@basedbinkie In the unlikely event that I do get assimilated, of course
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@ThePunGun1
Male | 26 | Canadian | 🇨🇳🇨🇦 | Local dice goblin Currently trying to become a functional human being again.
Ontario, Canada Katılım Aralık 2018
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@basedbinkie Do the benefits transfer over to my assimilated self?
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Will you join my mercenary company? We offer 401k, dental, vision and pension plans and life insurance
But you’ll have to fight flesh assimilating eldritch monstrosities that completely devours your ego and identity as it assimilates your feeble form into the greater hivemind
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Peanuts in Coke is one of the most accidentally perfect food pairings in history, and the chemistry explains why this guy can't go back.
Coca-Cola sits at pH 2.5, roughly the same acidity as stomach acid. When you drop roasted peanuts into that, the phosphoric acid partially denatures the surface proteins on the nut, releasing free glutamate. You're generating umami in real time inside the glass.
The salt on the peanuts suppresses bitter taste receptors on your tongue, which amplifies your perception of sweetness without adding a single gram of sugar. Coca-Cola already has 39g of sugar per can. Your brain registers it as even sweeter because the salt is clearing the noise from competing flavor signals.
Then carbonation does two things. CO2 dissolved in liquid forms carbonic acid, which triggers pain receptors (TRPA1), not taste receptors. That mild irritation resets your palate between sips so you never get flavor fatigue. Every sip hits like the first. Second, the bubbles physically agitate the peanut surface, accelerating the protein breakdown and glutamate release. The longer the peanuts sit, the more umami you extract.
The fat content seals it. Peanuts are 49% fat by weight. Fat is the only macronutrient that activates CD36 receptors, which your brain interprets as richness and satisfaction. Mix that with sugar, salt, acid, umami, and carbonation and you've accidentally triggered every major reward pathway in the human taste system simultaneously.
Georgia farmers in the 1920s did this because they needed one hand free while working. They stumbled into the optimal salt-acid-umami-fat-carbonation loop a century before food science could explain why it worked.
猫山課長@nekoyamamanager
30年前くらいに村上春樹のエッセイで、アメリカではコーラにピーナッツを入れて飲むのがポピュラーだと書いてあった。「ふぅん」と思ってから長い時間が経ったが、ついにやってみた。 何だこれバカ美味いんでやんの。 これ以外でもうコーラ飲みたくなくなるレベル。
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Pork gets a lot of grief in carnivore circles.
It's not beef, which counts against it. It has PUFAs, which sounds damning. And it carries two thousand years of religious taboo, from Leviticus to the Quran, which has a way of embedding itself in cultural intuition long after the theology has left the room.
So let's be fair about what pork actually is.
Pork is a superfood. Not in the way that word has been debased by bags of goji berries in health food shops. A genuine, nutrient-dense animal food that has sustained entire civilisations.
Thiamine: pork is the richest common dietary source of vitamin B1. More than beef. More than lamb. Thiamine is critical for glucose metabolism, nerve function, and cardiac health: and its deficiency, beriberi, was historically catastrophic in populations eating refined rice. The traditional populations eating whole pork alongside their rice didn't get beriberi. The ones eating polished white rice without the pork did. The pork was doing work.
Selenium. Zinc. Complete protein. Choline for liver function and brain development. Carnosine. B vitamins across the board. It is an animal food. It does what animal foods do.
Now the PUFA question, because it deserves a direct answer rather than a dismissal.
Yes, pork fat contains more linoleic acid than ruminant fat. This is real. The pig, unlike the cow, has a simple stomach and cannot biohydrogenate polyunsaturated fat, cannot take the problematic seed fat and convert it into saturated fat the way a rumen can. What goes in largely comes out. Pigs raised on grain and soybean meal will have fattier, more linoleic acid-rich tissue than pigs raised on a more natural diet.
Here's the context that changes everything.
If you have already removed seed oils, you have already removed the industrial cooking oils. If you have removed legumes, you have removed soybean-derived everything. If you have removed nuts, you have removed the other major linoleic acid sources. You have, in the process of cleaning up the obvious problems, already addressed the bulk of your PUFA load.
In that context, pork's linoleic acid content is not the marginal straw that breaks the metabolic camel's back. It is a manageable contribution from a whole food that was never the issue.
