Cort

@Cort@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What like the songs or Kindle books that can be removed from your library next time your computer logs onto the Internet due to a licensing dispute?

  With more games and systems requiring online access every X number of days, downloads don’t mean shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be gay, do crimes (in space)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup:

  The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared.[28] On April 7, 2020, Worden was indicted on two charges of making false statements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cavity City⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can learn to talk with your throat like a ventriloquist, it’s pretty easy to hold a conversation with the dentist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's banana, pineapple and cherry.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, it is called ‘cool blue’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So not a full Marvin, from pulp fiction?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake history porn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cake was, indeed, a lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Right here. Don’t make it easy on the brass by quitting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  • It is lighter and cheaper, as you can use thinner materials. This is because pointy is a stronger shape than flat.

  • It gives more interior space.

  If you’re using lighter cheaper materials you’ll need all the added interior space for roof trusses, none of it will be livable space.

  • It allows more sunlight to reach the street.

  No, for the same amount of occupiable space the shorter flat roof blocks less light than a standard 10:12 or 12:12 roof

  • It has a smaller area-to-volume-ratio through which heat can escape.

  The greater surface area of a pitched roof means this is absolutely not true. The hypotenuse is always longer than either leg.

  • Solar panels get a higher efficiency.

  This one actually depends on latitude, equatorialy it’s better flat. And don’t forget that the minimum summer angle is limited by the pitched roof.

  • If a city has the same height restrictions for flat roofed buildings as for pointy roofed buildings, and the architect is too lazy to go to the city council to explain to them that that doesn’t make sense, the architect can design a building with more volume by making the roof flat.

  No it makes perfect sense. It goes back to your comment on letting sunlight through to the street. The maximum height is the maximum height so everyone gets the same amount of light.

  In other words: the only reason any architect would design a building with a flat roof is because they are either lazy or they have no idea what they are doing. this guy thinks their habitat is the only kind over the whole planet and can’t imagine people living in areas where snow load wouldn’t need to be considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milliamp-hours per hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar to how EU efficiency labels show power draw in W as kWh per 1000h of use

  That sounds nice for appliances that run intermittently like refrigerators

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you accept a printer that works like a typewriter with arms that strike the page to lay down text?

  What about a 2d pen plotter? Not nearly as fast as an inkjet, but still open source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or at least I will when I find another FWB 😅⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mermaids appear to be mammals based on the tail fin orientation, so it’d be similar to dolphins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry cry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Genericide is a power held by the people, and we should use it more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all a game for them and we are always the losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it, nothing is dismissed, it’s either approved or it’s ‘left to die in committee’ because anything that doesn’t make it out of committee by the end of session it dies and just be re submitted to the committee next session.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all a game for them and we are always the losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t it have to be reproposed since it was still in committee at the end of last session?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it takes 2 years to grow, but the harvest is in the 3rd year, at least when I’ve done it. It’s a perennial with minimal maintenance aside from weeding & water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli Blooms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The sprouts actually taste better if you lightly blacken them, like asparagus. It’s one of the weird veggies where you go a little past maillard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broccoli Blooms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I’ve only heard bolting used when plants start flowering too early, before they’ve produced. Like lettuces or basil flowering before there are more than a couple leaves. Usually because they’re too crowded or otherwise stressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked in less than one minute⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pulled my 360 out of storage a couple years ago and it instantly red ringed when I tried to power on. Hopefully you have better luck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably on a hands free mount rolling at the camera angle.

  However, it’s still illegal to have video playing within view of the driver, so he’s still breaking the law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't make 'em like they used to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so unsafe with that un-flared base

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just saying that during a hypothetical invasion by Trump it would be a choke point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re still hungry after eating, then you’re starving yourself.

  Or ghrelin insensitivity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “I’m not hungry, but having a tasty dinner or snacks to watch this show would be great” urge

  The Japanese have a word for it: kuchisabishii 口寂しい - lonely mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  About half that is what’s recommended for a target. I don’t think 5kg/mo is crazy unusual for the first month or two of a diet, but would typically be followed by a plateau. Could also be dehydration from additional exercise, but that wouldn’t account for all of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and that whole TransCanada highway being a massive choke point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty but pointless⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One good grease fire and it’ll catch the painting on fire too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.a.m.d.i.i.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t just slurp it up with your urethra?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Used a Murder Mystery to Pay Homage to Shatner, Roddenberry and the Original Series: ‘We Didn’t Have Any Adult Supervision’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The, Shatner bits, are, well worth … the Watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planet of the apes: Beginning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think she’s aiming at the little one in the foreground, I think she’s staying ready for the older looking adolescent lurking behind the lamp post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if it does solve some problems (not that I concede that point), does it create more problems than it solves, and are the problems it creates larger than the ones it solves.