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I‘m thankful for nerds who make corrections so I can learn some interesting fact.
Actually, yeasts are unicellular fungus. I believe that fungus are the most important life-form in this planet by far . Pretty cool, huh? :)
That rotten milk is edible and quite tasty AND that heated up again it becomes semi-fluid and even more delicious than before.
Thankfulness as an end is not necessarily valuable or positive. I think the associated feeling does little to the make the world a better place, I put it in the same category as remorse. Just as remorse should lead to rectifying action, thankfulness should lead to reciprocal action to provide objective value. What's interesting is the impetus between internal perception and outward action both share is a sense of ind…
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Nestle is fighting over control of freshwater sources. I reckon oxygen is next. In the future, be thankful with your wallet.
You don't have to wait. Oxygen bars are already a thing, and have been for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar
Looking across the street every day in California and seeing the homelessness crisis in full swing is an ever present reminder of what this economy and this society can do to you if you slip up for even a second and / or have even a minor run of bad luck.
Working in software isn't always easy or fun or fulfilling but its still an incredible privilege to be working in this industry.
Thankfulness as an end is not necessarily valuable or positive. I think the associated feeling does little to the make the world a better place, I put it in the same category as remorse. Just as remorse should lead to rectifying action, thankfulness should lead to reciprocal action to provide objective value. What's interesting is the impetus between internal perception and outward action both share is a sense of ind…
I think thankfulness is more of a tool to be used to counter act nihilism. That's why it can be useful. not on its own, but as a buttress against despair.
I’m thankful for yeast. It’s so, so convenient that we have a non-pathogenic bacteria which will eat pretty much any simple sugar, can be found on the surfaces of most fruits, and is essentially effortless to cultivate, which also does a bunch of useful things like leaven bread and make a bunch of delicious short chain fatty acids (both in bread and on their own, like in marmite) and make alcohol (although that one m…
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I had this same exact thought the last time i was making bagels. What an absolute miracle it is! And whoever came up with using it to fluff and soften bread through some natural symbiotic reliance of raw nature is just such an incredible step it seems utterly designed from above. Yes, I’m saying maybe a god exists and loves us because they gave us bread.
Benjamin Franklin thought beer was enough proof that there is a God who loves us and wants us to be happy :-)
— Benjamin Franklin