topherclay
@topherclay@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
My understanding of hard water is just that there’s more calcium and magnesium ions than would otherwise be present in softer water. The varying degrees of hardness would just be the varying concentrations of these ions.
The way you experience as a human (as opposed to measuring this with a water probe) is that soap will form a complex with these ions and maybe precipitate out a little soap scum, and this reaction will happen at the same time as the reaction which complexes with any oils or dirt so it’ll effectively be wasting some of your soap and you will have to use more soap.
So you’ll be shampooing your hair and you’ll use the same amount as you used back in the soft water city and you’ll be thinking “I used the same amount of shampoo as I always do so why does my hair still feel oily?”
I have one of those articulated segmented hose things on my shower head so you can pick it up and move it around while it’s spraying and the whole thing gets all covered in limescale super fast because the hard water evaporates and precipates out the magnesium and calcium as calcite or aragonite crystals. I had never seen this happen so fast and it ruins the hose so often that I thought I was dealing with excessively hard water.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
This doesn’t really fit with my understanding of what hard water is and I’m very concerned.
The place I live now has hard water that is way different from what I grew up with, but it just means that I have to use a lot more soap to clean any oils off my skin or hair, and every faucet gets a ton of lime buildup obnoxiously fast.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 1 week ago:
So whatever way the camera output is being signed, what’s stopping you from signing an altered video with a similar private key and then saying “you can all trust that my video is real because I have the private key for it.”
The doubters will have to concede that the video did indeed come from you because it pairs with your key, but why would anyone trust that the key came from the camera step instead of coming from the editing step?
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 weeks ago:
oh cool, I can see that it’s similar Borderlands by the screenshots, and I can see that it’s like Star Citizen because it’s not actually released yet and they’re taking money for early access.
- Comment on Now this is how you do pride month, take notes AAA devs 2 weeks ago:
e-dealt urn
- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 1 month ago:
If you read the blog post one day older than this one from before he got the code, he speaks more about the Israeli ties. The CEO for TeleMessage is former IDF.
micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-sign…
I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into TeleMessage, but what I did find at a quick glance is that several of the executives on the teams page list Israeli universities in their bios, and the CEO, Guy Levit, says that, “From 1996 until 1999, Guy served as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units.”
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 months ago:
This guy doesn’t know the one about the pizza guy making him on with everything and then not giving him back and change. So he is angry cuz he didn’t get the anti joke.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 2 months ago:
Except instead of hiking their adventurer backpacks up and setting off into the dense jungle in front of them, it’s clicking a “forgot password” link and opening a tab with their email while they wait for the new password to log in to zoom or something.
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 2 months ago:
Silicon is not a rock so saying that silica is not rare is irrelevant to the “rare rock” line.
Silica is indeed refined but the rock that they refine to get the pure silica are indeed rare rocks.
No one is refining their silica from potassium feldspar.
- Comment on Anon wants $3 million 4 months ago:
The ceramic edges of broken spark plugs are really good at breaking tempered glass, but tempered glass is on a certain sense the opposite of bullet proof glass.
- Comment on Anon discovers magic and its uses 4 months ago:
“Extremely rare rocks” is not the same thing as “extremely rare minerals” and is definitely not the same thing as “extremely rare elements.”
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 5 months ago:
Yeah and she speaks French.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 6 months ago:
Wait what exactly was he doing that he got stopped three times?
- Comment on Anon watches a scary movie with his gf 7 months ago:
It was an attempt to get you to proofread. I think you accidentally a restaurant.
- Comment on Anon watches a scary movie with his gf 7 months ago:
we we’re in a really good Mexican close the theater and it was really good.
- Comment on Anon enjoys a quiet night at home 8 months ago:
- Comment on A kick right in the selbstbild 10 months ago:
Arguably Japan one in 1907, 1918, and in 1938ish…
I would argue they three.
- Comment on Video of Francis Ford Coppola Kissing ‘Megalopolis’ Extras Surfaces as Crew Members Detail Unprofessional Behavior on Set (EXCLUSIVE) 10 months ago:
lol wtf? you DEFINITELY read that in a way different time than I intended!
- Comment on Video of Francis Ford Coppola Kissing ‘Megalopolis’ Extras Surfaces as Crew Members Detail Unprofessional Behavior on Set (EXCLUSIVE) 10 months ago:
Oh okay I guess if you’re of the mind that every pirated copy is a lost sale then you should encourage more pirating by seeding.
Personally, if I disagree with some piece of work then I am not going to actively spread it by seeding it and making it more available.
- Comment on Video of Francis Ford Coppola Kissing ‘Megalopolis’ Extras Surfaces as Crew Members Detail Unprofessional Behavior on Set (EXCLUSIVE) 10 months ago:
Wait why would I pirate something I don’t want to watch? What would that achieve?
- Comment on can we talk about how derivative the new aquaman was? 11 months ago:
You got me with Poe’s law on that last sentence…
- Comment on Solitude in Heights 1 year ago:
The crack-like trees and the sky cracks are really distracting and take a lot away from how good this would otherwise be.
- Comment on North Carolina Catholic school can legally fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online, court rules 1 year ago:
Oh weird. I thought they did it consistently but it turns out they just did it once more in their previous comment too.
- Comment on North Carolina Catholic school can legally fire gay teacher who announced his wedding online, court rules 1 year ago:
Why are you writing the word “school” that way?
- Comment on Caption this. 1 year ago:
Never let the party die.
- Comment on Anon opines on a clown named Ronald 1 year ago:
You should probably need at least a little bit more proof than that…