CommissarVulpin
@CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stop making up states 2 days ago:
The original thirteen colonies worked exactly like that. From then on, it went something like “Hey, federal government, we want to be a state. Well follow all your rules, pinky promise.” “Aight.”
- Comment on Stop making up states 3 days ago:
Originally the US expanded quite slowly, due to difficulties in travel and surveying. But in the 1800s, after the Louisiana Purchase, we began to very aggressively expand westward. The construction of the Intercontinental Railroad helped immensely, and towns were being built almost faster than we could name them. The government began giving away land for cheap or sometimes free for anyone who could develop it. State borders became straight lines encompassing vast areas. Native Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations.
- Comment on Sovereign citizen. 4 days ago:
Actually, he’s busy playing Call of Duty 2 zombies while driving
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 weeks ago:
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”
- Comment on Yep, it's me 1 month ago:
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
- Comment on Badgers 2 months ago:
Is there a Redwall community? I’m tempted to make one but I have no idea how
- Comment on Hmm... 2 months ago:
Are you saying that it I picked up a copy of that differential equations book I might actually learn wtf is going on? Because I only passed that class with the help of wolfram alpha and never looked back
- Comment on Choosing violence 2 months ago:
I flip off the breaker, just to be safe.
- Comment on Polar Bear Dens 3 months ago:
This one got me good because Saddam Hussein was the last thing I noticed
- Comment on Stained Glass 3 months ago:
You’ve enlightened me. I love dragonflies too now.
- Comment on Bill! BILL! Bill! BILL! 3 months ago:
Some kids at my high school tried that on their phones, but it never worked because all the other kids in the room would cuss them out for basically inflicting the entire room with mosquito-in-ear noises.
- Comment on Animal Attacks 4 months ago:
We put some raw chicken in a wasp trap once and my god, I’ve never seen so many wasps in one place. The thing was almost a quarter full by the end of the day.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 4 months ago:
That sounds like some Dark Souls/Evangelion shit. “Harvest the blood of the fetus after pulling it from its dead mother”
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 4 months ago:
It’s worse than that. Inches are base 12, ounces and cups are base 16, machinists use thousandths of an inch, and surveyors use tenths of a foot!
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 4 months ago:
One mile is 5280 feet, one foot is 12 inches. One square foot is 144 square inches, one cubic foot is 1728 cubic inches.
1 gallon of water is 8.34 pounds, and 1 cubic foot is 7.48 gallons, so a cubic foot of water weighs 62.38 pounds. If sand is 2.3 times heavier than water, a cubic foot of sand weighs 143.5 pounds.
I am 5 feet 10 inches tall, or 5.83 feet, or 70 inches. I weigh about 220 pounds, or 3520 ounces. If I’m 65% water, I carry about 143 pounds of water, or a little over 16 gallons.
Guh
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2024 5 months ago:
a e s t h e t i c
- Comment on Radioactivity 5 months ago:
If it’s an alpha or beta emitter, sure, you’re probably fine standing near it. But if you find yourself next to a chunk of a gamma emitter, you should probably run away very quickly
- Comment on Radioactivity 5 months ago:
So there’s four types of radiation: alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron. When you’re talking about radioactive materials, it’s almost exclusively the first three. In addition to the inherent danger of the object itself, there’s also the danger of radioactive contamination: not making other things radioactive, but shedding bits of themselves as dust and then that dust getting on other things, or getting ingested/inhaled by humans. Active fission reactions, like what goes on in the core of a nuclear reactor (or perhaps messing around with some plutonium and a screwdriver), produce neutron radiation. Neutrons can make other things radioactive, via a process called “neutron activation”, whereby the neutrons bind to the material and change some of the atoms into radioactive isotopes. I hope that helps, and feel free to ask me anything else about radiation. I have some education about it thanks to my job, and I’m always happy to help other people understand it more as well.
- Comment on Radioactivity 5 months ago:
More or less. The difference is that, if they really wanted to, they could very thoroughly clean the notebook and take most of the contamination off. I’m guessing they won’t because a) It’s a historical artifact and they don’t want to risk damaging it, b) the contamination is so low-level that it’s not dangerous as long as you don’t lick it or something, and/or c) there’s a bit of a shock factor in watching a scientist’s notebook make a Geiger counter freak out.
- Comment on Big Boyee 5 months ago:
taptaptaptaptap
- Comment on Relationships 5 months ago:
DROP AND RUN
- Comment on Existential Pain 5 months ago:
M o i s t u r i z e m e
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 5 months ago:
…Is your bathroom a swamp?
- Comment on is this where he has been hiding. 5 months ago:
Isn’t that HAraM
- Comment on Eating your veggies 6 months ago:
I blame lazy parents. The message is meant to be “You shouldn’t be picky, you should be thankful that you’re fortunate enough to have access to such quality food. There are people in much worse conditions than you, which much worse food security, who would gladly eat this broccoli/peas/whatever.” But most parents just say “there are starving children in Africa” and leave it at that.
- Comment on Problem solved ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ 6 months ago:
That is the point. You’re basically trying to say “Look how rich I am, I can afford to have all this land dedicated to looking pretty and not being useful for anything else”
- Comment on Double chocolate 6 months ago:
Bender: “I’m 40% chocolate!”
- Comment on stinging nettle 7 months ago:
This would have been a much better movie than whatever The Happening was about.
- Comment on Hmmmmm 7 months ago:
It’s probably for the smell. The plant is rafflesia arnoldii, which smells of rotting meat to attract flies as pollinators.
- Comment on Soup 7 months ago:
Fun fact! During the Apollo flights to and from the Moon, the spacecraft would perform “Passive Thermal Control” or “barbecue roll” where it would rotate around its long axis about once per hour, to distribute the thermal load from the sun and keep one side from heating up too much