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What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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Not OP, but some genre conventions of anime weird me out. I can learn to ignore them with practice, but I have to stay in practice to keep doing this.

I don't hate anime, but getting myself in a state where I can enjoy a show is a huge chore.

Another part that makes even less sense: the existence of people that only watch anime makes me less willing to engage. This happens with other things too, but it seems moderately common with anime.

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Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby

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These have been called milk for far longer than this has been a supposed issue for.

This isn't restricted to things humans drink. Any white-ish liquid had a chance of being labeled milk. See also crop milk, milkweed, milk of magnesia, discus milk, glacial milk.

Or for a food product with a similar fight, see peanut butter. In Dutch the fight resulted in it being called pindakaas (peanut cheese).

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Why does Monaco have a higher GDP per capita than the United States?

I think you might be missing an important part of GDP per capita, and be asking a slightly confusing set of questions as a result.

Per capita means per person. "GDP" and "GDP per capita" are each very different numbers.

GDP - tries to measure the total economic output of the country. It might be what you want to use to compare the raw economic might of two economies.

GDP per capita - This is just scaled by the population. You might use it to see if a small country like Monaco is punching above its weight.

Median GDP per capita - This third measure is what you might what to use to see how the average citizen in a country is doing. Ideally you'd want to also control for cost of living, but generally a bigger number here means higher quality of life for its citizens, even if the cost of living is also high.

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Help! My pan tastes like soap!

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It is a myth. But if a particular soap is causing problems I'd stop using it. Especially since this problem is affecting other kitchen items.

OP might also want to photograph the ingredients on the back of the bottle. In the unlikely event another brand or brands cause this issue, I know I'd get frustrated if I couldn't figure out what not to buy. Or just return to a known safe brand.

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When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift?

To expand on what others are saying.

Hash is one of the many names for #. Twitter and other platforms allowed you to use hash to tag your posts with a searchable keyword. Hence "hash tag" which gets shortened to hashtag.

People on these platforms may have had cause to use and think about # on a much larger scale than would've been common at that time. Sure you may be asked to press pound on a phonecall once in a while, but that never happened often enough that I could fully keep it straight from star. It was usually just stored in my head as "the special phone key that isn't star"

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Nova Launcher is seemingly shutting down – so here are some alternatives

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Lawnchair seems to do a good chunk of what Nova does. I haven't taken the time to fully recreate my setup, but most things I've tried have worked so far.

With Nova I have a setup that more or less fits everything on my home page without looking too busy. Lawnchair is letting me change the number of rows and columns, shrink icon size, choose a monochrome theme as a default, make folders, etc.

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What misconception are you tired of being spread?

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Other sweet plant parts are also considered culinary vegetables: carrots, squash, red peppers, sweet potatoes, fennel, and onions.

Some of them you do have to cook to perceive as sweet, but non-sweet doesn't seem to be a good dividing line. Striving for non-overlapping categories instead of just accepting the mess seems like a mistake.

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Gaming Pet Peeves

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If you have a specific trigger you may want to research the movie ahead of time for content. Resources like does the dog die help. Depending on your exact needs you may be able to use other tactics like watching with a friend.

With games this is different in a couple big ways.

  • Difficulty is tuneable after the fact. The developer had to make choices about the numbers and implementing them in a way they can be scaled isn't necessarily more work. Lazy scale the number difficulties are still more accessible than single difficulty.
  • Games are often too long to reasonably ask a friend to help you re-edit it by dealing with a specific mechanic every time. It's also likely that a friend may not enjoy waiting around for their time to shine.

With movies, there are still accessibility things that people do rightly complain about, like the sound mixing. Whispery actors mixed purely for movie theaters is an accessibility problem, even if it's not typically framed that way.

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Granular difficulty options also help. Things like being able to make the parry timings easier or harder than that rest of the difficulty.

If your difficulty presets are turning a bunch of levers at once, letting folks make their own can be very helpful.

There's also things that aren't often considered difficulty, but that can definitely make a game harder for some folks.

With Witcher 3 the only way I was able to play it successfully was modding it to be able to ignore a bunch of mechanics I found tedious. Things like ignoring carry weight, turning off item durability, lengthening potion duration, having items scale to my level, and hoovering up loot. Inventory management is often exhausting for me.

It's not an easy fix this can break a game's economy, and I think I had separate mods to reduce the impact of that.

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Let me start by saying Fetterman is bad, and PA deserves better. But looking back on the election it still seems like the voters made the best choice available at the time.

There are good reasons to be uncertain about Planter, but he seems unlikely to be quite as bad as the current situation.