ilinamorato
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- Comment on pick your side 11 hours ago:
Your school made you get folders for PE?!
- Comment on pick your side 11 hours ago:
Math is red, Language is yellow, History is orange, Science is blue OR green depending on the focus, Music is purple. Art is whatever color science isn’t because I’m not going to use the folder anyway and the sketchbook is always either a painting or brown.
I could also hear arguments for switching math and language.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 3 days ago:
“Rarely?” This is anecdotally very false, and I don’t think I’m that much of an outlier. Do you have stats on that?
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 days ago:
Ok thank you, that makes me feel a lot better to know that at least you intended the reference.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 6 days ago:
If you’re heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that!
- Comment on blast me off, fam 6 days ago:
Definitely seems like the easiest one on the list, but I’m pretty sure you’d vomit before you got very far past a dozen.
Also the LD50 of 100 is for someone who’s 150lbs. That’s fairly light for an adult who’s capable of eating a lot of cupcakes.
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 days ago:
The galaxy is in Orion’s belt.
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 days ago:
There are SO MANY Men In Black references in this thread and NOBODY is pointing them out and it is driving me CRAZY
- Comment on geoengineering 2 weeks ago:
No, see, he gives $1 billion to his friends so that they can put $1m toward terraforming other planets
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
Oh! Yes.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
For vaccines in general, yes. But kooky people that think this is some kind of trick are worried about it being an mRNA vaccine, which is indeed somewhat new. The idea has been around for about fifty years, but the first human clinical trials were only about a decade ago and COVID was the first large-scale human deployment.
Now, in fairness, they were almost entirely ready at the time. I would imagine, without COVID, we probably would’ve still seen mRNA vaccines become mainstream already, though maybe last year or this year instead of in 2021. But COVID stepped up the final stages of approval significantly.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
Did billions of people end up getting the mRNA vaccine? I thought the traditional vaccine was more widely deployed outside the United States.
In any case, the objection is nonsense. On populations this large, the number of side effects was slightly less than might have been expected at the outset. The researchers did good work.
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?
Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.
News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
I love it. There’s so much depth there.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
There was an episode of Star Trek about this.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 4 weeks ago:
“Expensive as a cast iron bridge” is a great saying. Is that something I’ve just never heard before, or did you coin the phrase?
- Comment on MFA 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft login works just fine with any TOTP app, like Aegis. They just heavily push you toward their app.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Modern nuclear reactors use passive safety; meaning that the default state of the reactor is off and safe, and it requires work and power to get it running. When they enter a fail state, or the power is cut, they snap back to the off state.
- Comment on lamp 1 month ago:
Oh that makes so much sense. I completely forgot it about metamorphosis.
- Comment on lamp 1 month ago:
So…ok, I’m missing something, then. How does the population get energy into the system, then? They don’t photosynthesize, somebody has to eat SOMEthing at SOME point, or they won’t have any energy at all for…activities.
- Comment on Yeah UPS, that's proof 1 month ago:
Actually I find the picture thing to be helpful. There’s a house on the next street over with the same house number and a similar street name, so we get packages misdelivered from time to time. If I see their porch in my delivery picture, I know where to go get it.
Just the other day, Doordash delivered somebody else’s Chipotle to my porch. Because the driver took a picture, I saw the actual customer walking by, comparing the photo on their phone to my house, and then coming up to get their burrito bowl.
And having the photo that their employee took of a house that’s obviously the wrong one has also been helpful in getting refunds before. Not me, but one of my friends; they had their package delivered to a house they didn’t even recognize, and the number on the door was clearly wrong, so the company refunded them.
So the photo thing I’m actually cool with. Yeah, it was probably originally conceived as a CYA for management, but it does actually turn out to help. I’d rather they give them time to be human beings while they’re doing deliveries; the photo thing isn’t really the big problem here.
- Comment on Yeah UPS, that's proof 1 month ago:
I bet their phone was too slow and took the picture a half second after the driver hit the button, while they were turning away from the porch.
- Comment on Yeah UPS, that's proof 1 month ago:
They’d need to allow drivers to take enough time to appropriately do the job, so that’s never going to happen.
When you have to make as many deliveries in an hour to require breaking the sound barrier during your shift, you don’t have time to check house numbers.
- Comment on Academic language 1 month ago:
I love this sort of thing. Like NASA scientists calling an explosion a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.”
- Comment on Is Chuck E Cheese a restaurant or entertainment center with a restaurant inside? 1 month ago:
“Pasqually” is also a slightly unusual (but very Americanized) misspelling of a very popular Italian name, evoking a first or second generation Italian-American immigrant from the early part of the 20th century.
And the average person probably doesn’t know the animatronic characters’ names.
- Comment on The glass is half empty in the Goldilocks zone. 1 month ago:
Dang. That is a sweet Earth, you might say.
- Comment on No touchy 1 month ago:
For sure. It’s almost an unfair comparison, but that is the comparison we are forced to make.
- Comment on No touchy 1 month ago:
It wasn’t as good as “Wild-Built.”