SwingingTheLamp
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- Comment on No AI was harmed in the making of this post 8 hours ago:
Or he’s using the gray-rock technique to confront pretty blatant misogyny.
- Comment on Who suffers da most 9 hours ago:
This right here is how toxic masculinity is done. One of its main rules is: “Men don’t complain.” Height privilege is real, as described by another Lemming in this thread. But a shorter man lamenting that he’s on the wrong end of it is breaking the rule, so instead of sympathy, he gets told that he’s defective for having a natural, human reaction.
(Yes, I know I’m breaking the rule, too.)
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 19 hours ago:
I’d like to see the X-ray of that.
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 20 hours ago:
Why do non-US people get weirdly emotionally invested in it? I mean, if we’re criticizing, it’s worse that US recipes use cups and tablespoons (measures of volume) for ingredients (like flour) that should be measured by weight.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 days ago:
It’s about 1 BTU per fluid ounce per degree Fahrenheit, so:
128 fl oz × (212 - 68)°F × 1BTU/fl oz•°F = 18,432 BTU
Add in the enthalpy of vaporization:
7.5 BTU/fl oz × 128 fl oz = 960 BTU
So, about 19,392 BTU.
I’m cooking pasta for dinner, and I didn’t do any calculations. I just put the water in the pot on the stove, and waited for it to boil. Which was kind of the point of my question. Metric is all neat and elegant, but that’s irrelevant in daily life, because if I did have to calculate the energy requirement, I’d have to look up the enthalpy value, because it’s not memorable, as well as figuring in the actual atmospheric pressure to determine the actual boiling temperature. It makes all the sense in the world to use SI where it matters (e.g. science experiments), but customary units persist because in so much of daily life, it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 days ago:
Okay, then, how much energy does it take to boil 1mL of water from room temperature? (Note that I said “boil,” not raise it to 100°C.)
- Comment on Banana for scale 4 days ago:
NOOO!!!
America has its own laws of thermodynamics!
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- Comment on Banana for scale 4 days ago:
If by “metric system,” you mean SI. But then, SI uses m3 for volume, not litres. The author didn’t specify which metric system, so this could be valid.
- Comment on Guinea pigs 1 week ago:
This is where I can share what I learned in my ecology classes! There’s a concept called the ecological pyramid. The base comprises the primary producers, that is, plants which produce biomass with solar energy through photosynthesis. The next trophic level is the primary consumers, that is, herbivores that eat plant biomass. It’s a pyramid shape because the rule of thumb is that only about 10% of the original solar energy makes it up to the next trophic level.
Guinea pigs are primary consumers. Tigers are secondary or tertiary consumers, eating animals which eat plants, or even animals which eat other organisms which eat plants. Only about 1% of the original solar energy in the plants eaten by the animals the tigers ate goes into making new tiger biomass, compared to 10% of the energy from the plants going into making new guinea pig. And since tigers are much, much bigger, there have to be a lot fewer of them.
A tiger’s size gives it a big enough hunting advantage that, well, the world has tigers in it, but necessarily limits the numbers of the tiger population.
- Comment on Tiddies are nice but the metric system is better 2 weeks ago:
The International System of Units (SI) uses the kilogram as its base unit of mass, so it is 1 thing = 1 thing in SI units, and SI is what most people think that they mean by “metric system” these days. Even though the SI isn’t entirely metric. (The Celsius scale isn’t, for example.) Also, liters are not SI units; the m3 is the SI unit of volume, and the liter was defined in terms of that.
To put it another way, the base unit of mass is a kilo- of something, and it (not quite) equals a metric non-metric-system unit of volume of water. I dunno, the metric system seems all kinds of messed up to me!
(/j)
- Comment on Forget tiddies. Look at these boobies 2 weeks ago:
And here’s a nice rack!
- Comment on Sudden rule 4 weeks ago:
Su-u-u-ure the rabbit didn’t have anything to do with anything. That exactly what a guilty rabbit would say.
- Comment on you can date the time period by popular catch phrases 4 weeks ago:
You can perhaps tell who the elderly are, if they ask if you’re reluctantly crouched at the starting line.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 4 weeks ago:
If they call you on it, just say you’re ambitious and may run for President one day.
- Comment on Beer garden ready 4 weeks ago:
Sad. Back in the day, everybody could tell by the pixels that it was ‘shopped.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 4 weeks ago:
OWS didn’t fail. It was brutally crushed in a coup coordinated by the Obama administration.
- Comment on What is the name of this knot? And how does one tie it? 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps a variant on the trucker’s hitch? (Assuming that this was used to tie the canoe to the roof of a car.)
- Comment on Happy *blank*! 5 weeks ago:
Health* to America!
(* The RFK Jr version of health.)
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 5 weeks ago:
I will say that there’s immense value in symbolism, performative values, and simply being caught trying by voters. Yes the President will veto anything good, but fucking make him do it. Go on social media and the talk shows to rip him a new one for all of the good things that he’s actively preventing. Move the Overton Window. Change the terms of the public discourse.
Governing long ago moved beyond mere parliamentary procedure; it also needs to be a show that the people in the cheap seats (a.k.a. low-information voters) can watch.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not very proficient in Spanish, so I don’t see where those numbers come from, but they’re clearly incomplete. Traffic deaths alone were 1.34 million in 2023, and unless it was mosquitoes driving…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I feel like Homo sapiens sapiens is not getting its due, here.
- Comment on To be happy… 1 month ago:
And a blow dryer is just overkill evaporation.
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 1 month ago:
This is kind of misleading. Delhi commonly experiences fog in the winter months. Since the same weather conditions that form fog (atmospheric stability) also cause pollution to accumulate rather than blow away, the city gets AQI spikes and fog at the same time. The photo on the right is smog, but also representative of what you’d see if there were no air pollution.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 1 month ago:
It was the Minoans. Well, at least there’s an argument to be made. The time and place match well for stories of such journeys to make it into the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- Comment on I had always wondered... 1 month ago:
Haha, my Lemmy blocklist is mostly empty… I have a pretty good idea already of what this will turn up.
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 2 months ago:
Easy to confuse, but Judith Love Cohen was an electrical engineer who worked on the Apollo program, as well. She’s credited with work that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. She later became Jack Black’s mom.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
No, my apologies! It’s even a personal rule of mine to not tell people what they believe and experience.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
I stop at stop at stop signs, and see others do, too. So it happens. Probably as often as drivers stop at stop signs.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
Oh, I did do that, didn’t I? Crap. I meant it in the general-you sense. But still, cyclists obey the law more often than drivers when researchers do objective counts.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 months ago:
Bullshit. Cyclists obey the rules of the road at greater rates than drivers. It’s just that you expect drivers to behave like entitled dipshits, so their lawbreaking is less visible.
