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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny and factually correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOD 'Scrambling,' Wiping Evidence of DEI as Trump Readies to Cut Woke Generals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler’s coming, look racist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t about efficiency, it’s about attacking science as a tool for evaluating truth. It’s a way to discredit the authority of expertise and shape the course of research with selective funding and demonization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s much easier to run a HTPC on something small like a Raspberry Pi, or an NVIDIA Shield. The hardware on your TV is probably the bare minimum to run its own smart features, and replacing the firmware doesn’t guarantee that the TV isn’t still phoning home with your data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can pee in a bush, is that an extra bathroom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The couch cushions can be placed on the floor to sleep 3 small infants, and then three more infants can sleep on the exposed couch springs if you cover them with a blanket. Linens not provided, sleeps 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, very much⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even worse. You’re buying a house? That’s incredibly stressful and fraught with perils that the average person will experience less than once in their lives. You don’t start with the loan, you start with the open house that had the sex swing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, very much⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats sucks that they do that to you, and I know that pain you feel when it happens.

  But I’m going to ask you a question I wish someone had asked me a long time ago: Have you considered that maybe you’re boring? There’s no shame in that, no judgement intended.

  You have interests, and they are interesting to you. The vast majority of people would not find anything about you interesting, and you’re blessed with a family that loves you enough to ask how you are. Your response is to start with a home loan? Is your house project super interesting? Are you putting in a fireman’s pole or a hot tub? The minutiae of reflooring a rumpus room is fascinating to the person who owns the rumpus room and exactly no one else.

  Your sister asked what’s going on in your life because she’s curious about you. You can tell the same story in a way that relates it to her experience by starting with emotions.

  “How am I? I’m stressed, but really excited. This house project has been driving me nuts, but I will be so glad when it’s over. I could actually use your opinion on a paint color, because I want to have a splash of something fun, but everybody is saying to go neutral for resale value. What do you think?”

  It’s the same conversation topic, but it’s not about the project anymore. It’s about you and how you’re feeling and how she can relate to you.

  Think about the story you’re going to tell, and try to think about your audience. I built a home automation server and was really excited about all the cool things I can do with it. When I geek out about it, though, people run for the hills. So when people ask what I’m into, I skip right to the good stuff.

  You know why people love magic tricks? Because they don’t know the details. Their minds fill in the gaps of their knowledge with actual magic. The cardinal rule of magicians is to never reveal the secret. If you show them that you palmed the coin and forced the card and the girl’s legs are curled up under the base of the box, they lose interest before you’re done speaking.

  Telling someone about the details of your interests is like explaining how to do a magic trick they’ve never seen before. When you got into your interests, you didn’t start with “How do I get a home loan to do this?” You got interested in the magic part, and then worked backwards to figure it out.

  I don’t mean to harp on that example, because I know that was just one example that one time. But you’re describing a common behavior pattern that so many people don’t even realize they fall into. Ask a kid about Pokemon, and they will dive into their favorites, and why this one is better than that one unless you get a shiny egg, and I got a shiny once but when it hatched it was just another Pidgey so I sold it to a friend who has a sister that just started out and he gives her all the shinies he doesn’t care about because she just likes having more Pokemon.

  They will never mention how much fun it is to keep fighting elemental sentient animal slaves that ejaculate from balls you keep in your pockets to do battle for you.

  Edit your stories like a journalist writes an article. Grab them with a headline, and frontload the interesting bullet points. The longer into the story you get, the more detail you can share, but expect your audience to lose interest two paragraphs in. If someone stops listening before the juicy bits, you’ve told it wrong.

  Maybe you didn’t need to read all this. Maybe you’re not boring, and your family really is entirely responsible for not giving a shit about you. Acknowledging that you could become a better storyteller doesn’t absolve them of their apathy towards you. But I know I have a habit of being boring, and I wish someone had given me this advice years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Batman a Scientist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if he could find an anchor of some sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calculatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.

  C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.

  Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are far too many variables to know for sure. What fuel does the central heat use? Where is the house built? What sort of sun exposure do you get? What type of house is it? What’s in your attic? Basement? How much time do you spend at home during the day?

  I would go with the central heat, generally speaking.

