Iron_Lynx
@Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world
- Comment on GEORGE GAME! 1 week ago:
Pyrrhus is the namesake for the concept of Pyrrhic victory, i.e. where while you technically won, it was at such a cost that you couldn’t fathom trying it ever again. The linked article lists a number of historic examples.
- Comment on Thanks Alot 1 week ago:
I like Alot memes a lot. What a delight to bump into one just like that.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 1 week ago:
I recall a story where there was a water restriction on a town for everyone, except for the golf courses. The next day, the golfers found that the Holes had been filled with cement, supposedly poured in there by activists.
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 weeks ago:
It looks basic but quite tasty if the prep and spicing has been done right.
Not every good meal has to be a Michelin Star affair, y’know. Sometimes, all you need is fries and two kroketten to be satisfied.
- Comment on he's all in 2 weeks ago:
In other words? Is he all in? He’s a clanker at the very least!
- Comment on halal paintball 2 weeks ago:
“I can forgive the wifebeating, the drunkenness, the rape, but the pork paintballs‽ To the deepest pits with you! Insha’Allah, motherfucker!”
/j, obviously
- Comment on OK for you but not for them 3 weeks ago:
To be fair though, we were running a skeleton crew of noobs, soooooo…
- Comment on OK for you but not for them 3 weeks ago:
The time between me playing EmptyEpsilon for the first time and having to surpress the urge to… Ehm… Refer my weapons officer to Starfleet Command for extra training was only about two or three hours. Like, brother, if you’re gonna fire a homing missile, you pick a target, then fire the missiles! Half of our load went deep into space to maybe ruin someone’s day two star systems over!
- Comment on Just vibing 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, exciting!
- Comment on Just say the word 3 weeks ago:
You could certainly try…
- Comment on Kitten Mittens 4 weeks ago:
Fwomp indeed, buddy. Fwomp indeed.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 4 weeks ago:
By dubbing econ “dismal science” adherents exaggerate;
The “dismal”'s fine - it’s “science” where they patently prevaricate. - Comment on Has happened to me a few times 1 month ago:
110 km/h in NL during the day? You’re speeding, but only a little
110 km/h in NL at night? Rookie numbers.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 months ago:
things that would offend advertisers?
Won’t someone think of the shareholders! 😭
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 months ago:
Now listen here you little kitten murderer 😾
- Comment on Festive Cookies! 2 months ago:
Negative two: don’t think
huh? Well...
This relies on the quote “I think, therefore I am,” but if I’d led with that, I’d be putting Descartes before the horse.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 months ago:
I heard a bunch of kids yelling 67 in a supermarket the other day. I felt my IQ drop by several points just witnessing that.
An occasional acknowledgement of 69 is still nice though.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 2 months ago:
- Anecdotal evidence is merely evidence of an anecdote.
- Just because those people are decent (or maybe seem decent when they’re around you) does not mean that assholes do not exist.
- The point still stands that MAMILs cycle in spite of infrastructure, not thanks to. This is not the case in the vid, but probably is the case for the above commenter.
Would you be comfortable sharing the lane with things that outweigh and outrun you by two orders of magnitude, where a forgettable bump for them would probably be your death, and where at best there’s a chance they might not notice or see you in a decent frame of time, at worst they’ll actively try to hurt you. I’d hate to cycle in such an environment.
Vehicular Cycling is the Dark Souls of cycling. Dutch cycling, or Practical Cycling as I’d prefer to call it, is more the Animal Crossing of cycling.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 2 months ago:
Vehicular Cyclists, or Middle-Aged Men In Lycra, or MAMILs, will set that standard.
These aren’t MAMILs. These are people who just want to use the most convenient way of getting around in a place where cycling is considered a valid answer to that question.
- Comment on When they get the bill too 3 months ago:
- Comment on Turtle Wax 3 months ago:
Polish, the surface finishing process: the o is pronounced like box.
Polish, the language and nationality: the o is pronounced like boat.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 months ago:
there’s a whole host of temperature scales, some of which look similar, some look different, some scale the same at the same temperature difference but have different zeroes, and at least one works backwards. Thank goodness there’s only three you’re likely to see in the wild these days, I’d hate to have to keep in mind whether or not those degrees are not Celsius or Fahreheit, but… idk, Newton? Réamur? Rømer? Delisle?
- Comment on grindr dump (in post body) 3 months ago:
“Sex area” sounds like ChatGPT’s gone steamy, only to give up five prompts later.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 5 months ago:
I had a friend who’s two years my junior. One day I addressed them as “young lady,” and in response I joked “you’re two years younger, even if we’re in an elder home, you’ll still be ‘young lady’ at that time.”
Then they transitioned, she’s now a he, so that “young lady” thing will no longer work 😅
- Comment on Can't argue that. 5 months ago:
This. I could have produced a more insightful scatter plot with a barn door and a twelve gauge.
- Comment on Alpha decay go brrrrrrr 5 months ago:
So it would be more accurate to say that 13.2 lbs would be a minimum for the lump’s mass.
- Comment on Alpha decay go brrrrrrr 5 months ago:
So I ran the numbers. U-235 decays into Pb-207, which means about 12% of its mass is radiated away in alpha decay. Which sounds like a fuckton.
Also, it’ll mean that that chunk of lead will be a touch heavier, at 13.2 lbs
The Maths:
U-235 decays into Pb-207. To three significant digits, 207/235 = 0.881, equivalent to 88.1%, meaning 11.9% is radiated away.
88.1% of 15 lbs = 13.2 lbs. - Comment on Leaked images of soon to be released Cyber Plane 5 months ago:
Verloren herinnering hersteld
poster's note
Means: “Lost memory recovered”
- Comment on production line 5 months ago:
Sod it! *Chucks in a grenade hoping to sever the belt.*
*The belt survives, or drones immediately come to replace it*
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 5 months ago:
Correct, careful use of Unicode and Markdown. If it were LaTeX, the arrows would have been directly overhead those F’s