JayDee
@JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on You can't boss me around you're not my real dad 8 hours ago:
It’s a hand-crank drill.
- Comment on p is for pHunky 1 day ago:
That’s actually an interesting one.
The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).
It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 days ago:
That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.
Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch, for instance. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.
Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long prouder chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 days ago:
Another link talking about the case. It was confirmed that the chemical at high concentration in the water was PFOA, which is the percursor to Teflon, and which was leaking from the factory site. It has the same effects as other perfluorinated carbines (PFCs). It is also the exact chemical group that we’ve been testing peoples’ blood for, PFOA and other PFCs. It’s the group of chemicals we’ve found strong links to various types of cancers. Research communicates that it is not inert in the body as a microplastic.
It is 100% the reason those cows withered and died like they did. it directly lines up with everything else we know about PFOA. The concentrations were higher than anywhere else, which explains why the cows died so rapidly. The only reason we don’t have complete confirmation is from DuPont meddling to try and downplay this, the same way the meddled by witholding their research on the health risks of PFCs, and the same way they stayed silent and didn’t act when the alarm was sounded by that Parkersburg farmer.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 days ago:
The water surrounding DuPont plants manufacturing PFOA-based materials was contaminated with those plastics. A local farmer videotaped his cows develop ulcers, grow tumors, and eventually wither and die. He constantly insisted that something was in the water that was killing his cows. Those same chemicals are now pervasive everywhere, in everyone’s bodies to some extent. It is 100% accurate to say these chemical compounds will kill you longterm.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 3 days ago:
It’s a reference to the Khmer Rouge Genocide. This included people being killed for wearing glasses, speaking a foreign language, or anything else which indicated they were an intellectual.
- Comment on originality 4 days ago:
Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 4 days ago:
Based IRS. So the torch will need to be carried by open source devs.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
Mine’s gotta be The Brothers’ Grimm staring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. It’s the same camp vibe as the Van Helsing movie starring Hugh Jackman, but there’s no badass super hero to save the day - there’s just a bunch of imperfect people trying their best, and it’s almost entirely by luck or destiny that they snatch victory from the clutches of defeat. It’s also one of the most morbid depictions of childish horror i’ve seen on-screen, where it gives no fucks about being realistic.
- Comment on 👁👅👁 1 week ago:
Here’s a diagram of how anteaters store their tongues as well!
- Comment on 👁👅👁 1 week ago:
That tongue is for excavating insects out of wood right? That’s very interesting that it also uses it for annoying other animals.
- Comment on \( ・ω・)/ 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI agents outperform human teams in hacking competitions 1 week ago:
Hey, uh, Palisade. Maybe it’s a bad idea to be training AI systems to hack? Like having the ability to just pump out automated hack-bots that outperform human hackers is kind of a terrible idea that could lead to a computer-internet infrastructure collapse at worst?
- Comment on faen 1 week ago:
‘Oh boy, I can’t wait for that new indie action film “Fullført informatikk” to release!’
- Comment on Never Forget. Please dear god don't forget 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, Ralph. It won’t hurt. You won’t even register it happening.
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 2 weeks ago:
Based on that description, that dude on the right is a tall fella.
- Comment on Been a long century 2 weeks ago:
You can’t fool me. If a sink was at my door, it’d knock.
- Comment on Anon plays vidya with the bros 2 weeks ago:
Comfort him. Let him know that he’s not a leper all of a sudden for having a moment of vulnerability. Listen. Make sure that they understand that they’re heard.
These are pretty basic forms of emotional labor that go a long way in helping folks, and can even save lives at times.
- Comment on Anon plays vidya with the bros 2 weeks ago:
You usually don’t choose when you have a mental breakdown. The big thing here is that he crashed out and not a single one of his friends cared about his wellbeing enough to try and help. Just got told to go to a doctor.
- Comment on I am bereaved 2 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly the only one. What dobyou think, $, %, &, @, and © classify as? They’re all logographs.
- Comment on nyet 2 weeks ago:
So first, let’s talk about chiral shapes so that definition is covered. Your left and right shoes are chiral mirror images of one another, since they are clearly like one another, but there’s no way to rotate them to make a right shoe turn into a left shoe. Another example, this time of a 2D chiral object, would be a spiral. A spiral spins either clockwise or counter clockwise, and no rotation in a 2D space can change that. You need to rotate the spiral in a 3rd dimension to get it to become its mirror image. You might do the same to a shoe, but you’d have to rotate it in a 4th dimension since it’s a 3D object.
So a good test of orientabilIty is this: take a lesser-dimensioned chiral shape and traverse it along the shape of choice. If there exists no traversal which can make the chiral object look like its mirror image, then the shape is orientable. This can also be said as the shape having clockwise and anti-clockwise as distinct directions. Both the Möbius strip and the Klein bottle are non-orientable because they can convert lesser-dimensional chiral objects into their mirror images.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks ago:
This would be a trash way to take down a drone. You would have to now where the camera is exactly on the drone and then manage to shine the laser directly into that camera long enough to damage it. As distance grows between you and the drone, that time to damage the lenses will grow longer.
The currently most common drone takedown methods implemented are radio signal jammers, counterattack drones with nets, and shotguns filled with an intermediate shot size between bird shot and buck shot. The first two are fairly expensive options which take know-how to create, where as the latter is a shotgun, which are abundant and fairly cheap in comparison to the other two.
- Comment on who are you? 3 weeks ago:
Oh they’re real. They’re just arbitrary most of the time.
- Comment on Anon meets some coyotes 4 weeks ago:
There’s an entire poem dedicated to a Crow saying ‘nevermore’, and there’s an old cartoon trope of crows saying foreboding things prior to tragedies.
Our love and interest in talking birds has always been also accompanied by unease, especially at what they say.
- Comment on “The Curtains Were F*cking Blue”: Thought Terminating Cliches, Anti-Intellectualism, and Propaganda - YouTube 4 weeks ago:
Video runs a bit long for this topic but it’s a good point about the whole subject.
- Comment on Anon meets some coyotes 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, imagine doing a ‘hoorah!’ with your buds out in the middle of the woods, and you hear ‘ᴴᵒᵒʳᵃʰ’ off in the distance. Now imagine if that came from something that didn’t even sound human. You’d shut up too.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 4 weeks ago:
True, but if you had the ability to flash your OS, there’d also be the potential of using a third paty repair shop to get it flashed with a new OS. That would be about the same experience as getting a new phone, but cheaper.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 4 weeks ago:
That’s one aspect, but many phones are also just straight-up not jail-breakeable. It’s an unfortunate reality of the phone manufacturing world that they put up as many barriers as possible to try and prevent you from having free range with your phone.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 4 weeks ago:
I genuinely feel for y’all not able to flash your own OS.
- Comment on Search GTA 6 Requirements 4 weeks ago:
True, though it’s a mix of culpability. We wouldn’t be in this situation if devs quit over poor managerial decisions. Devs keep their heads down and do the dirty work, so they’re also culpable in these trends. They don’t deserve defending, they deserve a wakeup call.
