Rhaedas
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- Comment on Look at this. Or don't. 14 hours ago:
NOT HOW ANY OF IT WORKS
- Comment on 🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽 14 hours ago:
A bit 🌽y to me
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 14 hours ago:
Yes, it's on the list too at 33 MJ/L. Lower than conventional, but still higher than ethanol. The usual mix for drop in use with typical diesel engines is 10% bio/90% conventional. It's a good use of recycled material vs. just disposal.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 18 hours ago:
Than gasoline or diesel? No, they don't. Wikipedia has a large chart on their article for energy density of various sources. Some things are harder to directly compare with each other, but diesel has 38 MJ/L, with jet fuel/kerosene and gasoline at 36/35. Adding ethanol dilutes the energy output some, while pure ethanol is 24. It's still a potent source (but with its own costs and effects that need to be included in the net equation). Chemically petroleum simply has more bonds to break and get energy from.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 3 days ago:
I don't even have sympathy for people who put themselves in situations in the wild and get attacked, but for an animal that's been abused for someone's profit and enjoyment, I'm totally on the animal's side. Their life is ruined - they probably can't go back into the wild, and an attack like this will result in their death. So suffer or die? Hell of a way to live.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 days ago:
I've learned that's either a sign or a requirement of middle management. I like to go through and correct the errors on posted messages.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 days ago:
The "I have a flag" of being manly.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 days ago:
MAGA, when Nazis were fringe groups, and got punched when showing up in public.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 4 days ago:
Calvin Ball. Since he's so prone to making up rules as he goes.
- Comment on My Religion 5 days ago:
Are you talking about murder? Because if anything legal morality is far better than most religious when it comes to killing people. And that's even with capital punishment still practiced.
- Comment on qt π 6 days ago:
I doubt such a law is a linear function, and probably plateaus at some point. I wouldn't consider large birds even outside raptors as weak because they are big, and dinosaurs? Maybe clarify what you mean as "less powerful".
Even outside the bird family, what about huge animals like orca, elephants, rhinos?
- Comment on qt π 6 days ago:
Little birds are so cute. Then you observe them going after their prey, imagine if they were larger, and then remember their ancestry. Yeah, they're cute.
- Comment on what would happen? 1 week ago:
Great additions. And the biggest Imperial vulnerability remained the same as it had always been throughout. Cassian points this out in an early episode - they're so full of themselves being the Empire that you can just walk in if you blend in. They can't imagine someone having the balls to do that. Even in late RotJ we see that, the trick to open the door to the shield control. Of course someone with a walker is going to be them, telling them to open up. Who else could it be? Arrogant to the end. Hell, Palpatine at that point, even after him devising this plan for so long and right under the Jedi, is so proud and sure of himself at the end. He has foreseen it all, and how could these rebel insects win now?
And I mean he's almost right. He's just not paying attention to minor details.
- Comment on what would happen? 1 week ago:
In the original movie we see them devastate the rebels when capturing the ship. We see Obi-Wan mention that the shots on the jawa transport are too accurate for sand people so they must be Imperial. We see a lot of missed shots as they escape, but as you said and as Leia herself noted, they got away far too easily.
And then there's Rogue One/Andor that shows the true side. Andor kicked scary up a notch for even the base stormtrooper.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
If you can see mold on part of bread that's wrapped up, that means there's probably microscopic growth that's already spread past the part you see to other sections. Cutting the big part won't help you. The whole thing needs to go, it's contaminated.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 1 week ago:
They originally were the Knights Who Say Ni, but broke up for a while for some solo work, then reunited as The Knights Who Say Ekki Ekki Ekki Pitang Zoom Boing. Best rap album ever, with the chart topper "Only a Flesh Wound".
- Comment on Chimes 1 week ago:
Note: the frequencies you get will vary depending on the brand, as well as beef vs. chicken.
- Comment on WHY??? 1 week ago:
Get out of here with your real answers. 😜
I think the actual answer even with this source is, we sort of have some clues, but we have more questions too.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 week ago:
Or left as Reddit burned down. Not everyone needed a ban to look elsewhere, we just needed an elsewhere to find.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 1 week ago:
That makes sense, from why some things were captured more than others and from the pov of starting an archive service - using what's already been done and going from there. So things that weren't part of such a network and didn't rank high in existing search engines really didn't have a chance.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 1 week ago:
They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 1 week ago:
There are numerous fanfic versions of the GoT show that are far better at including forgotten characters, plots, and tying up loose ends. My conclusion is that D and D had seen them all beforehand as things progressed and refused to bow to fans, so they got cornered into making bad choices. This isn't necessarily valid, just my way of rationalizing away that they were just probably bad writers, period. They started off strong using someone else's work, they should have finished it doing the same (just a different source).
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 1 week ago:
I recently was searching for evidence of web existence of a site, and of course Wayback was my first thought. So I put in the address, and couldn't find anything relevant (a redirection error was the best hit I got). Then I realized, duh... What I was looking for was in the late 90s, maybe 2000, and the notion of preserving the web hadn't become a thing yet. So this is what happens without such efforts, things are really lost to memory and maybe snippets of references here and there if lucky.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
Have to be migratory, of course.
- Comment on Any guesses? 1 week ago:
I've seen some trucks in the US that had an L for low gear. I had a 3500 that had the normal manual shifter but also had another shifter at the base which would put you into Low mode for all those gears including R. It was VERY low, like the truck barely moved but it had all the torque you'd need to pull something.
- Comment on I can't eat it all! Don't be shy! 1 week ago:
I had a professor (psychology I think) once ask the class if they were presented with a toilet bowl full of water and guaranteed it was brand new and never used, would they drink the water? This sort of falls into that, and maybe it wouldn't be quite as bad if it was covered, or a food container of that size. But it feels wrong as presented.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 2 weeks ago:
What other rules would be broken? I can't think of one. Sometimes you have to adjust your speed. You should always be looking ahead to anticipate if a lane change would cause a problem.
The funny thing is that there is so much anxiety and rage built over being a bit faster or first in line, and yet most of the time all the anger at being stuck in a lane or slow is an illusion as the entire traffic mass is moving at the speed limit or higher. It is just your relative perception and you'll still get to your destination at the same time.
The same thing happens in slow traffic. People spend so much energy trying to weave back and forth between lanes, almost causing collisions, only to stop a few feet again.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 2 weeks ago:
Good. There used to be signs on major roads for slower traffic to stay right, but it was more of a notice than a hard law. And that's the real issue, a law is only as good as its enforcement, and if everyone is doing all sorts of things wrong there's only so many that can be pulled over at once.
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 2 weeks ago:
"Okay, I'll take this out of your vacation time. See you tomorrow."
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 weeks ago:
There's different levels of computerized control though. Would fuel injection and other modern efficiency and safety systems be possible without a main computer? I wouldn't trade my days with simple mechanical cars and carburetors from the learning experience, but I also wouldn't go back if I had a choice.
The line crossed was being connected to work, not computers themselves. I agree that the modern car market is a minefield in whether or not there's anything you could get that isn't dependent in some way on being online. Buy used, there's still stuff out there that will give long life, has been tested by the first owners, and doesn't have the manufacturer's grip on it.