BastingChemina
@BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Scandal 22 hours ago:
Does it matter of it’s true or not?
It’s been years that MAGA is showing us that truth does not matter,
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 1 day ago:
BMI isn’t perfect but it’s still a good tool to compare two large, similar populations.
And no, being morbidly obese is not healthy.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 days ago:
Yes! Fat by itself isn’t unhealthy.
The best example is Italy, it has the lowest obesity rate of Europe, European Obesity Rates by Country 2025. (2025-11-14). World Population Review. but also has the highest consumption of cooking oil of Europe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024);Eurostat, OECD, IMF, and World Bank (2025)
- Comment on It's important! 2 days ago:
Congrats, you are now Flemish!
To give some context: in Belgium there is two main regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Flemish people speaks Flemish Dutch and Walloons speak French.
Since Flemish Dutch and French are the two official language of Belgium a lot of Fleming are learning French as a secondary language to be able to communicate with Walloons. Walloons on the other hand don’t care to learn Flemish Dutch at all.
So as consequence a lot of Flemish do know French but refuse to speak French with Walloons.
So as a French person I ended several time in a situation where I’m trying to communicate in English with a Fleming who refuse to use French with me, until he realize by my accent that I’m not Walloons, then he would start speaking to be in French.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 days ago:
It’s a shame because salt water pools are honestly so much better and I think overall it was cheaper for us as well.
Instead of adding chlorine every week the salt system just keeps the chlorine level at the right minimal level all the time. So no chlorine smell in the pool and the pool was much cleaner.
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 3 days ago:
I was in a situation similar to this one in real life: having to adjust the salt level in a pool.
In metric:
The pool is 8*4 m long and 2m deep on average, the current salt level is 2g/l and the salt comes in 20kg bags.
How many bags of salts do I need to pour in the pool to adjust the salt level to at least 3g/l ?
Answer:
! The pool contains 8m4m2m= 64m³ or 64000l of water, I need an extra 1g/l of salt per litres so 64000l*1g/l = 64000g or 64 kg. So with 4 bags I’ll have enough salt.
In imperial:
The pool is 20*10ft long and 5ft deep on average, the current salt level is 2000ppm and the salt comes in 40lbs bags.
How many bags of salts do I need to pour in the pool to adjust the salt level to at least 3000ppm?
Answer:
! I’m just gonna drive to the store with my truck to pick up 2 bags at the time and see if it’s enough, no way I’m doing the calculation.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 5 days ago:
Moderation is the issue with pizza, at least for me.
I’ve been making pizza and pasta from scratch. It’s basically the exact same ingredients:
- flour
- tomatoes
- cheese
But when I’m making pizza I know that I can almost double the amount of flour because we are eating way more pizza than pasta.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
Heart of palm as well
- Comment on one bright second 4 weeks ago:
I don’t want to imagine the level of procrastination I would have if I was immortal.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Nettle and potato soup is delicious.
- Comment on it's true! 5 weeks ago:
I doubt think it’s a DNA problem, the amount of roots depends on the amount of leaves.
So keeping the grass short keeps the roots sorry as well
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 month ago:
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 1 month ago:
Onomatopoeia is talking about riddling.
There is a step in champagne production where the bottles are stored upside down for a month or two and turned regularly. This is to bring all the sediments to the top of the bottle so it can be removed in the next step called disgorgement.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 month ago:
The diversity and quantity of videogames accessible today is crazy.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 1 month ago:
Yes, since the 60’ in the US the measurements are based on the metric system.
In 1959 the inch was redefined to be exactly 25.4mm.
So the US and any other country using the imperial system is just using metric but which weird conversion just to make things harder.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 1 month ago:
Yes, it was implemented during the French revolution.
- Comment on Can Humanity Stop A Planet-Killing Asteroid? 1 month ago:
40% of the world’s population lives in coastal area. Tsunamis are devastating as well so I’m not certain that a giant asteroid falling in the water would be less deadly.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 2 months ago:
Replace the gun with a car.
How much of the “outside” can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 2 months ago:
Solar is not great for heating in winter because solar produces very little energy in winter (which is literally the reason why winter is cold in the first place: less solar radiation).
So even if you have solar, unless your installation is massively oversized you generally don’t have spare every in winter for heating.
Small consumer wind turbines make sense only in limited cases, and I say that as someone who had been building some. Because places with a strong constant wind are limited and generally this is not when houses are built.
See https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
No, what we need is seasonal batteries. A way to store the surplus or solar energy in summer to use it for heating in winter.
Wood is exactly that, solar energy stored in a stable chemical form that is easy to use.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
How old was your kid at the time ? You are giving us hope, we need to know!
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
The “grandmother theory” is supporting this idea.
The idea is that past a certain age there is an evolutionary benefit to not be able to have kids anymore. Past a certain age, to pass our genes it’s more beneficial to be able to help descendants with their kids rather than having kids on our own.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 2 months ago:
Yes, my mother in law is living with us and helping is to take care of our 4 years old and 2 years old
- Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked? 2 months ago:
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 months ago:
You can have a high speed train station at the airport as well. A lot of European big hubs have that.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 2 months ago:
It’s really that valuable, the bulk prices I’ve found on Alibaba are around $25-$30 per KILOMETER!
- Comment on Marie Curie 2 months ago:
Not only does she have 2 nobel prices, but she is the first woman to receive a nobel price in 1903. She is also the only person that ever got two novel prices in two different areas of expertise.
- Comment on New idea 2 months ago:
Beer pipeline are a thing. At the Hellfest festival all the bars are connected to a beer pipeline fed by tankers trucks of beer.
- Comment on Gotta go fox taming 3 months ago:
The sheep is in the box
https://www.cannedgifts.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sheep.jpg
- Comment on Great Birthday Gift 3 months ago:
Same ✂️
- Comment on kingdom come 3 months ago:
Fun facts, in French vegetables are called “legumes”, even though most of them aren’t related to the Fabaceae family
