Idk how old OOP is, but I’m almost 30 and I never got a polio vaccine. My mum was very diligent getting me vaccinated too, I got all the whoopng cough, measles etc. shots. Even got tuberculosis for some reason, but polio was considered so near extinct that it wasn’t on the list.

(thanks for making me check my vaccination passport to confirm this btw, found out this way that I need to get something refreshed)

Someone else using fortran in research checking in. In particle physics, were basically writing huge, physics heavy Markov chain monte Carlos in it. Just one example.

One of the most disappointing facts when learning English was how many different animals are just called goat or deer

Not live under capitalism where food needs to be min-maxed like that because the goal is profit over sustainable nutritious production (and yeah I know we can’t just decide that as individuals). There’s plenty of peoples around the world and throughout history who have done and continue to do that.

You should meet the maths majors who aren’t really interested in maths but think a maths degree will allow them to become hedge fund managers or similar

Oh interesting! Is susceptible to heat as well?

People who have access to hrt usually also have access to a fridge

I literally have that book at home because of how much I agree with this. A friend highly recommended it and borrowed it to me when I was ~15. I never gave it back purely to avoid having to tell them how eye roll inducingly fake deep I found it. To be fair though, I don’t remember much of it either.

Sometimes, a piece of fiction does not want you to understand every part of the fictional world from the get go. It’s part of the art. For Dune in particular, it’s a hard vs. soft world building distinction. Some fiction, harry potter comes to mind, builds up the world slowly and eases you into it, explaining every little thing that makes it different from our own. Some just dumps you into it and lets you experience it as an outsider slowly gaining understanding.

From what I gather, most people nowadays are much more used to the first method, to the point of expecting it and thinking they’re missing something when the second method is used. I think stuff like that, including Dune, would be more enjoyable to many if they realised they aren’t, in fact, missing anything and that’s how the experience of consuming that piece of media was intended to be like.

Understanding something eventually isn’t the same as understanding it immediately. The latter is necessary for effective communication. I don’t have the brain power or neurotype to decipher a text like I would if it were latin.

I’m not saying that you should shut up if you genuinely can’t help it. That’s ok. I’ll figure it out. We can both communicate with each other to the best of our abilities and I won’t mind at all.

But if you can, you should try to be considerate. If you think you spending slightly less time on it is worth me having to spend much more time on understanding it, I find that to be a dick move and I won’t give you the time of day forever.

I’m sometimes slightly radioactive for medical reasons. Most people will be fine with a certain dosis, but little kids and pregnant people (well, their foetus) won’t. So they tell you to stay away from people because you don’t know who’s pregnant. Maybe that contributes.

You use a different towel every day?

Perfectly cleaned with soap does not equal sterile. I don’t want e. coli in my eye.

(Lil ETA. You also think people who recommend those with a vulva wipe back to front even when peeing to avoid a UTI are all gross? No, e. coli is there even if you’re fully clean.)

Interesting, when I tried rolled oats the ducks weren’t going for them! And a bunch of them sank, too.

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Interesting! Nobody at my institute is a native English speaker. They’re from several European and some Asian and south American countries.

I’m a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.

You can pronounce any word any way you like, full stop. But pronouncing them the way most people do just makes for more effective communication.

Please reread my common. I said in my region, western austria, we use the formal you less than the rest of the German speaking world does.

Do people actually say that irl?