Mint flavoring was added to toothpaste as a strategy by Pepsodent to make their toothpaste more appealing because it masked the flavor of other ingredients and the cooling sensation became associated with freshness. It became the default toothpaste flavor, but really you can flavor it any way you want.

I once got a gift set of these mini toothpastes in assorted flavors.

The article says the commute took so long because of traffic and congestion on the roads, so the distance itself might not be that far. It’s an unreasonably long commute either way though.

I could maybe understand accepting a job that far away as a temporary solution, like if you are eventually planning to relocate to that area and need to save up first, or trying to break into an industry with limited local opportunities until you get a bit of experience and find something closer.

WITHDRAW CONSENT (projectile vomits)

Lifestyle channels and blogs. This type of content is often very consumeristic. Unless it’s in an educational/informative context, I don’t have an interest in watching strangers have experiences that I could be having myself.

Recall—that is, how many users were successfully deanonymized—was as high as 68 percent. Precision—meaning the rate of guesses that correctly identify the user—was up to 90 percent.

I take that to mean there is a 90% match between anonymized posts and real life profiles for 68% of users and that it’s a minimum confidence level needed for a user to be considered deanonymized.

Thank you for this detailed, helpful answer with sources :)

“Weight limit exceeded”

Haha, I realize that this is a purely cosmetic goal. Even though I have a mostly healthy diet now, I would just like a bit more definition and it feels good to see progress :)

It does come off as insecure when someone makes a culture they have little connection to a large part of their identity rather than just showing an interest in it, but most of the time it’s harmless and not worth making a big deal over. I would loosely define being part of a culture as fitting in with other members of it: ability to express yourself in the native language and understanding its nuances, familiarity with customs and mentality, not feeling out of place when around natives/locals regardless of your ethnicity or ancestry.

Only if I’m already in the shower to wash myself lol.

Thanks for your advice. I’ll check out MacroFactor. Right now now I’m relying mostly on tofu, beans, lentils, and chickpeas as a protein source. I was mostly curious about what other people are doing and whether it’s worth it to include protein powders.

Thank you! I’ll try to find fava bean tofu. It sounds like an interesting product, protein aside, and regular tofu is already a staple food for me. I heard seitan also has high protein content, so maybe I’ll make my own someday.

• Twin Peaks

• The Bridge (Bron/Broen)

• Wentworth

• The Boys

• The IT Crowd

• Black Books

*For some of these series, I only saw the first season(s) and can’t comment on the rest

If you can’t handle me at my worm, you don’t deserve me at my best 🪱 💅

Librewolf or Mullvad on desktop, Firefox on mobile. Downloaded Ecosia on mobile to try the search engine, so I’m trying out their browser too.

I say this as someone who thinks adoption is a wonderful thing to do and is fine with the idea of raising children that are not biologically mine:

At least in my country, children that are up for adoption often have severe birth/cognitive defects and/or trauma (carrying a healthy child to term and giving it up for adoption is pretty much unheard of). While that’s a risk you face with biological children too, I don’t blame anyone for wanting to minimize that risk by not taking in a child that could require specialized care for the rest of its life with no guarantee of success (this applies to couples who choose to terminate a pregnancy upon discovering the risk of severe defects).

Adopted children are also more likely to struggle with integrating with their new family compared to a child that you raised from birth.

Finally, the process for adoption can be very lengthy and expensive, while fertility treatments are sometimes subsidized by governments or employers.

So, while I personally would never insist on having biological children, I don’t think it’s inherently immoral for others to want them or to not want the challenges that come with adoption.

As much as I hoped for someone to be able to identify the song from my bungled lyrics, nope, that’s not the one. The song I heard was a more serious sounding rap song.

Haha, cute.

Now that you mentioned Dutch, it reminded me of when I first heard doooonkey showww before it clicked that this was a Dutch song.

What prompted the post: I feel silly even saying it, but there was a rap song playing at my gym with female vocals in the chorus singing what sounded like “it’s the batteries of your mom”, which I’m certain are not the correct lyrics.

I see your “snakes have two penises” and raise you “kangaroos have THREE vaginas”.