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- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 51 minutes ago:
If you’re a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?
Less than? Hell no.
5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn’t and never will be.
Without 5 you wouldn’t even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.
Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it’s also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn’t name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody that’s who.
Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That’s right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.
You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.
25 is a shitty composite number. It’s shitty because it’s not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors. Guess which? Yes. Itself, one and fucking 5 of all things.
That’s because it’s square and boring. Does it even look square to you? Uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What’s the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I’d definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They’re so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.
So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.
- Comment on Jupiter 1 day ago:
No, you.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 days ago:
If I could drop out of everything for 29 days, I wouldn’t come back at all.
- Comment on Cursed 3 days ago:
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- Comment on The Original Flavour 4 days ago:
I’ve seen the evolution of the one to the right. It now has a USB connection on the tail.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 5 days ago:
The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.
It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.
Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.
- Comment on I'm ready for it 1 week ago:
Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:
Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.
There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.
You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.
Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.
- Comment on McPenis 2 weeks ago:
McCockNugget
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
If you use 3 slices of ham in a regular sandwich, you will need 9 slices to create the scaled version of the pictured sandwich.
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
In comparison to an ordinary sandwich.
Ordinary sandwich: 2 bread 1 ham. Pictured trianglewich : 3 bread 3 ham.
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
Probably more than that.
There’s 50% more bread, but 200% more ham.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 2 weeks ago:
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 2 weeks ago:
It could be interesting in a smaller scale or off grid purposes, but you’d still need solar panels as a source.
I doubt it’s worth saving heat from a wood stove. It’d be better to burn less wood to begin with. Some of the modern pellet ovens are very efficient for that.
They use this system to convert excess renewable electricity to heat for storage to be used in the district heating system. There’s probably a lot of loss in comparison to a regular battery, so the point is to utilize excess the electrify. It makes perfect sense in Finland because their electricity is a lot cleaner than their heating.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 2 weeks ago:
It’s basically a very large sauna stone.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 weeks ago:
Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they’re right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 3 weeks ago:
Apps or NFC tags are used where I live.
I charge at home myself, but in the odd case where I’ve used public chargers I’ve had to install an app from whatever charging company it is, because I can never find one that takes cards directly, though they all ought to do that by now.
For people who use public chargers a lot, it makes most sense to get some subscription and get a tag for that. Some of them works across different networks. It’s a bit of jungle.
The apps probably do require a card to setup, unless you get it through some company where you already have direct debit (f.i. your electricity provider or gas station monthly billing etc.)
It’s not that different from gas stations. It’s not possible to pay those in cash anymore anyway.
- Comment on We really did 3 weeks ago:
My parents used one of these to plan the vacations:
- Comment on Only $50? 3 weeks ago:
The face of Jesus
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 4 weeks ago:
Not that I know of.
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 4 weeks ago:
having to remember less could make you more focused on the road.
On contrary, in my opinion. Especially in cities, where manual forces me to anticipate the next turn, light or other drivers. Automatic makes me zone out and focus on everything but driving.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 4 weeks ago:
Oh hey, let me make a treasure map and put the treasure map into the treasure chest and bury it under ground.
Why can’t people find my treasure? Are they fucking idiots or something?
I should probably put more maps in the chest.
- Comment on Avocado 4 weeks ago:
Also, WD-40 is not a lubricant.
- Comment on Amazing. 5 weeks ago:
That’s not possible with the system in my country, but I agree, it ought to be standard in EU too.
I think the machine attracts more people with lots of cans and also teaches more people not to bother refunding often.
My point, if there is one, is that when technology makes life easier, it’s human nature to become even lazier, to the point where the technology doesn’t solve the issue it was made for.
- Comment on Amazing. 5 weeks ago:
A local store just upgraded the deposit machine, so instead of depositing one single can at a time, I now empty an entire bag of hundreds of cans into the machine and let it sort it out. It’s great, saves lots of time and makes everything easier. Instead of bringing a shopping bag with 20 cans everytime I shop I can take an entire sack of 200 cans every month or so.
Unfortunately… the same kind of people who used to cause queues with their 200 garbage bags at the usual refund machines also figured this out, so now they’re causing a queue at the new machine with trailer loads of garbage bags full of thousands of cans.
I have no idea where they get all those cans.
- Comment on Consistency is key 5 weeks ago:
Tartare is cut from inner muscles, less likely to have any infections etc.
It’s also sold separately from ordinary minced meat.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 5 weeks ago:
It’s called “popliteal” in English, sometimes but uncommonly shortened to “poplit”.
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 1 month ago:
The correct sentence is “what does it mean?”
As far as I know, Russian doesn’t use the auxillary verb “do/does”.
In many languages, the “do” is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word “mean”, as also suggested by the usage of “means” instead of “does mean”.
I suppose another construction could be “It means what?”
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 month ago:
Shit dissolves better.
Food (generally) has more fats and oils that will stick and clog the pipes.
- Comment on Love this 1 month ago:
I’ve been skating since 1986. The first time someone asked me if I was too old for it was in 1987. That question is really only in the eye of the beholder.
- Comment on demon named racecar 1 month ago:
ok… 3 out of 7 is still pretty good.
(You also fucked up the first two letters)