exasperation

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[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you paint a black cow black, and it gets bit less, that would sort of give it away wouldnt it?

They already did sorta do that. One of the three groups was painted black on black, albeit with stripes. Those were bitten as much as the unpainted black cows.

To take it to the furthest conclusion I'd paint them entirely in black, and entirely in white (in case there's something different between the white and black paint besides the color).

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do they know the paint didn't do it?

There were 3 groups of black cows: an unpainted control group, a black stripe group painted with black stripes (not very visible because the cows were already black), and a black and white painted group. The control group had similar results to the black stripe group, which suggests that the black paint alone didn't do anything.

So further research could be to compare to an all black painted group and an all white painted group, with no unpainted fur, as well. If it's the pattern, then one would expect the totally painted cattle of either paint color would see similar results as unpainted.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

There is a persistent belief that cooked rice is exempt from the 4-hour rule. That belief is mostly wrong, because the water activity in cooked rice is still able to support a few hardy species of bacteria, including b. cereus (the bacteria that cause this illness), in some circumstances. It's pretty rare, but possible, and therefore inevitable that it will eventually happen to people who fail to refrigerate rice.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's normally just some diarrhea, maybe some vomiting, maybe some immunocompromised people will have more serious symptoms. 5 days is a long time, but so is killing a 20 year old in 10 hours.

It's probably helpful to think of it as increasingly bad results from increasingly bad practices, and still seek to avoid the milder non-deadly results too.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Are you talking about the office or the sauna?

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

given the logo

...and the business model

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Different types of oils form different polymerized surfaces, too. Related to the greentext, some people came up with the idea of flaxseed as the best oil for seasoning cast iron based on some theorycrafting about chemistry at a high school level, and it turned out that flaxseed oil seasoning chips and flakes really, really easily.

So there are a bunch of people out there doing it wrong and complaining that it's too fussy.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, a lot of cultures love spice, but Mexico is the only one I'm aware of that loves spicy candy specifically.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

A 200Lb adult needs a minimum of 140g of protein daily to remain healthy.

The standard recommendation is about 0.8g per kilogram of body weight. So 200 lbs is 91 kg, which corresponds with 73g.

There's some more recent advocacy for more protein, especially for active or older people, but that's talking about more than just the minimum requirements to be healthy, and more towards optimizing for performance.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not in this case. I don't know whether this particular VFX studio treats its workers fairly, but I've heard that the whole VFX world is generally terrible to its workers.

That all is beside the point here, though. The VFX studio doesn't employ writers or actors, whose strikes shut down production of films. So it doesn't matter if the VFX studio treated its staff like kings. They were still going to lose a ton of work during the strikes, so there's no avoiding these issues.

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