Trainguyrom
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- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 1 day ago:
I think for some people it’s more about killing multiple birds with one stone. One guy I know went to see a Dolphins game, bought a car and got some warmer weather during the coldest part of the year. Another bought a car while visiting family (and learned the hard way that radiators are sometimes refilled with water and therefore will freeze in the winter if brought north) and another had their 20 year old truck die while hauling their RV and bought a new truck from the nearest dealership. So maybe it’s not widespread, but every one has talked about the benefits of a car that’s never seen salted roads
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 2 days ago:
In the north there’s even people who will specifically head south to buy a car that’s never spent a winter driving on salted roads. Road salt corrodes so badly it’s nasty
- Comment on Blocking trash newspapers in Apple News+ just disabled the link but doesn't free up screen space. 5 days ago:
Thunderbird still supports RSS, however I’ve found many news sources don’t provide proper RSS feeds anymore
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 5 days ago:
My in-laws have some horses on their little hobby farm. They grow and bale their own hay which gives them an excuse to play with their antique tractors and makes it affordable enough to keep the “hay burners” around. I agree the prices anon provides are pretty rediculously low
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
In a similar vein, I absolutely love John Candy’s last film, Canadian Bacon. Every time I rewatch it I go “man I forgot how funny that film is!”
Checking rotten tomatos its not quite as badly panned as Wagons East! (0% critics / 33% audience vs 17% critics / 52% audience) but seems like a good candidate for this thread nonetheless
Brief synopsis:
The president of the United States has successfully ended every war the country is involved in and is facing abysmal odds of re-election, so his team decides to start a second cold war, this time against Canada. John Candy plays a former weapons factory employee now sheriffs deputy in Niagara Falls NY, laid off with his friends due to the plant closure, and seeing the propaganda, they decide sneak across the border to stir trouble in Canada, losing one of their team who’s caught and taken for a free mental health evaluation in Ottawa, so now they must take a trans-canadian road trip to “save” her
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
I like that this director thinks that there are some people wired different to just never fart
As a fabled never farter I can confirm, I simply do not fart outside of during bowel movements.
I’m trying to convince my kids that “dads don’t fart” because that will be hilarious when they learn the truth
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Back when Netflix had everything I watched that one thinking it would be a cool scifi film, but turns out its a kong fu movie and I was not in the mood for a that so I was disappointed. The sound track slapped though!
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
At first I went “what easter egg?”
Also, kudos for the AI Overview for getting it entirely wrong while the easter egg at least knows what’s up
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
Honestly I loved both the direction that Rian Johnson clearly wanted to take the sequels and I loved the direction that JJ Abrams clearly wanted to take the sequels and I honestly wish Disney had just stuck with one of them for the entire trilogy and let the other do a trilogy as well. We all know how badly Disney wanted to pump out a Star Wars film every year during that timeframe so that way they could’ve had their cake and eaten it too
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
I just loved the pacing of Don’t Look Up so much. Just constant subversion of expectations that I really enjoyed
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
To build off of this, if you collect $1000 in taxes from a million people and you’ve just pulled in a billion dollars. With 300 million people in the country that’s a lot of tax dollars.
Obviously if you can tax 1000 out of every million dollars in wealth and individual earns in a year you can easily collect far more in taxes given how many multimillionaires will see their wealth increase by tens or hundreds of millions in a year.
This is all super reductive for simplicity. It’s worth looking at how the super rich are able to avoid paying taxes. Are they not paying taxes because they’re doing things with their money that is directly incentivized and generally better for the country than if they simply hoarded the same money, such as running the money through charities, clean energy installtions, etc? I’m honestly asking because i really don’t know and I dont have the time right now to pull at that thread and research the question
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
The earth is traveling around the sun at about 67000mph (29,722 meters per second, the unit of measurement I’ll use from here on our for consistently) that means to fall into the sun (and this is once you’ve already expended a ton of Delta-V (delta-V being a count of meters per second in change to orbit your craft needs to make/can make) escaping the Earth’s gravitational influence) you’d have to slow down a significant portion (about 24,000 meters per second specifically) of that 29,722 meters per second that you’re hurtling through space at.
