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- Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore 6 days ago:
I see this sentiment posted a lot on here, and while I don’t disagree with the position, I’m not sure I understand what exactly is meant. When you say Americans should “grow a pair and fight”, what are you envisioning? Should I drive to my state capital and shoot the governor in the head?
- Comment on Hell 1 week ago:
I used to be like this until I got a job that required constant phone calls. Now if I have to explain something using more than three sentences I’d much rather just talk.
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Special sampling opportunity 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t that the prices are jacked up, it’s that it’s enough toilet paper to last until toilet paper goes out of style.
- Comment on You don't have to be embarrassed 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really. It’s a T-intersection, where the top of the T has stop signs, and the bottom leg does not. If you are on one side of the T, you must enter the intersection, such that you are in the path of the bottom leg, before you can see if there is anyone coming from that direction.
The people coming from the bottom leg (with no sign) have no reason to stop or slow down, and would generally not have reason to look in the direction the fence is blocking visibility. I don’t think traffic coming from that direction even recognizes the obstruction. All they see is someone suddenly creeping into the intersection in front of them, when they can be mere yards from them.
- Comment on You don't have to be embarrassed 2 weeks ago:
They’re building a school near where I live and they’ve got these things all around the site. Problem is, there’s an awkward intersection at one of the corners of the site, and traffic coming from the street that is 95% blocked by the fence does not have a stop/yield sign. So now everyone has to slowly approach the intersection, and slowly creep forward until you’re halfway in the intersection to see clearly, and hope a car isn’t barreling towards you at 30MPH.
God, I used to bike around here.
- Comment on Down with the flu 2 weeks ago:
I marathoned the Lord of the Rings trilogy ~15 years ago on cable.
It was awful. Commercials were bad enough, but I’d only seen the extended editions, and getting through all three movies in like 7 hours felt like absolute blasphemy. It would cut to a commercial break and when it came back it’s like they skipped 30 minutes every time.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 2 weeks ago:
My work buddy will only eat meals made from single-ingredient foods because of “all the extra shit they put in there”, and smokes a pack a week.
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- Comment on What're they gonna do about it? 2 weeks ago:
Lychee (the resin printing slicer) offers a 30 day trial. They have many users with the first name “Fuck” and the last name “Lychee”, coincidentally all with sequential “fucklychee001@gmail.com” email accounts.
- Comment on Wanna Ride This Bussy? 2 weeks ago:
Anything bad = AI 😠
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
You’re pretty much spot on. It’s also why in the movies and books, the Ring Wraiths generally just look like black cloaks; not even dark shadowy figures in cloaks, literally just the black cloaks. But when Frodo puts on the ring when surrounded on Weathertop, he can clearly see their distinct faces and features, and they can immediately tell who has the ring.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t turn a human invisible because it only turns hobbitis invisible.
See: the intro to the first movie. Isildur, after his victory at Mt Doom, uses the Ring to turn invisible in attempts to escape a group of orcs that attacked his party.
- Comment on Anon plays vidya with the bros 3 weeks ago:
I think the current mind state of the group is more important than sobriety or gender (though both of those probably play a role). At least for me, I can have a hard time immediately switching gears socially, that coupled with the shock of having someone start ranting about something I had no idea of, would be hard to be a total role model. I’d probably end up doing something similar to OOP, I definitely wouldn’t awkwardly leave because I’d feel too bad, I’d probably ask if they’d talked to anyone or seen a doctor but if the other guy was also super drunk and ranting I don’t know how long I’d be able to stick around
- Comment on Yeah yeah, we get it 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think we’re really getting anywhere with this, but that’s kinda my point.
Take a large pan and set it off-center on the smallest burner on your stove top. The entire pan will get warm, yes, but the part directly over the flame is going to get the hottest.
The cpu is the flame, the pan is the phone. If you have to wrap the pan in some sort of protective coat, but want to effectively dissipate heat with the smallest hole possible, the smartest design would be to place the opening over the source of the heat, not the center of heat sink.
If the cpu is in the top corner of the phone, the top corner of the phone is going to get significantly warmer than the rest of the phone (in terms of thermal dissipation). Putting a vent hole in the center where there’s less heat while having the warm part covered makes no sense.
- Comment on Yeah yeah, we get it 3 weeks ago:
More than just your cpu, gpu, and psu generate heat in a desktop, but they’re the only units that normally have giant heat sinks with dedicated fans for cooling them.
If there was a hole in the center, but the main producer of heat was still covered, that’d be a pretty bad design for heat dissipation.
- Comment on Yeah yeah, we get it 3 weeks ago:
Lots of phones use the aluminum body as a heat sink, so it kind of is how it works.
- Comment on Anon plays vidya with the bros 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, I think it’s asking a lot of drunk guys playing videogames to suddenly snap in to support mode on the spot like that. Even sober if someone just snapped and started ranting about something that personal with no context and nobody knew before I can’t say that I’d be able to respond in a perfectly supportive manner.
At least in this totally real situation they had one friend (OOP) that was able to give some slight form of acknowledgement, even if it wasn’t particularly emotionally comforting.
- Comment on Low flow toilets 5 weeks ago:
There are cheap, easily removable and attachable bidets you can get and install on any toilet. Takes literally 15 minutes and a crescent wrench, if it doesn’t come with a little tool.
- Comment on Uncultured 5 weeks ago:
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Of course anything fringe is going to attract people who figure out body deodorant is fucking bullshit.
Found the stinky guy at the concert… 🙄
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 5 weeks ago:
I fuck with the ese on the ground, flipping the camera off with painted black nails
- Comment on Genius 5 weeks ago:
Ca-Ca-Carrot Cake 😠
- Comment on Broke again, me hearties 5 weeks ago:
A pirate, but an honest pirate ye remain.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 1 month ago:
Of course there’s a difference, one is a place where the mentally unwell go to get what they need before moving on in life, while the other is being defunded by the former.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 month ago:
There’s actually a single gaming CEO that hasn’t been born yet, bringing the average down.
- Comment on Generational differences 1 month ago:
smoking weed is supposed to be an experience
I mean if you just started smoking yeah. When you’ve been smoking for 10+ years not every session needs to be life changing. I’ll roll up a nice joint or pack a solid bowl for fun times when I want the “experience” but for normal getting high purposes the pen stays by my side
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The Zuck is famously into Dad Bods.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 1 month ago:
Tell her “sorry, I’m only into girls, and girls don’t poop” then block her
- Comment on So true 1 month ago:
My POV while reading this post (I have not gone swimming today)
