It wouldn’t work that way. Individual Pokemon are made up of many stat values that make them much more unique than gacha characters and skins. My Espeon from Gale of Darkness can’t be replaced with another Espeon.

I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn’t tell you anything about the “why” but it’s definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.

I agree with what you mean in kind of a broad-strokes way, but as individuals our subjective experiences of flavors can vary pretty wildly. There’s genetics, neurology, age, and habit/experience that influence our taste in terms of actually sensing the chemicals. Then there’s what we see, taste, and smell just prior or during tasting that severely impact our interpretation of that chemical sense.

Strawberries do not have nipples. :(

No, this post is not even accurate.

The substance in strawberries which causes allergic reactions is the fra a 1 protein which gives strawberries their red color. White strawberries have less of this protein and may be tolerated by people with this allergy, depending on individual sensitivity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996917304209

Achenes are not nuts.

(1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.

(2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/achene

i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.

ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.

https://courses.botany.wisc.edu/botany_400/Lab/LabWK03Fruitkey.html

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry seeds is not a bowl of strawberries.

e: They’re actually not even nuts. They’re achenes.

I’m just lucky enough to have one at my apartment building, and very wasteful neighbors.

I’m in an apartment building, so I just browse the one here whenever I take the trash out. I don’t think anyone has noticed, or they’ve elected to mind their own business if they have.

There’s so much stuff that could still be used that it honestly isn’t funny, and that’s just in my own bin. How much more is being wasted across the country? But at least it’s in the recycling and not the trash, so that’s something, I guess.

No, but I did get an Xbox that only needed a power cable.

Do you have a particular source on modern LGBT realities in Iran you could recommend?

Digging through e-waste bins is one of my hobbies.

I think the capitalization is less baffling if you’ve ever received an email from Trump inviting you for an exclusive trip to Mar-a-Lago, or offering you one of his exclusive gold watches. I have no idea how they got my email, but they were sending them so frequently I actually blocked them.

Emphasis on the USD?

I don’t love the disregard for plant life just because they lack the central nervous system of animals, but this isn’t an argument in favor of eating animals. If you want to argue it’s better for us to die than to live via harm, that’s one thing, but if you accept we have the right to live at the expense of other life forms then the goal of many becomes to minimize suffering.

While plants do have sensory experiences which elicit behaviors, they don’t experience the world in a personal way; they’re like a robot or generative AI. When a dog suffers, it has a concept of self and an understanding of what is happening to it, and it will carry memories of the experience which negatively influence its quality of life.

You’re just not trying hard enough. You could do it if you tried; you’re not stupid.

There’s a YouTube video of a guy who I guess he and his wife did life blogs or something (I didn’t watch their content, so I don’t really know). He’s got his recording going about the start of his day, talking about how she’s sleeping in again, and then he goes to wake her, but she’s fucking dead. It’s like the most human thing I’ve ever seen on film, and I really appreciate that he posted it, even though I don’t fully understand why I feel that way. It just feels important to me.

Yes, hostile architecture does sound exactly like the “solution” they’d go for. I hope I didn’t imply the wrong thing; I think fences in conjunction with adequate crossings is the answer.

Thinking more about it, I don’t think we actually have jaywalking laws here, or at least they aren’t enforced in town. I should hope there’s some kind of rules about being a hazard in busy traffic, but everyone walks in the street in town when cars and bikes aren’t coming, right in front of police even, and I think that’s very reasonable. Many streets are only open to buses, taxis, and delivery vehicles, so it’s quiet and safe.

But if the crosswalks are unreasonably far apart then pedestrians are being encouraged by the state to engage in unsafe behavior. As I said, they could erect a small fence to prevent unsafe crossings. This is a failure of the state to serve its people.

I’m not sure how to feel about the driver not being charged, but one should drive with the expectation that unforeseen hazards will pop up at any moment, especially children. I would not be shocked to learn that he was driving one of those enormous American cars that makes it impossible to see short adults, another failure of the state. Or that the speed limit was too high. These things would make me feel the fault is more on the state than on the driver. (But it definitely isn’t on the parents.)

As for your dog, just keep it on a lead. It’s the safest thing for everyone if all dogs are secured properly while going about town.

e: Also his age. How good is the vision and reaction time of this 76-year-old man? How often are they re-testing drivers?

the traffic light was a third of a mile away.

I’m having trouble visualizing this. Does this mean that at a walking speed of 3km/h it would take ten entire minutes to get to a cross walk? Because that’s insane.

In Sweden we have crosswalks very regularly, usually like a couple minutes of walking at most. For bus stops farther between intersections there are markers indicating that people will cross, even without a normal crossing marker. For areas which can’t have a crossing (you may need to walk around a ways to get under or over four lanes) they put up barriers to prevent walking across.