Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 19 hours ago:
Thank you! Nobody I’ve pointed this out to seems to understand what an abomination cold butter on raw bread with sprinkles is, I thought I was the crazy one.
- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 3 days ago:
Do you mean Spanish or Tagalog?
- Comment on it's spring 3 days ago:
Governor of NY and mayor of NYC always competing.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 days ago:
Who’s we?
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 days ago:
Given that we’re talking about terabytes of data, it wouldn’t be surprising if the bulk of the files were video used for blackmail, but what doesn’t add up is how friendly they all seem in the emails. You don’t ask the guy blackmailing you when the wildest party is.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 days ago:
There’s another, even dumber world where Trump has such a great visit to Iran, we team up to invade greenland.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 4 days ago:
AFAIK, The only blackmail we’ve seen in the 2% of epstein files that were released was blackmailing Gates to cover up how he gave his wife an STD. It seems like they were simply ideologically and materially aligned with Israel.
- Comment on The Struggle 4 days ago:
It gets easier if you go 100% cold turkey for a few months; I stopped any kind of refined sugar in like 2016 and now more subtle sweetnesses stand out, and the occasion I eat things like ice cream with chocolate or a glazed jelly donut makes me physically ill.
I was recently given a monster and holy shit people drink that, by choice? Why is there so much??
- Comment on More than a dipper 4 days ago:
Birds are denser than water??
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- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 1 week ago:
Depends where you are, nature is cheap and accessible in asia.
- Comment on Anon is bored of it all 1 week ago:
Go to a better place?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 week ago:
Supercritical phase, it still changes pressure with heat, but there’s no abrupt phase transition. This increases efficiency somehow.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 week ago:
sCO2 turbines are like 1/30th the size of an equivalent steam turbine.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 week ago:
Wot if instead of boiling water, we boiled CO2, and instead of boiling CO2, we kept it at high pressure so that it never quite reached boiling or condensation?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 week ago:
The efficiency of any heat engine comes from the difference between hot and cold, you can’t get useful work if the water’s already boiled.
- Comment on If only someone warned people about getting involved in a land war in Asia 1 week ago:
We kinda did, why invade when you can just give a faction that benefits you shittons of diplomatic and financial support to achieve power, then military aid to keep the population from resisting. But this type of approach doesn’t work against countries that don’t let it, hence why you see a different track for Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea.
- Comment on Triangle 1 week ago:
Free engagement.
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 1 week ago:
Solar thermal is kinda obsolete I thought, now China is churning out PVs for pennies.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 1 week ago:
Enforcing an unjust system makes them inherently evil.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 1 week ago:
Surely motorcycling, free climbing, BASE jumping, hang gliding, and skiing are deadlier?
- Comment on Iran: Congrats! You bought passage for $2 Million through the Strait of Hormuz. *credit card declines* Iran: 2 weeks ago:
foreign nickation? I always thought it sounded like fornication.
Was Dan Schneider involved?
- Comment on New kink unlocked 2 weeks ago:
Anyone got a link to the actual paper?
- Comment on Induced Demand 3 weeks ago:
The question isn’t do helmets reduce the risk of head injury, its “is that reduction worth the inconvenience given this situation”, for example for most people, walking around their own home has a low enough risk of head injury that a helmet isn’t worth it, while riding a motorcycle is, if you have anything to protect.
The total number of accidents and population in those cities helps. The fact that Denmark doesn’t have a helmet law suggests to me that people are expected to have the judgement regarding the risk they’re actually taking.
- Comment on Induced Demand 3 weeks ago:
Are bike accidents really dangerous when you’re protected from cars and we’re talking about single gear bikes that barely go 10 mph?
- Comment on Induced Demand 3 weeks ago:
Some bike models have a helmet that sits in the basket, and is supposed to unlock with the bike. But the lock never works, and I asked a worker about it and he was like “don’t worry about it”.
I think nobody bothered to use the helmet because there’s dedicated, usually separated, bike lanes almost everywhere. And then there’s a giant sidewalk you can ride on if you want to go even slower.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 3 weeks ago:
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I’m more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 3 weeks ago:
shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling
So get better mass transit. Metros in most of asia are comfortable enough to take a nap and significantly faster than cars, and at least in Japan even the buses are smooth enough I can nap.
crowded around strangers
Imagine how much less crowded it would be if so much space wasn’t wasted on car infrastructure.
- Comment on Induced Demand 3 weeks ago:
Pedestrianized infrastructure tends to be denser since they don’t need parking lots. It often requires more effort to get in your car and drive and park than just walking 100 feet in a place without cars.
China has rideshare bike parking basically on every street, and it costs like 2USD/mo so you can almost always just get on a random bike and use it to go even just 100 feet to get to the subway or bus entrance.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 3 weeks ago:
Chekov’s Cross.