  Homes are insulated differently depending on where you live, but the exterior walls are usually better insulated than the interior ones. The heat in one room will dissipate to neighboring rooms. You’re correct that closing vents will direct the hot air to the desired rooms first. Over the course of the day, some of the energy will disperse and warm other rooms. One space heater might use less energy than your central air, but you will need to run it longer and more frequently.

  You may also find that you’re keeping the one room hotter because you’re always cold in every other room. Getting warm and staying warm are two different physiological processes. Keeping the house at 66 may feel warmer than keeping one room at 72.

  Consider what each heat system was built to do. Central air is there to keep the house warm. Central air is most efficient when it is automated to maintain heat. Allowing the space to get very cold every day will cause it to run longer when you feel cold.

  Meanwhile, a space heater is a short-term hot spot in a room. It’s designed to create immediate warmth in the immediate area. Use it when you are feeling cold to get yourself warm, and then shut it off. If you use each one to do its job, that’s probably going to be the most efficient.

  The best thing you can do for your energy bill is insulate. Get a temperature sensor, wait for a cold day, bring your entire house up to ~70, and then go hunting for cold spots. Check around window sills and near brick or masonry walls. Airflow through your walls is dollar bills flying out of your wallet. You can place film over leaking windows, replace caulk when it cracks, and fill voids that happen when old insulation breaks down or gets wet. Check your attics and crawlspaces for airflow as well, and consider reflective foil as an inexpensive upgrade if you can get to the rafters.

  If everything is properly insulated, all heating and cooling becomes more efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair question. You’re not going to catch a soda can, but a boat should be a closed system. The thresholds should be as low as is practically enforceable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First - The major problem with trash isn’t the getting rid of it part, it’s the gathering it up part. If we could do that, it wouldn’t be a problem.

  The frustrating part is that this could be the easiest to solve. Require boats to weigh in and out, and account for everything on board. Minus fuel, plus fish, but those old, broken nets and plastic waste need to return to port to be properly disposed of. Throwing even a soda can overboard should result in significant fines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit prose is news now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amy Adams Says Henry Cavill ‘Was a Brilliant Superman,’ Reacts to Rachel Brosnahan Taking Over Lois Lane: ‘She’s Gonna Be Great’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cavill was a great Superman casting, but Margot Kidder will always be the Lois Lane standard for me. Amy Adams is a good actress, but she never seemed to fit the role in my mind. I didn’t buy her as the hard-nosed, street-wise investigative reporter gone looking for trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PVOD Rental Prices Going Up? ‘Alien: Romulus,’ ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’: All $24.99⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, prices go up as long as people are willing to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a crime to film inside a polling place.

  codes.findlaw.com/…/ga-code-sect-21-2-413.html

  How is it not election interference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conspiracies happen in secret. This was election interference in broad daylight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on where you are and whether you join a union or not. Labor laws vary by state and by country. Paid lunches and breaks may or may not be part of your employment contract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too Much⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say, the butter one looks correct to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed connections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s Philly, it might be Jason Kelce. He’s been spotted in the burbs driving around in his cybertruck with an Eagles bumper sticker on the back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out Blue Eye Samurai, Twilight of the Gods, Arcane, and the Masters of the Universe revivals on Netflix, or Invincible on Amazon Prime, or Harley Quinn on HBO Max. It’s a good era for adult animation. Obviously there are a lot of anime influences, but these are all western-made for western audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Barnes did take on the mantle of Captain America following Rogers’ apparent death in 2008, but Rogers eventually gets better and returns. For a while they were both Captain America, but eventually Bucky’s identity as the Winter Soldier becomes public and he’s put on trial. He is acquitted, but gives up the mantle because he thinks his checkered past taints the symbol.

  A few years later, Steve grows old and retires, and specifically picks Sam as his replacement. Sam wonders why it wasn’t Bucky, and spends most of his time as Cap trying to prove himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, Anthony Mackie is not Chris Evans. But they should have leaned into that. Play with the insecurity. Sam isn’t Steve, and pretending that Sam can learn to throw the shield in an afternoon, or stand against the might of Thanos. But Sam can lead, and he can inspire others. The show did a piss poor job of riding the fence on whether the terrorists were sympathetic characters. From the sound of it, the studio wants to have their cake, eat it, and sell it all at the same time. Is Sam “as good” as Steve? Does a black man wearing the flag condone the nation’s challenging historical (and current) crimes of racial violence and oppression? Will Americans accept a new person carrying the shield? Will the world governments allow a moral leader to operate autonomously the way Steve did? The show raised all of those questions, and then just kinda shruged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The “why” is because that’s what happened in the comics, and it was a huge deal. Black Captain America was as divisive on the page as it was on the screen, but not giving Wilson the shield would have been a major deviation from the source material, one that looks a lot like caving to pressure from racists.

