Buddahriffic

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans n Corn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t an example of that. The three sisters provided benefits to each other while growing simultaneously.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will be great, they said...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t see how their reply was combative if yours wasn’t in the first place. Coming out of nowhere to protect AWS’s honour or something?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Lol

Cause: No one knows.

Treatment: Tell the patient to stop worrying about it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I took OP’s reply as meaning they posted the meme as a joke, but assumed they got it from somewhere else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think it is a joke, though not one we’re supposed to be in on.

The hint is that that is a very well made map for someone who doesn’t understand how water flow really works. They turned the ocean trenches into rivers. It’s a parody of someone who doesn’t understand gravity but still uses it properly in demonstrating how it should look incorrectly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I still can’t tell if most instances of them are a) genuine, b) trolling stupid people into believing dumb shit, c) trolling smart people into believing they believe something stupid and enjoying the frustration as they fail to convince them otherwise, or d) conning true believers like that guy who just wanted to fund his private rocket launch did.

Like it started with group B, but it’s impossible to tell group A and C/D apart, if they are really dedicated to the bit. Like those youtubers who did various expreiments that would show which way it was, got results consistent with ball earth, then dismissed those results as something being wrong with their experiment could be strong denial but also just sounds like trolling and if I had to bet, I’d probably bet on it being a troll (or someone knowing their video will get way more hits like that because it’s a hilarious result that did get a lot of round earthers to watch to mock it).

Tldr, I think we might all be getting played, though none as much as the poor fools that really do believe and donate to “flat earth science”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Like for instance, when epic came out with their exclusive access titles being a part of their business plan, valve could have responded with their own exclusive access system and had a good chance of killing off epic and others in the process. Instead they just ignored it and people like me continued using them and didn’t even consider epic even when their anticompetitive actions switched to ones that would have benefitted me (free games), because I could see the shithole they wanted to bring gaming to if their platform achieved dominance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Japanese?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Might have been very horny but also very self aware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, a skill cheater!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States of America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Once you realize that they are just using whatever words they think will get what they really want, they become much easier to understand.

Also be aware that they aren’t very creative and tend to just accuse others of the same horrible shit they are doing that they know could get them into a lot of trouble (or aspects of those that they support that makes them uncertain they should be supporting them).

Also, since so many others are dumb, many either believe the first accusation they hear or don’t believe it but then think when it turns out that the accusers were actually doing that, that it’s just more political lies coming from the other side.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Oh that one has been out for a while. It has two screens on an awkward helmet thing, one screen for each eye. The 3d effects are kinda cool but it’s all red lines. The idea is probably about 15-20 years ahead of the technology to make it good.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).

If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).

Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.

Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.

But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Something about spelling nazis spinning in a grave attached to a magnet and coil setup…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
What if we add some nutrinos? And then reverse the polarity? And maybe some antimatter?

Wait, was dilithium just the media Star Trek used to go from reacting matter with antimatter, producing heat, causing the dilithium steam to expand, spinning a magnet inside a coil somewhere behind one of those access panels? Was antimatter just fancy futuristic coal powering the Enterprise’s steam engine!?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That depends on how you define “viable”. And “generate”.

Peltier devices generate a voltage from a heat differential passing through a bi-metalic matrix. It’s not a huge voltage, so the definition of “viable” comes in there, but it can be used to power low power things and works well for heater accessories. I first saw its use for wood stove fans that get powered just by sitting on the stove. I’ve also seen them power USB chargers for pellet stoves.

And then there’s batteries that generate a voltage from submerging two types of metal in acid. And more modern battery designs might be doing it a bit differently but still no spinning magnets and coils. Obviously they are viable for powering many things, but usually themselves are powered from another source rather than using fresh acid for each charge, so the “generate” bit comes into question.

I think there’s some others. Like fiction can be used to generate a static voltage and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some tesla coils that use friction to generate their voltage. If you continuously generate that voltage, you could make a circuit out of it rather than shock high school kids or make their hair stand up, though I don’t know what kind of amperage you could generate like that (that 5 figure voltage isn’t fatal because of a lack of amps).

I asked an AI out of curiosity and, while I won’t paste the response (feel free to ask one yourself), it gave a list of 20 methods, though I’d say this thread on its own covers about 9 of them, since some are different specific ways of doing similar ones (eg there were 4 based on moving something relative to a magnetic field).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Some tabs are for ongoing things that I keep coming back to, though I don’t have as many of those these days. Like back in the day, I’d have a facebook tab, a few reddit tabs, etc.

Other tabs are for things that I’m not done with in general but was done with for that moment because something else came up or I just wanted to do something else and the task wasn’t urgent enough to stick with it.

Sometimes I get back to it, finish the task, and close the tab. Sometimes I’ll later see the tab and just close it because I decide I am done with it forever (or done enough that I can find it again if I want to go back to it).

I like it better than not keeping my tabs. Though I did disable the inactive tabs thing on mobile firefox because those were too out of sight and just piled up (along with the ambiguous behaviour where sometimes backing up closes newly opened tabs, sometimes it doesn’t, or I don’t back up all the way). Mobile tabs feel a bit more like bookmarks, which are more likely to just disappear entirely from my mind. Visual tabs serve as reminders of the thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's solution for first date nerves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Actually, there’s another way to mimic him that also accomplishes this goal (works great when a date is going badly, too).

When you decide you’re done with someone, just loudly and obviously shit in your pants.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They are literally monopolies on whatever they concern.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It would be wild if DB Cooper followed up by watching for who would come out as a suspect and then planted the evidence on their relative’s property after they died.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JOIN ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Prediction: in a decade or two, there will be people complaining about this guy going political when they realize he’s not being genuine here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I was talking about the magic of science or extreme coincidences.

Ultimately (having read your other reply), I don’t think biological definitions are useful when it comes to social things like gender. It’s just trying to change the argument into an easier one. “What is normal?” vs “what is possible?” or “what is ok?”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnLy tWo eLemEnTs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The word “make” does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to pregnancy. A word like “nurture” might fit better. Once the sperm and egg combine, it starts doing its own thing, the mother’s body just provides resources for it to continue growing and a safe place to do so for the first 9 months give or take.

So the way to make human egg cells would be to either be conceived as a female and have everything go well enough to grow those eggs, or probably some other methods involving introducing various chemicals to unspecialized cells to trick them into behaving as if that was happening.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy shiiiiit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There was another recent shooting that was caught on camera and was being meme’d before the end of the day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Praying for winning sports events has always been the funniest to me. Just the idea that an omnipotent being a) cares about the outcome of a passtime, b) would use their power to affect the outcome while many suffer or die from random events they didn’t deserve, and c) does so at the expense of all the players and supporters of the other team. It’s just so audacious to pray for something so trivial.