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- Comment on im on day 11 of waiting for my up to 10 day delivery package and its maybe getting delivered today 2 days ago:
To be fair, back then.
- Cut out a coupon
- Mail a handwritten form with a check
- Post office takes a week to deliver.
- A person has to sort the received order
- A person has to hand process the order
- They wait for the check to clear
- A person has to package the order
- Post office takes a week or so to deliver
It really wasn’t 6-8 weeks for a package to travel to its destination. The bulk of that was inefficient human order processing.
- Comment on when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean? 1 week ago:
It’s not a binary clean/not-clean thing. The sock will be tumbled around in water with the other clothes as it’s being dried.
The sock will be clean-ER than it was when it was on the floor. The sock won’t be AS clean as the rest of the clothes in the drier.
Depending on how dirty the sock started out, this may be all that matters. We don’t know how sweaty or stained the sock started out. We don’t know how clean this person requires their sock to be.
Would I do it? No, I prefer my socks to be cleaner than that, and my socks get kinda stinky after I wear them. But someone that mostly wore them around the house and never actually put those socks into shoes? It’s probably fine.
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 2 weeks ago:
You know, this isn’t the greatest argument. Horse Dewormer is an antiparasitic. It’s legitimately used by people as an anti-parasitic (also, dogs, and other animals, not just horses).
www.drugs.com/ivermectin.htmlYou can definitely say “joe rogan thinks an anti-parasitic drug works on viruses.” but calling it a “horse dewormer” is ignoring the fact that it’s actually also a “people dewormer.”
- Comment on Joe Rogan thinks AI running the government would ‘stop all wars on the planet’ 2 weeks ago:
I get what he’s saying - like a lot of things he talks about, it only makes sense on a surface level.
A computer is programmed by people, and has assumptions and conditions programmed into it. The people who create the LLM/AI/AGI/Whatever are going to decide what’s important and what isn’t.
That’s literally creating laws and treaties in an overly complicated way, that you probably couldn’t predict the outcome of. It’s never going to be better than having intelligent, educated, and well supported representatives.
Additionally, government doesn’t mean anything unless there’s an enforcement arm. It’s a terrible idea to concentrate the decision making to one thing, then give it the power to enforce its decisions. That’s literally Judgement Day.
- Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 2 weeks ago:
Just so you know, you don’t need special equipment to see another galaxy. If you have good eyes, you can just go to a very dark place and look up. A pair of binoculars definitely helps though.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy
There’s actually a bunch of local galaxies that you can see with just a pair of binoculars, a small telescope, or a good camera and some time.
The Messier Objects are one catalog of things that are pretty bright in the sky that you can see with your eyeballs through any basic telescope or binoculars. The numbers don’t really mean anything, they’re just the order they were cataloged in.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_objectIf you check out the list, you can see that a lot of them are galaxies. If you spend a little time learning how to find them, you can see them yourself. – Andromeda is M32.
Those are all part of the Local Group. Which are a bunch of galaxies that are all nearby and pretty easy to find with telescopes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Group - Comment on How can we see other galaxies, and how do we know how many galaxies there are? 2 weeks ago:
This is a great comment, but just for completeness, the Type Ia Supernovae is only one part of the Cosmic Distance Ladder.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
We can start with small, easier to measure things, and work our way outwards to more and more complicated measurement techniques. Most of these techniques overlap each other and can be used to confirm our measurements.
One of the big unsolved questions in cosmology is that many of our measurements disagree, this isn’t a “problem” just an unsolved question, and as a result, we don’t know how far away things are to the accuracy we would like. That being said, we still know how far away they are to a pretty damn close approximation.
The interesting thing is, the better we get at measuring how far away things are, the more our measurements differ from each other. There’s a lot of reasons why this might be, but one of them is that a Type Ia Supernovae might not be as standard as we think it is.
- Comment on Why, Zeus? Why! 2 weeks ago:
If you’re immortal, wouldn’t you want your side piece to be mortal so they wouldn’t hang around forever?
Imagine getting a clingy ex that was also immortal. “Remember that time we hooked up 8,000 years ago? We should get back together.”
- Comment on Be prepared 2 weeks ago:
Debt is a hell of a drug
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 3 weeks ago:
One thing you missed… WhatsApp took off BEFORE facebook (now meta) bought it. So it had a huge network effect while it was independent.