  In my opinion, they shouldn’t have tried to do a pure standalone Captain America movie. It should have been worked into the Secret Wars event, and filled with additional Marvel characters, similar to the Captain America: Civil War treatment. In the comics, Sam Wilson deals with major insecurity and imposter syndrome. Shit, that would have been a great subtitle for a Secret Wars story. Captain America: Imposter Syndrome. Following the events of FatWS, Sam is struggling with the weight of the shield, and then Fury and Talos come to him for help with the Skrulls. They can’t trust any other Avemgers, not Rhoady, not Thunderbolt, not anyone at SWORD. And then Wilson, with no superpowers, has to duke it out and prove himself against the Super Skrull with all the powers of the Avengers.

  And he can’t, because he’s just one guy, but he keeps getting back up. And that’s when he remembers that Steve’s superpower wasn’t strength or speed or intelligence, or even the shield. Captain America was resilience, defiance, and inspiration personified. That’s what the world needs against an unseen, invasive threat. People need hope, courage, and leadership. And that’s when people rally to help Sam defeat the Super Skrull, regular soldiers and coexisting Skrulls, maybe hint that Eli Bradley inherited some super from his Grampa. And Nick Fury can have his final blaze of glory before officially definitely for the last time no cap retiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast do you need to travel to JUMP the Grand Canyon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like ChatGPT would have been more correct and also more wrong at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast do you need to travel to JUMP the Grand Canyon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your launch angle. Acceleration due to gravity is constant.

  45 degrees is the theoretical ideal launch angle to maximize horizontal distance, but accounting for wind resistance make it closer to 42 degrees. Since you won’t be doing it for real, let’s say 45 degrees to keep the math easy. In fact, we’re ignoring air resistance and friction of all kinds. If you want to get real, use a glider.

  At its narrowest point, Marble Canyon, it’s about 600 feet across. It could be as much as 18 miles, so let’s start small and go from there.

  S is speed. Vx is horizontal velocity, Vy is vertical velocity, and t is time in the air. X is the distance across the canyon. Y is only necessary if the two sides have different elevations, but let’s ignore that, too.

  The time in the air is how long it takes for gravity to make the vertical velocity -Vy.

  X = Vxt

  0 = Vy + gt/2 so -gt/2 = Vy and t = -2Vy/g

  S^2 = Vx^2 + Vy^2 and at 45 degrees, Vx = Vy so S = (√2)Vx

  Replace some terms, and we get

  X = Vx(-2Vx/g) so X = -2(Vx)^2/g

  √(-Xg/2) = Vx and S = (√2)(√-Xg/2)

  S = √(-Xg)

  So if X is 183 meters at the smallest, and g is -9.8 meters per second squared, then you need a speed of 42.35 m/s at launch, or just shy of 95 mph. You will be in the air for about 4.3 seconds. That’s theoretically possible, but remeber you’d be landing while traveling at close to 95 mph at a 45 degree angle towards the ground. The jump is just half the battle.

  If you go to the average width, 10 miles or 16,000 meters, requiring a speed of 397 m/s, or 888 mph. At its widest 18 miles, 29,000 meters, you need a speed of 533 m/s or 1,192 mph. At that speed, it’s a good thing we’re ignoring friction, because air resistance would start to make things toasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing this on Halloween⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OooOOOOoooOOOOOoooo Everyone is going to go around and say something about themselves…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ackchuallly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok… Data are a character on Star Trek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hippos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several studies that claim that mosquitos could be eliminated from the food chain without affecting their local ecosystems.

  The problem is a lot of those studies sre 20+ years old, and there are far fewer insect species today than there were then. Mosquitos are more important as a food source than they used to be. Driving them extinct now would save human lives, but it might also cause ecological collapse.

  That’s not to say we shouldn’t wipe them out if we can. But we need to be more cautious about how and where we kill all the bugs, because that might be the last of the bugs.