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This probably goes without saying but sometimes people fail to see the obvious. The problem wasnt your number. The problem is your notion that cumulative earnings are a worthwhile metric for contribution to society. The stay at home mom (lifetime earnings: zero) contributes vastly more to...

This sounds really simple but its surprisingly awesome. Buy the wholest whole-grain mustard you can find (something that looks like completely intact mustard seeds). Salt and pepper the salmon, then spread the mustard on ~2-3 mm thick for a crust. Broil to medium-medium rare. While its...

I eat anything but Uni. That shits gross. Nobody can really like that awful smell/tase/texture combo. Everything else in the ocean is delicious. Crabs and lobsters have essentially the same diet fyi, makes no sense to eat one but not the other based on some attempt to avoid scavengers. Know...

Not every proposal for reforming the vote increases the power of the 1% at the expense of the 99%. My proposal would fix shit.

Yes, 2007 is relatively recent for a field that goes back to 1926. LOL. Here is another thats not behind a paywall. http://www.academia.edu/download/42073023/Alcohol_Dosing_and_Total_Mortality_in_Me20160204-9573-11tszur.pdf Believe what you like but the experts who study this for a living...

PPS, without making any pedo arguments, bush is just way hotter than bald.

No, you are wrong. The data are extraordinarily strong. Its not some new flash in the pan idea; its actually been documented for decades. It was first reported by Pearl in 1926. The Kaiser Permanente program has conducted decades of studies on this topic. Here is a relatively recent paper from...

Seriously hate it when people wont admit to their guilty pleasures. Fuck that, everybody wants McDonalds or Taco Bell or Carls Jr sometimes. "Not me, it just makes me sick thinking about those little chickens in their cages. Havent you seen this documentary!?" /stab People who claim to never...

I wouldnt call you a plebe, its not about class. I'm not sophisticated and not making fun of other for being unsophisticated. I just like to make fun of people who call themselves "supertasters" and literally eat the same bland diet preferred by every 2 year old I've ever raised. Its like...

This. This is what I meant. People arent "super tasters", they just dont like bitter. Which makes exactly as much sense as "I dont like sweet", "I dont like sour" and "I dont like salt". Its one of the five fundamental tastes. Children avoid bitterness. Adult palates generally prefer a balance...

(Have I used this one yet? I dont remember) People who email your boss when you fail to respond to their first email. Bitch, you may be legally allowed to do that but recognize that its fucking personal now and we are now enemies for life. You go straight from a single missed email to "notify...

Arugula is obviously delicious. Peppery and spicy with just the right amount of bitter, a great base that can stand up to strongly flavored vinaigrettes. Pretty sure youre trolling -- who couldnt like arugula -- but its so tasy I'll fall for it anyway just to spend a minute thinking about arugula.

Now this is a reasonable response. Absolutely. There are some gross unappealing beef curtains out there. But I dont declare all pizza disgusting just because I ate that Chicago crap once. It just makes you appreciate the good stuff more when you find it. As for all this "supertaster" crap, Im...

I woke up to discover my fellow FoH posters dont like the way vaginas look or the way beer tastes. I dont want to live in this world anymore.

I'm gonna step out on a limb and speak for all straight men here: no. While there is huge variation in the visual, aesthetic appeal of vaginas, I think you'll have a hard time finding many straight men who'd agree with your statement. As evidence, I'll offer up this little fledgling industry...

I dont carry a pocket knife. I have no good excuse. I experience a sincere moment of "I'm not a real man" every time someone pulls one out.

I recently discovered neither of my grad students can open beer bottles without some highly specialized tool either. These are some educated and well traveled people who can write code and do complex molecular biological lab procedures. But beer bottles, that shits advanced topics. I told them...

Its true. Carrying a special tool to open a beer bottle is like carrying a special tool to unhitch that first sheet of toilet paper thats stuck in place when you start a new roll. Bottle opener? Its called "the nearest flat edge or straight object".

WTF, how do you put a wallet in your front pocket? Thats like mayo on hot dogs. Does not compute. Keys front right, phone front left, wallet back right.

