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  6. Comment on Hear the song written on a sinner’s butt in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights in ~arts

  8. Comment on Hate Brussels sprouts? You may be living in the past. in ~food

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    My parents made a lot of mistakes, but one thing they got right was requiring us to take a "no thank you" portion of everything on the table. It could be just a couple of spoonfuls. We never had...

    My parents made a lot of mistakes, but one thing they got right was requiring us to take a "no thank you" portion of everything on the table. It could be just a couple of spoonfuls. We never had to finish the food, but we had to try it at least once.

    ..And we were encouraged to try it again every few years because tastes do change. (I hated cheese as a child, and changed my mind in my 20s.)

    The result is that none of us kids has a resistance to any particular food. There are foods I won't eat -- no peanut butter for me! -- but I also don't have an emotional reaction to them.

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  13. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    It does. Now the stuff that I dash off has better wording and punctuation.

    It does. Now the stuff that I dash off has better wording and punctuation.

  15. Comment on Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas. in ~books

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    Oh, that's lovely, thank you. I did read "The Princess and the Pea" when I was a little girl. Upon rereading it, I am startled by how much of the prose I remembered.

    Oh, that's lovely, thank you.

    I did read "The Princess and the Pea" when I was a little girl. Upon rereading it, I am startled by how much of the prose I remembered.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    My personal "can't live without" extension is the Library Extension. https://www.libraryextension.com/ If you're browsing books online (such as Amazon), it does a lookup at my local library. With...

    My personal "can't live without" extension is the Library Extension. https://www.libraryextension.com/

    If you're browsing books online (such as Amazon), it does a lookup at my local library. With a click or two, I can put a book on Hold. This has saved me a lot of money.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Five browser extensions to make every website more useful in ~tech

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    I am a professional writer and editor, and I pay for my own Grammarly subscription. It's an excellent way to prevent typos, and it cleans up my usual online-chat laziness. Maybe it's because I...

    I am a professional writer and editor, and I pay for my own Grammarly subscription. It's an excellent way to prevent typos, and it cleans up my usual online-chat laziness.

    Maybe it's because I care about getting it right more than most people do. "A writer is someone for whom writing is much harder than it is for the others." – Ken Laws

    7 votes