FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 23 hours ago:
More recycled Nazis shit.
This is so gross, and these people don’t even realize what they’re doing.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 3 days ago:
We almost never actually need to sanitize anything you come into regular contact with.
And if you’re freaking out about microbes and fecal matter, don’t ask what you’re breathing in with every breath you take.
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 5 days ago:
there’s that, too. a lot of it depends on what’s being farmed, and how much regular deamand there is for it.
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 5 days ago:
They stager their crops.
Basically, it takes 20-30 years for a yellow pine to reach harvest. So they have lots of (huge) tracks that are growing, each lot is planted in sequential years- one lot is planted while another is harvested
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 6 days ago:
Depends on how much air is in there with the water.
Water itself is incompressible so the balloon won’t shrink that much, but there’s some air in there so it would shrink a bit.
The balloon’s popping action comes from being filled and expanded. It’s an elastic, so if something breaks it, it snaps back.
The only way that wouldn’t happen is if there was mostly air in there, and you went to the appropriate depth where that air was compressed down to its original volume.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 1 week ago:
Hate to break it to you. But you are moving through time. Every second.
Without time, if you weren’t moving through time, nothing could change, and the rate time flows is different for each of us… it’s complicated and I’m far from the best person to explain it, but time is not like a fourth axis that everything gets placed on, even if that’s kinda sorta how we model it.
- Comment on Could you make a maglev marimba that would resonate for longer than ordinary models? 1 week ago:
what if you created a cradle for the keys, similar to the bands they float on? maybe something like a cloth tube (as for making the binding on a quilt,) capped off with 2 ball bearings. I suspect it won’t be any better than the current arrangement, but it might be.
- Comment on Could you make a maglev marimba that would resonate for longer than ordinary models? 1 week ago:
There are arrangements of magnets that can levitate a steel ball bearing a certain distance above it. You could then imbed the ball bearing in the tone board.
There’s two problems I see. First, it would require some fairly strong magnetic fields to achieve, and secondly, anything that’s going to keep your tone board constrained at the appropriate position is going to dampen the vibrations.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, sure. Maybe. Probably?
But can you imagine anything more terrifying than a multi-ton Canada goose charging and honking at you?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Bet they honked like a goose.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 1 week ago:
It’s the sim card that’s the problem. if you pay for your service with VISA, it’s not anonymous.
As I mentioned in my original comment…. It’s specifically a visa gift card.
Which you get by paying cash and reload by paying cash, with no information given. Verizon just goes you the sSIM card when you set up on their service. (And the only real reason to do that is so I don’t have to go into their stores all the time.)
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 1 week ago:
There’s options out there, yes, but you have to go look for it. The way I got my burner was buying a google pixel (for graphene os,) with cash and then putting it on a pay as you on a cash-funded visa got card
Verizon happily hooked me up.
(I use the phone for going to protests and such things.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
as a Minnesotan, there’s arguments for other states being better; though I do have to say Minnesota definitely is up there.
- Comment on How do you defy an immersive sim? 2 weeks ago:
I usually hurl insults while cracking the console and entering cheat codes.
Jokes aside, immersive sims have it in the description- they’re simulations of a thing, the game rules follow simulated rules, and these rules are designed to allow extreme player choice. Skyrim doesn’t really qualify even if it is ‘open world’- for example, how players are almost subconsciously pushed into being a stealth archer. (the game rewards you for sneaking in and getting the lay of the land before you enter combat. Picking people off at range is useful, and spells are too noisy for that, where archer lets you not entirely break stealth. Sure you might mop up with some magic or some sword and stuff, but, really, if you’re careful, you can clear entire rooms without people finding you.)
Also, puzzles and problems in skyrim lack the freedom of choice that’s the hallmark of immersive sims. Compare this to kingdom come deliverance, where if you’re careful you can just bullshit your entire way through the game. (speech skills, for example,) More over, the game reacts to what you do, and what you don’t do. you’re moving through a game world that changes based on how you go about everything, frequently in subtle ways… where it dosn’t really change as you progress through it.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 2 weeks ago:
Usually those requests go through the state department and if the us has an extradition treaty, the extradition is handled by the country they’re residing in.
If there is none, it’s more murky and usually handled case by case. (Or just ignored.)
