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- Comment on Worm time 1 day ago:
- Comment on Worm time 1 day ago:
The problem is that my brain would immediately jump to picking apart the premise of the question. How did it happen? Is it permanent? Is your consciousness trapped in there or is it gone forever? The kind of thing that’s obviously just going to piss off the person asking.
I feel like what the question is really asking in a very roundabout way is whether you love that person unconditionally. That even if something happens such that they can no longer be the person you fell in love with, that you’ll still love them just the same. But that’s the problem: as a cynic, I believe all love is conditional; if it doesn’t seem like it, that just means you haven’t found out what the conditions are yet.
Obviously that’s not the right answer. So to me, it just seems like the question is a trap. Either you accept the preposterous hypothetical and give some sappy answer to make the other person happy and avoid a fight, or you get outed for the cold, unfeeling asshole that you actually are inside. But maybe that’s the point.
- Comment on Worm time 1 day ago:
In the unlikely event that I end up in another relationship, what the hell is the right answer to the worm question? I’m pretty damn sure I’d get it wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft finally solve the Linux dual-boot issue after 9 months 1 week ago:
I just figured that they’d decided dual-booting was for losers back when Windows 10 started overwriting GRUB with its own bootloader after every update. I have no doubt at least one middle manager over there whines constantly about how much developer time is wasted because they don’t have total control over the hardware. Probably the same guy who keeps trying to make the Surface Tablet a thing.
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 1 week ago:
This likely means Melon Husk himself went in and started fucking with Grok’s prompt to push his agenda, and in the process completely broke it.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.
- As if that’s the only reason you’d ever unplug something.
- Vampire loads. Turns out, most things don’t completely turn off anymore. Yes, it adds up.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
So do we. But we don’t need as many of them, usually just for areas with a lot of electronics like entertainment centers or computer desks.
US electric code requires an outlet like every 6-8 feet (~2m) along a wall so you shouldn’t need to string extension cords everywhere. For the most part, it works pretty well. I have 5 outlets alone in my 12x12ft (~3.6x3.6m) bedroom.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
It does not. Some devices may have that on their plugs, but it’s certainly not standard.
One night when I was 14, I tried to plug in my phone charger beside my bed in the dark and was accidentally touching one of the pins when it made contact.
Fortunately, I wasn’t completing the circuit and I was electrically isolated laying on my bed, so I didn’t actually get shocked. But I did feel a buzz in my finger like you get from those prank toys that shock the victim. That’s a sensation I will never forget.
Not defending our plugs at all.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of where you are, can we all agree that no one’s really perfected the electrical outlet yet?
NA plugs make contact without being fully seated, and can leave their live and neutral pins exposed. Worn outlets just let plugs fall out of them (I have 3 or so outlets in my apartment that are borderline unusable because of this).
British plugs are bulky and turn into caltrops when dropped on the floor.
European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you’re shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.
Most of the rest of the world just copied Europe or the UK.
I like Denmark’s plug though. Cute lil smiley face.
- Comment on do crimes 4 weeks ago:
I was looking for a paper from fucking 2010 that was cited in a Wikipedia article and it was still behind a goddamn paywall.
Sci-Hub is the GOAT.
- Comment on Would you love me if I was a worm? 4 weeks ago:
The original announcement is from 2020, but this article is from a few weeks ago and makes it sound like breaking news. Kinda disappointing.
- Comment on Would you love me if I was a worm? 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to see the source on this. I didn’t see anything from a quick search.
- Comment on Phasing thru walls 1 month ago:
It was obviously designed to distract from any rumors of a Stargate program underneath NORAD in the Cheyenne Mountain complex.
- Comment on A dating app just for us 1 month ago:
Why wait for an app? Just start posting personals ads in the comments under memes you like.
- Comment on Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping 1 month ago:
I really wonder how much of these wild swings is just from sampling bias, because I’d expect the actual trends to be a lot smoother.
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 2 months ago:
Does the genus name literally translate to “shapeless dick”?
God, I love scientists.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 2 months ago:
Just listened to that one. Also great.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 2 months ago:
If anyone is a punk rock fan, Dropkick Murphys put out an album based on unused Woody Guthrie lyrics.
It’s called This Machine Still Kills Fascists.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 2 months ago:
There’s also natron and potash which have been known since antiquity, but I can’t find any reference to them being used as leavening agents before the early Industrial era.
Sodium carbonate (washing soda) is used in baking to encourage browning, but it doesn’t produce carbon dioxide when heated.
You need sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) which is only a small constituent in trona, and without knowing how to concentrate it, or that you can, it’s unlikely it would have been used as a leavening agent before the advent of modern chemistry. You’d have to add so much that it would ruin the batter or just turn it bitter.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) turns into sodium carbonate when heated in an oven, which is used by amateur chemists sometimes to make the carbonate if they don’t have it on hand.
Baking powder is a combination of baking soda and a food-safe dry acid, which react when water is added. This wouldn’t have been invented before the chemistry of acids and bases was discovered.
- Comment on GO FORTH AND SEIZE YOUR DESTINY 2 months ago:
This got me for a second until I looked up the actual object.
It’s made from sandstone, not oatmeal.
Baking powder wasn’t invented until the 1800s.
- Comment on motherfu.... 3 months ago:
That’s where Buddhists who die with bad karma get reincarnated.
- Comment on garlic 3 months ago:
If you’ve never had the Indian soda Thums Up, it’s remotely like this. It tastes like Coke spiced with ginger and similar spices. It’s actually pretty good.
- Comment on motherfu.... 3 months ago:
Hell yeah brother that’s where all the cool people are going
- Comment on motherfu.... 3 months ago:
Pfft, you think you’re going to heaven.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 4 months ago:
You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 4 months ago:
Limestone, calcite and chalk are the same compound as the active ingredient in antacid tablets: calcium carbonate. There isn’t much danger in eating small amounts of it.
- Comment on Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems 4 months ago:
Called it: lemmy.zip/comment/15677719
- Comment on While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported 4 months ago:
If it was only a performance issue I’d expect it to remain at Playable. Plenty of Verified titles guzzle battery and get barely more than 30 FPS at minimum settings.
Unsupported is generally for games that literally won’t run, often because they have DRM or anti-cheat that isn’t compatible with Proton.
I feel like this may have been a mistake on Valve’s part.
- Comment on Riot Games is cracking down on players’ off-platform conduct 5 months ago:
Anyone remember this? www.pcgamesn.com/…/sirfoch-wargaming-hate-speech
Different publisher ofc, but I can totally see Riot using this as carte blanche to censor any streamer whose statements they disagree with, especially ones critical of their games.
- Comment on don't be a coward 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, that crab could definitely get it
