Yeah to expand on this, in professional settings you’ll want a higher sampling frequency so you don’t end up with eg. aliasing, but for consumer use ≥44–48kHz sampling rate is pretty much pointless

Probably the latter. Seems like a cynical marketing ploy, really

Surprisingly enough, some essential oils do have research-based actual uses, such as topical antibacterials, antifungals and antiparasitics.

While there’s quite a bit of woo woo around them, there’s also a lot of interesting research into phytochemicals like essential oils. Same with a few other “plant-based” things like pine resin; there’s even a clinically tested pine resin salve that helps with wound healing and is used for treating difficult wounds in some hospitals in Finland.

The problem with essential oils is trying to filter out the snake oil claims from the actual research-based claims. Most vendors tend to have pretty, well, wild claims about what their products can do, so your best bet is scholar.google.com or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and the like

Huh, interesting. I didn’t expect to learn about volcanoes today but here I am! Thank you for the explanation

Ohhh, I had no idea there were different kinds of volcanoes but it does make sense in hindsight.

Well, I guess this might have been covered in primary or secondary education at some point but it’s been about 3000 years since my last geography class

Definitely! I find that most problems in life can be solved with cement; if it didn’t solve your problem, you just didn’t use enough of it.

Who says it’s not‽

It’s funny that a character that was in exactly one manuscript in the 1400s got included in Unicode

Edit: and it was done wrong. I found that pretty hilarious

write it all in red pen at an angle of 45degrees

Trust me I’m a sovereign citizen, this is how it works

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Ah yes, the 'ol fractal of horror

let’s not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

Ah, that’s the perfect hobby if you really hate having money 😅

One of the benefits of living in the Nordics is tap water that can literally be of higher quality than bottled water (assuming you don’t have bad pipes.) The only time I’ll ever buy bottled water is if I get really thirsty when I’m on the go and don’t have a bottle of tap water with me

Don’t forget accelerating global warming that will get catastrophic in just a few decades, even if we went carbon negative right at this second

But if a change for the better is to come, it will come from the kids.

Here in Finland, the under 25s are much more conservative than Millennials or even Gen X. The most popular party of that demographic in our last parliamentary election was a right wing extremist one – and I do mean extremist: they have multiple literal neo-Nazi politicians, and our Speaker of the Parliament who’s from that party has publicly fantasized about murdering gay people.

I’ve given up any hope of things getting better in my lifetime. I’m actually somewhat thankful I’ve got a medical condition that means I’ve only got about a 50% chance of even being alive in 20 years; dying from multiple organ failure is not something I look forward to, but it seems much more attractive than where we’re heading

And at least here in Finland, the under 25s are actually more conservative than millennials or even Gen X, which is highly alarming. They voted for an extremist right wing party in droves in our latest parliamentary election, something like 30% I think

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at 7 my bones were made of rubber

I was just thinking about this. I’m in my 40’s and it feels like I now break a rib if I sneeze hard, and I was wondering whether I’m actually “less durable” nowadays than I was when I was younger

Ideas are a dime a dozen, unfortunately; doing shit is where the money comes from, and even a bad idea can make you rich if you follow through on it and get lucky.

Don’t shove things into your orifices.

BUT I HUNGER