atomicorange
@atomicorange@lemmy.world
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 6 days ago:
The medal is actually made of chocolate. The rumor is if you steal and eat someone’s nobel prize you absorb their power.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 2 weeks ago:
I mean it’s not hollowed out and literally filled with them, but we do have SOME cassowaries.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 2 weeks ago:
I suspect many survey respondents were right for the wrong reason, or vice-versa. I have two dinosaurs in my house right now.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 2 weeks ago:
Do you understand your opponent’s argument well enough to phrase it in words they would agree with? Because this seems like a gross mischaracterization that leads me to think you’re either ignorant of why someone would be happy he’s dead, or you’re deliberately lying.
So give it a try… why would a rational person actually be glad Kirk is dead? You can disagree with the reasons, but if you can’t even ARTICULATE them, I’d argue you’re the one who is either an idiot or a psychopath.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to hold your hand while I say this, and I mean it with all love and sincerity. Have you been to a doctor recently? You sound schizophrenic.
- Comment on Like winning Freecell too 1 month ago:
Someone just won a game of solichair
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
Middleish
- Comment on My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now 2 months ago:
If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
Looks like it’s time to reinvent the torture nexus from famed science fiction novel “Don’t Invent The Torture Nexus”. Maybe it will go well this time!
- Comment on Anon thinks about life 2 months ago:
Skibidi’s on first?
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
Seems more dangerous and less feasible than just offering free birth control. Handing out meth to addicts is a bad idea, even if it’s laced with something beneficial. Most women take b.c. willingly, no need to mix them together to coerce them.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 2 months ago:
Hydrogenated
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
Rendering people infertile (even temporarily) without their informed consent is unethical. Doing it to a class of people due to your perception that people like them shouldn’t breed is eugenics. This would qualify. The black socks thing probably would too, but it sounds ridiculous because that’s a class of people nobody would realistically target for elimination from the breeding pool.
Offering free birth control to drug users- fine! Dosing them without their consent- no bueno.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
Depends on how well you lash them together.
- Comment on Water Snek 2 months ago:
At high intensity about 14k.
- Comment on Expert here. 2 months ago:
I immediately thought of the Phasmid too! So this is me catching your perfectly worded reference and making a sly reply to let you know I’m in on the joke and we are both very cool for getting the reference.
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
It’s because i’m brimming with pep.
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
They should put meth in birth control. It would make it easier to remember to take it on time and I could call them “mommy’s pep pills” and it would be charmingly ironic because I have no children because I’m good at taking my pills on time.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 2 months ago:
It’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 2 months ago:
As long as they don’t call it “organic”, that would kill my overly literal chemistry-nerd brain.
- Comment on My condolences. 2 months ago:
It reminds me a bit of tres leches cake, soft wet texture and very very sweet.
- Comment on Fun new game 2 months ago:
Actually, open is good. When the shield (really a reflector) is closed, the core goes critical. Basically, the shield is made of mirrors that reflect neutrons back into the core, knocking more neutrons loose which then get reflected back in, at the point of criticality creating a feedback loop that will run away- a huge explosion. The closer the sphere is to fully closed, the more energy generated and the more radiation emitted.
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
I dis a little digging. The heat of decay (so plutonium 238 just sitting around, not burning) is about .48 kcal/hr per gram. So if we were able to convert that energy to ATP like we do carbohydrates, eating about 300g of plutonium would be like eating a twinkie (150kcal) every hour. In about 88 years the energy output of that plutonium would have reduced to about a half-twinkie.
Assuming you need 2000 kcal per day to maintain weight, that’s only 83 kcal per hour needed. So, if you could survive eating it and actually utilize the energy generated, you’d be set for life on food after eating less than 300g. We’d have to come up with a dosing schedule or you’d have to work out pretty hard as a young person to keep from getting fat.
The heat of combustion for plutonium based on a very cursory search (take it with a grain of salt) is about 1 kcal/g. So assuming your body could oxidize it, you’d get a one-time burst of about 2 twinkies worth of energy immediately upon eating that 300g.
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
Oh no!
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?
- Comment on Dots! 3 months ago:
Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation of the relative energy content of foods.
There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still contain calories because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.
Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.
- Comment on The Witcher 3 dev says "one of the longest email threads in our company history" was about "how naked Geralt should be" in the iconic bath scene: "When he gets up, how much butt should we show?" 4 months ago:
Let’s get the writers working on it!
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 4 months ago:
Yeah, please just talk to me like a person instead of advertising at me. Manipulation may work, but it’s not the kind of interaction I want to have with my representatives.
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 4 months ago:
One of the biggest red flags that you might be getting conned is when they try to rush your decision. “It’s an emergency, your grandson is in jail and needs $500 to get bailed out, no you can’t hang up we need it now or he gets put in a cell with rapist bob.”
Not saying this is a scam, just saying the tactic feels predatory. Do better, dems.
- Comment on Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer) 4 months ago:
That’s why drinking cures my depression. I kill a few brain cells to keep the rest in line.