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- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 3 weeks ago:
In that case, I’d recommend the sanding, then a wipe down with bleach for the algae, then primer impregnated with a fungicide like Zinsser mold blocking primer (just an epa-approved example, but decent place to start). It’ll form a barrier between the raw degraded plastic and the paint (so anything existing won’t continue to grow), as well as helping prevent molds from growing in the new paint layers.
Just wait for a really dry day to do it (much as you can, you know, or if you have a garage you can run a dehumidifier in that may work too), and let the paint dry for a long time between coats to prevent any moisture trapping.
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 3 weeks ago:
Probably best option is to sand it, prime it, and repaint it. Use a UV resistant paint or top coat, and should be good for several more years.
The green black gunk is probably algae, maybe with mildew (guessing you live somewhere that gets humid, or at least takes a while to dry from dew) so feel free to wipe it down with bleach or a fungicide after sanding but before you paint it.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
So I’m not a biologist either but I’m going to speculate on the temp thing. (Somewhat educated speculation - science of all varieties is my jam)
Basically my hypothesis is that between insulation and size, they aren’t capable of losing heat fast enough to fall below their baseline temp, but any old temp would probably have worked fine, as long as their fats stay liquid (and for all I know that’s 36C, but that seems highly unlikely - you’d want to be several degrees warmer in case of emergency, else you’d get stiff and die for sure).
They have a nice layer of fat for insulation and that’s all well and good, but they are massively huge and a lot more spherical than most animals. So, they have a small surface area to volume ratio, and lose heat slower as a result. And because they are huge, and muscle twitch is heat generating (to say nothing of leaky heat-producing brown fat, idk if they have this, but most mammals seem to for thermoregulation), they likely produce a gob of heat internally just existing. Much like we believe the larger dinosaurs were endothermic due to sheer size (and some evidence from their bone structure).
Side note - Imagine how many calories it would take to maintain basal metabolic rate when you are losing that heat to 4C water at literally all times. It takes us about 1500-2000 calories for this function and we only lose heat to air that’s relatively close to our body temp.
I did a super quick scan of melting points of various fats, and while without knowing exact compositions of whale blubber idk the melting point, a surprising amount of the animal fats we use for cooking melt around 25-40C, with most large terrestrial animals (cow, pig, deer, etc.) falling between 32-40C (goose fat was the 25C).
If their composition hadn’t worked, though, they could have evolved a polyunsaturated fat (like fish oil) with a lower melting point.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk ;)
- Comment on don't tell iceland 4 weeks ago:
Plus side for squick thoughts, probably not that warm. The ocean is quite cold and things lose heat 25 times faster in water than air, so it would likely cool down considerably between being…… extruded…? And consumed.
Then again, I don’t know a whales body temp to start with, so there might be a lot of heat to lose. Idk if that’s better or worse…
- Comment on car insurance 5 weeks ago:
I have full coverage with decently high coverage values (above minimum across the board, some substantially so)
I pay 60/mth, but I have a flawless driving record (driving since 04, not so much as a ticket) and live in a rural low cost state so that may factor in.
- Comment on This is a member of the Ku Klux Klan pontificating on education. 1 month ago:
My drunk self is a pretty good speller. Incoherent ramblings, but all properly spelled and punctuated (best I can tell).
Got anything stronger?
- Comment on Innovative construction technologies 1 month ago:
A lot of people would play this as a game.
Just introduce internet controlled cart devices, gamify it, and you could make your workforce essentially free end enjoyable to participate in.
- Comment on U.S. Park Service Says to Leave Your Cash at Home, but Some Object 1 month ago:
I’m not really sure how I feel about this…
On the one hand if they are spending more than they take in to handle cash, that’s obviously broken, so the move is logical… but aren’t there alternatives that don’t disadvantage people who don’t have plastic options for whatever reason?
Like idk, making them free to enter and paid for entirely by business taxes or something, the way they should be? I realize they are basically self-funding by charging admission, but that is still an unfair barrier on public enjoyment of a public good. And so unnecessary.
- Comment on Crows discover pasta 🍝 1 month ago:
The first half of the video is just the one looking at the other one like “well, did it kill you or not?” And then there’s a cut and you see that no, it’s fine! :) let’s all have noodles!
- Comment on Putting on your seatbelt and not using your phone while driving is now considered a "challenge"? 1 month ago:
My next Va appointment is on a game day right around pitch… it’s going to be a nightmare getting there since it’s like right next to the stadium… 🙄 ima have to go 3 hours early just to avoid that shitshow.
But yeah, I don’t do sports things so idk anything about our tailgaters with a few exceptions (below), however I have heard Wisconsin fans travel well for all our teams, college and pro. It’s a fucking shame we don’t have a hockey team, I’d be all over that and know a lot of others who would too.
My exceptions are having been to packer opening day a few years ago, and going to the cotton bowl in Dallas Texas back in like 2014 or whatever it was. I’m not a sportsball sort of person, but the former I got free tickets because my partner briefly worked for the packers, and the latter we got $15 tickets and used it as a road trip excuse to see the badgers.
- Comment on Putting on your seatbelt and not using your phone while driving is now considered a "challenge"? 1 month ago:
Too bhe faaaair. Wischonshin hash sheveral ofthe the top drunkesht cities innn thse nashon. (just checked and We now claim spots 1-4 +6 and 6 is Oshkosh which used to be in the top 3)
We apparently don’t care, as a whole. There are so many more bars than anything else in most rural areas because non-bar third spaces aren’t a thing. It’s just the only option for people to go to be social.
- Comment on Putting on your seatbelt and not using your phone while driving is now considered a "challenge"? 1 month ago:
Having lived here most of my life and dealing with some of the traffic, yeah it probably is a challenge.
