GreyEyedGhost

@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caroline Konstnar - Fart City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying you’re wrong, but I did stupider things when I was 20. I also didn’t do them in front of 50k people…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dating a rural Khmer guy + his non-English speaking dad wasn't on my 2026 bingo card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, read the post and go from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dating a rural Khmer guy + his non-English speaking dad wasn't on my 2026 bingo card⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’re doing the Lord’s and three other people’s work. I’m tired just reading it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, oil prices will surely go down, soon, and the good news is the weather changes that cause all those heatwaves also increase the efficiency of solar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps the reason is the people dying every year during heatwaves, caused in large part by depleting oilfields.

  🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill it as “sweaters for your home” in Scotland and they’ll be angry they didn’t do it sooner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So your argument is we don’t need this in everyday life. Sure, that’s sort of true, but I guarantee this was necessary in making a stove that would work in your area. But also true is that if it doesn’t matter that much in day-to-day life, then the only reason to keep such a clunky system is familiarity.

  Also, 1 BTU is the amount of energy to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree F. So your calculations are already off by a factor of 128. Given the world doesn’t need you to know the numbers for water to boil, that doesn’t affect much, but perhaps the vastly higher number for heating the water versus the amount of energy to get the water to vaporize should have clued you in that something was weird. It’s easy to tell in metric because most of the dimensional conversion values are 1 or factors of 10.

  There are people who like to dismiss the value of knowledge because it isn’t important in their daily lives. This is only true if you live in a hut where the only sources of force are human, animal, or fire, or there is someone unseen that you rely on who has used those tools extensively to provide you a life where knowing that isnt necessary. Raising the bar with ridiculous conversion calculations every step of the way makes understanding these concepts more difficult for the layperson and makes the field harder to enter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We will assume that room temperature is 20° C. The heat of enthalpy is 2257 kJ/kg, or 2.257 kJ/g. As stated previously, the amount of energy to raise water 1 degree is 1 cal, which also equals 4.184 J. So,

  (100-20) × 4.184 + 2257 = 80 × 4.184 + 2257 = 334.72 + 2257 = 2592 J rounded to the nearest whole number. This will leave you with a dry pot.

  Now show me the process using Fahrenheit, fluid ounces, and foot-pounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The best part is that Walter White, as a science teacher, would probably agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana for scale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but in one the math is super easy and you don’t need to throw in 6 conversion factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #271 Time for a Commercial Break! SpongeBob Adventures is brought to you by...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say they same thing, fish-slapper. Is this emotionless void defective?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the deep freeze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they were really concerned about him feeling welcome, they would ask what he wants and take it at face value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had CRTs that could do that, too, but if you opened a picture of a circle, it looked like an oval.

  I’m not saying those screen ratios, or those resolutions, didn’t exist, but I wouldn’t say they were the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A 5:4 monitor would be closer to square than an HD monitor. I’m not sure if the OP meant an HD size or actually 5:4 since I haven’t seen anything that size except for digital picture frames and portable console screens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Empathy is a weakness!”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not tolerating doesn’t mean not feeling empathy. “Yeah, I’m sad you had a shitty upbringing or decided to join this group so you had a sense of belonging, but I still can’t condone you calling for harm to others.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not an acceptable response from Poem_for_your_sprog. Do better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays DnD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone whose favorite pastime is gaming, feet are only required for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This could provide some benefit if that wasn’t a metaphor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think an economic crisis where 30% of their shareholders and close to 50% of their income is sourced from won’t harm them significantly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can one individual get Nestle, Amazon, Google, Apple, Disney, and Blackrock to go out of business?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Become president, collapse the dollar and the economy, turn all allies against you, start wars with no benefit or obvious endgame, get the rest of the world to start a program of “Buy not-America”, wait a few years for new programs and businesses to start in foreign nations, have sanctions placed against you for being a bad neighbor, watch your local and international businesses collapse.

  🤞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bean boys this week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When a game of telephone goes right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First he stole his number 72.. and then he stole his rookie lap. All around dick move⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a bunch of weird shit I don’t care about, as opposed to the weird shit I do care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like a significant cost is in reading the whole sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shaving not necessary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t always agree with best, but always memorable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨free time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can function adequately on 5, there is another 1.5 hours of gaming time available.

  Just kidding. Get the sleep you need so your brain will function well for longer and you can get those missed hours of fun back when your kids don’t require all your attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried a rowing machine, would never do it a second time. Now, I have bad knees, but I still thought it wouldn’t be that bad. Maybe it was a bad machine, maybe I used it wrong, maybe they aren’t for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were supposed to be five pyramids at Giza. Cutbacks…

  j/k

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[The Matrix (movie, 1999)] What does agent Brown's line mean?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also felt the connotation that it would be unthinkable for the other agents to want to be disconnected from each other/the network, so they were a little shocked he even removed the ear piece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9/11 Conspiracy: what REALLY happened?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we can’t be sure if it happened before since the old hall of records next to it was destroyed in 1962. 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a difference between “I will pay you to vote for me” and “I will pay you if I win.” The first is certainly illegal, the second should be. In some ways, the second statement reminds me of the phrase, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” Sure, no direct order was given, but the priest still died.

  I don’t expect to see any response to this statement from law enforcement, just like there wasn’t when Musk actually paid people to vote for the conservative judge.