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- Comment on Would it be weird of me to send friend requests to old friends I knew in school 15 years ago? 2 weeks ago:
I remember when that was all anyone did with Facebook.
- Comment on Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam? 2 weeks ago:
There are no surviving depictions of Muhammad made during his lifetime. Although there are surviving descriptions of Muhammad’s appearance, these are not detailed enough to create a perfectly accurate image of him. Because of this, no image of Muhammad can be perfectly accurate, meaning that any image that purports to represent him is, in some way or another, deceptive.
That’s quite a contrast with White Jesus.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 2 weeks ago:
That’s a much more rational mentality. Driving is absurdly dangerous. If you’re killed by a human, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it will be because they hit you with a car.
- Comment on Unethical Life Protip 2 weeks ago:
As long as it’s right next to the real posters, I can’t imagine that it would actually hamper the pet’s return.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 3 weeks ago:
I think the people with this mentality are probably the same people who refuse to ride buses under any circumstances.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t make a moral distinction between humans and other animals, it seems difficult to justify scavenging with any logic that couldn’t also be used to justify grave robbing or even necrophilia.
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
Wood glue won’t hurt (though you do have to wait for it to dry), but friction alone is often enough to do a decent job.
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
Otherwise known as a drywall anchor or wall plug. My parents also call them mollies, but those are different (though also often used for screwing things into drywall).
- Comment on Anon has a bully 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, alcohol burns very quickly and not really that hot (as far as fire is concerned). While it definitely can burn you, it actually won’t necessarily do so.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 4 weeks ago:
I’d be worried about either compromising the insulation or having to charge my fridge camera. Remember, this is me going to great lengths to be lazy.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 4 weeks ago:
I’m all in favor of smart appliances… as long as they don’t connect to the Internet. Give me a local HomeAssistant integration. That way, I can check what’s in my refrigerator from my bed without worrying about it showing me ads.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 4 weeks ago:
They just added ads :(
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 4 weeks ago:
For now. I’m just hoping that the Pixel lasts until Fairphone brings back the headphone jack and the car lasts until I can move somewhere where I don’t need one.
- Comment on Do you have a flagship phone or a car that's 2021/newer but are struggling financially? 4 weeks ago:
As of a couple of months ago, sort of. I have a Google Pixel 8 and only recently got a reasonably well-compensated job. I got the phone in 2023, shortly before I was laid off, and it was on a fire sale in anticipation of the Pixel 9 released, so I’m only paying $4/month for it, $100 total plus the $70 up front.
My car is a 2007 model year that I could only afford because it was in an accident previously, though.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 5 weeks ago:
Not quite. Round 33 will have 2^32 people, or a bit over half the population of Earth. Remember, round 1 has one person, 2^(0), not 2^(1).
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 5 weeks ago:
But once you get to round 33, everyone on earth is tied to the track, so there’s no one to pull the lever. That means that the trolley safely passes by, giving everyone ample time to free themselves. Eventually, the trolley stops due to friction with the track and air, plus brakes if it’s using them, and then we all stop getting tied to tracks.
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 1 month ago:
Not a modern program, but I don’t see anything that makes me think that programs will never be capable of metacognition. LLMs won’t, but they aren’t the be-all end-all.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 1 month ago:
You know what? I’m kind of OK with bringing anti-Catholic conspiracy theories back for a bit. Takes some heat off the Jews and Muslims, and the tradcath movement produced such wonderful people as Brett Kavanaugh. Plus, they never really answered for the whole systemic child molestation thing.
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 month ago:
If Japan is going to catch strays, invading people is a pretty good reason.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 1 month ago:
But hey, at least it gives you a new hat.
- Comment on Would one run faster without arms? 1 month ago:
You do have more momentum to counteract the drag, though. I wonder if the decreased mass would be offset by the decreased surface area.
- Comment on Restroom Location 1 month ago:
Half their songs are about being from Louisiana.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
Thanks for the correction, edited. How is gas not 100% efficient, though?
But yeah, heat pumps are definitely more environmentally friendly (unless you’re habitually letting the refrigerant out, o guess). The real argument is whether the extra energy is worth it for protein folding (I’d say generally no, but if you don’t have a heat pump, might as well).
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
Heat pumps cap out at about 250% efficiency, so you’d still be spending more to run them than to burn natural gas at that ratio.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
They must have overshot, then. Computers are 100% efficient space heaters that produce math as a byproduct.
- Comment on Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces? 1 month ago:
They also delete the second space lol
- Comment on necessary read 1 month ago:
John Quincy Adams was pretty decent, as far as I’m aware.
- Comment on Those were the good old days 1 month ago:
I definitely wouldn’t be happy about it if I were unarmed, but it’s basically a particularly ferocious goose. A baseball bat would be enough to give me a decent chance at leaving more or less unscathed.
- Comment on Those were the good old days 1 month ago:
Depends on the dinosaur. A Spinosaurus would just eat me, but I could beat up a velociraptor.