Rivalarrival
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- Comment on As expected every page in the book is blank 1 day ago:
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Do you not?
- Comment on Great idea 3 days ago:
Take your upvote and choke on it, dad.
- Comment on it's just science 3 days ago:
Maybe we’re a carbon based intelligence that just goes through a meat phase.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 3 days ago:
That’s enough internet for today. Good night, Lemmy. Never change.
- Comment on Pretty woman stepping on you 3 days ago:
Full body condoms FTW.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 4 days ago:
I experience the “search box deselected after starting to type” problem on Amazon pretty much every time I use it, even if I have the page up for several minutes before starting to use it. Its like the search box.is specifically designed to fuck with me.
Multiple platforms, multiple browsers, it’s like they dont have anyone actually looking at their UX.
- Comment on Dunkin' Donuts Drinks 5 days ago:
I dont know how DD stays in business. I’d rather have Hostess or Little Debbie donuts. Or Lender’s bagels. Or Kirkland precooked bacon.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 1 week ago:
Watts are a unit of power. Regardless of voltage, if your appliance is drawing 3000 watts, it is heating up the same as any other device that draws 3000 watts.
Wires are not sized on the number of watts they can carry. They are sized on the number of amps they carry. If a wire is sized for 10amps, and you are using 12v, you can only get 120 watts through it. Increase the voltage to 120v, and you can get 1200 watts through that same wire. Increase to 240v, and you can get 2400 watts from that wire. The higher the voltage, the less copper you need to carry it. You need thicker insulation to handle that increased voltage, but insulation is cheap. It’s more dangerous to humans who come into contact with the wires, but you can build in additional methods to restrict human contact, such as fancy plugs and sockets.
The UK and Europe had a severe copper shortage when they rebuilt after WWII. They standardized on 240V to reduce the size of wires they needed in their homes. Instead of dozens of, low-amp circuits, they installed only a couple high-amp circuits for their entire home. They designed their household wiring so that the same circuit that powers the alarm clock on their nightstand is also used for their 3000-watt space heater.
They further reduced copper consumption by using undersized wire in a “ring” circuit instead of properly sized wire in a “branch” circuit. Failures in ring circuits are extraordinarily dangerous, because there is no immediate indication that they have failed. Each outlet receives power from two sides of the ring; if one side fails, they draw all their power from the other side, overloading the ring.
The US solution to these problems is intrinsically safer household wiring. We threw copper at the problem, because we had the copper to throw. But what we got in return was a vastly safer system. We managed to get a 240v system that only carries the risks of a 120v system.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 1 week ago:
The issue isn’t the voltage. It is the wattage. UK kettles draw 3kW. US outlets are (typically) only rated for 2.4kW. We can easily get dedicated 30A, 120v outlets that will provide 3.6kW.
US 240v is not the same as UK 240v.
The UK uses a single live phase, (240v with respect to ground), and a neutral (0v with respect to ground).
The US uses two live phases. Each phase is 120v with respect to ground, but they are 180 degrees apart from eachother. Phase to phase is 240V, but either phase to ground is 120v.
A UK kettle expects its neutral phase to be at the same potential as ground, which can’t happen in the US without a 1-to-1 transformer
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 1 week ago:
You hold the pencil and twirl the cassette around on it.
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 week ago:
Also, they do respond to outside stimuli, otherwise they’d be completely inert.
Do they actually respond? Or is it the external stimuli responding to them?
- Comment on In heat 1 week ago:
I would pose that same question to you. Why do you feel it is important for the sun to come up at 3:30 in the morning?
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- Comment on In heat 1 week ago:
Over here (NL) our default timezone is already one hour too early,
Then you have a completely different, localized problem, and you should fix that locally. The solution you are advocating is completely unsuitable outside of that localized area. You should change your time zone, so you don’t have this problem.
The sun moves through the sky at 15 degrees per hour. An ideal timezone is one hour, or 15-degrees wide. Solar noon is at 12:00pm (Winter Time) in the middle of that timezone. At the eastern end, solar noon occurs at 11:30AM, and at the west end, 12:30. If the longest day of summer is 16 hours of daylight, the western end of this timezone experiences sunrise at 4:30AM. But, the center of the timezone experiences sunrise at 4AM, and the eastern end of that same, idealized timezone experiences sunrise is an hour earlier: 3:30AM.
Sunrise at 3:30 in the morning
This is nucking futs. Landscapers and construction workers have to wait for noise ordinances to expire at 8:00AM, 4.5 hours after sunrise, just in time for the day to start getting hot.
