

Potatoes are basically the only major ingredient that is pollinated by bees. But that’s basically never used by anyone growing potatoes, since potatoes also spread asexually by tubers.

Stuff in this pic that IS pollinated by bees: the sugar beets that are potentially in everything (edit: nope, that’s wrong) but not the corn you can also use for sugar. Cucumber for the pickles. Some oil plants to fry in. Coconut or almond if you don’t want cow milk. Sesame seeds on the bun.

Wheat isn’t pollinated by insects. It’s self-pollinating by wind.

On the other hand, I’m reasonably sure cows also don’t require bees to reproduce.

You know, learning chemistry is nice and all, and there’s lots of maths and knowledge, but the real special knowledge in doing chemistry is one simple phrase:

“When pouring, you’ve got to commit”

And this is a very clear example.

Someone disagrees with anything you do or like and you automatically assume they must not know anything and require education on some super basic subjects. So you decide the correct way to convey your viewpoint is with a half page copypasta, stripping out the useful intro and just offering instructions.

You treat everyone like they’re simultaneously some kind of uneducated child and the personification of evil. Perhaps somewhat understandably, people don’t really take well to that.

And now that I see your replies, you also seem to be hyperfocussing on one specific offense to you, pasting to the same reply to numerous, completely different, people and posts. I totally see why you’re getting banned so much, no community wants spammy replies like that.