TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 5 days ago:
No, pomegranates are actually very healthy. They’re rich in polyphenols (a class of antioxidant), fiber, and a variety of micronutrients, and they have a low glycemic index.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 5 days ago:
“And just beat the devil out of it.”
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- Comment on oh cool 1 week ago:
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s what a 7.62x63 (“.30-06”) does to level III armor (think basic rifle protection, the kind that would actually stop the round that hit Kirk). This particular one is a large, very conspicuous plate of steel 8.5 mm thick and weighing 4 kg. You don’t just slot this in under your shirt and look inconspicuous.
And it would have to have been hard armor, i.e. a rigid plate. Soft armor 1) wouldn’t have stopped that round (that’d be more like a step down to level IIIA on the high end) and 2) would’ve embedded the round rather than ricocheting it.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 2 weeks ago:
Firstly, the burden of proof says it’s their job to demonstrate that Kirk was wearing a bulletproof vest in the first place (let alone that the bullet struck him in it first), not yours to debunk it. We’ve really lost sight of how important this is in recent years.
- There’s zero evidence Kirk was wearing body armor whatsoever.
- I don’t think we’ve ever seen evidence of Kirk wearing body armor to debates elsewhere.
- A bullet would’ve left at minimum a noticeable mark on Kirk’s clothing.
- Neither journalists nor investigators mention anything about this even though there’s zero compelling reason for them not to and, for journalists, incentives to do so.
- The rounds were 7.62x63 mm fired from a bolt-action rifle.
- If that round strikes body armor, in order for it to stop (let alone ricochet rather than embed), the armor needs to be so thick that you cannot hide it under clothing. The armor would’ve been readily visible to everybody in attendance. Armor Kirk realistically could’ve been wearing would be a non-factor.
- Even if this magically happened, the improbably fucked-up physics required for a bullet to bounce from the torso into the cartoid artery seem vanishingly unlikely at best and implausible at worst.
While much of this just shows extreme unlikelihood, the thickness of the alleged body armor is impossible to reconcile with the round and the weapon it was fired from.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 3 weeks ago:
He was not. This has already been categorically debunked over and over again by people who know literally the first thing about ballistics.
- Comment on Me and Boost 3 weeks ago:
“We’ve taken X into not just the second but the third dimension! XYZ is the new town square of the metaverse!” —Elon “illegal immigrant” Musk
- Comment on Anon eats Italian 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t necessarily true. Italian meatballs are usually small, but polpette alla Napoletana are often on the larger side. You just need to be discerning.
- Comment on Llama 4 weeks ago:
Killer whale.
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- Comment on Call me... 5 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, that Unidan copypasta is 100% correct. I don’t know why, for as long-winded as it is, though, he doesn’t use use more taxonomic names to make it precise: jackdaws are in genus Coloeus, and crows and ravens are in genus Corvus, both under family Corvidae. The apes are the primate superfamily Hominoidea, which Homo sapiens sits under. There, Unidan; that’s all you had to say.
- Comment on Call me... 5 weeks ago:
For those who might be confused, “daddy longlegs” colloquially refers to two totally separate things. Spiders are of the order Araneae under class Arachnida (they’re arachnids; go figure).
“Daddy longlegs” often refers to cellar spiders, the family Pholcidae within the spiders. However, “daddy longlegs” also refers to another order of arachnids altogether called Opiliones, also known as harvestmen. So if this doesn’t look like the daddy longlegs you know, that’s why; they’re not a “different type” of the cellar spider you’re familiar with.
- Comment on Good for plants 5 weeks ago:
I only give my plants real country music.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
(At a glance, this article needs some touching up and hasn’t been meaningfully contributed to in some years.)
- Comment on sentence 1 month ago:
- Successful murder does more actual harm, and thus if you weigh not just intent but actual harm, you get a more severe punishment (think, for example, of felony murder, where the perpetrators don’t necessarily intend to kill anyone but someone does die as a result of them committing a felony).
- Treating murder more harshly than attempted murder gives someone attempting murder a practical incentive not to follow through.
