In his essay “To Tell a Chemist” (1965), Asimov proposed a simple shibboleth for distinguishing chemists from non-chemists: ask the person to read the word “unionized”. Chemists, he noted, will read un-ionized (electrically neutral), while non-chemists will read union-ized (belonging to a trade union).
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LordTrychon@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I feel incredibly targeted by this.English
3·1 year agoDunno. I was going off common wisdom I’d heard over the years about people over salting their food as they get older.
Mayo clinic says yes though.
LordTrychon@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I feel incredibly targeted by this.English
1·1 year agoPeople also tend to add more seasoning (particularly salt) as they get older and their senses dull.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•A Driverless Car in China Hit a Pedestrian. Social Media Users Are Siding With the CarEnglish
5·2 years agoHold on now… you can’t expect everyone to just read your whole comment…
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Why spend money on ChatGPT?
7·2 years agoJust tried this.
So fast!
This guy’s AI! Everybody grab a pitchfork!
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Why spend money on ChatGPT?
41·2 years agoOmg lol
‘Query runs much quicker with 10 million fewer rows, Dave.’
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Technology@beehaw.org•Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app
11·2 years agoDoordash charges restaurants a percentage of the gross from the sale. Rather than eat this cost, restaurants are encouraged but not forced to add a markup on the prices they give Doordash (or insert your favorite third party delivery app here). They all do it.
If you order from a store’s own website though, Doordash (I don’t know if other third parties do this) did not “find” or create the business/order… they are really only handling the delivery portion.
In this instance, they still have some fees but do not take the large percentage, as that is a finder or broker fee. They aren’t bringing the restaurant the business, it’s the other way around.
Thus, restaurants can use their normal pricing. If you can find the places near you doing this, it’s a much better deal than using Doordash normally.
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•More than 100,000 people are currently playing a Steam game where you click a banana
3·2 years agoHow’s the story?
You’re not so little anymore!
Not to mention the trouble I had finding the Kevin Prosciutto movie I was looking for the other day…
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the consensus on swearing here
7·2 years agoCursing and not cursing will both get you pretty much no reaction here.
But… if you self censor curse words with f*** or s***… some lemmings lose their $#!+!
Fwiw, sounds pretty similar to me. Depends on your doc, probably… but I have a good relationship with my Dr. and my ability to discuss my previous diagnosis as well as meds and what worked etc. Was enough for me.



If you don’t test for it, it WILL rear its ugly head again.