5too
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- Comment on Spyhoppin' 3 days ago:
Go dunk your head! Seriously, you can see the effect in a pool - look at how well you can see things above and below the surface, go underwater, and open your eyes. Things will be fuzzier.
You’re trying to reason away an effect that people actually see, and that you can verify independently. That’s the opposite of how science works.
For a scientific explanation, my first Google got came up with this - an article about some kids who do seem to see normally underwater. It also includes this explanation for our blurrier experience:
When the eye is immersed in water, which has about the same density as the cornea, we lose the refractive power of the cornea, which is why the image becomes severely blurred
- Comment on Spyhoppin' 3 days ago:
…so what happens when you use goggles? Or a camera?
Lakes can be dirty, but you can see the same thing in a pool. Or your bathtub.
- Comment on the eyes have it 4 days ago:
I thought it was adorable! I’m hearing Portal’s turret dialogue with these.
“Hello? …are you still there?”
- Comment on ultra high iq 5 days ago:
Mesa is a flat hill.
Mensa describes itself as a “High IQ Society”. Essentially, anyone who scores well on an IQ test can join, and they have plaques, membership cards, and such they give out. As far as I know, the whole point of Mensa is to say you’re smart enough to be in Mensa.
- Comment on ultra high iq 5 days ago:
At a guess? Smart people like validation too; and are just as vulnerable to manipulation that uses it. Potentially even more vulnerable, in fact.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
Steam works fine for me offline, though I can’t speak to all the games - what are you running into with it?
I hear you on Minecraft, though…
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 week ago:
On Java edition at least, it wants you to be signed in with a Microsoft account. I haven’t dug too far into it, but I know our custom launchers break without a network connection. Once launched they work fine.
Had many a car trip trying to get the kids’ Minecraft session restarted off of a gas station’s WiFi connection…
- Comment on He suffered so we could learn from his mistakes 1 week ago:
Android 18’s baby daddy
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m not a huge griller, but wouldn’t it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 5 weeks ago:
I rarely have sound in my dreams. I hear fine (when awake), just… don’t bother rendering that part when I’m asleep!
I talk with people in dreams, sure; but there’s no dialogue - I just kind of know what’s been said.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 month ago:
It’s usually for the kid’s safety. Little kids especially run off sometimes; and while it’d be nice to be able to be a continuously attentive parent, sometimes you need to get shit done out and about while they’re with you. Sometimes they’re fine with just being carried or sitting in a shopping cart, but if not, a leash & harness (usually just integrated into a backpack) lets them wander safely while you take care of what you’re there to do.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid older than 4 or so in one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think it was mostly the fact that if he did go at that point, the other warehouse guys would decide he had indeed sat down to pee.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Used to do IT for a small meat packing plant; would shoot the shit with the warehouse guys whenever they came in for a break. Bunch of 20-something guys slinging 20-60 pound boxes of meat all day.
Power went out one time, and we’re all sitting around waiting to see if the power is going to come back quickly enough that we don’t need to start unloading all the inventory; and one of them expressed a need to use the facilities. I told him the bathroom was right there; it didn’t need power to flush.
There were no windows, and he didn’t want to end up peeing all over the floor.
I pointed out that if he sat down, he wouldn’t need to aim.
“I’m not gonna sit to pee!”
“Dude, it’s not like it’s gonna fall off.”
“It might!”
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 months ago:
Might consider how you’re storing it, too - used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. Also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!
- Comment on Disney wolves 2 months ago:
Eyelashes!
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
Everyone is busily selecting a fork, and I’m trying to figure out if the apostrophe was an intentional troll …
- Comment on Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’ 3 months ago:
Sharks are supposed to be able to smell blood from a mile or more away - that’s why throwing chum in the water is a good way to draw them in.
I hadn’t thought about dolphins smelling though - I wonder if it’s closer to tasting, maybe?
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
Nah, it makes sense, and ice heard this phrasing before - just always wondered if they meant the poor whale couldn’t breathe, or basically just had indigestion!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
Wow, I had no idea these were a thing… and it’s so funky how the surface of the brine pool interacts with the surrounding seawater!
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 3 months ago:
Bonus bonus: a blue whale’s throat is so small it could choke to death on a grapefruit.
I’m sure their throat can be blocked that way; but if they can’t breathe through their mouth anyway, is it actually choking? Or just terminally blocked?
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 months ago:
I’ve also found it helps to, if you have just a few questions that aren’t really related, break them into separate messages. And space them out a bit, if you’ve got time.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 3 months ago:
When we’re driving, my wife often acts as navigatrix
- Comment on cherry pickers 4 months ago:
This sounds like sarcasm, but the joke legitimately didn’t click for me until I scanned the title again.
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 4 months ago:
Remember when you needed a bug shield to drive on the highway?
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 4 months ago:
They do have something special that the rest of us don’t have. They have money.
That’s what I mean when I say they have room to try again. They don’t go broke when their business fails, so they can try more than once. Most of us don’t have the time or resources to have another go without some serious recovery time.
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 4 months ago:
Goddamn, victim blame much? Most of them are trying to survive!
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 4 months ago:
Great! Most new businesses fail, which makes sense given the people starting them are new at this. Billionaires often have had several failed attempts. The difference is, they have room to fail and try again.
How do we give others that chance, if not by keeping billionaires from hoovering up all the resources?
- Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist 4 months ago:
What billionaire didn’t start out with a healthy infusion of cash? Sure, some turned millions into billions, but I don’t know of any that didn’t start with a line on several millions of investment available.
- Comment on fireflies 4 months ago:
See some still in Kansas. My grandparents in Wichita used to have tons of them about 35 years ago; not as many now.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 5 months ago:
I generally sympathize with OP, but someone in your position is the exception.
I’m sorry your job sucks (especially now); and thank you for putting in so much effort!