Macallan

@Macallan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Far fewer people know that 0° and 100° in Fahrenheit also correspond to specific real-world values. 0°F corresponds to a temperature where a brine is made of equal parts ice, water, and ammonium chloride. Such a brine, interestingly, is a frigorific mixture, meaning that it stabilizes to a specific temperature regardless of the temperature that each component started at. Thus, it makes for a really nice laboratory-stable definition of a temperature. Similarly, 100°F was initially set at “blood heat” temperature, or the human body temperature. While not super precise, it was a fairly stable value. As good as anything in the early 1700s.

  Source from a quick Google search: gregable.com/2014/06/temperature-scales.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask the crickets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the brine probably froze at 0° F, which ended up correlating to 32° F for regular water. And the body temperature at 100° F ended up correlating to 212° F for water to boil. That’s the way I understand it anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet pic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WARNING!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pop the protective cap off the other end to reveal the combination butt plug side.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checking in⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  D) All of the above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  😭 I woke up sick today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a Borderlands movie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨400,000 species⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  White Middle aged Gen X’er here… Can’t stand the Beetles…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the response! I ended up trying out Element.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the suggestion. I’ve actually never been a big fan of Discord so finding something that’s a bit different will be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I ended up going with Element.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What client would you suggest and why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices what they've taken from us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I’ve used the 3.5mm port for my truck daily for the past 10 years. Don’t need it as much now that I got a new truck, but I still use it when I ride my motorcycle. Bluetooth earbuds just don’t fit under my helmet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you let boomers run social media accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there’s us Gen-X folk standing off to the side watching other generations bitch at each other because they always forget about us. Maybe we just need to be called “The Forgotten Generation”.