I try to avoid heavy traffic times so I can avoid reckless assholes. I’ve got a spotless record but have nearly been driven off the road or side swiped several times. Scary shit man.
But then I went to Indiana, by way of Chicago, and fuck was that terrifying. People weaving in and out of traffic with a cruise speed hovering around 80… So while our traffic is bad for rural, it’s not actually that bad. :)
- Comment on Does more knowledge/awareness have a tendency to reduce enthusiasm for some subjects/activities? 1 month ago:
It depends what makes you tick, and how much you care about a particular thing.
If you like learning a lot of superficial to mid-level information about a lot of things, diving too deep will naturally result in a loss of enthusiasm, and that’s ok. You only have so much energy for each thing to take.
But if you really enjoy doing a deep dive into one or two things, more extensive knowledge is the best reward for the effort, so it’s a self-reinforcing cycle.
I’ll never be the latter person. I’ll never know all the lore for anything, or know every model of machine or whatever. That’s not what makes me tick. I do tend to get bored when I know too much about a thing and learning more means engaging other people’s thoughts (books/media), or using math, or whatever boundary I don’t feel like crossing. But that’s ok, my enjoyment is from knowing a lot about a lot, not from knowing everything about a few things. Which is also ok.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Scientists have discovered that the diaphragm is not the only body part that aids in breathing; the other will shock you.
- Comment on Email admin 1 month ago:
I do the same thing, but you do realize you do it -because- it’s a problem, right?
Like you shouldn’t need a separate email for “I want to buy this/sign up for this, but I know I’m going to get a fuckton of emails so I need to use this separate email address to protect my main one from junk”. That just shouldn’t be a thing.
- Comment on I just want my nuggies 1 month ago:
Or the very first time you open the bag, the zip seal pulls away from the rest of the bag.
Or the seal doesn’t line up properly and can’t be zippered no matter what you do.
Or the seal is one of those cheap single layer ones that cross-threads and pops back open every time you think you’ve got it.
Or the zip opening doesn’t cover the whole bag, and you, moron you are, cut the top instead of the disturbing mouth hole they want you to use.
I end up clipping them half the time anyway… good thing large packs of wood clothes pins are still commonly available at the dollar store :)
- Comment on Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood 1 month ago:
This would absolutely flag me for something. I tend to have flat delivery, low pitch, avoid eye contact, etc. and when combined with other metrics, could easily flag me as not being a happy enough camper.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I’m never going to be happy to be working, but if I showed up that day, I’m also in a good enough headspace to do my job… and if you want to fire me for that… for having stuff going on and not faking vocal patterns…
This is why I don’t want to work anymore. It’s gotten so invasive and fraught if you happen to be anything but a happy bubbly fake. And that’s wildly stressful. I’m not a machine, and refuse to be treated like one. If that means I have to die in poverty, well, dump me in the woods, I guess.
This shit should never be legal.
- Comment on Fucking finally! 1 month ago:
Same, or until the next power outage. And then they will be wrong by who knows how much for a week or two until I set them.
- Comment on Horseshoe theory 1 month ago:
Do you have any citations for that?
I’m not saying you are wrong, because I’m open to new information, but that’s not ever been my understanding of how evolution works, and I’ve read a ton on the topic.
Evolution continues even if a species doesn’t obviously change over time. Unless it’s an asexual reproducing species, gene recombination ensures some level of diversity, and more opportunity for novel traits. But even a clonally reproducing species have a chance for mutations, they are just significantly more likely to be detrimental than useful.
- Comment on Horseshoe theory 1 month ago:
So like I know horseshoe crabs have been around nearly unchanged and all. And good for them!
But are you (general you, not op specifically) really trying to tell me that not once in their entire historical span of time on earth… not one single time did anything evolve from a horseshoe crab?
Clearly I’m not saying the whole species changed, but that is separate from an offshoot population evolving into something different. Which surely must have happened, no?
- Comment on Spring Bee Guide 1 month ago:
Idk could be Wiscobee just as easily.
- Comment on This Ancient Factory Helped Purple Reign 2 months ago:
The most prized pigment of antiquity was processed not from a tangle of root or the frothy extract of a weed, but by drawing out a slimy secretion from the mucus glands behind the anus of murex sea snails …
This is one of those things that makes a person go “how the fuck they find that out??”
- Comment on AI or DEI? 2 months ago:
Significant racist bias is an understatement.
I asked a generator to make me a “queen monkey in a purple gown sitting on a throne” and I got maybe two pictures of actual monkeys. I even tried rewording it several times to be a real monkey, described the hair and everything.
The rest were all women of color.
Very disturbing. Pretty ladies, but very racist.
- Comment on even pardner could use a partner 2 months ago:
I think you may be fundamentally misunderstanding the std treatment coverage ;)
- Comment on Court charges dev with hacking after cybersecurity issue disclosure 3 months ago:
Well if that isn’t a great way to ensure nobody comes forward when they find major vulnerabilities, idk what is.
Hope he wins the appeal.
- Comment on Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences 3 months ago:
It’s not super easy but a pihole, with a vpn to always have your device on your home network, isn’t that difficult or time consuming to set up, and will block shit network-wide. No ads in apps, browsers, smart tv firmware, etc. unless it’s hosted within the same domain the content is accessed through (like Amazon’s trash).
I’ve used that setup for years and it’s wonderful.
- Comment on Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls? 3 months ago:
Well that’s fucking spiffy.
Thanks!
- Comment on Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls? 3 months ago:
Cool, I hope it catches up. I’d be into trying a different compatible platform.
Thanks for responding :)
- Comment on Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls? 3 months ago:
Oh so it’s basically an alternate/addition to Lemmy/kbin?
- Comment on Can I filter X-Day old accounts as they're likely bots or trolls? 3 months ago:
What platform are you testing?