- Comment on You don't know me! 1 month ago:
If you put it under a compatible license (CC BY-SA or less restrictive), we on Wikipedia also pull from iNaturalist for images to add to Wikimedia Commons. It helps a surprising amount.
- Comment on Bird ban 1 month ago:
Fair point. Bird law in this country is not governed by reason.
- Comment on Bird ban 1 month ago:
While feeding a bird by encasing it in food may seem ethical at first blush, the reality is that bread is junk food for birds – providing energy but minimal nutritional value. Hence this user was kicked from the group.
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
I do have to. Doing otherwise robs you of a chance to someday gradually expose yourself to and appreciate these creatures. Or it at least needlessly ruins someone’s mood.
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
Pseudoscorpions are absolute little goofs, I agree. I’m not sure if that offsets how weird and creepy they are. It’s like I’m giggling and profoundly worried I’m seeing an alien at the same time.
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
“Think of it less like a hierarchy and more like a web.”
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
Be thankful they chose Aranae instead of other arachnid orders.
don't open; tailless whip-scorpion inside
- Comment on claw 1 month ago:
A lot of decapods exhibit heterochely (the claws are formally “chelae” and the legs (“pereopods”) that bear them “chelipeds”). In some taxa, handedness isn’t even consistent within the same species.
There’s a popular focus on heterochely arising because of different food types, but there are nuances. For example, this is often quite different between males and females.
In addition to just being different in size (allometrically), they’re often also different morphologically (in shape). For example, for crabs who prey on bivalves, one claw may be more suited to crushing while the other is more suited to handling, rapid movement, cutting, etc. So it’s not just about how big they are as described in the OP.
There’s often also a major element of sexual selection (Mr. Krabs wasn’t lying), and other major uses of claws depending on species are competition (getting into fights) and burrowing.
Etc.
- Comment on Title of your s*x tape 1 month ago:
OP, you can say “sex”. Your parents aren’t going to put you in time-out.
- Comment on Ice cream 2 months ago:
Häagen-Dogs
- Comment on Who's got the morbs? 2 months ago:
- Comment on No low balling 2 months ago:
I saw the word “pickup” and had a brain fart. Yup, you’re right. I’m 99% sure anyway that their pickup trucks in 2006 would’ve been Dodge RAMs.
- Comment on No low balling 2 months ago:
The joke is that this is The Onion parodying an obituary, where you remember someone’s life and the people close to them. So instead of saying “he leaves behind [family member(s)]”, they turn it into a Craigslist-style ad for his pickup truck.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 2 months ago:
most of the money on things that are Wikipedia
Assuming you meant “aren’t Wikipedia”, there are a few aspects to this.
- These are the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2024 financial statements.
- You can see how it’s organized here.
- Here’s a table of salaries. CEO Katherine Maher’s salary is about $790,000, which is very average for this role. Other salaries look average as well.
- I permanently hide donation drive banners in my preferences and so can’t speak to how they’ve been lately (read: last 8-ish years). I remember them being terrible. Genuinely hated them.
- Wikimedia is a lot bigger than just the English Wikipedia; it’s a movement, and one that’s been highly successful in a way it couldn’t have been just through volunteer work. For example, I heavily encourage you to check out Wikipedia’s sister projects sometime. Not all of them are created equal, but Wiktionary for example to me is the best single dictionary in the world. I wish many of these received similar levels of appreciation to Wikipedia. And far from being tacked-on side projects, most of these factor into a coherent ecosystem in their own way.
- The WMF’s legal team in my eyes especially has been phenomenal. The movement I volunteer so many hours for would be heavily fractured and probably dead in the water if it weren’t for them.
- On top of obvious things like developing MediaWiki, I actively want the WMF to be doing outreach through programs like grants. If the WMF just sits by and coasts on hosting costs and maybe MediaWiki bug fixes, it will die. Figuring out how to make editing more inviting, more accessible, and more efficient is crucial not just to keeping Wikipedia alive but its sister projects and even to improving other non-WMF wikis.
In summary, I don’t like the banners but have seen zero issue with how they handle finances. The money donated that’s used beyond maintaining a skeleton crew and keeping the lights on is profoundly useful to me as an editor and directly helps me write the articles that the people donating expect their money to go to.
