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- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Don’t forget COVID.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
Trump didn’t have millions of people killed.
Yet.
Remember, the Nazis tried deporting all their unwanted minorities first, too. That’s why the gas chambers were “the final solution,” not just “the solution.” Trump still has plenty of time to match or exceed Hitler, if we let him.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
The difference is that Iran doesn’t even make the top 10 list of reasons Trump deserves hate.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 1 day ago:
[Bust Jr.] arguable set up the Republican base towards Trumpism.
“A boat is a boat, but a mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!”
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 1 day ago:
In your previous comment it sounded like you had discussed itvbegorehand, do your mom would’ve known the gesture wasn’t meant for her.
LOL at the Family Feud extended metaphor, though!
- Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this? 2 days ago:
I feel like🖕would’ve worked fine (assuming you don’t otherwise make rude gestures at your mom).
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 days ago:
Consider the following scenarios:
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You start with a hill, then dig down into it and build a building such that it has a flat green (vegetated) roof at the original ground level.
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You start with flat ground, build the same building on top of it, then mound dirt up around the sides to form a hill.
Two methods to the same result, right?
But now, imagine that instead of one building, you’ve got an entire city worth of buildings like that bunched up touching each other (no roads between them, just interior corridors). With scenario #1, you’ve still got to do a bunch of excavation for each and every building. But with scenario #2, you only need to do earth-moving around the perimeter of the city (if you even bother). Still the same result, but now method #2 is much, much cheaper.
I’m looking out over the Tokyo skyline right now and there’s every level of building. How do you get everyone to agree on the one right height?
This is a very hypothetical thread, so that’s the kind of issue that could just be hand-waved away as part of the initial premise. But if you want a real answer, that’s easy: “zoning codes.” Cities have absolutely no trouble exercising their authority to regulate building height.
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- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 4 days ago:
Everything you think would be good about underground would be more easily and cheaply accomplished by building aboveground buildings that connect. (Or said another way, by effectively raising ground level to roof level without the expense of digging.)
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 4 days ago:
You forgot the leading
@and your username mention turned into a mailto link. - Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 4 days ago:
I’m not convinced it wasn’t mostly dead before Steam, TBH. I mean I guess there was “lending” (read: copying), but there was never a “GameStop for PC games” the way there was for console games. And even the “lending” was somewhat curtailed by CD-keys and account registration before Steam existed.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Gaming industry right now 1 week ago:
Or – hear me out – the distributors should be criminally prosecuted for fraud and theft for having represented it as a sale and then reneging on it/stealing it back from the buyers.
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
This is merely a convenient approximation for properly-inflated tires carrying a load, not a hard rule rooted borne out during empirical examination. After all, removing a wheel from an automobile and rolling it along clean concrete leaves tire tracks that are full width, yet the tire will not substantially deform at the contact point because 20-30 pounds is not much of a burden. If there’s no deformation, then the contact patch is a line with a tiny area, which would wrongly suggest a ludicrously high tire pressure.
Sure, the tire itself has a certain amount of strength, but (unless it’s a run-flat tire, I suppose) it’s negligible compared to the load carrying provided by the tire pressure.
While bike wheels do act as gyroscopes – as do all rotating masses without a contra-rotating mass – this is not substantial to bicycle stability. If it were, kick scooters or e-scooters which have substantially smaller wheels but with the same physics as bicycles would be unrideable.
No, you’re overstating your case. First of all, I didn’t say that gyroscope forces were the only factor. Second, they are a “substantial” contributing factor. Your own wiki link agrees with me:
Several factors, including geometry, mass distribution, and gyroscopic effect all contribute in varying degrees to this self-stability, but long-standing hypotheses and claims that any single effect, such as gyroscopic or trail (the distance between steering axis and ground contact of the front tire), is solely responsible for the stabilizing force have been discredited.
The important part is the “gyroscopic effect… contribute” part, not the “solely responsible… discredited” part.
Remember, OP’s question was “why are the wheels big,” so the effect that’s relevant to discuss is the one that’s different between wheels of different diameter. And that’s the gyroscopic effect, not any of the other things that contribute to bicycle stability but don’t depend on wheel size. There’s a reason people generally don’t prefer things like Bromptons unless they really need the packaging advantages, and it’s because bikes with small wheels are (relatively) weird and twitchy to ride.
- Comment on Why do tires have the width and diameter they do? 1 week ago:
The pressure the tire exerts on the road is always equal to the pressure it’s inflated to. When the vehicle weight increases while tire PSI stays the same, the contact patch (area squished flat against the pavement) increases in size.
Bike tires are narrower than car tires because bikes are much lighter (so the contact patch doesn’t need to be as wide), and also because they lean into turns (so the contact patch can’t be wide). Bike tires are often larger diameter than car tires because they have more gyroscopic effect and thus make the bike easier to balance. They also make it easier to ride over bumps, but on a road bike (as opposed to a mountain bike) that’s probably a relatively minor reason.
I think motorcycle and ebike tires are a little wider (but still round in cross-section, so not like a car tire) for durability reasons because all the forces they’re subjected to are larger.
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 1 week ago:
Do any of those languages actually have a rule that you’re supposed to put a dot in the middle of “et,” though? It’d be pretty weird if they did because “et” is one word…
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 1 week ago:
The bag (usually) has cooking instructions written on the it…
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 1 week ago:
If their first language is a Romance language it still isn’t an excuse, because “etc” comes from the Latin.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
They claim to sell a license, but that’s a lie.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
I also would’ve been more interested if the thing had unified (but not soldered) memory, like a cut-down Strix Halo.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Sure they’re doing it for the simple reason of Steam machine owners being guaranteed Steam gaming customers
That isn’t even the most important reason, IMO. I think they’re doing it mostly to actively push Steam OS and normalize Linux for gaming. Not because they care about Free Software in principle, mind you, but as a hedge against the existential threat of Microsoft locking them out of Windows.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
It’s very compact and quiet and has very good driver support without any tinkering.
The first two are real advantages, but I think any random AMD-based system (CPU and GPU) would be damn near equal in terms of driver support.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
The cube form-factor is nice, in a “sit on top of the furniture looking pretty” sort of way. However, I think a short-depth 1U form-factor to stack with hi-fi equipment would be a good way to do it as well, and relatively easily achievable to DIY with off-the-shelf parts.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
If you want it to be like a Steam Machine, you should definitely go for the AMD GPU so you can run Steam OS on it.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
By all means, be choosy with where you spend your money and who you work for. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s how we win.
There should be a boy that responds with this every fucking time somebody says “boycott.”
(I say as someone who has been boycotting several large companies for decades, to zero observable effect.)
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense; there wouldn’t have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 weeks ago:
When did that happen?
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 3 weeks ago:
I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.
- Comment on What is a router ? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a device that cuts grooves into wood using cutting buts that come in a variety of different profiles. It’s good for making slots (e.g. mortises for mortise-and-tenon construction) as well as decorative details, such as chamfers, roundovers, and ogee profiles. You can also use a pattern bit to copy a cut-out shape with it.
- Comment on How was a comment made five days ago on a post that was posted six minutes ago? 3 weeks ago:
The funny thing about THE_PACK is that it has both meanings, every single time.
- Comment on What comes after postmodernism? 3 weeks ago:
“5-over-1”?
comparison
___ Modernism: Image Postmodernism: Image Currently-popular style after postmodernism, coinciding with an explosion of popularity of “5-over-1” apartment buildings because of recent changes in the building code: Image
