metallic_z3r0
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- Comment on cilanto 🌿 1 month ago:
I have both, but I also have ADHD and prioritize the novel over the good. I find cilantro and bitter foods to be more interesting, and don’t mind them at all.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 1 month ago:
Damn dude, seems like you’re still winning to me. Just having that support goes a long way, hope you can keep at the weight loss (progress is progress) and have more good mental health days than bad (the more you practice the easier it gets, even if it’s never easy).
- Comment on Time to make some soup!! 3 months ago:
I feel like using quartz as a gastrolith would be pretty basic, like you might as well eat those silica packets or chew on some glass if you’re going that direction. Some nice gneiss would likely be preferable, much more cultured at least.
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 4 months ago:
And 30 years after LASIK, you’d be incredibly lucky if your eyes hadn’t gotten worse to the point you’d need glasses anyway.
- Comment on is rust memory safe for grandma??? 4 months ago:
Grandma’s memory isn’t safe for Rust.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 5 months ago:
Plus he regularly abuses stimulants and appears to be in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s: even if he lives another 10 years I doubt he’ll be in office long before he gets sectional 5’d by Vance.
- Comment on Anon can't sleep 6 months ago:
Alternatively, as a form of scrotal elephantiasis, it could be a parasitic infection, swollen lymph nodes from either disease or medical procedures like radiotherapy, or more rarely a hernia that causes the intestines to drop into the scrotum.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 7 months ago:
As long as we’re coming up with overly convoluted reasons that a minor plot device from a fantasy space opera makes sense in a rigorous scientific way, why not assume that they were genetically engineered specifically as a torturous punishment for the Hutt syndicate? Bioengineering is apparently canon, so there’s in-universe justification.
- Comment on Let them know what they are missing! 8 months ago:
I mean, you can still do that with https, your dns requests will likely still be in the clear unless you’re using dns over tls or dns over https.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 8 months ago:
I would agree with you that something similar to metric would eventually arise, but I would consider duodecimal to make more sense than decimal, as 12 is a superior highly composite number and the terminating representation is much shorter for more commonly used fractions (e.g. 1⁄4 would be represented as 0.3, 1⁄3 as 0.4, 1⁄2 as 0.6, etc). I would also argue that groupings in powers of 12² make more sense than 10³.
I would also argue that it would make more sense for measurements to be based on natural units (such as Planck length) for all the basic measurements (second, metre, kilogram, ampere, kelvin, mole, and candela), such that the anthropic unit (the one you’d most commonly refer to without prefixes) would be some multiple of 12 away from the natural unit.
- Comment on Fastest animal 8 months ago:
Dried frog pills, probably. I’ve been told if you take one you can hallucinate that you’re sane, which is probably close enough for the average physicist.
- Comment on Somehow metal with zip zap moves rocks without touching and this isn't fiction? 10 months ago:
You know the corollary to Arthur C Clarke’s “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” which is “Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from technology”? That’s what I think the explanation and manipulation of the electromagnetic force and strong and weak nuclear forces basically are. We just figured out the rules for how magic works, and now we manipulate them to make rocks think and show us pretty colors over vast distances, and can also explode cities with glowing rocks and weird gasses. Also we can make potent potions from strange biological and chemical essences that make the body do what we tell it, mostly. And we’re getting better at it (and would be getting better at it faster if it weren’t for metaphorical dragons getting in the way).
Just because we can explain it doesn’t make it any less magic.
- Comment on The future shines like gold 10 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on The future shines like gold 10 months ago:
“Forever” unless the knowledge is out of date, or you don’t use it and forget, or until Alzheimer’s or some other dementia happens and everything disappears (or until your death, I suppose, but gold also tends to change hands around that time).
- Comment on Of course, it's the way you tell them... 10 months ago:
lol. lmao, even.
- Comment on When the whole world says 'Can we use your pool?' you say, 'What? No. Get out of here.' 10 months ago:
I quote this at my kids sometimes.
- Comment on Continental D r i f t s 11 months ago:
Two inches per year is more than some old couples get, good on them for keeping the spark alive for so long.
- Comment on Warning 1 year ago:
The real question is if the darker purple is in front or if it’s the lighter purple.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 1 year ago:
37 is my favorite, because 3x7x37=777 (three sevens), and I think that’s neat.
- Comment on CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games" 1 year ago:
Or if we’re talking Witcher 3, Hearts of Stone or Blood and Wine. Both of those had an amazing amount of content, well worth it.
- Comment on shit post 1 year ago:
Thanks KC Green, may the memory of your work live much longer than you do (he is very much still alive, as far as I know).
- Comment on Call an expert 1 year ago:
This is the reason I’ve taken to carrying a small magnet with me (combined with a flashlight/blacklight/laser pointer), so I can easily pick up those little bits that get lost (my wife cross stitches too, and sometimes her needles fall into the carpet, so it’s nice to find those before our feet do).
- Comment on haha :( 1 year ago:
If nothing matters, then you can choose what matters to you, and if I choose to care about something, then it matters because it matters to me, even if it doesn’t to other people.
- Comment on He thought it was a sausage on a stick.. 1 year ago:
Me want plant corn dog delight!
- Comment on he learned not to trust farts 1 year ago:
For someone not trusting their gut, that guy sure seems super trusting that their eyes are going to be ok.
- Comment on Braid, Anniversary Edition Release Date Trailer 1 year ago:
I hadn’t heard about that, what a shame.
- Comment on You need a gift, and you're loaded with cash. How about a gold and pearl purse with a memorable clasp? 1 year ago:
For anyone curious, apparently this gaudy trash went for $5557 and is now sold out:
- Comment on ‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature identified as digenean trematode 1 year ago:
Hopefully the pastries aren’t all medusa-head conglomerate organism-flavored, I’d like at least one or two to be decent with jam, or maybe cream cheese.
- Comment on Do Multivitamins actually do anything? 1 year ago:
I prefer defying whatever gods exist by living in darkness and cold. Sunlight causes skin damage, I’d prefer getting by with vitamin D supplements.
- Comment on Essence transfer ftw 1 year ago:
If you go by 3.5e, they’re hardly immobile, and are more like demi-gods than temporarily inconvenienced liches.