- Comment on Voyager crew incompetence. Has Trek always been like this? 3 weeks ago:
In TOS, when they find Kahn, the first thing they do is give him access to all the technical specs of the ship, which he promptly uses to take over.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 3 weeks ago:
I can decide who I want to follow. I hate it when the “algorithm” decides when something wouldn’t be interesting and hides it from me when I specifically followed someone.
Also, contacts of contacts can be reshared by my contacts if it would be interesting, so I don’t want an algorithm deciding that I need to see it.
Basically, show me a timeline of my followed contacts sorted by new and stop trying to decide what I should see for me.
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 3 weeks ago:
Dunno, I guess - new first, only your contacts - is KIND of an algorithm, but I don’t know that anyone would call that an algorithm.
- Comment on Love 3 weeks ago:
No, cause this is sunset, which happens when the sun sets in the west.
West is left, which means this picture was not flipped, just taken from an unintended angle.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, you also have to advocate for yourself as a patient. Ideally you have someone trusted along that can help with that, but if you’ve been sitting there for hours, you need to find out exactly what’s going on. Especially if it is serious.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
If you’re waiting 12 hours in the triage area of the emergency department, then you probably should have either gone to your primary doc, or an urgent clinic.
12 hours means either the waiting area is unusually full of extremely unstable patients, or you are especially stable yourself.
I get that not everyone has access to different levels of care, but urgent clinics exist to take the load off the emergency departments.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 5 weeks ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those don’t work without a lot of gym time.
If you’re on the juice, but don’t put in the work, your body just gets weird.
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 5 weeks ago:
You don’t need to take them apart, you can just plug in an outlet tester.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_outlet_tester
Also, depending on what you plug into it, the device itself might complain about a missing ground connection.
Of course, if you’re looking for other issues, you might have to take it apart, but just checking if everything is connected the way it’s supposed to can be done non-invasively.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand how people use the term WiFi when they mean Broadband Internet or Always connected Internet.
WiFi is just one way to deliver the network connection to your device, but it’s not the only way.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours 5 weeks ago:
Geothermal systems can do that for water heaters, AC, and heat, so… They kinda already do that.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 5 weeks ago:
My best friend? Gets the cash no questions asked.
If I needed additional follow ups, then he’s not really my best friend.
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 5 weeks ago:
I think using this exact language may be your problem. 🤣
- Comment on True torture 1 month ago:
Use your tongue to count your teeth. Once you get an idea which tooth it is, it’s a lot easier to find stuff stuck in there.
Proprioception in your mouth is weird if you don’t actively practice.
And it helps with cross training your tongue for other tasks.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 1 month ago:
This week: NO VIDEO
Last video: 1 month ago. Ceiling fans. Already watched.
You son of a bitch… Got my hopes up.
- Comment on Does Star Trek's USS Enterprise Design Make Sense? | Adam Savage's Tested 1 month ago:
I would love it if Deconstructed partnered with him to turn his interpretation of the Enterprise into a 3d model.
Though this is just one person’s idea of how it would work, so it would be a ton of effort for something that doesn’t really match the show exactly.
It’s interesting how the ship actually doesn’t really work together as represented in the show, but most sets didn’t really work back then. They didn’t care about how it really works. These days there’s a lot more effort in ship design to ensure it is more logical.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 1 month ago:
Drove a few hours for both the 2017 and 2024 eclipse.
Waited several hours afterwards to go home both times.
The 2024 eclipse was a much easier drive home (though still not great).
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- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 1 month ago:
I was the “go find the pliers to turn the channel, cause the knob went missing last year” kid.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month ago:
If you scan one item and put two on the scale, it will usually just accept it.
The scales and the items aren’t all that accurately documented, so it doesn’t always know the difference.
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 2 months ago:
There’s only two types of people who carry that much cash, and neither of them can afford to lose it.
It goes back to the person that lost it, no matter how much effort it takes.
- Comment on “We’re used to people saying fuck no and doing it anyway” -Michigan governor Gretchen Whitner. Daughter of a health insurance CEO. She is currently selling Michigan out for every penny she can as her… 2 months ago:
People be complicated, yo.
You can support some progressive policies, but also have the (incorrect) belief that these businesses are necessary for your state to have a strong economy in the future.