MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on The fact that this is a real image is infuriating 22 hours ago:
Gotta love the Murdoch media…
…com.au/…/87ee12096270397564ed460a26137ad7
If he did it once, sure could be argued to be accidental, but he did it pretty forcefully, multiple times, and he baaaaarely has plausible deniability that he didn’t mean this as a wink wink to the neo-nazis.
- Comment on Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit 1 week ago:
Journalists (as a whole) are some of the worst when it comes to referencing. “A report from organisation found…” yes, okay, what’s it called, when was I released, better yet LINK THE DAMN REPORT.
Journalists, why you so bad at this?
- Comment on Disgusting money driven mindset 1 week ago:
This is the one time Australia’s terrible defamation laws could do some good, if they lived in Australia.
- Comment on It shows you love them 1 week ago:
It’s been like this for thousands of years. Have you heard of religion?
But yeah, it is not a pleasant thought that people love this way :/
- Comment on Murphy's law 2 weeks ago:
This is why you always copy something innocuous immediately after
- Comment on Must be a college town. 2 weeks ago:
Only developed country where mass shootings regularly happen, so, I’m gonna press X to doubt on the claim bows and arrows are anywhere near as deadly.
Gun culture is weird to the rest of the world. Get a different hobby if the trade off is preventable deaths.
Or, ya know, properly licence the damn things.
Practically every pro-gun argument is countered with: it’s being done better elsewhere.
High gun ownership in Switzerland!! Yeah, because you go through stringent military training, and registration!
Oh, but criminals will still have guns, there’ll be a black market!!! Yeah, but much, much less easily, with proper licencing and restrictions to only allow guns for things they’re actually needed for (farmers, police, etc). Again, this is plainly obvious when you look at every other country.
Boggles the mind.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 2 weeks ago:
I guess not retail, which I randomly plucked out to get some numbers. I also thought 2.5x ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, you Americans are getting ripped off. Here the legal minimum is 2.25x pay for public holidays (Australia)
1.5x? Are ya serious? That’s like the lowest tier of overtime. Or sunday penalty rates.
For real, I can’t believe people aren’t even getting that.
(Illegal underpayment still happening here, aside).
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 3 weeks ago:
You’d think so, but unfortunately no: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 3 weeks ago:
Does this mean two females are able to produce sexually viable offspring?
- Comment on I walked all over the damn store looking for butter 3 weeks ago:
I had a though recently. It would be neato to have some open source, crowdsourced world database of item locations, where you add this sort of information.
Tagged search of a store, where certain items are. What’s stores in a city sell X item. That sort of thing.
Call it “WorldDB”, bake it into OpenStreetMap.
No idea what the legality would be, but I would LOVE it.
May write a post about it at some point, as I am no programmer.
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 4 weeks ago:
I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I’d argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).
My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn’t want to switch to metric because it’s “European” and they’re proud Americans, is BTU.
Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha
Don’t be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that’s nightmare fuel
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 4 weeks ago:
I’m just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).
Bring back the Grave.
For example then a joule could be G m^2^ s^-2^, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)
- Comment on Do this in remembrance of me 4 weeks ago:
I know you’re not supposed to put down other people’s faith, but this is weird.
Cannibals, the lot of them
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 4 weeks ago:
I should clarify, this is my personal preference, for ease of conversion. I wish we stuck to consistent intervals. They’re all valid, just that I find it very lovely that in industrial/construction we don’t use cm (in Australia)
But there are so many various pressure units in use, which is a slight inconvenience. Pa, Bar, atm, cm-water, are the ones I’ve come across in actual use so far. (Metric engineering context, RIP US engineers)
Makes it necessary for me to use a calculator to make sure I’m not messing something up. kPa to mbar: okay *bar/(100 kPa) * 1000 mbar/bar (which I’m now noticing is hPa)
So in addition to my preference for consistent prefix intervals, let’s also stop using Bar, cm-water, and anything else that’s not Pa. That’d be nice ☺️
- Comment on A Lemmy Labour of Love 4 weeks ago:
Just poking some fun because they’re so prolific, not complaining!
- Comment on Shitter's full, season's greetings. 4 weeks ago:
At least they can. So bummed stock android no longer has the option :(
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- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 4 weeks ago:
As much as hPa is legitimate, in English speaking contexts I wish we kept to 10^3 prefixes. (Pa, kPa, MPa, GPa etc).
Like how we keep to nm, μm, mm, m, km. Mostly.
Or if one really must, atmospheres. Other units are just more of a pain to convert between, like yeah, it’s metric, so it’s not THAT hard, but just nicer in my opinion if it’s consistent intervals.
Alas, at least I very rarely need to deal with PSI. Only with valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients (Cv values), grumble, grumble. They don’t even include the units usually, which to me is heresy. The units are US gallons/min of water at 60 °F per pressure drop of 1 PSI. Like, US engineers have this really stupid habit of not including units in constants and coefficients in some contexts, drives me up the wall.
Thanks for being the convenient recipient of this metric engineer’s unit rant.
- Comment on A scientific discovery 5 weeks ago:
Oh, seems I’m wrong, well that’s a bit incongruent if you ask me. Since the force of gravity from earlier isn’t that much lower in low earth orbit :/
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
I think in both cases (modern China, and the USSR), there is a genuine feeling/desire towards the ideals.
In both cases though, it is co-opted for propaganda purposes, and falls pretty flat when inequality is off the charts.
Which is a shame, if you have socialist beliefs
I wish them the best though, and hope they figure things out to bring outcomes more in line with the ideals.
- Comment on A scientific discovery 5 weeks ago:
I believe microgravity refers things like walking on the moon. Where the moon’s pull on you is far less than than if you were on earth
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’m terribly creative, the only community I mod I just copied when migrating from Reddit:
lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes
So in terms of inventing one from scratch, I dunno haha
For names (suggestions/spitballing) a play on words with the political compass? DueLeft NegativeX
- Comment on Bad Ports 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate this so much, thank you for filling those blanks
- Comment on A scientific discovery 5 weeks ago:
Um acshually gravity in the international space station is not that much lower than on the surface of earth, just that they are weightless in orbit.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
It’s hard finding people with this opinion, sadly. I’m with you on this one comrade 🐱⚒️
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 5 weeks ago:
Eh, there’s a notional aspiration to socialism at least, which is more than can be said about the US sphere of countries.
In practice though? Yeah, China is hyper-captialist, without much of the social security present in wealthier countries.
Why Leftist get a hard-on for the former USSR, Russia and China, or frankly any country, is beyond me.
There are positive and negative outcomes in line or against socialist ideals everywhere (I think people are too black and white about China in both directions personally)
I just do not understand simping for any country, just because they are “socialist”.
- Comment on It do be like that 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure all platforms support no break space, just that you have to go copy the unicode character if you don’t have a shortcut for it
It’s U+00A0
- Comment on It do be like that 5 weeks ago:
My main point was leaving space between values and units. And know many of us have no choice but to use MS at work haha
I better not catch you not leaving space between your values and units no matter the writing software
- Comment on It do be like that 5 weeks ago:
I like go in add spaces between the value and the unit in documents other people have prepared, when they write 50°C or something. The standard says there should be a space: 50 °C
Non-breaking spaces, even better in my opinion 😘👌
(Alt+0,1,6,0 on the numpad for all my homies using Windows at work)
Don’t get me started on people using O’s with super script to get degrees, drives me nuts. (Alt+2,4,8, or find it in the MS Word symbols menu ffs)
