untorquer
@untorquer@quokk.au
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 day ago:
Should have kept it in Latin…
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 3 days ago:
Turns out they’re the reason we haven’t had nuclear war. All this nonsense about MAD, HAHAHA no! The powerful just won’t do it without baikouts for their investments.
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 3 days ago:
The nuclear war clause is in nearly every insurance policy, not just pets.
- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 4 days ago:
God loves a good honey pot!
- Comment on Since Endorphins and Serotonin are two completely different chemicals which give the biggest "High"? And does the release of some of one of them overcompensate for the other? How come? 4 days ago:
Different systems. So probably synergistic effect but I’m not an expert.
- Comment on Anon ruins christmas 4 days ago:
My dad beat the shit out of me
I don’t think it was so much about religion or ruining it for others.
- Comment on A Ripple in Space 6 days ago:
So gravity plus gyroscopic precession (or pedantically named related effect)
- Comment on May not buff out 6 days ago:
Well actually…
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
Responding to:
More rubber on the road means more grip. As the weight and corner speeds increase, you need more of it.
However,
a larger area makes it so small patches of lower friction (sand patch or water or trash or whatever) have less of an impact, with more area you have a higher chance to still be in contact with the asphalt.
Unless we’re talking about liters of sand/gravel then this fails to explain how motorcycles have as much grip as cars do, as is evidenced by cornering ability.
More area also gives more opportunity for the ridges in tires to displace water or grip onto gravel/dirt.
Tread depth and pattern handle these.
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Racing tires are wider because they need to handle higher loads. Racing slicks also maximize contact area to extend tire life and reduce wall thickness. There’s thermal conduction as well. Rubber is an insulator. Rubber friction changes with temperature. So does modulus, leading to more deformation and thus more heating. Too thick rubber makes a hot tire that loses friction coefficient. Too thin and it wears too fast, you’re on steel 3 laps in. so you make it wide enough to distribute the load, reduce stress, and control heating while trading off mass. This is also controlled by chemical composition. After that you’re designing for weather conditions.
Passenger vehicle tires focus more on climate and adverse road conditions and long life. Because they are much lower performance, they have much lower loads and use tires with less contact area. The same is the case for motorcycles and bicycles.
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
There is no pressure nor area in the friction equation. ‘Fu=u*Fn’
Fu - friction force
u - friction coefficient
Fn - normal force
Pencil thin tires of the same material have the same grip as extra wide ones in dry conditions. Tread geometry can change for wet but only to prevent hydroplaning, friction is still the same between the tires fire a given condition.
More contact area means less stress on the rubber which means the rubber wears less for the same load. A car weighs 2 tons, a bike+rider is less than 100kg/200lb. 1/20 the contact area for similar wear. If a car had bike tires they would probably melt after a few km
- Comment on Destroyed by logic 1 week ago:
Love that fresh from the fryer warm and crunchy feeling 🥰
- Comment on I hear you girl 3 weeks ago:
If this is AI gen then that would be the cherry on top
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
e=mc^2
So
c=√(e/m)
Or actually do calculus but screw that let’s just speculate that a photon having a lessr infinite energy is equivalent to a lower speed of light. Therefore space has shrunk or time has expanded or the opposite or whatever.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Anyone got details on those pants on the right?
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 5 weeks ago:
Fuck you i don’t do what you tell me!
Oh… Oh that’s nice…
- Comment on I have a busy morning planned 1 month ago:
I have a slot just before lunch for fucking around but we’ll have to push finding out to next week.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 month ago:
This should be a refreshing take on the simulator genre for you:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1723780/Finnish_Cottage_Simulator/
- Comment on Suspicious 3 months ago:
OUR password
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 3 months ago:
All your examples are changing gramatically between noun and verb.
Germanic languages tend to use the second word in a compound as the noun and the first as a modifier.
Blue ocean is an ocean that is colored blue where ocean blue is a shade of blue.
Conversely snowshoe is a shoe meant for use on snow. Shoesnow is nonesense rather than snow stuck to your shoe.
- Comment on Okay... so how do depressed people even have relationships? Did they get depresion after they already got into the relationship or did they actually went dating while having depression? 3 months ago:
The normal way. Flirting, talking, dating.
As long as someone is addressing their depression (e.g. therapy or whatever) and not expecting a relationship to fix it then it is fine and healthy to join one.
Granted loneliness can definitely cause depression, so an exceptional case there.
In terms of dark room vs. extrovert, i can speak from experience that both can feel lonely and the depressive episodes still come and go. IMO better to have higher highs because you’re getting the lows either way 🤷.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 3 months ago:
Bill Clinton energy damn
- Comment on THE BRITISH COLONIZED OUR NIPPLES 🇬🇧☕️🧐 3 months ago:
Gaslighting is putting this in shitpost
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This implies a ideal gas law for bats, an ideal bat law, bat liquid, bat solid, and bat plasma
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Think of how long it would take to count that high
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 3 months ago:
Its rare to find a friend who will try new things. Super great to just say, “lets do this thing!” and them to emphatically agree 😁 I used to have no choice but to do those things alone.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 3 months ago:
Lonliness is a significant driver of depression in modern society. Finding community and relationships can absolutely help. In fact friends and partners are generally the first people we need to talk to about our feelings.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think the best way might be the simplest way that achieves a consensus that sufficient nuance is considered.
Or rather, the minimum necessary that everyone affected can use the tool proficiently to meet their needs. Most tools need regular maintenance or discarding, but cat is giving simple, so maybe cat is on to something.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
But you just used it as a tool to categorize and explain a wide swath of relationship dynamics. The only thing you needed was to apply it to the individuals instead of the relationship writ large.
I think the cat is in the middle of a lecture too. Maybe that’s the next slide?
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 3 months ago:
They’re translating to American English
- Comment on meirl 3 months ago:
“On what grounds”?