It takes so much energy to try to crash a craft into the sun it’s literally cheaper (only costing about 8,800 m/s of Delta-V, compared to about 24,000 m/s of Delta-V) to fly the craft very very far away, such as to the edge of the solar system, then zero out the angular velocity so it effectively falls into the sun, than it is to fly directly to the sun. This tactic also enables one to use another planets gravitational influence to “gravity turn” and save on fuel, but it’s still horrendously expensive to get even a small craft weighing a fraction of a ton from the surface of earth out to the edge of the solar system to begin with.
Rockets face a significant challenge in that in order to reach orbit they need a large amount of energy, sources from a large amount of fuel. To get 1 ton of payload to orbit it needs an amount of fuel which adds additional weight which then requires additional fuel to lift the mass of the fuel. Because of this it takes about 100kg of fuel to get 1kg to orbit
In short, I highly recommend spending a few days playing Kerbal Space Program to learn far more than will fit in a single comment about orbital dynamics. That game is amazing at teaching basic concepts of orbital dynamics and the incredible challenges space programs face in just getting payloads to orbit let alone incredible feats like interplanetary travel or interstellar travel
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
I have a better idea! Launch it into a stable orbit in the oort cloud and maybe we can create a new planet there to colonize in a few centuries! It’s perfect because then we have the perfect place to send the radioactive soil from WWIII and a perfect base to hide from WWV from!
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 2 weeks ago:
but he still got fucked by a horse
Hey don’t kink shame!
…something something Mr hands
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
Dang that’s a pretty metal name for a kid. I can’t decide if its terrible or brilliant
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got a Grandson named Charon
Isn’t that something from greek mythology? I swear there’s something like that in greek mythology…
- Comment on Relationship goals 3 weeks ago:
Unironically a great reason to use condoms. Condom protects the interted item from fecal matter, and can be disposed of after the fact meaning cleanup is quick and easy
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 3 weeks ago:
Fortunately Google messages filters all of it to spam and makes it very easy to toss whatever doesn’t get filtered into spam. Here’s mine from Wisconsin!
- Comment on Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell 3 weeks ago:
If my grandmother makes it to the next election I might move her to an android phone for this reason alone. Her iPhone doesn’t block the spam at all, and even appears to not have a way to delete the messages
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
The craziest thing is new archeological discoveries keep pushing modern humans further and further back into pre-history. Almost makes me wonder if we’ll come full circle and go “yeah humans did in fact coexist with dinosaurs, and here’s proof at least one rode one” /hj
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
You think you have had an entire life, but in reality your brain was just formed moments ago. And it may possibly stop existing in a few more moments, this moment being the only one the brain has actually experienced.
A moment in which I sit on the toilet and read philosophy on my fondleslab and perhaps make this comment. Really a wild thought
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
I could never get the hang of thursdays
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Man I don’t know if I’ll ever get over seeing Mastodon toots on Lemmy and all of the other wild cross-fediverse fun the Fediverse enables
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Actually the universe was created on Jan 1st 1970. That’s why computers sometimes have errors with pre-1970 dates, it’s the universal simulation glitching due to the high clock rate of computers compared to the universe’s. Anyone who claims to have been born before 1970/01/01 is a simulation that’s lying to you, and anyone born after is real, hence why now that its more player characters than NPCs things are going off the rails politically and socially!
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to /c/science_memes@mander.xyz with memes about…you might never have guessed…Science!
- Comment on Anon is unpopular in high school 3 weeks ago:
Ehh I was pretty uncool in high school but a couple of the popular girls seemed to honestly try to extend olive branches towards me multiple times
- Comment on Anon is unpopular in high school 3 weeks ago:
I learned way too quickly who the posers were and who wasn’t after I started messing around with a girl in highschool. It was very eye opening realizing that very few of my classmates had gotten anywhere near even just a romantic/sexual connection with someone of their preferred gender
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 3 weeks ago:
I always come back to I Prevail’s cover of Blank Space. Sometimes it can even trick me into believing Tswift is a good song writer
Or Ice Nine Kills parodying both the song and the music video and managing to make it less creepy in the process
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
The nice thing about these thrift stores is they’re actual charities and if you are in a hard place they’ll often help you get the stuff you need for free rather than charging the $0.25 an item they might otherwise
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
I loved the wildlife zoo there when I visited Rochester on a whim a few years ago!
