Serious question: I know many oaks can crossbreed with each other, but do oaks actually crossbreed with non-oaks?

Well it seems safe to say it’s at least as unlikely as a terran species being able to breed with some randomly selected other terran species.

I feel like your Norwegian lesson is a subtle ad too.

High quality clothes can actually look good when they wear a little. Shitty stuff looks immediately shittier the minute it wears just a little. (This actually applies to a lot of other things too, like brick vs concrete.)

Wingsuit flying.

If you compare it to “have a good day”, it’s longer and awkwarder, and the extra words are to avoid…the scenario of someone complaining that part of the day has already passed and can no longer be nice?

In the same vein of unnecessary specificity: I hate when waiters ask “how is everything tasting?” I have to resist replying that it tastes great but it’s cold and the texture makes me want to gag.

You can get an attachment for your garden hose that would let you spray soapy water over a large area very quickly.

Such a thing is actually quite enormous in terms of the sheer number of little details. Its like updates to maps. There are constantly little fixes and changes and improvements to the online maps of your country, but how likely are you personally to ever notice any of them?

If things taking up space is a concern, marbles seem like they have an advantage over most things.

Well they are afraid of the system, which they think is out to get them. See white nationalists who claim they are being persecuted, “deep state”, various conspiracy theories, need for guns for self protection, etc, etc. I don’t see anything hard to reconcile.

A bicycle with gears should not be hard to pedal. You should be able to downshift to a point where it is not hard to pedal.

I’m just suggesting that the bicycles you tried may just not have been suitable for someone who is not already a strong bike rider.

I can imagine that being really good! Hazelnut is under appreciated in the US.

We don’t put plain sugar syrup on waffles, we use maple syrup or sometimes a fruit syrup such as blueberry. Maple syrup has a very distinctive flavor.

I checked out your link: this home made syrup is interesting but I’ve never heard of anyone doing this.

It’s really volume you care about, for filling with syrup.

Dudes. Isn’t it clear we should be talking about assonance here?

No I assume they mean the problem of people being stupid assholes.

I think Hazel is between green and brown, not blue and grey.

This sounds like a great idea. I would suggest doing also other things that simulate the brain in other ways, like listening to music (or even playing an instrument), visual stimuli (art, nature), physical motion and coordination activities (dance, sports). You may well already do these things, I just felt I should mention it since our culture is so prone to associating brain with mental logic specifically and forgeting how much these other things involve the brain.

Learning a language is another thing with really strong evidence for brain development /preservation.

That suggests you could mix flour and vegetable oil and maybe dry it into bricks which might be cheaper than donuts usual are. I wonder how dirty that burns…

Well, you’re being obnoxious in a way that targets a particular ethnic group, but it’s a group that isn’t really victimized, or sensitive about it, so no one much cares.

The more useful questions to ask yourself are, how funny is that after the first handful of times to anyone older than 13, and is that really the kind of dynamic you want to cultivate with your gf?