The issue was always the bottle on the kitchen counter. The bottle is gone.
And then consider: pork is the staple meat of Asia. The cooking traditions of China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand: cuisines built on pork belly, slow-braised shoulder, trotters, ears, offal, these are not the cuisines of populations historically defined by metabolic disease. The metabolic disease arrived with the industrial food, the refined carbohydrates, the vegetable oils. Not with the pig.
The religious prohibition on pork is ancient, contextual, and pre-refrigeration. The carnivore prohibition on pork is aesthetic, recent, and optional.
Eat the belly. Render the lard. Use the lard to cook the rest of the pig.
Beef is exceptional. Pork is not beneath it.
They're different tools. Both animal. Both complete. Both doing what no bag of seeds ever managed.
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In Welsh mythology, pigs were stolen from Hell by Prince Pwyll. These legends probably date from the time the first domestic pigs came to Britain, and it was REALLY OBVIOUS that pigs were magic.
1) you don't need any land for pigs. No pastures or nothing. Everyone in town can keep a pig in a sty next to their house. If you have a lot of pigs, you can let them forage in the woods.
2) it costs nothing to feed a pig. They eat the garbage that you were throwing away anyway. Or they eat acorns. In the woods.
3) every bit of the pig is magically delicious.
4) they breed super fast. A sow has two litters a year of up to a dozen plus piglets. Cows have maybe 1 calf in a year.
So OBVIOUSLY pigs are supernatural and came from the Otherworld. The most magical animal.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Pork gets a lot of grief in carnivore circles. It's not beef, which counts against it. It has PUFAs, which sounds damning. And it carries two thousand years of religious taboo, from Leviticus to the Quran, which has a way of embedding itself in cultural intuition long after the theology has left the room. So let's be fair about what pork actually is. Pork is a superfood. Not in the way that word has been debased by bags of goji berries in health food shops. A genuine, nutrient-dense animal food that has sustained entire civilisations. Thiamine: pork is the richest common dietary source of vitamin B1. More than beef. More than lamb. Thiamine is critical for glucose metabolism, nerve function, and cardiac health: and its deficiency, beriberi, was historically catastrophic in populations eating refined rice. The traditional populations eating whole pork alongside their rice didn't get beriberi. The ones eating polished white rice without the pork did. The pork was doing work. Selenium. Zinc. Complete protein. Choline for liver function and brain development. Carnosine. B vitamins across the board. It is an animal food. It does what animal foods do. Now the PUFA question, because it deserves a direct answer rather than a dismissal. Yes, pork fat contains more linoleic acid than ruminant fat. This is real. The pig, unlike the cow, has a simple stomach and cannot biohydrogenate polyunsaturated fat, cannot take the problematic seed fat and convert it into saturated fat the way a rumen can. What goes in largely comes out. Pigs raised on grain and soybean meal will have fattier, more linoleic acid-rich tissue than pigs raised on a more natural diet. Here's the context that changes everything. If you have already removed seed oils, you have already removed the industrial cooking oils. If you have removed legumes, you have removed soybean-derived everything. If you have removed nuts, you have removed the other major linoleic acid sources. You have, in the process of cleaning up the obvious problems, already addressed the bulk of your PUFA load. In that context, pork's linoleic acid content is not the marginal straw that breaks the metabolic camel's back. It is a manageable contribution from a whole food that was never the issue. The issue was always the bottle on the kitchen counter. The bottle is gone. And then consider: pork is the staple meat of Asia. The cooking traditions of China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand: cuisines built on pork belly, slow-braised shoulder, trotters, ears, offal, these are not the cuisines of populations historically defined by metabolic disease. The metabolic disease arrived with the industrial food, the refined carbohydrates, the vegetable oils. Not with the pig. The religious prohibition on pork is ancient, contextual, and pre-refrigeration. The carnivore prohibition on pork is aesthetic, recent, and optional. Eat the belly. Render the lard. Use the lard to cook the rest of the pig. Beef is exceptional. Pork is not beneath it. They're different tools. Both animal. Both complete. Both doing what no bag of seeds ever managed.
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@owenbroadcast At first, I thought your post was about Ukiyo-e-like artistic techniques... but perhaps it was a double meaning, combining "two cigarettes" and "Japanese cigarettes"?
If so, your sense of Japanese is quite impressive!!
