atomicorange
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- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 hours ago:
Middleish
- Comment on My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now 2 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Skibidi’s on first?
- Comment on Iron 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Hydrogenated
- Comment on Iron 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Depends on how well you lash them together.
- Comment on Water Snek 6 days ago:
At high intensity about 14k.
- Comment on Expert here. 6 days 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 6 days ago:
It’s because i’m brimming with pep.
- Comment on Iron 6 days 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 6 days ago:
It’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 6 days ago:
As long as they don’t call it “organic”, that would kill my overly literal chemistry-nerd brain.
- Comment on My condolences. 2 weeks ago:
It reminds me a bit of tres leches cake, soft wet texture and very very sweet.
- Comment on Fun new game 4 weeks 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! 1 month 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! 1 month ago:
Oh no!
- Comment on Dots! 1 month ago:
I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?
- Comment on Dots! 1 month 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?" 2 months ago:
Let’s get the writers working on it!
- Comment on The world is falling apart! Send us your money! 2 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! 2 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) 2 months ago:
That’s why drinking cures my depression. I kill a few brain cells to keep the rest in line.
- Comment on Rest in peace 3 months ago:
Could have been worse, “gashole” doesn’t have the same ring.
- Comment on 🤙 hang ten 🤙 3 months ago:
Does one need feet to kick?
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 3 months ago:
Am I doing it right?
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 3 months ago:
Dude just wants a little stability.
- Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 3 months ago:
Lines from commercials too. Wazuuuuuuuuuuup!?
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 3 months ago:
He’s such a long boi!
