Technus
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- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 12 hours 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 15 hours 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 16 hours 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 16 hours 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
I’d love to see the source on this. I didn’t see anything from a quick search.
- Comment on Phasing thru walls 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Just listened to that one. Also great.
- Comment on Have you seen that vigilante man? Have you seen that vigilante man? 1 month 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.... 2 months ago:
That’s where Buddhists who die with bad karma get reincarnated.
- Comment on garlic 2 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.... 2 months ago:
Hell yeah brother that’s where all the cool people are going
- Comment on motherfu.... 2 months ago:
Pfft, you think you’re going to heaven.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 3 months ago:
You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 3 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 3 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
- Comment on Falling for keto and other anti-carb lies is as unscientific as being a climate denier. 5 months ago:
You’re arguing with a stranger in the comments under a six month old post with zero score. You’re here because you went looking to pick a fight. You’re either a troll or just a sanctimonious asshole. Good luck winning anyone over with that approach.
- Comment on Falling for keto and other anti-carb lies is as unscientific as being a climate denier. 5 months ago:
LMFAO are you going through posts mentioning vegans looking for people to argue with? Whoosh.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 6 months ago:
Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.
khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 6 months ago:
Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals’ digestive tracts
This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T
- Comment on Congratulations to Tom! 6 months ago:
Knowing Tom, he’d be too embarrassed to accept it.
