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- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 3 days ago:
It wasn’t too long ago that a USB mouse would store the divers on the mouse.
- Comment on To thy own self be true 2 weeks ago:
A rare food based example of Carcinisation
- Comment on Basically 3 weeks ago:
There were free black people in Washington’s day. But yes, the first several presidents were all slave owners.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 5 weeks ago:
The Air Force may have split from the army in 47, but some traditions carried over.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 1 month ago:
Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.
Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.
Krillian was actually alive to see that death.
As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.
Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 1 month ago:
The fact the HBO is a brand dating back decades, and they abandoned it for a generic Max was the true stupidity.
- Comment on FANTER 2 months ago:
Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.
Tang would also like a word.
But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.
- Comment on FANTER 2 months ago:
Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.
Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)
The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn’t close it’s German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.
And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.
As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 2 months ago:
A lot of the “nonsensical” comes from translation issues.
You’re not a Hebrew farmer living in the middle east 2000 years ago, and the parable has been translated from ancient Hebrew to Greek, then to Latin, then finally into English.
The same goes for buddhist parables
I’ve read that some of these parables originally had clever word play.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 2 months ago:
Veritasium’s latest videos. Like the last 4 or 5.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 2 months ago:
11 years ago… I wonder if he’ll revisit the topic with his current deep dives into relatively…
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
Fission. As in uranium and Thorium.
We’ve had energy positive fission since the 1950s.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
Interestingly, no. It’s not the same as if you ate a chunk of lead.
Lead binds to calcium channels, and then blocks them. This makes it a bit of a neurotoxin. It also accumulates in the bones.
Uranium on the other hand is one of the heavy metals that the body is good a filtering out of the blood. The body is not as good at expelling the uranium. It accumulates in the kidney. This can lead to kidney disease, and other related issues. And that’s just the chemical toxicity of Uranium. Add in the radioactive side of things, and you have a truly distinct form of metal poisoning.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
We’re actually running into shortages of Plutonium 238. Which is seriously compromising deep space missions.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
Except the Ironman style reactor is pure science fiction, whereas hydrogen fusion is real, but still has issues of energy capture, which several groups are working on.
There are two promising avenues, one is a direct physical capture, as in fusion is initiated with huge pistons that are physically moved by the fusion explosion,
And the other cool one is direct magnetic coupling.
I expect both to take off long before the tokamak style does.
But fission power is already here, and much easier to set up. Molten Salt Thorium is also promising. And once some corrosion issues are solved, could power the earth at current levels for the next thousand years.
All while producing an isotope of actinium that produces only alpha radiation. Which is super useful in killing cancer cells.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Well, security through obscurity never really did work
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.
Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.
As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.
Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They’re dying at accelerated rates.
We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.
And pesticides… and monoculture farming.
- Comment on Idioms 3 months ago:
Do people in glass houses shit in the woods?
- Comment on Let's gooooo 3 months ago:
Fun fact, “free base” is the origin of the of the term “based”.
Originally it was not a good thing.
Language changes, so now based is fucking rad. And rad is not a term used by anyone.
- Comment on Everyone needs a hobby 4 months ago:
Collaborative world building often falls apart. It needs a full time coordinator, or it’s like herding cats.
- Comment on Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that! 4 months ago:
By a worm no less.
- Comment on Wow, ok. 4 months ago:
Not everything shot for a film gets used. The director might say, “let’s reshoot the scene with wardrobe B” and then you have a new take with a different outfit.
Simple scenes like that often take a few days of work to dial in just right. Or sometimes it’s done with a single take and everyone feels vaguely off about it until they see the edit.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 5 months ago:
Israel has a complex relationship with Nazis.
During WW2, the Lehi terrorist organization actually tried to join in the war on the side of the Nazis.
One of the men behind this initiative went onto become prime minister of Israel in the early 1980s.
The Lehi terrorist organization folded into the IDF in 1949.
Now, there was a philosopher who was a member of Lehi, he took Nazi ideology and sort of swapped master race and the undesirable race. God’s chosen people had to be the master race, and the Arabs who lived in on the land were declared to be undesirable.
As a note, the Lehi prime minister was Netanyahu’s political mentor.
- Comment on rarted 5 months ago:
I seriously believe that wealth factors into weather or not you’re considered low or high functioning.
Take someone who is low functioning and make them stupidily rich and suddenly they’re treated like they aren’t on the spectrum at all.
- Comment on Lower Decks Eulogizing 6 months ago:
Engage the core.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 6 months ago:
Spouses can move to the village, it’s just that the children never leave.
At least one parent was born in the village.
- Comment on oh man 6 months ago:
Luigi was never the prototypical right-winger.
He was more of a tech bro libertarian.and even that seems to have been blunted by his pain and experience with US health insurance.
- Comment on Depressing awful town 6 months ago:
Kraft singles are still cheese. They’ve just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.
That actually makes them super useful in making a cheese sauce.
Add a few slices to a queso and it will not break.
You fat. Smooth cheesey sauce that comes out perfect every time.
You can make sodium citrate with lemon juice and baking soda. Lime juice also works. Really any citric acid.
Anyway, you don’t need much to make cheese melt smoothly.