If we do the asshole thing and ignore all that, it’s going to be the military, not cops. (See Maduro’s “arrest”)
Generally, cops only have authority within specific jurisdictions, sheriff’s the counties they work in and cops the cities, though if there’s a justification, they can go outside that, but it’s kinda frowned on without that justification.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They don’t wear underwear while cycling in bike shorts.
That’s a great way to rub one’s balls off. (Or severely raw. Or whatever they’re packing for junk.) eliminating friction is the whole point of the things.
For laundering, normal cycle with cold/not-hot water should be more than sufficient. (Hot water wears out the elastic.)
- Comment on Is people's attention on their surroundings terrible today? 3 weeks ago:
Today? Sure.
Yesterday? Yep.
They probably complained about people being distracted by using the abacus or whatever way back in the day.
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 3 weeks ago:
It to mention altitude and pressure.
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t that happen because of the Mars Climate Observer crashing? Caused by a us team using pounds-force-seconds where nasa expected newton-seconds (sending it hurtling towards mars at a too-low dip into the atmosphere)
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 3 weeks ago:
Considering that most cookie recipes are usually at 170c or 350 f to 204c or 400 f, surely you can figure that out from context?
Especially since certain chemical reactions only begin to happen at the low side of that. For example the Maillard reaction enhances the flavor of sugars and such; or double acting baking powder (as well as greatly accelerating the reaction of single acting powder, soda or cream of tartar.)
Low temp ovens would just dry out that cookie or biscuit into dog treats.
- Comment on I need an adult 4 weeks ago:
If you pickle that red onion, everything turns red.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Oh yes.
One of the reasons most mainstream chriysects consider Mormons to not be Christian’s is because they’re not trinitarians - that god is three beings in one. As an example.
Trinitarianism teaches that they’re all the same being, just with 3 different whosiwhatits that they can’t even agree on what they even are.
Jesus lacks attributes the father and Holy Spirit have, making him less than fully god, and he has attributes that they don’t have, etc.
Which when pressed, most christians will fall into one of the first heresies- partialism. Which was part of the Arian Heresy (that Jesus was created and distinct, not fully god)
The problem is that Jesus couldn’t be the messiah (he did none of the messianic things, and wasn’t of the line of David, and even if Joseph was his father, Joseph was of a line cursed to never produce a king….)
So if Jesus is neither god nor messiah, why worship him?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much everyone has their own unique blend of beliefs. Like. Most Christian’s have their things they do or don’t believe, even if there’s a shared framework.
Like, ask 10 Christian’s what the hell the trinity is, you’ll get 20 different and usually mutually contradictory answers.
- Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly.
Just don’t lie. Put what you got. If you have experience with something at a hobby level, mark it as personal experience and offer to bring samples of things you’ve done to an interview. (Don’t violate any one’s proprietary stuff, mind. But sometimes “hobbyists” punch well above the pay grade.)
- Comment on Are there any animals that pretend to be injured to lure prey? 4 weeks ago:
Some birds feign injury to lure predators away from their nest (and the eggs/young inside,) but this isn’t to attack them, it’s to distract the predator. Once they’re away form the nest they fly off.
But no, no prey goes out looking for predators and then attacks them.
Most prey will only be aggressive if the predator comes into their space. Large mammals typically respond with aggression- buffalo, elephants, other cows. Horses. They’re all more than capable of killing individual predators- which is why wolves or lions will only go after them in larger packs or prides.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t contribute to climate change,
The rocket fuel to get them there, plus all the energy to build and produce the rocket fuel definitely is a contribution. They could be solar powered down here. The reason they’re not is money.
- Comment on A slain officer who acted heroically gets booed. He was a Marine veteran. Really great culture. 5 weeks ago:
That might actually be the problem. Like how people who are too similar can’t stand each other.
- Comment on Why do so many people regardless of whether their reasonings are justified or not pinpoint South Park for ruining a generation of millenials? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never particularly enjoyed southpark. not my cuppa.
but i wouldn’t say it ruined anything and it’s frequently poignant in it’s evisceration of certain people or groups of people.
- Comment on Dr. Thanos, PhD. 5 weeks ago:
Sure. Just don’t eat them.
That’s junk food, and eating junk food is bad. Instead, compost and eat the veggies
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 5 weeks ago:
So how did they know you were you?
They allowed you to update the signature. They may have been oddly fixated on the signatures matching, but they still verified your identity in some other way.
Or they’re idiots who shouldn’t be in control of other people’s money,