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- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 2 weeks ago:
You need a particular kind of nuclear reactor to create the enriched uranium
*plutonium. Enriched uranium comes from taking natural uranium and enriching the content of a specific isotope (235U), typically with centrifuges, gaseous diffusion and/or magnetic separation in a synchrotron. The enriched uranium can be used in a weapon, or it can be used as fuel for a nuclear reactor to make 239Pu from 238U.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
There’s a follow up meta study from 2020.:
In conclusion, based on the totality of currently available scientific evidence, the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be assessed as a human developmental neurotoxicant at the current exposure levels in Europe.
- Comment on Author Contributions 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
She also had a knack for capturing their speaking pattern in her transcribed replies.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 1 month ago:
Line of “least bad” fit
- Comment on risky abbreviations 2 months ago:
That guy was Jared, the Subway spokesperson. That episode aged poorly, or really presciently, depending on your perspective.
- Comment on Why do phone apps update all the time but nothing seems to change? 2 months ago:
lol I just checked and I had 26 pending app updates. Every one of them had about the same level of detail.
The only exceptions were the Wikipedia app and Voyager, both of which listed some new features.
- Comment on Every Frame a Painting: What would Billy Wilder do? 2 months ago:
Oh sweet, I didn’t realize they were making new videos.
Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Jazz hands 2 months ago:
Fun fact: fiestaware plates (this was the company that made the uraranium glazed ceramics) are commonly used by radiation safety folks as check sources and for teaching how to use survey meters. This is because they usually aren’t considered a radioisotope source, so there’s less paperwork to keep them around.
- Comment on Do rotating plates in microwaves help when heating food? 2 months ago:
As others have said, microwave ovens create standing waves with regions of higher power (hot spots), which unevenly heat food. If you want to see this for yourself, Scientific American has a kids project for measuring the hot spots in a microwave using chocolate or marshmallows. There’s also a bunch of videos on YouTube of people essentially doing this same project.
- Comment on Big Penny! 2 months ago:
- Comment on How did marking corrections with the astrisk originate? 3 months ago:
FYI you can edit titles on Lemmy
- Comment on Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing 4 months ago:
TIL fascists are boggarts from Harry Potter
- Comment on Big Trouble in Little China - Fedi Film Club (July) 5 months ago:
It’s not on the US version of Disney+, can’t speak for other regions. It used to be on Pluto TV (free, with ads) but it seems that’s no longer an option either :(
- Comment on Elsevier 5 months ago:
When will scientists just self-publish?
It’s commonplace in my field (nuclear physics) to share the preprint version of your article, typically on arxiv.org. You can update the article as you respond to peer reviewers too. The only difference between this and the paywalls publisher version is that version will have additional formatting edits by the journal.
If you search for articles on google scholar, it groups the preprint and published versions together so it’s easy to find the non-paywalled copy. The standard journals I publish in even sort of encourage this; you can submit the latex documents and figures by just putting the url to an arxiv manuscript.
The US Department of Energy now requires any research they fund be made publicly available. So any article I publish is also automatically posted to osti.gov 1 year after its initial publication. This version is also grouped into the google scholar search results.
It’s an imperfect system, but it’s getting much better than it was even just a decade ago.
- Comment on First Image of Tom Hiddleston in Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Life of Chuck’ 5 months ago:
Let’s see:
Stephen King source material? Check.
Adapted by Mike Flanagan? Check.
Well then I guess I have to see this. Geralds Game and Doctor Sleep were excellent. Also I’ve read the original short story and without giving anything away, I found it oddly affecting.
- Comment on Justice Alito’s Wife, in Secretly Recorded Conversation, Complains About Pride Flag 6 months ago:
Some stray thoughts:
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I thought Mrs. Alito liked flags? Apparently she only likes certain ones. Right now we know she favors flags that are symbols of the Jan 6 insurrection, and an anti-LGBTQ design of her own creation “which would be white with yellow and orange flames and read, in Italian, “shame.””
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Regardless of which ones she likes and doesn’t like, Mrs. Alito has some STRONG opinions on flags. Like, to an unhealthy extent. Seek therapy.
“Look at me, look at me,” Ms. Alito said. “I’m German, from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m going to give it back to you.” She did not elaborate.”
- The Nazi comparisons write themselves. Surely at some point you have to realize you’re on the wrong side of history when you call for German-style solutions to political problems.
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- Comment on Family matters 7 months ago:
Source is Department of Mind-Blowing Theories by Tom Gauld. I skimmed through some other comics from the book and it’s a goldmine of content for this community. It’s also absolutely something my SO and I would enjoy, so I ordered a copy.
Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on youth risky 7 months ago:
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 7 months ago:
I am not reading your comment, I am simply traveling through it with my eyeballs. Also your comment doesn’t have gold fringe and therefore lacks jurisdiction.
- Comment on military industrial publishing complex 7 months ago:
That’s wild. I’ve always sent people copies when they reach out. It’s especially easy to do so with ResearchGate, but that does require the requester make an account there.
Another option is to ask a librarian to find that specific article, rather than getting them to subscribe to the journal. I had to do this once in grad school for an article in a discontinued journal from the 70s. The librarian found another library that had it and they faxed a copy.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
There are free options for federal taxes: turbotaxsucksass.org (yes that is the real URL, the site was initially created by John Oliver for a Last Week Tonight episode).
What state are you in? Many also offer free options for state taxes.
- Comment on Omar going crazy 8 months ago:
- Comment on Peak technology 8 months ago:
I’m guessing they signed up for HP Instant Ink, a monthly subscription service that monitors the ink levels in the printer and automatically mails you refills.
If you buy an HP printer, they HEAVILY promote this and offer discounts/free trials. I declined, because fuck that, but I could see someone agreeing and forgetting about it.
- Comment on Suggest wholesome movies that end well 9 months ago:
A feel good story that Jon Favreau made in response to his burnout/creative stifling he felt when doing Iron Man 2.
- Comment on What even is the point of delivery anymore 11 months ago:
Idk how a 10 minute drive is a half hour walk. Average walking speed is 3 mph, so a half hour is 1.5 miles. If you’re driving that in 10 minutes, you’re only averaging 9 mph.
I don’t mean to pile on here because I understand your frustration. I grew up in NYC where basically no one drives, and didn’t get a driver’s license until my 30s when I moved to California for work. Even then I put off getting a car for years, since I like walking and don’t mind “decent” public transit.
But it just became impossible to continue. My commute was an hour and 45 minutes (one way), with about 40 minutes of walking, a train and a bus. I like walking but when it was over 100 degrees in the summer, or raining, or a wildfire smoke day it was miserable. The buses run every 30 minutes so if there’s a missed connection the commute becomes over 2 hours (still just one way). And the train has only 1 line so when there’s a mechanical issue you’re out of luck and just have to call an Uber anyway.
I finally broke down and got a car. My commute is now 30 minutes each way. The gas for my commute is somehow cheaper than the public transit. It’s ridiculous and it shouldn’t be this way, but it is.
- Comment on You'll never guess the most popular internet country code 1 year ago:
The latest Map Men video is a bit light on the maps (there’s basically only one) but is still a fascinating look at how top level domains came to exist and not match the physical world.
Their previous video, Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about, is a good companion piece that describes the network of undersea cables that carry the internet across oceans.
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- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
If they need to raise prices by 18% to pay their workers, then they need to actually raise the prices on the menu. Right now this is just bait and switch, it’s dishonest and possibly illegal depending on the location.
- Comment on The Many Times The US Tried To Go Metric 1 year ago:
“Don’t give them an inch”
These anti-metric slogans practically write themselves.