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ダレルタイター@DaTa_jp
確かに浮世絵を始め日本のたばこというか、煙の表現は海外の海外と比べると「クネクネとうねったり、たなびく」の模様で描かれることが多い気がする 言われてみれば、何でこういう風な表現方法になったのだろうか……？
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You have forward-facing eyes. So does every predator that's hunted horses for 50 million years. Wolves, mountain lions. All forward-facing. A horse looks at your face and sees a threat. The one in this video went flat on the ground next to one.
Horses evolved a locking system in their legs so they never have to lie down. Tendons and ligaments snap their joints into place and hold them there. Researchers found the lock is so efficient it uses less than 2% of the effort a horse would normally need to stand. They spend about 80% of their lives upright. Everything happens on their feet.
Lying down can get a horse killed. They've been hunted for 50 million years. Started out the size of dogs, running from things that wanted to eat them. A horse today weighs over a thousand pounds and can outrun a car in a school zone. But getting off the ground costs extra seconds. When something is chasing you, those seconds are the difference.
In wild herds, horses take turns sleeping. When one finally goes down for deep sleep (they only need about 30 minutes a day), the others stay standing and watch for danger. A horse living alone with no lookout will sometimes refuse to lie down for days. It would rather collapse from exhaustion than sleep unprotected.
I looked into what's going on in the horse's body during moments like this. A 2025 study tested horses before and after spending time near humans they trusted. Their bonding hormones spiked. Stress hormones stayed completely flat. Separate research that year found early signs that human and horse heartbeats can actually sync up when they're close together.
That horse shut down the only survival system its species has had for 50 million years, because it decided one person was worth the risk.
Nature is Amazing ☘️@AMAZlNGNATURE
The biggest compliment a horse can give
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House Pepsi is scattered and weak…
A secret meeting in the Holy City of Crush between the three other factions is currently being held in hopes to capitalize on this opportunity.
The small Dominion of Dr Pepper seeks an alliance with the unruly mountain vagabonds of Descendants of Dew but without assurances from the Coca Confederacy negotiations are currently falling flat.
かみぱっぱ@kamipapa2
アメリカではコカコーラとペプシコーラの2強だと思ってたんだが…意外と群雄割拠だな
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Look closely. Between these two moments, our species has performed miracles. We have mapped the blueprint of life within our own DNA. We have built “brains” of silicon that can outthink their creators. We have pushed back the darkness of disease. Infant mortality has plummeted, and millions of children who would have been lost to the earth in 1972 are today alive, dreaming, and contributing to the global chorus. We have sent robotic emissaries to the edge of the interstellar dark and peered back at the beginning of time itself through mirrors of gold.
Technologically, we are a different species. We are more connected, more informed, and more capable than any ancestor could have imagined in their wildest fever dreams.
And yet, look again.
From this distance, the borders remain invisible. You cannot see the “holy” ground over which we spill the blood of our children. You cannot see the walls we build to keep our neighbors out or the ideological trenches we dig to bury our common humanity. Despite our leap from vacuum tubes to artificial intelligence, we remain haunted by the same ancient tribalisms. We use 21st century technology to prosecute Bronze Age grudges.
We have changed the climate of our world, but we have yet to change the climate of our hearts. We are still a toddler civilization, playing with matches in a library of irreplaceable wonders.
The contrast is our great paradox. We have the power of gods, but we still possess the temperaments of the territorial primates from which we rose. We have learned to fly between worlds, but we are still struggling to learn how to walk together on this one.
Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered@AndySaunders_1
Left - Apollo 17, 1972 Right - Artemis II, 2026 Two photographs taken by one of us, of all of us, over half a century apart. What's changed?
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Des milliers d'insultes, simplement parce qu'elle a décidé de prendre un selfie plutôt que de photographier directement la fusée.
Pourtant, cette photo est unique et originale.
Il existe des milliers de photos du lancement d’Artemis II.
Elle a su immortaliser ses émotions et gardera à vie un souvenir de ce moment..
Ellie Sleightholm@elsleightholm
Artemis II launch… caught in my glasses reflection
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Everytime I see new images of our Earth I keep thinking of this soviet anti-war poster by Boris Rogachevsky that says "There's no other home!"
I think it's really sweet
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
New look at Earth. (Source: Artemis II Crew)
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