Bluewing
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- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
Yeah that should work or you. Not so good in the cloudy winters in forest for me.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
There are still great areas that have very low populations. I live in such a place in the middle of a huge forest. Think 10,000+ acres of trees everywhere. They tend to fall over in bad weather. Living in an open farmland area where a wood fence post can considered a tree, power outages are rare.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
That ain’t bad at all.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
This is what automatic generators are for. They come on after sensing the power drop out and when it comes back on, it shuts down automatically. I have such a system because I live in the middle of a forest and trees fall over sometimes. And for bonus points, it can happen when the outside temps are at -30F/-29C and be off for a few hours or days.
It is expensive, but worth every penny.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
Oh, he survived. He would need new underwear and possibly pants also. Might be some scorched fingers and possibly temporary tingling in the fingers, but the Angry Pixies wouldn’t kill him…This time.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 1 day ago:
Meh, that’s only going to “coulda killed you”. The one piece metal wire will create a dead short across the circuit and trip it out instantly. He IS going to need new underwear and possibly pants also. He’ll have some scorched fingers with maybe a bit of temporary tingling in them after pissing off the angry pixies. But as far as death goes, god would need to be looking down directly at him and go “Fuck this guy, right now”. Not impossible, but it would require an exceptional amount of bad luck.
US outlets are safe. Not only does this out show a bit of recess at the surface, but the metal contacts that are carrying the current are also recessed inside about 1/8"/3mm where you can’t see them.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 2 days ago:
I firmly believe there is some kind of witchcraft involved in making a Scotch egg. I can’t make them either.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 2 days ago:
You’ve never heard of Black Pudding? Which is a blood pudding served with a full English breakfast?
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 2 days ago:
Yep the Scots have their famous Haggis boiled in a sheep’s stomach. It is impossible to make a real Haggis in the US, it’s not legal to sell such things as a sheep’s stomach because of food safety.
So, unless you make your own sheep’s stomach from scratch, we are stuck with canned Haggis in the US. Which is OK, but not the best. And to be honest, the Scots also have moved on to canned haggis since it a very time consuming dish to make.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 2 days ago:
The word pudding was around long before there was a Britain. It was much simpler back then. A pudding was anything you stuffed into an animal intestine or stomach and boiled the Hell out of it, (See: Holy Water).
At some point, when ingredients like eggs, sugar, and flour became common, the Brits kind of went off the rails and completely lost the whole thread as to just what is a pudding.
- Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today 2 days ago:
As another 'Murican, the way I understand it is that if it’s boiled or steamed inside of an animal intestine or stomach, that’s a pudding. And even if it’s fried later, it’s still a pudding. See: Black Pudding, a British blood pudding.
And if it’s only steamed, often wrapped in a cloth, it’s probably a desert.
In any case, if some British person offers you a “pudding” don’t ask questions you really don’t want the answer to. Just shut up and eat it. They ARE British after all. And if you really don’t want to risk it, ask if you can go to a curry shop instead. Blessed be the Indians who taught the Brits to cook at least one edible dish.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 4 days ago:
I spent years as toolmaker. Measuring things was my life. I still have tools and whole machines scattered across thing planet. So yes, I’m incredibly comfortable with both systems. G20/G21 after all. The difference between my and you is I don’t consider any measurement system to be intuitively better than another. I use whatever system is either asked for or required for the job at hand.
I could not afford be as parochial or narrow minded as you seem to be if I wanted to make a living.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 4 days ago:
So who decided base10 is correct? Why be limited to just 3 factors of then when you could have 4 with base12? More factors more better. And don’t give me the “10 fingers” thing. If you count the knuckles on your fingers, (ignore the thumb), you will discover there are 12 of them. A natural Base12 just like counting whole fingers.
More than one civilization has done base12. And I believe there are still one or two Pacific Island cultures still using base12 to this day.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 4 days ago:
I’m perfectly happy and able to seamlessly shift between systems. You seem stuck at “Ugh, me sure me right and all else wrong!” attitude.
And you, by your examples, are STILL using a device to measure things because the metric system isn’t that intuitive. You are using body parts that you have predetermined the approximate lengths of. I can tell a 4 year old child to cut a piece of paper in half and they intuitively understand about how much that is with no pre-measured body parts.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
I know. People are stupid. All of them on both sides of this ridiculous argument.
Anyway, I’mma go to the liquor store and get me 750ml bottle of bourbon and then pop over to the grocery store and buy 5lbs(2.3kg) of flour because I’m a cup of flour short to bake 2 loves of bread. Oh, remind me to get a pound of butter(454g) because I need 1/4 a stick of butter for the butter chicken masala I’m making for supper.
(I hope I added enough sand to everyone’s underwear)
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
So that took a calculator to do didn’t it. It was not an intuitive calculation you could easily and quickly do in your head was it.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
Now go cut me a board 1/6m without a measuring device. Do it by eye. With a fractional system 1/6 of a foot is far easier to do.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
I agree. I use both and have for decades now. It just seems Europeans can’t handle fractions despite their puny efforts to do so.
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
As an old toolmaker, I agree. It’s like Europeans suck at understanding math(s) just as much as 'Muricans. Fractions are NOT complicated, if a bit crude for precision. Not that either system matters much anymore. It’s all just G20/G21 anyway. It’s all either just a push of a button or a G-code away.
If the machine doesn’t care about the units are being used, why should I?
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
It explains nothing since he got it wrong…
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 5 days ago:
No, it’s not “Imperial units” and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s US Customary units. There are differences between the two systems. If your going to troll, get it right.
If you can’t, go back to your troll cave and cuddle your delicious stinky cheeses!
- Comment on No need to reproduce 💜 6 days ago:
I’m sitting here now wondering just who should reproduce and how do we determine who that is?
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 1 week ago:
Then you understand and are wise.
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 1 week ago:
If you have to ask that question, you ain’t got one. And if you don’t know why I’m sitting exactly like that right now, you ain’t never gonna understand.
- Comment on You ignore lemmy for a couple hours and... 1 week ago:
The Poo must flow!
- Comment on Surely they yearn for the mines 1 week ago:
I never said it couldn’t be done. Just that it’s really expensive and very complicated, (that’s the whole looking ahead and reasoning the dangers - AI robots are not yet that capable), vs the cost of human life.
What IS being done is above ground human supervised robotics doing VERY simple tasks. Because that’s all they can do right now. But it’s an expensive buy in vs cheap human labor so you don’t see it much.
As I said, none of you here get your hands that dirty with that type of work. You just complain from afar.
- Comment on Surely they yearn for the mines 1 week ago:
It’s pretty simple:
Robots are very expensive. And ones that could do this type of work cost even more. Nor are they smart enough to be able to reason ahead and envision danger. So they would get crushed in cave ins a lot.
Human males, and yes its vastly men that do mining, are cheap and in plentiful supply. They can do at least some rudimentary reasoning and will get crushed less often. And if you lose a few, well they are easily and cheaply replaced. Making them far more profitable to use.
As an aside, companies are designing and building robotic construction equipment these days. It’s just that none of you hang around with such “dirty trades”.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
Not with my Whisk(e)y you don’t.
- Comment on After all, why not? 1 week ago:
Where the whisk(e)y at?
- Comment on Buddha orders a pizza: "Make me One with Everything" 2 weeks ago:
That’s OK so long as you can feel the rules in your bones.