FuglyDuck
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- Comment on Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm? 1 day ago:
And I’m saying “probably not”. If you step out into direct sunlight, you feel warmer because you’re absorbing heat from said sunlight.
You don’t generally feel warmer because you’re in a well lit room. (Though you do feel warmer if the colors in that room are warmer reds and oranges compared to cooler colors like blues and greens.)
If there’s enough light on you to feel warmer, it’s likely because the lights are warming you up (like stage lighting for news anchors.) rather than an illusion or placebo or whatever you want to call it.
- Comment on Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats? 1 day ago:
Why we don’t go on about pigeon and seagull guano though? I have no idea.
Mammallist birdshit.
- Comment on Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm? 1 day ago:
Not an illusion, no. The sun does impart some warmth (or a lot of warmth in some cases), Even when it’s bitter cold out, being in direct sunlight will be a bit warmer.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 days ago:
out of curiosity… does that first fact account for the continued expansion of the universe?
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 3 days ago:
Dunno, but I heard some were that you can fix your phone by microwaving it.
This recharges the bars, too!
(/s, if it was t obvious. Don’t microwave yer phone.)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
the R. Pi is kinda that. it’s not really a phone, but Raspbian is a fork of debian. Plenty you can do with it if you want.
The problem is that “full desktop OSes” expect full desktop peripherals (key board and mouse) and get clunky if you try to have something like a touch screen instead. Which is a large part of why win 8 was as bad as it was- they wanted a “seamless” OS for their phones and what they found was… NOPE.
Sure laptops frequently now have touch-screen monitors, but you still have the KBM input too.
- Comment on What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets? 6 days ago:
Assuming you’re just using it for water or something and not actively cooking, a good bottle should be fine- the ceramic lining is basically sintered on at high heat and will improve the inertness of the pan.
Cheaper versions I’d stay away from (same as cheap aluminum or stainless bottles.)
- Comment on It burns! 1 week ago:
… is there something wrong if your favorite movie is top gun….?
(Mine is 1950’s Day The Earth Stood Still, mind.)
- Comment on What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets? 1 week ago:
if you’re worried about microplastics, consider a stainless steel bottle. Clean Canteen is a solid brand that doesn’t put plastic films on the inside.
but I’ve only had a ‘problem’ with rather old bottles cracking (crazing, technically,) from age. Bottle Bright might be more harsh and prematurely aging your bottle if you consistently have a problem. I just use warm water and a scrubby somewhat regularly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah. I’d say it is. a hard 06:00 wake up time/bedtime is probably going to fuck your kid up. Teens are rather more prone to sleeping in and staying late as a matter of biology. teenage circadian rhythms are shifted later than young children and adults shift back as the age. it may be necessary to wake up that early to get to school, but when there’s no school? probably not his normal.
Also, just for the record smartphones are how teens tend to communicate with one another, as well as the outside world. Does it need guardrails? yes. but you’re not doing your kid any favors by keeping them high, only delaying the inevitable as well as forcing him to hide and go around your back for things he’s going to find anyway. And I’m just going to assume that screentime doesn’t include things like homework.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 1 week ago:
I dunno that stop sign would totally defeat the purpose.
Part of why roundabouts work is that everyone is basically turning right to enter and right again to exit, meaning none of the traffic streams actually cross.
Stop signs would slow it down, but not by much. At least, not for the smaller things.
My biggest issue with people here is the frequency they wait for it to be completely clear before going, or the idiots trying to drift around it because, hey, that’s actually fun.
- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 1 week ago:
Basically. It comes down to habit and some times laziness.
There are a few times I intentionally don’t use mine, mostly because there’s this one intersection that if you’re turning left, for whatever reason people get into this “no you go first” bullshit that’s hard to read. So I turn it on after they start going.
Other tkmes, I fail to single entry into a roundabout. All the round abouts here are single lane and it’s pretty obvious you’re gonna enter. Also, they’re small so it becomes easily confused with signaling an exit from The roundabout. I do signal the exit appropriately, though.
But in MN the 2 things people don’t know how to do is a zipper merge and round abouts. It’s embarrassing, really.
- Comment on Frigging peas 🫛 1 week ago:
Fly…Fuck…er…
Somehow that seems worse than a goat fucker.
- Comment on One for the wee Ones 1 week ago:
Maybe she was doing experiments on it?
- Comment on What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world? 1 week ago:
A general AI would be very good at playing the stock market.
