I can't tell if you're trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you're into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.
My online persona is definitely different from IRL, and it differs IRL depending on who I'm interacting with. But these are all the real me. My ability to communicate via text is generally better than spoken, so that is reflected in how I write, what I write about, as well as how little I speak in person.
Secondly, in person communication has clearer continuity. If I have multiple conversations with a given person, I learn a bit about them and their communication style, allowing me to adjust how I speak to be better understood by that person. Online, I rarely remember who I'm talking to, so I just write in whatever way feels most natural to me.
The real time nature of in person communication also limits what you can bring up and when. Anything you say requires the other party to respond immediately, and if you recognize that they're not in the mood to think particularly hard, then you don't bring up difficult topics. Online conversations don't come with this kind of information, but it does give you the flexibility to answer whenever you want, or not at all, so many things that I would not deem acceptable in an IRL setting can be acceptable online.
So in summary, different situations do call for different behaviours. But that's not problematic any more than behaving differently at a party and at a funeral is problematic.
If you're blending it up into a powder anyway, wouldn't it make more sense to add the paprika at the end? Does adding it before baking actually make a difference?
Volume is only useful for things that are non-compressible (i.e. fluid). What if you're measuring flour? Usually, the measurements are given for sifted flour, but that's not something you would know unless you're experienced in the kitchen. And even if you do sift your flour, there's still going to be a lot of variation depending on how much things get compressed again as you're scooping it out.
Ask yourself why you're donating in the first place. Is it so that good journalism can continue to exist regardless of who gets to see it? Is it to give everyone access to good journalism regardless of their ability to pay? Is it so that the journalists can continue producing content for you to consume yourself? Maybe it's something else?
If the company is no longer providing what you expect from them, then that's a good reason to stop donating.
We're assuming that you're talking to someone who's willing to have a discussion in good faith.
You'd first need to know why that isn't a sufficiently solid answer. Are they looking for a perfect solution? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't one. What we want is an improvement over the status quo, and sometimes an overall improvement necessitates a worse experience in certain areas.
Until chop off their legs. Then BMI spikes again.
You mean at the tail end of a thread that opened with me pointing at the environmental costs?
Exactly! Hence my confusion. If you care about energy costs, then shouldn't saving energy be a good thing? Why would the benefit be 0?
Weren't you just telling me that the environmental cost has no impact on your stance?
Count yourself lucky. My front burner has become a secondary backburner and I've moved on to using a portable cooktop.
Wheelock's textbook was the standard for learning Latin back when I studied it over a decade ago. I personally wouldn't trust generic language learning apps like Duolingo and Rosetta Stone for a dead language, especially considering how poorly they do in some low resource yet still alive languages.