I can use IRC

The fact that many Discord and IRC channels (servers?) block Matrix connections has drastically reduced its usefulness for me. When I was running my own Matrix server, I could have gotten around it by using a puppet, but Synapse is such a hog I had to shut it down, and most of the IRC rooms I want to use don’t allow Matrix proxies.

Is Lemmy a furry?

It doesn’t take long to get used to them, though, of you’re around them all the time.

I thought it was just my instance, but I discovered that Lemmy was rewriting external image references to proxy them through my Lemmy instance, which doesn’t always work.

Changing my post content is not cool, but doing it in such a way that breaks my comment is fucked up. If I wanted my Lemmy instance to host my image, I’d have uploaded it to my instance. Feels sleazy.

Me too. I miss my youthful metabolism.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been grooving on Ramune, that Japanese drink in the glass bottles with the marble. It’s just sugar-water; the flavorings are mild, there’s no caffeine, and it’s pretty sweet, but it’s fun and tastes good. My Cub Foods carries it in the “foreign” section, and I’ll get a bottle a couple of times a year. It’s the only sweetened soda I drink.

We do drink a fair amount of soda water; just plain, unsweetened, unflavored carbonated water, but I don’t think that counts towards OP’s question. Gerolsteiner, mostly, but also non-mineral … Gerolsteiner has a taste, being mineral water, which I like but not so much with meals.

That’s the corn syrup. There’s a definite difference; corn syrup is more cloying. Side by side, it’s easy to tell the difference. My comment was just that not even sugar could make Coke more palatable.

Ah. I read you backwards, by bad.

Yeah. Back when sugar-Coke was a thing (it was going around in popular media about “better” Coke being available around Passover) we searched around and found some and tried it. I couldn’t tell a difference, but that’s probably because I don’t like Coke to begin with and hadn’t tasted the corn-syrup version in decades so had nothing to compare it with. It was putting lipstick on a pig.

You’re right that Coke-Cola’s just going to fine ways to cut corners. My guess is that they’d start with sugar, but slowly start adding corn syrup back in in increasing amounts until it’s back to mostly corn syrup and some token sugar.

Homeopathy often dilutes by taking far less than half of a solution and diluting it in a large amount of fresh solvent. One process repeatability empties the entire container and refills it with solvent.

If you were diluting something by replacing only half with solvent, you’d have to do many more steps to get as pure solvent as homeopathy produces.

Homeopathy is a tremendously wasteful way of washing a container. It’s hugely wasteful, and being a homeopathic environmentalist is oxymoronic.

You mean less steps. True homeopathy dilutes until there’s no measurable amount of the substance left; it’s just pure sugar/water/alcohol. You’re supposedly getting benefits from “the vibrations.”

Of all the pseudo-science quackery, homeopathy is one of the most idiot-prone.

They are. They’re really expensive in the States, when you can find them, but almost every modern window (in Bavaria, at least) is one of these. They also come door-sized, so you can either open an outside door to walk through, or tilt it from the top to circulate air.

OP is probably just too dumb to figure out how to work them; they’re fantastic, and I wish they were common here in the States.

You’re underestimating just how brave astronauts need to be. A second reason there’s less padding there: to make room.

Did someone mention Russia?

All hail our new Zeppelin overlords!

Yes. Let’s give credit to Infinity War which did not end with the heroes winning. Despite clearly being a 2-parter that the heroes would eventually win, it was a complete story arc and if you were one of the 16 million Americans who died in the 5 year gap between the releases of Infinity War and Endgame, you’d have died knowing only that the heroes lost.

Endgame was pretty effective, if heavy-handed, at manipulating my emotions, so it’s hard for me to count it as a pure win, but that’s just me.

However, yes: Infinity War is an exception that proves the rule.

It’s not widely stocked except around Passover, IIRC because it’s more expensive. Because corn subsidies.

I don’t like Coke, and I stopped drinking colas altogether years ago, so I’m not exactly current on shelve stocking. But that’s my recollection.

For the sake of argument, maybe the balls are not insulated to improve radiant cooling. Who wants sweaty balls in space?

The jet pack jets are not visible, but evidence suggests they’re there.

Sound does conduct, though.