rain_enjoyer

@rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heater⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i need to see that bosnian ape society video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heater⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah it’s supposed to glow green

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  so your solution to defeating a grenade is to dig explosive out of it?

  While I have no evidence to support that claim I have seen someone putting live ammunition in a pot and making it cook off. That experiment clearly showed that cartridges are only really dangerous when used in a firearm. I expect the physics to be very much the same here.

  then your expectations aren’t worth shit, because one is high explosive that does not require confinement to detonate, because reaction zone propagates through supersonic mechanical shock, and the other one is low explosive that has burn rate dependent on pressure, because it burns on surface, which forms foam, which slows down heat transfer, then foam collapses with pressure increase which makes heat transfer faster, but it’s all subsonic. some of the smallest fragments might be stopped by a pot wall, if grenade is in the center, but if it’s close to one wall, then the wall itself would just generate more fragments

  but you probably won’t have pot on hand, or realize what is going on in time, and you don’t know how much time is left because of manufacturing tolerances, and you probably don’t have grenade sumps in your living room, so better way would be preventing this situation in the first place, for example using laminated windows or not being a probable mafia target in sweden, if it’s practical. not by trying to cover grenade with a pot, because you just spend more time closer to grenade this way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that would make the wall unsafe, i’m thinking more about the other ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suggest having a “decorative” metal pot. If you could cover the grenade with it, that could potentially nullify its effect

  this is just adding more metal to be thrown around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  first, don’t be there, then don’t be detected, then don’t be hit

  wall (brick or concrete, not cardboard) between you and grenade should stop fragments, anything less is heavily dependent on what kind of the thing it is and how lucky you are. ikea chair won’t save you, anything solid enough to be worth it would be so heavy that time spent moving it is just better spent moving away. if you live above ground floor, like on third floor or above, it’s likely that you’ll be fine because throwing grenades up is a really bad idea. grenades are round and roughly as heavy as rocks of similar size, perhaps you can get laminated glass windows that should crack but not let grenade through on impact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wowee⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  something is wrong, i can see new zealand on this map

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨power generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  when you dissolve salt in water, then salt splits into ions and each can hold up specific number of water molecules, which means that this water can’t do water things. so on top of salt’s physical presence, there’s a fraction of water that can’t water, or salt water is less watery in a sense than fresh water. now it turns out, if you put a membrane between these two that allows water through but not salt, water goes to higher salinity on its own, because there’s less watery there. how hard it happens is quantified as osmotic pressure and it can be in tens of atmospheres. reverse electrodialysis is just a clever arrangement that avoids energy recovery from low volume of high pressure liquid, like how reverse of reverse osmosis would work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨power generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a look at a modern supercritical steam turbine, this thing can run on 600C steam. there’s nothing archaic about it (it can be more efficient as a part of combined cycle)

  Hydropower and windmills are older than steam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or you can put them on wires like grapes. idk if it’s unusual luck or skill issue, but my blackberries get stem rust every couple of years and they have to be cut down, they do grow back from roots but it keeps them from spreading too far

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  come on, now you have to make a mojito in a concrete mixer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  all that menthol mint makes is a part of its defenses against insects specifically, and it works in europe. maybe it’s better this way, because australia needs zero extra invasive species

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think of gold more as a premium lead. we’d for sure coat insides of cans with it, instead of tin if it was so cheap, but it’s weaker than steel. radiation shielding would be another one, ever heard of ancient lead used for radiation shielding for high sensitivity experiments? gold has none of these problems. gold ammunition, gold piping for chemical industry instead of nickel alloys, as long as it’s not too heavy. it would also cause all sorts of new problems with recycling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  or you can use slightly thicker copper. but sometimes you can’t, and that’s when silver is a slight upgrade

  i heard that microwave parts for satellite use are made this way: first you start with aluminum, for structural and weight reasons. then it’s plated on inside (where microwaves are) with thin layer of zinc, then with copper. you can’t plate copper on aluminum directly. copper is there to conduct microwave current, but silver is even better, so there’s a layer of silver to conduct most of it, and copper handles the rest. then it’s topped with gold, but it’s a very thin layer, so thin that it doesn’t conduct a lot of current. it’s there only for corrosion resistance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes for corrosion resistance and ductility. no for hardness, electrical and heat conductivity. you can’t use gold or its compounds as catalysts where copper makes sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s not much because it can be plated real thin and more is not necessary

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, after impact, quite evenly. last time it happened, it was called iridium anomaly. there’s not that much gold in electronics and other platinum group metals are more useful from material engineering perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone feeling like doesn't belong anywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this trip is for my older brother to go pursue marriage plans… why the fuck would I tag along?

  you’re designated wingman /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is your God now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there are bowl shaped mugs with glorious half liter capacity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no no no old people memes is ai slop posted by bots on facebook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Absolute Cinema" said Peter Magyar, newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary, when turning towards the press⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell is this Bull shit ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can just pull up to gas station and fill dedicated lpg container which you get along with lpg conversion kit, no need yo diy it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta Philip soon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  may i interest you in slightly sketchy development called using propane as fuel, it’s a fair bit cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FADED. 🥴⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  did she just memoryholed all of the summer 2025 airstrikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  last time i’ve checked yes it’s gone as default, but it’s still an option. lemmy devs openly stated that anyone can do whatever they want on their own instances and they can’t influence it (except that for the longest time they’ve controlled the largest instance, not anymore of course)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit, coded by a tankie

  kbin is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit digg, coded by a gun nut and abandoned. mbin is a continuation

  piefed is a piece of opinionated foss software that attempts to be an alternative to reddit, coded by a control freak with (formerly) hard-coded questionable moderation

  there’s a couple of others like misskey/sharkey. all of them are broken and wonderful. piefed seems to be more feature-rich. by way of miracle, somehow these are interoperable with each other and in more broken way, with mastodon. i heard there lie horrors within lemmy codebase, and updating it is major pain. these all attempt to do slightly different things and so features provided by each are different (kbi/mbin has separate upvote and boost, and who up/downvoted/boosted is always visible to public, all of that is always technically public, but hidden in lemmy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War. War never changes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ketamine was only invented during vietnam war

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War. War never changes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  seems unwise to do anything dangerous when some random ass chem undergrad from shaanxi takes you on an adventure that you’ll never remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not sure about your local critters, but red foxes also have vocalizations that scare people sometimes