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6. If a worm grows 1 or more feet, doesn't that make it a salamander or something instead of a worm?

*is still annoyed at BlogTO for using Trump-units instead of metric*

Edited (Edited to add the "6. " at the beginning) Date: 2025-04-07 11:52 am (UTC)

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andrewducker

I believe they're only salamanders if they originate on the plane of elemental fire.

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dewline

Depending on how many other reptilian characteristics it also has, maybe at least a snake? Without legs, though, not a salamander.

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armiphlage

Well, snakes don't usually have feet, but apparently these worms have up to three.

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doug

3. investor panic: I note that Vanguard, a huge retail investment management service, is having troubles letting people in to their system. Famously they underinvested in their digital services as part of being super-low-cost but it’s a bit nervy.

6. Neurotoxic worms: Aaaaaaaaaaa! Sure, kill on sight, but VERY CAREFULLY. I once wrote a pop science article about poisons. Tetrodotoxin is … bad.

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andrewducker

I would certainly forbid my daughter to marry one.

Oh, and yes. Lots of nervousness out there. I'm holding on, on the grounds that I'm not retiring for 15 years and by then either this will all be resolved or we'll be living in caves.

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channelpenguin

I think I already bet on the "cave" option. Maybe "log cabin" in my case, given what I have to hand here, and my complete loss of interest in any available form of investment.

(though I guess I should sometime actually get some proper solar and get the well working again here)

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calimac

To marry what? A neurotoxic worm?

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andrewducker

Yes. I think it would make a particularly bad partner.

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mountainkiss

She should be allowed to choose for herself.

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andrewducker

Not under my roof!

If she wants to marry an invertebrate then it'll have to be one that doesn't exude neurotoxins!

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mountainkiss

If only my parents had been as loving and wise.

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andrewducker

I giggled at this and then Sophia asked why and then I told her and then she made a most marvellous face at me.

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mountainkiss

Send her my love.

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darkoshi

Don't forbid it; that will just drive her right into its non-existent arms.

More importantly, don't cut it up as what I read says each cut part can grow into a new worm. SHUDDER.

I was hoping that article was an April Fool's joke, but no such luck, and apparently they are more common down here in the south though I hadn't heard of them before:
https://www.bobvila.com/articles/hammerhead-worm/

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calimac

2) There was already a thorough commission on this nearly 30 years ago. I’d petition to implement that.

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andrewducker

I'd be perfectly happy with that.

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ninetydegrees

6- I shouldn't have looked. Also crossing this part of Canada off my dream vacation list. Thanks, I guess? ^^

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andrewducker

I don't know how common they are! And it sounds like they aren't that bad for people so long as you're careful with them.

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juan_gandhi

Yep. Thank you. Fructose is really bad; how come we didn't know that? Who knows.

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andrewducker

Because it's so nice to have orange juice that people are willing to overlook that it's mostly sugar.

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bens_dad

I've heard that fructose still in contact with the fruit pulp is very different from the modified corn-starch processed fructose that appears to be added to many processed foods.
Freshly squeezed orange juice (even from non organic oranges) is probably not a problem.
For apple juice, I believe that the clear stiff is bad but the cloudy stuff is likely to be good,

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andrewducker

Nope. Fructose is fructose. Large quantities of it with no fibre is just had for you (on the sugar front, it might still have useful for vitamins)

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magedragonfire

I mean... that's why I have it on hand all the time. It hits the bloodstream faster than pretty much any other sugar delivery mechanism (even other fruit juices) and it's way more palatable than those horrible glucose tablets/gels. :P

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channelpenguin

I would like to see if fructose + other sugars + fibre (as in actual fruit) has the same evil effects as high-fructose syrup (which Agave syrup also is basically, IIRC). I BET not. I BET not as bad. But that might be my own wishful thinking!

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channelpenguin

OK, so are there any links for "normal" whole fruit consumption as the sole fructose source? I don't eat TONS, but in the autumn,

Probably less contentious, I do end up making a lot of apple/pear juice. I dont drink it terribly fast, but maybe I should get smaller bottles than 1l from now on.

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andrewducker

There are 70-80ml of juice in an average orange. A reasonable sized glass for fruit juice is probably about 300ml. So you're having 4 oranges worth of juice in a glass. Almost nobody sits down and eats 4 oranges in one go. Also, orange juice is about 10% sugar. So that's 30g of sugar straight into your system. Th insulin spike will be huge.

Plus, yes, fibre slows down your body's processing. An orange takes time to digest. So eating an orange will give you a much smaller amount of sugar over a much longer time and fill you up at the same time!

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channelpenguin

Yeah, I don't drink juice except when I have home made. I do know that a LOT of apples go into one litre. Commercially, I think they get 50% yield, so 2kg or so. So about 660g of apples per big glass - few would eat that

Interestingly, back when I was a kid, glass sizes for fruit juice were really pretty small, more like 100ml? Do you remember the same?

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andrewducker

For kids, sure, we got smaller glasses.

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channelpenguin

I recall it being general, not just kids.

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bens_dad

Hotels often have glasses about that size for fruit juice at breakfast.

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agoodwinsmith

Holy banana peels. Argh.

Yay salt!

It'll prolly take a while to cross the Rockies, but since they were hitchhikers into town, I'm sure they can come into port in Vancouver as easily as anywhere.

Definitely yay salt!

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