I also hugely doubt China’s blustering is as severe as Russia’s. I know all militaries overstate their capabilities but I think one of the biggest factors in Ukraine’s successful defense so far was that Russia was spouting all stars and then it turned out they had more like a junior varsity high school team. I think the delta between the perception and reality of China’s military capabilities is much lower.

Fringe is an absolute masterpiece beginning to end and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. NO NOTES.

No, I totally agree! A standard “happily ever after” would have been so boring. The ending we got gave context to why Ted was sharing the story with his kids. I was “surprised” at first, but really I think if people consider how the alternatives they wanted would have played out, it wouldn’t have been meaningful.

Most reasoned answer.

I think the interesting thing to see will be how many people, like me, who used to post OC (mostly projects I’ve worked on, discussion topics, and what I thought were interesting articles) have stopped. I used to go into posts asking for help in areas I was knowledgeable, and provide assistance to newbies in the various hobby subreddits I subscribed to. None of that is happening anymore. I’m getting my memery from Lemmy and my discussion from Tildes now. Absolutely no reason to go to or interact with reddit at all.

Other way around, for the purposes of this joke, but yes.

I gave up soda a long time ago, and the other week I got a Code Red 20oz out of the blue because it seemed like a good treat. It tasted like pure syrup and I swear I was sweating and my heart was fluttering. So unpleasant and unnecessary.

Thank you! That’s really helpful

Lemmy needs me to just fucking search before making jokes, and it shows!

https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20230601/sucralose-genotoxic-linked-leaky-gut-study

Lemmy needs a hydrohomies community and it shows. Just drink water, y’all!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32811239/

TL;DR Stevia is shit and bad too