Skua
@Skua@kbin.earth
- Comment on production line 1 day ago:
Wait what the fuck, they really did switch a bakery over to drone production and put them on a conveyor belt like that
- Comment on redwoods 1 day ago:
https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/y8xcnjxrg24.jpg
I'm glad to report that they're still standing! These photos aren't great, but they do at least show how much taller they are than every other tree in the area and the incredibly confusing presence of an old phone box is a helpful comparison for how chunky they are
However, I also found out that these are dawn redwoods, the smallest variety of redwoods. These don't even get to half the height of the giant ones in California and they're still the biggest trees I've ever seen in person
Also tagging @shalafi
- Comment on Corporate policy 2 days ago:
It was at least common in (my part of) the UK when I was in university over a decade ago
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 3 days ago:
I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn't worry about the actual diameter of anything. It's not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there's about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I'm gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.
You'll need to change your formulae, though.
pi*d
is the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, sopi*r*r
(and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it's(4/3)*pi*r*r*r
, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don't pack perfectly into a volume, but I don't remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I'm just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me... 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it's maybe actually not bad - Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 3 days ago:
Just tried this out recently. It's good fun. I do wish it explained itself a little better at the start - I had no idea that it was essentially a roguelite - but it gets that feeling of momentum at the edge of wiping out just right
- Comment on redwoods 3 days ago:
Oh holy shit, we have half a million of them‽ I was under the impression it was just a few scattered around the place
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 days ago:
Then WordArt loves you too
- Comment on redwoods 4 days ago:
I'm not sure what qualifies as a "proper" storm for you - the UK never gets anything like the cyclones in India or the Caribbean - but we did have one of our worst on record at the start of this year. I actually haven't been along to the place since then. If I get a chance this weekend I'll go have a look, see if I can get some photos for shalafi elsewhere in this thread too
- Comment on redwoods 4 days ago:
Not naturally, but a fair few of our landed gentry got really into trees while we were doing the whole empire thing and since we have a wet temperate climate here the trees seem to like it
- Comment on redwoods 4 days ago:
There's an old stately home near me (in the UK) where a few redwoods were planted some time around 1900. The scale of those things is genuinely bewildering. They're so much bigger than every other tree that it messes with your sense of perspective a little
It's also weird how squishy the bark is. It's like a giant funfair plushie tree
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 5 days ago:
Enjoy the bean juice when you can get some. I think I'll go brew some myself
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 5 days ago:
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in particular is hilarious if you get four people playing it
- Comment on Best Co-Op Games? 5 days ago:
Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don't think DRG does, and it's the only one I've done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Is your bunker pineapple-shaped?
- Comment on I know I get excited when I see NFLD mentioned 1 week ago:
I want to go hiking there. The landscape looks spectacular. I had hoped to take a day trip over when I was visiting Dubrovnik a few years back, but sadly I could not fit it into my schedule
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Good point!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I expect that it's straying much too close to dicussion of the ongoing hot-button political issue of asylum seekers and small boat crossings for Casual UK's "no politics" rule. Glad you could still post it here without re-typing it though
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 1 week ago:
Oh, right. I meant it as in "I hate that there are so many fascists in the genre that checking for them becomes a necessary evil of listening to the genre". I do check because I don't want fascists in my playlists
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 1 week ago:
There is definitely plenty of non-Nazi black metal. It's just that there's also a lot of actual Nazi BM, including some of the foundational figures of the genre. The general themes of the genre being very misanthropic and usually interested in the various kinds of paganism that Nazis cribbed a bunch of their symbolism from can also make it difficult to spot the Nazis at a glance if they're not being overt about it
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 1 week ago:
"Do they hate all of humanity or just specific colours of humanity?"
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 1 week ago:
I'm pretty certain it's a joke
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 1 week ago:
I enjoy black metal, I enjoy much less having to become a freelance investigative journalist each time I find a new band that sounds cool
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 1 week ago:
In my defence they had not posted the replies to others when I had started typing
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 1 week ago:
Rubber, including natural rubber, is a hydrocarbon polymer and should probably count as a plastic in any useful definition of the word for this context. Normally natural rubber is biodegradable, of course, but we vulcanise it for usage in tyres, and that makes it much less so. As such, tyres are a huge source of either microplastic pollution or, if you want to call it something else, functionally-identical microrubber pollution
- Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 2 weeks ago:
I'm going with "they absolutely did see it coming and are confident that they can make it go away for less money than an actual marketing campaign that gets the same amount of attention would cost"
They've got a veneer of plausible deniability, basically no need to expend any money on the material, and just enough of a chance to filter out anything that uses the image of someone that could actually afford to fight them in court about it
- Comment on Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
0.0003 of anything should not be measured in kilo-units
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 2 weeks ago:
Near-sightedness makes you more likely to notice them, but I don't think it's a serious sign of anything unless you're seeing them so much that it's a problem. They're always there in healthy eyes, your brain just tunes them out most of the time. I would assume that changes in the way your eye focusses - either because of a change in the actual eye like the person above describes or because of a change in the prescription of glasses changing the light that enters your eye - just makes it more likely for your brain to not tune them out because they suddenly look a bit different to what your brain got used to
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 2 weeks ago:
For some reason this comment is what made me finally realise that I haven't seen floaters since I stopped needing glasses
- Comment on Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless 2 weeks ago:
The shortest distance between Moscow and anywhere in the US is actually just to go straight over the north pole, which is of course not particularly intuitive when looking at a flat map. Since that's the case, the farther south in the US you are aiming for, the longer it takes
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I've personally never been to Texas and it's a long time since I went to Bavaria, but doesn't that description of Munich vs the surrounding countryside more or less work for Houston vs the surrounding countryside?
I don't think it's even necessarily a left vs right political thing either, both regions also just have quite distinct and independent cultural traditions from the rest of the country