Dabundis
@Dabundis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 3 weeks ago:
The thing that makes any unit useful is being an agreed upon standard, which is true of both F and C. the “feel right” part is just how it got there. When Celsius stuck a thermometer in freezing water and marked its position, he called that 100 degrees based on vibes. Later on, a french academic decided that actually freezing should be 0 and boiling should be 100, and that decision was based on vibes. Why is it any different when Farenheit made a vibes based decision to put 0 in a different spot than celsius?
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 3 weeks ago:
If you take issue with defining units based on vibes i have terrible news about the second, the meter, and the kilogram. Basically any unit is arbitrary until it becomes a standard
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 3 weeks ago:
And celsius fully ignores the effect pressure has on the boiling/melting point of water. Turns out temperature units only measure temperature
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 3 weeks ago:
Farenheit is set up such that temperatures between 0 and 100 convey the subjective feel. 0F is really cold, 100F is really hot. Obviously cold and hot feel is subjective, but what could be more human than subjectivity?
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 months ago:
Twist, tuck, freeze
- Comment on Coincidence? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 4 months ago:
You will never touch your penis with your hands full of heaven ladder
- Comment on Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick 6 months ago:
“I don’t know, can anyone help me learn?” gets so much respect from me. Incredibly powerful mindset.
- Comment on Help, what have I found 7 months ago:
Additional living space (you need specialized training and a permit to enter)
- Comment on definitely 7 months ago:
Also helps to think of the word “definitely” as meaning “by definition”
- Comment on circuits 7 months ago:
Studying for the PE exam. It’s back, lads.
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 8 months ago:
Closing loopholes is worthwhile, even if they’re not being abused yet. You say “if you see this happening, then you’ll have to vote”, but that thing that may happen is people being denied the right to vote. So if this starts to happen, it may be impossible to undo with voting.
- Comment on House Centipedes 8 months ago:
I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.
- Comment on 10001 8 months ago:
Ominous
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 9 months ago:
The niche being food for fish that share their ecosystem in larval stages, and birds/bats/frogs that share their ecosystem in their adult stage.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 9 months ago:
If we were to somehow magically remove mosquitos from existence in an instant, we’d better hope something fills their ecological niche quickly
- Comment on Oxbowin' 9 months ago:
Known in Australia as Billabongs
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 9 months ago:
I understand what you’re saying here, but the set of people killed by “every disease ever” includes the entire set of people killed by mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquitoes can’t have killed more people than every disease ever because mosquitoes’ kill count is part of every disease ever.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 9 months ago:
It’s pretty likely that the temperature needed to polymerize the oil would destroy whatever compounds are responsible for making olive oil taste and smell the way it does. Plus, if done well, seasoning creates a permanent bond between the polymer and the metal, so you probably wouldn’t get anything to come out of the seasoning into the food.
As for adding iron to the food, you might be thinking of acidic foods causing iron to leech out into the food. If the seasoning is “perfect” then this might not happen, but any weakspots in the seasoning can allow acids to corrode the pan if they’re left there long enough. Common advice you’ll find is to avoid cooking acidic food for long periods of time (e.g., simmering tomato sauce for several hours)
- Comment on Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station? 10 months ago:
There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 10 months ago:
You couldn’t “restore” something to a state it’s never been in. Cutting off the legs and then casting regenerate would “regenerate” the lost pair of paralyzed legs.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 10 months ago:
Even with regenerate, what exactly are you regenerating? If the necessary neural pathways for the legs to work never developed in the first place, they couldn’t be “regenerated”. If this was your goal I think you might need to true polymorph a guy into “the same guy but his legs work”
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 10 months ago:
Alright, you cast heal wounds. Any wounds on the legs are healed. You are now aware that paralysis from birth is not a “wound”
- Comment on Butcherbirb 10 months ago:
Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious
- Comment on Go already 10 months ago:
And this is the magical part where we recognize that both can exist
- Comment on Go already 10 months ago:
Interesting in concept i guess, but orders of magnitude less efficient than a train.
- Comment on Go already 10 months ago:
In order for everyone to just freaking go, their cars would have to be attached somehow.
I wonder if anyone’s ever thought of linking a bunch of cars together so they can all stop and go simultaneously. And hey, since the cars are attached and all need to go to the same place, we can build a track instead of using high maintenance rubber on pavement and-
oop, we invented trains
- Comment on Social Engineering 11 months ago:
add a hard hat and you’re in
- Comment on Animal Attacks 11 months ago:
Literally asking for it, how dare you attempt to enjoy a delicious seasonal fruit
- Comment on They did the math. 1 year ago:
I too vomit while standing up at my full height.
