GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 2 days ago:
Your inhibitions are also, to a degree, part of what make you who you want to be. Not excusing him, certainly not defending him, but sometimes a little inhibition is a good thing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Be sure to tell your grandkids it has real potential and they should check it out once the series is complete.
- Comment on Woops 1 week ago:
English has at least 5 (French, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Arabic, doubtless more) and it’s up to the user to know which is used in any given context. Or not. It’s really kind of stupid.
- Comment on I expect to hear nothing from the right when the US goes all out celebrating Trumps inevitable departure from the realm of the living. 2 weeks ago:
Not even jeans, or discussing not pooping. Then again, that last one seems to be off base for this sub, too…
- Comment on We all have those dreams 2 weeks ago:
Did your dream self say, “At least it isn’t InstaCart”?
- Comment on We all have those dreams 2 weeks ago:
Part of how scissors are design is for there to be a natural tendency to pull the blades together when you press with your thumb.
On a reladed note, if you’re left-handed, get a pair of left-handed scissors. There are two reasons for this. First, you will be amazed at how much easier it is to cut with the correct scissors. Second, you can have your friends who don’t think having the correct scissors is a big deal try them and see how wrong they are.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Well, I’m in Canada, so the standards are already higher as far as quality goes, and our regulatory agency is still in place for oversight.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Option number 4. The sanitary standards for packaging milk are very high in North America. This drastically reduces the risk of contamination after pasteurization, which allows our milk to last quite a while. It isn’t as sterile as UHT milk, but it tastes more natural.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
They had milk in 1.3 L bags (sold in packs of 3 for 4 L) in Manitoba about 35 or 40 years ago.
- Comment on How much earth would compress and expand if all of it was 50°C 3 weeks ago:
Given the quaint physics of circles, the expansion of a ring of silicate around the earth would be quite noticeable. C = 2×pi×r, which can be converted to r = C/(2×pi). Plugging in those two values gives us
40000/(2×pi) = 6366.1977 km
40008/(2×pi) = 6367.4710 km
So, taking this ring from 0° to 50° would cause it to rise 1.2 km into the air, assuming it kept its integrity.
A simpler way to write this is
(40008 - 40000)/(2×pi) or 4×pi.
A tiny difference, relatively speaking, but a quite notable difference given the context.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 3 weeks ago:
Moreover, the OP is a lemmy.ca account, and may very well be French Canadian. And guess what, the currency sign is trailing in French.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia lists about 5 other uses, some of which would probably still be relevant today if we didn’t have cheaper ways to make perfume. Silly wise men, giving expensive, light, easily liquidated assets to people they believed were going to be fugitives. As well as some much heavier, but very easily liquidated assets. Poorest choices imaginable.
- Comment on new trend 3 weeks ago:
And more approachable! All the chimps have access to assholes and grass. No one has to feel left out, as long as they leave it in!
- Comment on Which of frankincense and myhrr is more pricey? What even are they, respectively? 3 weeks ago:
Myhrr was also used in incense, balms, etc. They were great gifts for anyone for the reasons you listed, especially during a time when people of that nationality had been ordered to travel possibly great distances and you believed the people you were giving the gifts to would be fugitives.
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d hope ancient enmities wouldn’t lead to modern problems, but it’s funny watching some people treating the indigenous people’s like a single entity, or like there weren’t fights between groups.
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 3 weeks ago:
…that will start some fights…
- Comment on What dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair? 3 weeks ago:
I doubt I’ll ever be bald, although I expect I’ll be pretty thin in my 70s and later, and I haven’t really cared one way or another about baldness. I got my first grey hair in my teens and it hasn’t stopped, and I don’t care too much about that, either (it was cool when I had the flashes of grey above my ears like Reed Richards in the old comics, which I thought looked so fake). My beard is shit, and I don’t care. I shave because it looks like shit, tho. It’s great if we can accept what we are.
I’m glad you’re happy with your skullet and epic beard.
- Comment on How do I deal with the outside world when I have germaphobia and don't really like outside? 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact, copper, brass, and silver are anti-microbial, so a lot of old-time door handles were anti-microbial. Odd coincidence, isn’t it?
- Comment on Jealous much? 3 weeks ago:
Quality post!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
😅 All good. About 10% of people think cilantro tastes weird, and describe it differently from those who like it, often saying it tastes like soap. I’m in that category, and it’s probably genetic.
I was a little surprised by the down votes, and honestly don’t care if other people like it (don’t really care about the downvotes, either). I’m more concerned about the people who say it tastes like soap and still want to eat it. And I miss the fuck cilantro subreddit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I can’t think of a better reason to not like something than a genetic quirk, but apparently others disagree. That’s okay, I can accept that the majority is wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Looks okay, but #FuckCilantro
- Comment on Beans aswell 3 weeks ago:
Voyager needs to support this. It will be beautiful.
🌽 - Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 3 weeks ago:
You just change the definition of your isolated system. It takes less energy to move heat from one place to another than it does to excite matter to release energy. For resistive or combustion heating, the isolated system is your house, plus the gas if using gas heat. For heat pumps, you include the rest of the world.
As an aside, heat pumps are generally considered good when they reach 300% efficiency, i.e., when every watt of energy expended adds 3 watts of heat to your home.
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 3 weeks ago:
This is no longer correct. We have heat pumps that can be more than 100% efficient, even air-sourced heat pumps in -30° weather. There are still many places where this will still be more expensive than a gas furnace.
- Comment on Biblically accurate tree angel 5 weeks ago:
Does that make the drone an avatar?
- Comment on Biblically accurate tree angel 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I’m tired of cornposting 5 weeks ago:
One of the more memorable lines from “Whoes Line Is It Anyway”, for me as least, was when one of them said, “How’s it hanging, Tes-ti-cles?”
- Comment on We can play that game too 5 weeks ago:
The kind of truck that can handle any kinds of undeveloped forest are more expensive than the land you say is too expensive for the people who would want to do what you’re saying. So, unrealistic expectations all around.
- Comment on We can play that game too 5 weeks ago:
I like how your dream of self-sufficiency starts with there being g a road you can drive on. Or do you think most woods are reasonable places for driving trucks? You’d be better off buying a donkey or mule. Worst case scenario, you’d have a bit more meat to eat before you starved.