Cid Vicious

u/CidVicious@sh.itjust.works
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I'm not really big on nuts in chocolate brownies. It's a texture thing. I don't like the soft but hard thing.

However I make browned butter and bourbon blondies with toasted pecans and they add a lot of flavor.

on Pika Pika · c/science_memes · 3 pts · 280d

Yeah I just think it's kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.

on Pika Pika · c/science_memes · 1 pts · 280d

I think these are the same root? Pika pika is used to mean clean but it's onomatopoeia for sparkling. That double word onomatopoeia construction in japanese doesn't really have a direct analogue in English I don't think.

on Peas plz · c/science_memes · 39 pts · 281d

Usually directly feeding animals is looked down upon because decreasing their fear of humans tends to be a negative for their survival, and it might impact their ability to forage for their own food. With birds specifically, though, putting up feeders is more mixed. Migration takes an enormous amount of energy and and human sprawl has removed a lot of natural food sources. And especially in wintertime, food can be quite scarce for birds. But at the same time bird feeders can actually be big spreaders of disease and I know that there was guidance that people should take down feeders at the height of bird flu.

Now when it comes to mallards, they're honestly a species that is incredibly urbanized already, so I don't think directly feeding them is doing a great deal of harm.

on Pika Pika · c/science_memes · 26 pts · 281d

Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 14 pts · 284d

Eh I wouldn't count on that. It's not like assholes all get along with one another.

on Who did this? · c/lemmyshitpost · 3 pts · 284d

Hm, I can't remember the name of it, but I do recall some discussion about why smiles look fake with regard to "hide the pain harold". The conclusion seemed to be that it's just how his face is.

on Is it though? · c/Archeology · 18 pts · 298d

I somehow think the method for decoding what the object is is more rigorous than some guy being "oh i dunno I guess it's a cucumber maybe?

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