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- Comment on To be happy… 22 hours ago:
While I had to learn that Microwave ovens don’t magically work on the resonant frequency of water molecules, they do work by inciting motion in dipole molecules, and water with those little H atoms hanigng off to one side is dipolar, so microwaves are rather good at heating them up. This means that you’re sort of working in the same realm of temperatures and humidity as steaming or even boiling, for good or (mostly) for ill.
Heating frozen food specifically engineered to come out okay from a microwave? Well, it’ll come out okay. Re-heating soup or re-steaming tamales (mmmmm. tamales…)? Pretty decent. Heating up anything that wasn’t meant to have “wetness” as a major part of its mouthfeel will go poorly, often disastrously if you don’t try to work around the microwave’s limitations.
- Comment on The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday. 2 days ago:
Not completely sure how they could just veto a sale to someone with melanin.
They can’t, but they can make sure that melanin is the only visible or auditory difference. Nowadays, most (but not all) racists are okay with brown and black people existing as long as they make a little bit less than white professional peers and exactly match the racists’ understanding of how white people should act.
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- Comment on We live in tough times 5 days ago:
18 months ago I upgraded my very old build one last time. I think the thread where I was asking about it should be in my history, actually. As part of that, I grabbed 16GB of DDR4 for $22. It was almost an afterthought. That exact same pair of sticks is now listed at $104.
- Comment on A couple mates and I run askhistorians.lemmy.world. How can we get more people to post instead of myself all the time? 1 week ago:
Honestly, the best history discussions on Lemmy seem to be people explaining history memes. That’s actually fitting for the type of content that has generally maintained momentum here. The quality of discourse we get here is quite good when it happens, but we are dealing more work broad-minded amateurs who respect proper historiography, rather than than actual historians. The name of this community does it a disservice in that case.
AH is a special case on reddit. Their moderation is unapologetically draconian and exclusive, and they’ve said on many occasions that they’re openly in it for the large preexisting audience, and find the rest of Reddit culture and admin tools to be a burden. You know exactly what you’re getting with them: either nothing, or really interesting responses from millennial historians with masters and PhDs.
I generally love it, except for the occasional AMA with some author/well known professor who is half-assing the discussion, yet the mods don’t want to alienate them because there could be IRL professional repercussions.
- Comment on Cruel and unusual 1 week ago:
Needs more of the flared nylon filament tagging thingers.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x06 "Off-Hour" 1 week ago:
Late to the party here, but I did have some uncomfortable flashbacks to stories about Anton Yelchin when I saw how M’Benga was injured.
Overall, strong for this season, but that’s a bit of a low bar.
- Comment on Wisdom 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, but that’s clearly Andy Samberg.
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact, ol’ Mel was born just outside New York City. His grandparents were born in the the US, Australia, and Ireland (2).
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 3 weeks ago:
I understand that the movie is quite awful, and I haven’t seen it. Is this shot worse in motion, or did they consistently try to hide it with the handrails? If the latter, it’s not really all that bad for on-location shot.
- Comment on Volkswa what now? 3 weeks ago:
Lara Croft would never!
- Comment on What It's Sometimes Like Posting A Meme On Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
- Chuckle at meme.
- Consider subject matter.
- If I know something interesting, skip to 7. Otherwise continue to 4.
- Briefly look up meme’s subject matter.
- (Optional) Spend enough time down a rabbit hole that my employer and/or loved ones would not be happy.
- Determine whether I’ve learned something interesting. If so, continue to 7. If not, skip to 8.
- Report it to the rest of you neurodivergent weirdos.
- Revisit meme and chuckle a final time.
- Comment on Are there resources for learning about the development of legal systems? 3 weeks ago:
I am familiar with legal Eagle, and I generally like him, though this underlines that these are entertainment videos and not law review submissions (which by the same progression aren’t generally sophisticated academic history papers).
I reckon either Devin or whoever else wrote the script was going off memory, and it all got conflated. It’s a miss, to be sure, but if I were inclined to cut him some slack, the CTEA was basically an amendment to the Copyright Act of 1976, and the whole Sonny Bono thing is more of an aside in the much longer video. Frankly, calling it Bono’s major policy accomplishment is a bit off in general, as Bono was just a co-sponsor on a similar bill, probably because the the entertainment industry backed his campaigns, and he had passed away by the time final version of the CTEA further extended 1976’s similar extension.
I would say just be careful with Legal Eagle, and view it as informational but not unimpeachable. In the videos I’ve watched, I haven’t seen anything that makes me think he’s communicating in bad faith or regularly being sloppy in how he analyzes issues. He of course has an agenda to serve his audience and to get content out in between whatever real legal work and firm management he does. I do feel pretty smug that I was complaining about law school not putting things into historical context, and here we see that’s exactly where our friendly neighborhood popularizer drops the ball.
