It’s also a great game if you like solving complicated puzzles. Last I knew, there are some that are still unsolved.

If you average the cost range, you’re spending around $65,000 on nuggets monthly.

If 0.13% is equivalent to $1,400 in lost sales, then your store would sell $65K of nuggets for $1,076,923.

That’s ~16.6 times the original price. Considering most restaurants operate at around a 3-4x markup, that’s huge!

Pretty much. My grandmother made something called tater tot casserole: a mix of ground beef, frozen tater tots, canned beans, and mystery spices that went stale sometime in the last ice age. This was covered with about half a kilo of cheese and baked until a point she couldn’t quite articulate but “just knew”.

If you have legionella in your hot water, the issue isn’t going to come from drinking it, but inhaling it when you shower. As long as you don’t have a dead leg in your water system or a circuit that stagnates for long periods of time, legionella is pretty much a non-issue in the vast majority of homes, even older homes.

Extra tasty ham loaf… as opposed to a regularly tasty ham loaf? Huh.

I had an elderly aunt that made “oyster stew” on special occasions. The recipe was as follows:

One gallon of 2% milk
One 16 oz. jar raw oysters with juice
Salt and pepper to taste

That’s literally all that was in it. She’d mix it together, heat until steaming, then serve. Just a big pot of hot, oyster scented, salty milk, served with oyster crackers. Everyone hated it and none of her children carried on the tradition.

That recipe deserved to die.

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Bravissima!

You wanna take some time to gather your thoughts first?

Either you’re quite condescending or there is some confusion here. I’m going to assume it’s the latter; if it’s the former, well… life is an adventure.

Yeah but, which part exactly should I not understand because of my American education?

I’m not referring to you in my original comment^{[1](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20221397)}, but to the person to whose comment I’m responding.

So you’re not talking about Marx and Engels, but you are somehow talking about socialism AND scientific socialism no less?

The vocabulary I said I wasn’t referring to is the list of terms provided by Prole^{[2](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225314)} in response to your question^{[3](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20225057)}. My original comment was offhand, not intended to be a detailed analysis, so their response was assumptive. I’m familiar with the user and they’re good people, so I’m sure it was in good faith.

To answer your original question, here are specific terms in the Wikipedia article^{[4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism)} I would suggest are not covered in US public education with sufficient depth or frequency to give the average citizen the functional vocabulary necessary to fully understand the article without significant further reading. I.e., most Americans would be unable to provide even a basic (correct) definition if asked.

Materialism
Historical materialism
Dialectical materialism
Utopian socialism
Scientific government/Technocracy(though briefly described in line)
Classical liberalism
Marxism

And by extension…

Scientific socialism

The United States ranks 36th in the world for population literacy, with 54% of Americans reading below a 6th-grade proficiency level and 21% being functionally illiterate^{[5](https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics)}, so I’m pretty comfortable with my suggestion but am willing to be convinced otherwise.

Those aren’t what I’m referring to. The comment I was replying to was about the theory density of this wiki article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

I’m referring to the vocabulary contained there.

If you’re from the US, much of the vocabulary is unfamiliar because education on these concepts is intentionally avoided in public schools. I can’t imagine why…

It’s actually used a lot in food, along with other agricultural waste materials. You’ll find it listed in ingredients as cellulose. It’s processed to hell and indigestible, so it doesn’t really do much nutritionally beyond adding a bit of dietary fiber.

I truly am terrible: terribly educational!

/Dad joke

I absolutely love the the hydraulic analogy, and my advancing age and the 'tism compels me to share a story.

I was a science major and worked as a tutor through college. Intermediate physics was required for all science degrees, so basic electrical theory consistently came up.

What I love about the analogy is it’s actually not perfectly analogous, but the differences become obvious once the initial concepts are understood, then those differences help students figure it all out. Its imperfection is actually what makes it perfect, and my nerdy side just loves that kind of stuff.

The students that argued with me the most about how it was a shit analogy were my favorite because they’d so frequently knock it out of the park come exam time. It was like the academic equivalent of hate fucking.

Horny is biology, which is chemistry, which is physics. You triple scienced.

Sure buddy. You pretend whatever you need to pretend. We believe you.

The only thing I’ve actually found offensive here is that you think anyone would be so stupid as to find that believable.

Funny thing: I didn’t ask if you cared and I don’t care if you do. I wanted to put the correct information for those who actually care about if things are true or not.

We’re not on Facebook, some of us have standards.

Methylphenidate isn’t meth at all - it’s ritalin/concerta. “Meth” is amphetamine (Adderall) with a substituted methyl group (methamphetamine). This increases its ability to dissolve in lipids, so more enters the brain and at a greater rate.

By mass, methylphenidate is about half the strength of amphetamine. Amphetamine is about 1/5 the strength of methamphetamine, so methylphenidate is about 1/10 the strength of methamphetamine. Amphetamines and methylphenidate also work by different mechanisms, so they have different effects, making the relative strength an imperfect comparison.

Methamphetamine actually is prescribed on rare occasion under the brand name Desoxyn, usually as a last ditch effort for extreme, treatment-resistant ADHD.

I was raised in an exceedingly rural area of an already rural state. My school district was rated amongst the worst in the nation, so my experience was more indicative of the worst 1980s US had to offer. It was bad then, but not usually that bad.

My second grade teacher taught us the civil war was because of a disagreement over state’s rights.

The same teacher marked me and a few other students down for completing a subtraction assignment using negative numbers. She explained we were supposed to be confused and write that we couldn’t do it.

Edit: I forgot one! My third grade teacher marked me down for not knowing how much a hen weighed. It wasn’t a joke. Apparently there was a rule of thumb for estimating chicken weight. Any kids who weren’t raised on a farm missed the question.