Wheaties

https://www.tumblr.com/trekheritageposts/696297078878568448/star-trek-heritage-post-july-6th-2022

Trying out some new pronouns, just here on hexbear. I've been saying some pretty egg-y things, and I've noticed those egg-y things coming out of my mouth and been a tad anxious about it. Not sure if I'll ever take the plunge for hormones, I kinda like the bio-casing just as is (although I'm still bitter about the circumcision, ironically enough). Maybe I kinda like the idea that a girl is looking out the eyes of a masc (haha, pun unintended, but I think it's funny).

I think it's kinda interesting that there's a whole universal force that kinda goes uncommented upon in popular physics. I also don't know anything about the strong nuclear force, but I heard someone say once that it's actually just electromagnetism on a small scale? If there was, like, a good documentary that centers the history and experiments that lead researchers to conclude the existence of these things, that would be helpful. Being able to situate research in historical context really goes a long way to getting my head around a concept.

Parma is quiet at night. The man sitting opposite me is paranoid someone will overhear our conversation. “They hate me here,” he explains in a hushed voice. He checks behind him, but the only other person in the osteria is a waitress who has had nothing to do since serving us our osso buco bottoncini. The aroma of roasted bone marrow wafts up from the table. Amy Winehouse’s cover of “Valerie” plays on a faraway radio.

“Can I badmouth them?” he asks. I tell him he can. After all, he hasn’t been invited here to expose corporate fraud. He has come to tell me the truth about parmesan cheese.

There’s a dark side to Italy’s often ludicrous attitude towards culinary purity. In 2019, the archbishop of Bologna, Matteo Zuppi, suggested adding some pork-free “welcome tortellini” to the menu at the city’s San Petronio feast. It was intended as a gesture of inclusion, inviting Muslim citizens to participate in the celebrations of the city’s patron saint. Far-right League party leader Matteo Salvini wasn’t on board. “They’re trying to erase our history, our culture,” he said.

https://www.tumblr.com/anneemay/712987153080205312/dude-literally-received-death-threats-from-italian

(sorry if this is the wrong com for this)

cus at first blush, it seems like a really sensible suggestion and i myself cannot think of any fault with it in principle

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We should base our regions off watersheds instead of state lines, for example, this is the midwest [diagram of the Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River Basin]

https://amtrak-official.tumblr.com/post/736885520460906497/we-should-base-our-regions-off-watersheds-instead

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/5028069

Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

@lodion@aussie.zone

https://cryptotheism.tumblr.com/post/736047789866369024/people-used-to-talk-about-blondes-and-brunettes

People used to talk about blondes and brunettes like they were different genders

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1026770

Four years ago (...jesus) Yahtzee decided to challenge himself to make 12 games in as many months. The videos don't run too long, are nicely edited/paced, and you get to see how he thinks about game design both in principle and in practice.

I'd highly recommend the series to anyone who's thinking about game design, whether that's as a hobbyist or a spectator. I've linked someone else's playlist because the official one is junk.