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I don't know why I didn't think of it before, as it's one of my favourite games, but you may well enjoy Oxygen Not Included :)

Kerbal Space Program

This is just social darwinism.

The reason this and other concepts of meritocracy are bullshit is that the children of the elite will always have better access to education, and much more free time, than their less well-off peers - therefore those considered to have the most 'merit' are inevitably identical to those who already comprise the upper classes.

A goose loose aboot the hoose?

My main issue with bic lighters is the fact that you can't easily change the flint like you can with a clipper, or even a swan, lighter. The rectangle shape is also less sturdy than the circular lighters, and more likely to break if you use them to open beer bottles.

What? I grew up atheist, but that sounds absolutely mental to me. Protestantism is an off-shoot of Catholicism, so if Catholics aren't Christian then surely neither was Martin Luther?

The Vatican claims to have more gold in its vaults than has ever officially been mined out of the earth, and considering how much they stole from the Aztecs, it's possible they aren't even lying.

I have a toggleable 'Show bots' option in Settings>Account Preferences. I'm using Boost for Lemmy, but maybe other clients have a similar option?

They aren't talking about it being made to by other movies, they're saying the movie continues to make money for a long time after it's first week. To give a famous example: in the 90s the Kevin Costner movie Waterworld was declared to be a massive financial flop based on its first week(s) performance in US cinemas, but once you account for worldwide figures and VHS sales it was actually one of the most profitable movies of the decade.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to claim that your gut biome doesn't effect your mood, just that the serotonin in your gut isn't making it's easy to the serotonin receptors in your brain that make you feel happy

Any scientific definition of 'fish' which includes all the things we commonly consider to be fish also includes basically all animal life on earth (including humans and, presumably, pterodactyls).

Edit: Though generally this is avoided by declaring that 'fish' is not an evolutionary category.

The serotonin in your gut can't pass through the gut-blood barrier, and therefore never reaches your brain, so it has no effect whatsoever on your ability to feel happy.

Unripe bananas are full of serotonin (which breaks down to melotonin as they ripen), but the only effect that has on your body is to give you diarrhoea.