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- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 1 hour ago:
The Atchafalaya is a distributary, not a tributary.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
This info is coming from a relative who was working in France. My understanding was he didn’t automatically get any of France’s scheduled holidays of unless he used leave to do so. So the bank of 15 “national holidays” was effectively converted into more leave.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
France adds on another 15 days of holidays, which can be taken at any time, not just on national holidays. It’s a total of 8 weeks.
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 1 week ago:
The FCC regulates closed captions on over the air broadcast television.
They’re not going to regulate the Internet streaming services.
- Comment on Bad at job 2 weeks ago:
This is the quality Lemmy content that I come here for.
- Comment on So Many People Dont Know This Hack 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
ISO would be great, but sadly OmegaStar doesn’t support ISO timestamps yet.
- Comment on That Damn Smile 2 weeks ago:
Here’s Western District commander Bunny Colvin on the importance of the brown paper bag to civilization.
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 2 weeks ago:
I have never seen Uno played that way. If a player plays “reverse”, then the order of play switches from counterclockwise to clockwise or vice versa. The effects of the previous player’s card still land on their usual targets.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 3 weeks ago:
If an American moves to Europe and doesn’t attempt to learn the local language, then by a few months to a year in with zero effort people will say they’re in the wrong for not making an effort to integrate and expecting everyone to speak English for them.
My American cousin lived and worked in France as an engineer for several years. This is absolutely not true. He did make an effort to learn some French, but it wasn’t because of any pressure. He just wanted to.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
If you stick to the premise that the portals exist in a universe with GR, then we can pay much know that space-time is locally flat in and around at least the middle parts of the portal. We know this because things don’t get fucked up when they’re going through.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 4 weeks ago:
It kind of is the wild west. In some cases, I think the track infrastructure is still exactly the same as it was from the old West days. There are some really breathtaking railroad bridges to go over, but they’re also limited to 15 mph because they’re so old. West Texas still has many miles of completely un-signaled “dark territory”.
This line traverses the Gadsden Purchase, a big chunk of Arizona that the US had to buy from Mexico in order to build this railroad. Back in 1854.
- Comment on I'll take it to all 2 place it goes! 4 weeks ago:
The service only operates 3 days per week. That’s 6 trains per week, total. 3 in each direction.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 5 weeks ago:
To be more specific, there’s a strain of white Christian nationalists that believe the book of Revelation predicts that Jews will rebuild a third temple on the Temple Mount site and resume animal sacrifice before the rapture or any other end-of-days event can occur.
To these people, activities that make that outcome more likely are laudable expressions of faith. There’s even a group that is trying to breed a perfectly red heifer in Texas, because apparently you need to sacrifice a perfectly ritually “clean” and unblemished red heifer in order to properly kick off a new temple.
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 5 weeks ago:
This is the case in nearly every state in the USA that uses machines. The big exception is Louisiana.
- Comment on What is negative voltage? 5 weeks ago:
The lowest geographic place in the United States is Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It’s altitude is -282 feet. That’s a negative altitude.
What does that mean? It means that Badwater Basin is below the 0 altitude level, which we have chosen to define as “mean sea level.” We could have chosen a different altitude too be zero, but we didn’t.
If there is a pathway from the sea (at Mean Sea Level) to Badwater Basin, then the water will flow to the basin, because it would have a lower potential energy in the basin.
Voltage is potential difference. It is always the difference in potential between two different points. But like altitude, we often don’t say one of the two points out loud because it’s a common reference level.
A positive charge in a vacuum will gain speed (kinetic energy) moving from a higher potential to a lower potential, because its potential energy goes down. It doesn’t matter whether it’s going from +9V to +5V versus 0V to -4V. The change in potential is the same.
- Comment on Let it sink in. 1 month ago:
Akshully, they would be counting to 11,111. That’s nearly 100,000!
- Comment on They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. 1 month ago:
Just like how Java is “not intended for use in a nuclear facility.” They put it in the long-ass click through agreement, so it’s legally binding.
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 1 month ago:
“You don’t understand; my house ****** is one of the good ones.”
- Comment on Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something? 1 month ago:
Adding on to this…
The “rest mass” is so important to physicists because it is an invariant quantity under relativistic transformations. Think about kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is a form of energy, and therefore a form of mass. But different observers at different velocities can look at the same object and come up with different kinetic energies for it. But “rest mass,” the mass it would have at rest, is something everyone can agree on.
Finally, as the battery on the scale example demonstrates, photons make their own gravitational field from their energy. Since photons make gravity, they can (theoretically) make black holes. "Kugelblitz" is the name for a black hole that has been composed of only photons.
- Comment on Since light cannot pass through a black hole does that mean light has mass? Also why does light form a singularity in a black hole? Is that like a fixed point on a map or something? 1 month ago:
would require so much energy that it is (for now(?)) impossible to achieve.
It’s not just excessive quantities of regular energy. These schemes all require negative mass-energy or other exotic forms of energy. We have no theory of physics that predicts the existence of these forms of energy, and we don’t know how they would work.
Physicists who write papers about these things use neutral, professional language, like “exotic matter,” to describe this stuff, but it’s really pretty firmly in the realm of magical make believe.
- Comment on How do I deal with children following me around in video games? 1 month ago:
I don’t know anything about it, but it seems like this game might not be equipped with BFG 9000.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The cat thing was designed to be as absurd as possible to heckle Bohr and Heisenburg.
- Comment on Welcome to the HEV Mark 4 Protective System, for use in hazardous environment conditions. 1 month ago:
Except the hazard is coming from the park service Barneys and not from the green water. Don’t panic. HEV Mark IV can handle this.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 month ago:
According to this, the charge is vandalism in DC Superior Court. That would be a misdemeanor, carrying less than 1 year in prison.
I wasn’t able to find a case entry in DC Superior Court’s docket system.
- Comment on Molting 1 month ago:
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- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 2 months ago:
In this specific case, your phone exchanges radio signals with a cell tower, and then the cell tower transfers your data requests onto the wires.
- Comment on I'm just better 2 months ago:
Looking at you, China.
- Comment on power generator 2 months ago:
Okay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Well see, they do actually have a list that says what everything costs. It’s called the Charge Master List. They just don’t want you to see that list, because they think it puts you at a negotiating disadvantage. It’s the magic invisible hand of the free market, at work to make pricing information available to all in the most efficient manner. (/s)