Seriously, there is virtually no discussion of how language changes over the decades, how events of the day influence legislators and judges, and how all of that impacts future interpretation. The rise of “originalism” and “textualism” is specifically because law students are taught that they’re equipped to understand 250 year old texts just as well as the original drafters, and that the drafters were invariably operating with what we would consider acceptable morality. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that pretending to do so gives you the necessary cover to interpret the thing in exactly as retrograde a way as you need to satisfy conservative elites.
- Comment on MeIRL 3 weeks ago:
Laminar flow is a cruel mistress.
- Comment on Are there resources for learning about the development of legal systems? 3 weeks ago:
There is not nearly enough history of law in law school, and absolutely zero required classes placing law and legal language in their proper historical and linguistic context. You read and discuss a few foundational cases at the beginning of each first year course, and then the power of the pure legal mind, unmoored from idle distractions like “history” or “science”, is all the reasoning one needs.
- Comment on We've All Been Here 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t want the brave public servants of his majesty’s constabulary to contract her communicable conjunctivitis. Very thoughtful, really.
- Comment on I have no idea what range eggs are but they were free so I walked out of the store with them. 4 weeks ago:
They were free because they expired three and a half years ago.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Film Noir Episode With 17 New Photos From “A Case of Chiaroscuro” 4 weeks ago:
I was kind of torn on that one, which sort of struck me as the one trying hardest to look and feel like a TOS episode, but it still leaves us with three out of the first four with an identifiable “gimmick,” and the muppet epsiode to come. In fact, it seems like they’ve intentionally leaned into it:
“There’s a cadence between kind of classic ‘TOS’ sci-fi thriller and then the thing that actually makes us ‘Strange New Worlds’…which is our worlds are genres,” Goldsman said. “Those are our strange new worlds. It’s the lens that allows us to tell stories in a way that typically, or at least consistently, hasn’t been done in ‘Star Trek’ before.”
I’m not even entirely sure I hate it, but it’s not adding a fun factor on its own anymore, so if an episode is weak, like the last one, there is nothing particularly refreshing about the fact that they cast Dave Foley and tried to make it funny.
Also, there’s too much Kirk.
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Film Noir Episode With 17 New Photos From “A Case of Chiaroscuro” 4 weeks ago:
When every episode is a “special” genre homage, none of them are special.
I appreciate that there’s an almost palpable march towards TOS camp, and TOS had its share of backlot-leveraging genre scripts, but TOS also had its share of episodes done as straighter sci-fi, sometimes building off really solid and thought-provoking story ideas (leaving Shatner and the production designers to add the camp factor on their own).
- Comment on If only someone would invent one 5 weeks ago:
I was going to try to defend these guys and say that a sunburned neck suuuucks, but then I remembered where the sun needs to be in order for you to desperately need the bill to shade your eyes…
- Comment on The big question of the day 5 weeks ago:
Both Rocky and Bullwinkle were given the middle initial “J” as a reference to [creator Jay] Ward.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Interestingly, despite morphological differences, they’re rather closely related to the silver-necked metric socket, of which the 10mm subspecies is sadly presumed to be extinct.
- Comment on What's the difference between Woke and Political Correctness? 5 weeks ago:
About 25 years.
- Comment on Gotta shit the right way 5 weeks ago:
The flexi-tube is certainly a… choice… by the artist, but it’s just a back-outlet or rear-discharge toilet.
- Comment on Vaguely remember them 1 month ago:
Saw thumbnail, assumed they were the little screwdriver like things you use (in the US) when your sibling locks the door to your room. But no, I haven’t seen these in a while because I am not a cartoon mouse tempting a cartoon cat towards a traumatic brain injury.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Despite making them my main hobby the lat couple of years, not me, at least not with any level of speed or confidence. I don’t hunt and peck, but it’s definitely a weird dance of muscle memory and hand-eye coordination, and I top out at about 60-70 wpm when composing from my mind, quite a bit less if I’m transcribing something, but that’s not the use case it once was.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 month ago:
Also, at least officially, the reason they baptize teenagers with the names of your dead ancestors is because they believe baptism of a physical body is necessary for salvation, AND that they will continue to pester said dead ancestors to convert to Mormonism in heaven’s waiting room.
If some random little shit who lied to his local bishop about cranking it three times a week will get dunked when they read the right name, apparently that helps with the backlog or something, and White Jesus really wants them to get right on that, I assume because his dad is up his ass about TPS Reports or something.
- Comment on A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, nine rings were gifted to the galaxy of man... 2 months ago:
Look, sir, NAZGUL!
- Comment on May not buff out 2 months ago:
Fair enough. I’ve checked levels on a good number of transmissions over the years but never a fancy BMW’s. Possibly also power steering fluid.
- Comment on May not buff out 2 months ago:
It doesn’t look like a 1967 Impala…