For coordinating the activities of daylight-oriented workers with clock-oriented workers/students, winter time is terrible. But summer time is actually very reasonable. In summer time, (with idealized timezones):
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The earliest possible sunrise (on a 16-hour summer day, east end of the time zone) is 4:30AM. (The west end of that timezone has sunrise at a more reasonable 5:30AM)
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The latest possible sunrise (on an 8-hour winter day, west end of the time zone) is 9:30AM (The east end of that timezone experiences that sunrise at a more reasonable 8:30AM)
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Earliest possible sunset is 4:30PM (east end of the zone, 8-hour winter day; with the west end experiencing it at 5:30PM)
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Latest possible sunset is 9:30PM (west end of the zone, 16-hour summer day; the east end experiences that same sunset at 8:30PM)
None of these extremes are ideal, but none of them are completely ridiculous either. Year-round Summer time is simply the best alternative to the biannual time change.
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- Comment on In heat 1 week ago:
Nah, it would be far less disruptive to stick with the time we already use for 3/4 of the year. Winter time is the problem.
- Comment on In heat 2 weeks ago:
Winter SAD is caused primarily by the winter time change suddenly stealing the only hour of unallocated daylight we had for ourselves, and refusing to give it back for three months.
Lock the clocks on spring/summer/fall time; give Little Johnny a PT belt for his morning walk, and stop fucking over the entire planet with this time change nonsense.
My tiny dick thanks you for your consideration.
- Comment on Trump's Gulf 2 weeks ago:
Trump’s gulf is between his ears.
- Comment on They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes 2 weeks ago:
I think its time to kwit.
- Comment on spicy one 2 weeks ago:
Every single nuke in the world pointed at the same spot could not achieve anything even close to this.
No, but they could create a thin glass crust over the whole area that would accomplish much the same effect.
- Comment on bisexual 3 weeks ago:
I think you can only be properly bi if you’re simultaneously railing a cishet female while being railed by a homosexual male.
/s
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 weeks ago:
Well, not with that attitude.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 3 weeks ago:
If a die is weighted, the first roll is no longer 1/6 probability to get a 7
Yes, actually, it is. No matter what the first die lands on, there is a 1 in 6 chance that the second die will land on the corresponding value necessary for a “7”. You could glue the first die to the table with “6” (or any other number) showing, and there will be a 1 in 6 chance that the second die will bring the sum to 7.
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 3 weeks ago:
Either way…never seen a racist ghost. Which I think has to be statistically impossible.
Hetty Woodstone (“Ghosts”) hated the Irish.
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 4 weeks ago:
DQ has surprisingly good chili dogs. Their burgers aren’t bad, if you omit the ketchup.
- Comment on Franks and Beans: Take 2 4 weeks ago:
IMO, you can’t really cut “sweet”. You can increase the complexity; you can make it “rich”, but the sweetness tends to overpower whatever you might add.
You might have better luck starting with British-style baked beans. My local (US) grocery stores carry Heinz Beanz
- Comment on Amazon vows to crack down on piracy on its Fire TV Stick range 5 weeks ago:
Heave, ho. Thieves and beggars. Never shall we die.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 5 weeks ago:
Smaller charities tend to do much better in my experience.
UBI is not charity. UBI is what the nation owes you as a shareholder of USA, Inc.
Giving people money doesn’t teach long term skills that lead to success.
Exactly. Which is why the children of rich people so often become homeless. All that money they had when they were kids kept them from learning long-term skills that lead to success. It stunted their financial growth, rendering them particularly susceptible to poverty.
The children of the impoverished, on the other hand, were forced to learn money management skills for their very survival.
This explains why self-made millionaires are so common, and generational wealth is so difficult to achieve.
I also think it would be better to have private organizations that have less bureaucracy.
Agreed. An organization doesn’t get smaller or privater than a single individual. We can cut out 100% of the bullshit bureaucracy and give it straight to the individual, directly, or their caregiver if they are not qualified to maintain their own affairs. Remove everyone else, as they don’t add shareholder value.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 5 weeks ago:
Indeed.
Each of the issues you described is mitigated - if not cured - by steady income. And each is greatly exacerbated by a lack of such income.
What is really important is that the family and friends of the people struggling with these conditions aren’t also impoverished. The outcomes of each these conditions are vastly improved when the sufferer’s caregivers have the time and resources to attend to them.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 5 weeks ago:
Turns out that money is one of those things that the less you have of it, the harder it is to manage.
- Comment on UNBDBBIIVCHIDCTIICBD 5 weeks ago:
WtSSTaDaMiT?