But Gemini is not a general AI and it’s dumb as fuck. (As are all LLMs)
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
Shove them into the street. That’ll get someone’s attention. (preferably not when cars are coming, but that’s pretty optional too.)
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 week ago:
In the US it’s because our cops are incompetent and having a lawyer in the room makes it “too hard” to do an investigation.
In the US, the only answer you should ever give a cop without a lawyer present is “I don’t answer questions without a lawyer present.”
And when they lie to you and try to tell you that you have to answer… don’t believe them. They’re legally allowed to lie to you.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
“I don’t want to talk with this guy!”
Fuck Peterson…. He’s a white supremacist.
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
That’s just his go to when he realizes he’s going to be mocked. Or he’s about to be proven stupid.
Guarantee you his definition of “god” would have changed had someone called him on his bullshit about Elisha or Jonah. (They expressed a view that one’s conscience is “the voice of god”… not god…)
- Comment on Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian? 2 weeks ago:
JP expresses a belief in a deity.
That makes him a theist, even if that deity isn’t how we would typically conceive of god.
“God is conscience <that exists beyond the ideal as a social construct>”
- Comment on bomba fantastic 2 weeks ago:
I saw these pics earlier.
Then I had to look up a fossil, cuz no way that wasn’t drawn by a 3rd grader remembering what fish look like, having only seen a fish once.
Pretty sure… that’s a fake fossile sculpted out of clay by said 3rd grader. I could be wrong.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 weeks ago:
without relevant regulations, though, you won’t know what you shouldn’t eat because you won’t know that they’re putting sawdust in peanutbutter or borax and fermheldahyde in milk.
Maybe it’d be okay to have plaster of paris in flour, though. I mean, how else are you supposed to sculpt that Italian loaf like the french baguette?
Don’t be fooled. The people screaming about unpastureized milk and other things are being used so corporations can go back to poisoning you with shit. and that’s pretty much the most charitable I can be of that particular lot.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 2 weeks ago:
The problem comes in, what happens when a heart fails? depending on the failure mode, it may represent a total blockage, in which case you’re toast. You might be able to survive with one heart if you had two, but if you add a second heart, then your other heart will likely be less developed unable to perform at whatever peak performance you had before.
If your method of redundancy adds more single points of failures. Also, the addition of a second heart poses the problem of keeping them coordinated; with all sorts of problems coming up if they get out of sync. adding redundancy will always add complexity, especially as you work to remove single points of failure and try not to add extra. In some systems, it’s just unwise to add redundency because the complexity means it’s more likely to fail.
Famously, Charles Lindbergh, for example, opted for a single reliable engine over two engines. It kinda flew in the face at the time. But then he was the first to go from NY to Paris in a non stop flight, in the Spirit of St Louis. Similarly, we can expect, if there was in fact some significant advantage, that then, everybody would be doing it. Or, at least, lots.
Keep in mind, cephalopods have 3 hearts- 2 are single chamgered things that boost blood over gills, and the 3rd provides bloodflow to the rest of the body. Hagfish have one chambered heart and several boster things that aren’t really much of a heart. Earthworms aren’t possessed of true hearts (they lack chambers and valves,) cochroaches and leaches also don’t have true hearts.
But where we see 4 chambered hearts (birds, mammals, and crocodillian reptiles,) they all only have 1. That should tell you something.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 2 weeks ago:
Giraffes are mammals and only have 1 heart. It’s freaking huge, though, at 11 kilos.
octopus and cuddlefish and similar frequently have multiple “hearts” but they’re not the same as mammalian hearts. Briachiosaurus probably had an even larger heart than a giraffe, but it was still a singular, 4 chambered hear.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 2 weeks ago:
My concern would be complexity.
More points to fail, and I’m not sure that it reduces single-points of failure much.
- Comment on Would having two hearts be better or worse for the human body? 2 weeks ago:
Perfectly healthy? Probably the only real advantage is redundancy, but that comes at the cost of complexity, and on balance, I’d guess that it’s a net negative.
Mostly because I can’t think of any organism that normally has 2 hearts. If there were real advantages, it seems, I dunno. Inevitable?
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 2 weeks ago:
I’d imagine you could find a language instructor that could go both ways.
(you know what I mean. Teach the one family english and the other french.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean, unlike a certain president. With “bone spurs”.
That hawks face … pure shock and embarrassment.
- Comment on Om nom nom 2 weeks ago:
if putting it in your mouth is off the table, noses and ears are still available.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Minneapolis is the best of the two twin cities :)
Sorry, St Paul. All you’ve got going is Casetta’s and Can Can Wonderland.
