timroerstroem

@timroerstroem@feddit.dk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Astronomers would notice immediately, as the stars would be in very wrong positions. The IAU is the primary reason why IT people have to hack around leap seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is fire?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the vast majority of people would probably think of when they hear the word ‘fire’ is actually flames; flames are quite simply particles emitting light.

  For an everyday example, take a campfire: The wood logs you see burning are at such a high temperature that they give off methanol (and other flammable chemicals), which is most of what’s burning. Apart from the methanol being driven off of the wood, there will be other chemical compounds and/or larger clumps of more-or-less-burned wood that will be carried off. These larger clumps in particular, while very small, are nonetheless large and hot enough to start emitting light in the visual spectrum. This is essentially what a flame is: Particles emitting light.

  Fire in and of itself is quite simply rapid oxidation in the presence of oxygen.

  The above is, arguably, a gross oversimplification.

  TLDR: Flames are particles, fire is combustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter.

  It REALLY doesn’t matter.

  Best way I saw it expressed: If you did something that was NOT a nazi salute, but other people perceived it as a nazi salute, you would IMMEDIATELY apologise and walk it back. Given that Muskolini has not done that, he did indeed do a nazi salute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's Tom and who was he peeping?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia link (to the Peeping Tom section).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop animal abuse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is not ammonia (at least not when it comes to urine) but rather urea, which also reacts with hypochlorite to create chloramines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory reference to tulip mania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, impeachment. One would like to think that even today, a president-through-killing-the-president-while-being-vice-president would be impeached and removed by congress, but who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some men dis other men who sit to pee? (& follow-up questions)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a man and I pee sitting down because:

  it’s more comfortable
  

  Agreed, if there’s a toilet (as opposed to a urinal) i will generally sit down.

  It’s solely a matter of comfort and/or convenience:

  • No. 2: Toilet (obviously, I hope).
  • No. 1 on the road or at the pub: Urinal or standing elsewhere.
  • No. 1 otherwise: sit down and relax.