The question is: Did veganism-induced nutrient deficiencies lead to this conspiracy theory nonsense, or were both the veganism and the conspiracy nonsense caused by the same underlying cognitive problems?

Several people have mentioned no kids. And statistically there is some support for that position; apparently having kids has a slight destabilizing effect on average. I've found the opposite, myself. When the wife is driving me insane (they all do this occasionally) I remember, she has given me...

The rules proposed in the OP are completely retarded and not worth discussing. But that doesnt mean we cant change voting rules. Here is my preference: Everyone 18+ gets to vote just like today. BUT the ballots now include 10 questions next to each candidate. These questions ask about that...

I dont know anything about your buttsex preferences and have never commented on that. Only pointed out that youre objectively, demonstrably wrong and that "personal experience" is a shitty basis for any argument on measurable things like biochemistry.

This is beautiful. Here it is folks, study it well. The anatomy of a feels based reasoner. Your "personal experience" is an anecdote. Its basically completely worthless and not even worth bringing up in conversation. Your personal experience is a biased, subjective perception of an...

Here is a fun thing I like to do. When there is a subject that can be addressed with hard evidence -- experiments and empirical measurements -- I like to start from the assumption that the PhDs who have been studying the subject for about 100 years have probably come up with some good ideas. I...

One of us agrees with the Nutritional Biochemistry textbook. One of us does not. One of us is about to go eat a delicious and nutritionally balanced lunch. One of us will eat gluten free free range bean sprouts or some shit. I'll leave you to figure out which is which.

It is *possible* to have a healthy vegan diet. Its not possible to have a vegan diet thats better than a optimum non-vegan diet. But thats all hypothetical because actual vegans on planet earth (at least in the US) have terrible diets. None of them get enough protein (0.35 g / kg body weight...

Except that theyve been clinically shown to basically have no effect in people with normal nutritional and health status. Other than that, sure.

11 years in, 7 years married here. Cant hold a candle to the 20+s that have already posted but this phrase struck home for me. I'm convinced this is one factor. I know a lot of serially divorced people who have openly said they stay married til it doesnt "feel right" anymore, as if feelings...

Yes, every man. Nothing to be offended over unless he gives in. Women should be happy about this. He interacted with a dozen women today that he wanted to fuck, but didnt actually do it. That means a lot more than if he just never encountered any women he wanted to fuck and thats the only...

No, that is literally the healthiest level of drinking you can possibly do. Far better than binge drinking and even significantly healthier than completely abstaining. Carry on.

Im confused; isnt smelling your own farts (in the South Park sense) exactly the kind of 'absorbed in your own self promotion and tribal signalling' that I'm complaining about?

It may be, I can be antisocial, but I think youre wrong to attribute it entirely to that. Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about people. The least interesting minds of all talk about themselves. And thats what Facebook explicitly and all social implicitly is: talking about...

Youre obviously free to think I'm an idiot for not using Facebook among various other assorted reasons. But lets make the objections clear -- its not that Facebook is uniquely terrible. Social media is completely gay. Facebook just happens to be the most widely used platform. in 1998 if you...

If you like condoms youre gonna absolutely LOVE this new thing called "not having sex". It feels exactly the same but much less work. In fact, you can even do this in public. I'm actually not having sex right now. You gotta try this.

It is amazing what a positive impact this tiny little step has on your life. I deleted mine about 3-4 years ago. Its probably the best decision I've made in the last 4 years. All of a sudden, you're just completely free from the facebook idiocy. It disappears and never bothers you again. If...

I could be wrong but isnt it already the law that you have to come to a full stop when turning right on red? (I know its silly to talk about following traffic laws in the bike thread, but cant help it)

Exactly. It blows my mind people use condoms for more than random one night stands. Sex with a condom is like watching porn without touching yourself.

Its funny that whenever someone tries to make real world analogies to digital "theft" they're immediately self defeating. If you're able to make a perfect digital copy of my wife such that your interactions with the copy have no impact on the original, knock yourself out (within the obvious...

Exactly correct. There are valid arguments to be made about copyright infringements. But thats nothing whatsoever related to theft. Theft involves a loss and there is no loss here. (Copyright laws are bullshit as written but at least they are technically applicable bullshit)