What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?
  • janus2 janus2 11mo ago 100%

    blasphemy. they're powered by tiny crabs

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  • What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?
  • janus2 janus2 11mo ago 100%

    I think it's more likely that the consistent quality is a side bonus from most of 3M's customers being other corporations, not individual consumers

    If 3M only sold painter's tape to the public, most of the public will buy it whether it's crap or not because most of the public only needs to put up with painter's tape occasionally

    However if a large commercial real estate company who goes through palettes of painters tape suddenly has to start ordering 1.5x as many palettes because some of the tape is defective, they'll threaten 3M with cancelling a multi-million-dollar contract that will hurt 3M's quarterly spreadsheets.

    That is until inevitably someone at 3M gets the idea to start producing a cheaper "consumer grade" painters tape and then everyone who doesn't have a relative in building maintenance who can swipe a pro grade roll for you is SOL

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  • What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?
  • janus2 janus2 12mo ago 100%

    Old Bay seasoning
    batteries (when I have to use disposables)
    Command hooks

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  • What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?
  • janus2 janus2 12mo ago 100%

    holy shit i thought i was the only one
    all other cheese curls taste greasy and overseasoned in comparison

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  • What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for?
  • janus2 janus2 12mo ago 100%

    depending on what you're taking it for those 10 minutes can be worth it

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  • It's good to come prepared for anything
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    also as far as we can tell most food safe plastic isn't even safe 🫠

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    That's a fantastic talent. Creativity is one thing but quick improvisational creativity is a whole other level

    For monologues: do you do ok improv-ing dialogues? If so maybe you could trick your brain by thinking about how a monologuing character is kind of having a dialogue with different parts of themself

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent... like holy shit that's impressive!

    I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?

    I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it's off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I'm sure...)

    You may be better at "math" than you think :]

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

    Here's a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it's at least somewhat serious...?

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    I just got a new job at a place where my coworkers are really into seasonal decorations, so I'm low key excited for winter

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  • What's your natural talent?
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    KOBEEEEEE

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  • Something you're just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average. For me, it's paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearWH
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    Moving into new place and I find this
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    my first thought is that it's some kind of foam sealant, but definitely get someone qualified to check and make sure it's not something hazardous

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  • Sometimes less is more
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    I would rather watch console output I don't understand scrolling by too fast to read than some dumb spinning dots >:[

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  • Superiority brings controversy
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    and that's a bad thing...?

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  • XFCE taking the picture
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    LXDE and LXQt is perfect
    looks like hot garbage until you spend 300 hours theming it but BOIYE IT FAST AS FUCK

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  • They are do darn sweet
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    ARE U SO CUTE? WHY THE FUCK

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    196 1y ago
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    rule
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    I'm gay but I'm a lady so a regular log cabin is already pretty butch if I build it 😁

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  • GitHub - espeak-ng/espeak-ng: eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    I intentionally set the pitch variation to 0% so I can pretend I'm getting directions from a Bit from Tron :]

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    dankmemes 1y ago
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    It seems to begin earlier every year
  • janus2 janus2 1y ago 100%

    obligatory relevant Zalinki

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