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@yoshichicka Hand sanitiser is way overused IMHO. It's great for germs, but soap and water is great for germs and dirt and chemical residue and pretty much everything else you'd want to get off your hands on a daily basis. Yet people use hand sanitiser because it's quicker, despite it being like...

@idontadamandeveit You can't really go wrong if you avoid essential oils altogether. It's been so overused that the market is oversaturated with nonsense, and picking out the few things that aren't inefficacious at best and outright dangerous at worst isn't really worth it unless you're really...

@chamberlain94 You're underselling it. It's also social radon. Nobody wants to fraternise with a child abuser. You're basically ostracised – unless you're hanging out with others who have done the same, but then your social life consists of the kind of scum who would do such things, and that's...

@stignatius Smorgasbord is another recent Swedish loanword into English. And gravlax. Then there's a whole slew of older loanwords, of course, a natural consequence of living on a set of isles right outside Viking country.

@klad This is an exact quote of yours: This is, in fact, implying that the nonconsumption of certain meats is the direct reason that vegans live on average 10 years longer. You are, in fact, making “such a statement”.

@klad We almost agree. Where we differ is that the effects you're describing are mostly due to confounding factors. “Ditch meat and live another decade” is a gross oversimplification.

@klad Also makes sense, for pretty much the same reason. Turns out that people who put a lot of thought into what they put in their bodies put less crap in their bodies. Shocker.

@klad Not very surprising. The farther you venture from the path of least resistance, the better you're going to have to be to navigate. It's the same reason why Linux users are generally more competent around computers.

@klad So's sunlight, air, estrogen, leather, wood dust, and a lot of other ubiquitous things. Being a group 1 carcinogen sounds way scarier than it is, even if it's obviously something to have in mind.

@bastionhd Do you have a source for this? 36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5 °F) is a typically reported range for normal body temperature according to Wikipedia. 35.6° sounds awfully low. The exact range isn't really important for an individual to know, I suppose. It's better to know what one's own...