EtherWhack
@EtherWhack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 9 hours ago:
Not unless you are are really gunning it and on a fitted road bike.
There is a pretty big psychological aspect to it in that without putting in the work, you can become disconnected in how fast you are accelerating/moving. With bicycles you tend to work up the speed as you start to understand and get comfortable with what you are riding; a process that isn’t really present with e-bikes.
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 4 days ago:
The general thing to do is to peruse the menu to find what you want first to get that out of the way as the wait staff can be pretty quick when you first sit down. If the bread won’t distract you during, go for it. You just really want to get your order in when they come by as it could turn into a while before they come back.
They were probably taught something like that, but it became so corrupted that the entire reasoning was lost, leaving only an arbitrary wait time.
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 days ago:
I already have one, but not for color tone. The ‘vintage’ is supposed to simulate candlelight, while daylight simulates the sun.
- Comment on lightbulbs 4 days ago:
Por que los dos?
For my bedroom I have the ceiling light with two 13W(100W equiv.) for when I need the light and a 6W(6W equiv.) GE ‘vintage’ LED in a nightstand lamp for the rest of the time.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 1 week ago:
Or just simplify it using a scale to get 1 gram per liters
226.8g (8oz.) / 208.19765L (55gal.) = ~1.08935g/L
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I guess cachy wasn’t very catchy.
(I’ll see myself out)
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 2 weeks ago:
I think I read somewhere that we do have the technology to create a Dyson sphere but it would be too much of a massive undertaking time and labor-wise at our current level.
- Comment on Two-shay 2 weeks ago:
They also said they weren’t attracted, not that they couldn’t appreciate
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And salted with salmiak
- Comment on Water time 3 weeks ago:
Bidet
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
Also, one-offs aren’t really allowed outside of r&d. Everything has to have at least one piece in a batch go through testing, including destructive.
- Comment on I know its hard to digest. 5 weeks ago:
Chyme
- Comment on I hacked mars! 1 month ago:
And his algae one too
- Comment on Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar 1 month ago:
IIRC it’s because mitochondria have their DNA and keep it stored in a circular form similar to bacteria. I think also plants having chloroplasts, while animals have mitochondria adds more evidence, given that they are very similar structures.
- Comment on Anon's neighbors have chickens 1 month ago:
It’s not really being defensive, it’s more calling you out for BS.
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 1 month ago:
I like their idea of aluminum cups, but the boxes they come in are unfortunately made from plastic coated paperboard. (Not sure why, with their whole selling point being more environmentally friendly.)
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 1 month ago:
And that’s only naming a few.
- Comment on the HOA special 1 month ago:
Gnomtron bomb
- Comment on Two types 1 month ago:
I just did it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve heard him call it dark scatting
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
My tactic is to have an ever-increasing CC list of the person’s boss, boss’s boss, the boss’s boss’s boss, etc…
I think I once got to the director level before the issue was solved.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
Baseball could be called stickball, taking MLS so ‘soccer’ would need a new… Hey, that actually works out.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
I’d say not as much sissies, more moronic cavemen who don’t know how not to hurt themselves or each other.
- Comment on Getting too expensive 2 months ago:
I can finally buy a house.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 2 months ago:
Didn’t know.
It still does (at least to me) look like they formatted it to low-key insult the people complaining about the advent of ads on appliances.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 2 months ago:
I get the vibe that they wanted to use Karen, but realized alienating and insulting their users just for complaining about the ads was a bit too far. (Apple and Samsung can just rot in a ditch)
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 2 months ago:
Enterprise is straight garbage right now.
On a work trip to Georgia, they gave me a car with a nice big gash on the front passenger sidewall. I didn’t see it when I picked it up as it was at night and the airport garage was dark and I only noticed it the next day coming out of the factory, after driving all the way from ATL to Suwanee. (~45mi/70km) I wasn’t going to risk a trip back to the airport, so I spent 2-3 hours calling around to try to exchange it at a closer store; a lot of it being on hold and getting hung up on. None of them had any inventory (most were pick-up only) and no one even seemed concerned at all when I told them about the gash.
Eventually I got tired and annoyed of the BS and went to the closest store and told them to just take the car back as I got a rental elsewhere. (Hertz had a full inventory, right across the street and the service was huge amount more personable and friendly.)
Oi, and here’s the gash.
- Comment on Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box 2 months ago:
Brewed is a bit more healthier than instant and you can support local roasters over the corporate-owned ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
For me, it more boils down to keeping my place within a web page or ever-updating feed.
For instance… If I’m going down a rabbit hole, I could have 4 root tabs open. Those tabs may have lengthy articles and would reference secondary sites throughout the page. Rather then having a good chance of the browser losing my place down the page by clicking on a link normally, I open it in a new tab. This allows me to switch to it, skim down to where it was referenced to understand that part of it, then switch back to the root tab while leaving the secondary tab open to fully read through when I finish with the root one. As the rabbit hole deepens, those secondary tabs may eventually become root tabs which may also reference their own secondary sites or even each other. The number of tabs just keeps growing until I either run out of those secondary tabs or I am just satisfied with the amount of info I gained. This can also happen over several days or weeks and have other rabbit holes open at the same time.
- Comment on MAGA, rebranded! 2 months ago:
Wonder how big the user base is there. It could be a worthwhile endeavor to inundate it with troll accounts just to screw with him.
