knightly
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- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 11 hours ago:
Sort of. The speed of light in a vacuum is the speed of causality, nothing can go faster than the maximum speed at which one part of the universe can effect another.
It is possible for fluids to move faster than the speed of sound in the fluid around it, such as the exhaust products of a supersonic jet engine, but in these cases not all of the fluid is operating like a wave. The core of the jet experiences a laminar flow where all of the water is moving in the same direction and at roughly the same speed, like a laser instead of a flashlight. At the boundaries of this laminar flow exists a turbulent region where the fluid interacts with the surrounding medium and is slowed to subsonic speeds.
- Comment on Its your duty to take care of the young 2 days ago:
Mood. I’m doing my best to be the visible enby I never got to see when I was small.
- Comment on is this normal 3 days ago:
Genuinely. Like; walking to the mailbox when a lost childhood memory resurfaces for no apparent reason and then I’m making smalltalk with the neighbor to distract myself from the bittersweet momemt that’d have me in tears otherwise
Life is so damn beautiful, y’all. There are the horrors, but there is also joy~<3
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 days ago:
What the two other replies have neglected to mention as the cool side-effect of light affecting the curvature of spacetime despite being massless is that it’s theoretically possible to make a black hole out of nothing but light. The concept is called a “Kugelblitz”, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 4 days ago:
I’m regularly mistaken for being more than a dozen years younger than I am. =D
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 days ago:
Bothto some degree, realistically. I used an old collander as a signal reflector for a wifi dongle on the end of a USB extension cable and was able to boost the signal up to about 4x, or maybe half the range of the purpose-built and highly directional Yagi antenna I eventually bought to replace it.
- Comment on is this normal 6 days ago:
Best of luck! A slow tapering of the dosage is definitely best for antidepressants.
- Comment on is this normal 6 days ago:
Mood. I lived with my dysphoria for so long that I didn’t even realize how much of my “normal” was just depression until that first dose of E lifted the weight from my shoulders.
- Comment on is this normal 6 days ago:
I’m a highly scent-oriented person so I was probably more sensitive to that change than most, but I didn’t realize it was a contributing factor to my dysphoria until that very moment. It’s not that I disliked my old scent, it just never smelled like “me”, y’know?
- Comment on is this normal 6 days ago:
I definitely didn’t notice any changes in skin texture 'til around week 4 or 5, but the change in my body odor started on like day 6, way sooner than the general timeline would have sugested.
- Comment on I found a container filled with lolipops that I didn't touch for years. It smelled like hand sanitizer and the bottom of the container had this thick clear goo. WTF is it? 2 weeks ago:
How humid is the area where they were stored? Is it subject to significant swings in temperature like direct sunlight?
- Comment on Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts 3 weeks ago:
It also makes those large corporate platforms unappealing, which is a very good thing for those of us who have always said that federation is a half-step towards proper decentralization.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’m deliberately vague about the form of this help because I think that trying to keep track of who owns what is actively harmful to human society and we should abolish private property entirely.
It won’t help the kleptos so much as it will limit the impact of their offenses to the personal scale rather than industrial or national scales.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
And instead of getting them help with their kleptomania, we built an economy where the richest thieves control the world.
- Comment on AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums 4 weeks ago:
“In the USA” and “by large portions of the capitalist class” are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they’d expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the “AI Industry” is involved with U.S. tech companies.
- Comment on It's a good thing they don't actually think lol 4 weeks ago:
The electricity needed to store data in memory is relatively miniscule next to doing any sort of processing on it
- Comment on Anon wastes time 5 weeks ago:
Dudes who have more money than sense that risk their trading access and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars just to make paperwork for the world’s (formerly) most cost-effective and most highly armed accounts-receivable department?
Lol, yeah. I want to believe this too. Imagine having the (formerly) cushy government job where you get to process all of this and if you fuck it up then the guy has to prove you wrong to contest your assessment. Hell, I’d audit the guy just to be thorough, that many zero-profit transactions probably smell like money laundering. XD
- Comment on game has multiple factions fighting each other 5 weeks ago:
Call it a coca-cola.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 5 weeks ago:
All of them, lol~.
But for real, I’ve been working in web hosting and related fields for over 15 years and the enshittification is still accelerating. It’s long past time to stop relying on centrally hosted sites and start working on decentralized services.
- Comment on Summer dad bod. 5 weeks ago:
I’m one of those people! =D
- Comment on Wish I could get free drinks with my shirt off 5 weeks ago:
I’m enby, taking my shirt off is like flipping a coin.
- Comment on /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ 1 month ago:
They’re hopeless, I can pad out my bra to C-cups but unless I swap my tee shirts and jeans for blouses and skirts they can never tell. XD
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 1 month ago:
And the fascist state has never been so pitiful and corrupt.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
If businesses wanted stability they wouldn’t make the working conditions so bad.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
You must live in a civilized country.
America is not a civilized country.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 month ago:
They did that on purpose. “Cashless” just means giving a middleman the opportunity to take a cut.
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 1 month ago:
Buy local, use cash.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’re an indie, stop worrying about piracy costing you sales and start worrying about the people who’ve never heard of you but would buy your game if they did.
If anything, you should be encouraging piracy as a marketing strategy to help get your name out there. Anonymity is a bigger cause of lost sales than piracy ever could be.
- Comment on As my southern inlaws used to say, "cut that light on". 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 1 month ago:
The vindictive American in me always feigns interest to try and waste as much of their time as possible. When they inevitably hang up, I call them back and ask to be connected to Fatima (there is always a Fatima).
