Hawke

@Hawke@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime titles be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Letters writ by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France). Continued from the year 1637, to the year 1682. Written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, from thence into English, and now published with a large historical preface and index to illustrate the whole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s… not at all how those work. It’s literally a roll of clean dry towel.

  If the towel is wet it’s because you didn’t pull out fresh towel and just decided to use old towel for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a clean roll and a dirty roll. Someone takes out the dirty roll and replaces the clean roll periodically. Apparently they typically have about 30 meters of cloth, enough for about 200 uses.

  How often that is, depends on how frequently it’s used.

  There are cleaning services that wash the cloth and swap them for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean someone would still have to go and open it up, swap the rolls around, plus it wouldn’t work well since the towels don’t wind up cleanly in the cabinet and they’d still be wet.

  If you’re gonna send someone in to do anything they might as well change the towels while they’re at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A towel dispenser?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t go around more than once… there’s a take-up roll and the clean roll. Of course it also relies on someone changing it when it gets to the end…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, not really. Certainly not difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloth towels are even better still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanatory postscript, I was gonna ask…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Octopussoir.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really any of those interpretations is just fine. Although I have my preference, I’m not gonna say anyone else is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’ | The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not Latin, it’s of Greek origin. So it’s octopodes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No… push forward to go down, pull back to go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never see a flight sim with reversed controls. They all work like a real plane joystick from what I’ve seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Late 1970s / early 1980s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon updates GNU/linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No then they just start using it with that new name and act like nothing happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cursed knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And why would “investigation is still ongoing” stop them from releasing it? My opinion: either a convenient excuse, or yet another self-own from the Democratic Party.

  They chose not to release it, despite being under no true obligation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, assuming “They were sealed until Jan 2024” is true, then from that point forward they could have been released but weren’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very minimum you are confidently incorrect about how universal those terms are.

  British English uses “road surface” where US English uses “pavement”.

  British English uses “pavement” where US English uses “sidewalk”

  You can also find “metaling” as a general term for hard road surfaces.

  Even “concrete” can be short for “asphalt concrete” or “bituminous asphalt concrete”, i.e. yet another name for that same thing.

  I can’t find anywhere that uses “rigid pavement” as a term to mean specifically concrete based on Portland cement. To me it sounds like a general term which would cover both concrete and asphalt [concrete]. But I’ll trust that you didn’t just make it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP said “with a shot at [presidency].

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  which trump ended …a year later.

  There’s no excuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That gives a year, not a valid reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm, good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for sharing, that was an excellent video.

  Also appreciate the edit; it’s amazing how much of a difference those little words make.

  Biggest objection to that angle for me is “well I never eat microwave popcorn” makes it too easy to dismiss the problem.

  I’d still bet that “groundwater contamination” (or “drinking water contamination” from manufacturing is the single largest source for almost anyone, but it looks like microwave popcorn is shockingly high when it comes to food and food packaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  their packaging is a major source of PFA buildups in our bodies

  [citation needed]

  There’s no way that more than a few people eat enough microwave popcorn for that to be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah.

  It’s great to have hospital as a fallback for emergencies but there’s problems with hospitals themselves too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if I quite agree.

  There’s a happy middle ground where hospital births are the rare occurrence and not the routine default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use bgstats.

  www.bgstatsapp.com