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- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 6 days ago:
I’m 60 now and am literally a Boomer; fast food has definitely gotten worse. Especially in the last 10 years or so. The foods and processes have been tweaked and tuned to the point that the value of the food hovers just barely above the price and not a tick more.
Health concerns also play a role. McDonald’s fries are a good example. When I was young they were cooked in beef tallow and they were so good they would roll your eyes back in your head in in ecstacy (not kidding). They switched to vegetable oil due to health concerns over saturated fats and they’ve just never been the same.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
I’m just happy to see someone remembers the Spin Doctors.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
Google makes money on ads. They make $300-$400 annually per user by displaying ads.
They are motivated to tarpit you in order to show you more ads.
Giving you your results quickly and efficiently costs them revenue.
Use kagi, or another search engine.
- Comment on Balls 2 months ago:
Me: Man, that’s a pretty nice line of printers you have.
Brother: Thanks!
Me: Hey, you don’t happen to know where I can get a nice sewing machine do you?
Brother: You’re not going to believe this…
- Comment on Balls 2 months ago:
Me: Man, that’s a pretty tasty beer.
Coors: Thanks!
Me: Hey, do you happen to know where I can get precision ceramics for aerospace applications do you?
Coors: You’re not going to believe this…
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
Doesn’t that just create an echo chamber here?
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
Fitting username.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
I use LLMs for C code - most often when I know full well how to code something but I don’t want to spent half a day expressing it and debugging it.
ChatGPT or Copilot will spit out a function or snippet that’s usually pretty close to what I want. I patch it up and move on to the tougher problems LLMs can’t do.
- Comment on Invention rule 2 months ago:
Microbiology: One of the few professions where you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
- Comment on I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling 3 months ago:
I use kagi as well and love it. Worth every dime.
People that say they can’t see themselves paying for Search underestimate the value of clean high quality search results.
I’m a business owner and developer of firmware for esoteric products. I need high quality, powerful searches that don’t waste my time. Kagi is great for that. I created lenses on Kagi that I can use to focus my searches, a great time saver for me.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a welder 3 months ago:
At my business for the eclipse a few months ago I bought a bunch of catered barbecue and set up a tent and chairs and gave the employees a couple of hours to watch it.
We had a bunch of the cheap glasses but the experience was far better looking though welding glass we’d taken out of the helmets.
- Comment on Anon is your financial advisor 4 months ago:
This is why companies have cheap toilet paper by the way. Not because they necessarily hate their employees, but because it would get stolen and they’d need three times as much.
Also one of the reasons why the huge rolls exist like you see at airports: impractical to use at home.
- Comment on Turtle Shells 5 months ago:
Wait, what? I’m wrapped around my skeleton?
Queue Edgar Allen Poe
- Comment on Hero 5 months ago:
Sabine Hossenfelder has a video on this problem.
- Comment on When I grow up, I'm going to be an astronaut 5 months ago:
Let’s not forget you can edit your html and fake things like this.
This one is hard to believe.
- Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin 5 months ago:
You may know this, but the Nazis were forced into using hydrogen instead of helium because the only commercial sources at the time were in he USA and we wouldn’t sell it to them. But also, since the ship was built for German propaganda they would have wanted it to be a fully German endeavor.
*The Hindenburg was painted with silvery powdered aluminium, to better show off the giant Nazi swastikas on the tail section. When it flew over cities, the on-board loudspeakers broadcast Nazi propaganda announcements, and the crew dropped thousands of small Nazi flags for the school children below. This is not surprising, because the Nazi Minister of Propaganda funded the Hindenburg.
At that time, the US government controlled the only significant supplies of helium (a non-flammable lifting gas), and refused to supply it to the Nazi government. So the Hindenburg had to use flammable hydrogen.
As the Hindenburg came in to Lakehurst on May 6, 1937, there was a storm brewing, and so there was much static electricity in the air - which charged up the aircraft. When the crew dropped the mooring ropes down to the ground, the static electricity was earthed, which set off sparks on the Hindenburg.
The Hindenburg was covered with cotton fabric, that had to be waterproof. So it had been swabbed with cellulose acetate (which happened to be very inflammable) that was then covered with aluminium powder (which is used as rocket fuel to propel the Space Shuttle into orbit). Indeed, the aluminium powder was in tiny flakes, which made them very susceptible to sparking. It was inevitable that a charged atmosphere would ignite the flammable skin.
In all of this, the hydrogen was innocent. In the terrible disaster, the Hindenburg burnt with a red flame. But hydrogen burns with an almost invisible bluish flame. In the Hindenburg disaster, as soon as the hydrogen bladders were opened by the flames, the hydrogen inside would have escaped up and away from the burning airship - and it would not have not contributed to the ensuing fire. The hydrogen was totally innocent. In fact, in 1935, a helium-filled airship with an acetate-aluminium skin burned near Point Sur in California with equal ferocity. The Hindenberg disaster was not caused by the hydrogen.
The lesson is obvious - the next time you build an airship, don’t paint the inflammable acetate skin with aluminium rocket fuel.*
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
You never go full villain.
- Comment on Mandelbrot 6 months ago:
It can’t have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.
- Comment on Anon manages the impossible 6 months ago:
I’ve had to have conversations with emoyees before about hygiene, slovenly appearance. One guy about his need to wear a belt because his ass-crack was constantly on display to the point people complained to HR.
It’s always awkward.
- Comment on physick 7 months ago:
It’d still be physics if they had used glue.
- Comment on billions and billions. 7 months ago:
I also thought it odd that the strip had such a nice setup for a crude fat joke.
- Comment on Anon learns about nuts 7 months ago:
Does he know about cashews?
- Comment on Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed 7 months ago:
Brexit was such a monumental mistake. Worse than the US electing Trump once, but probably not worse than electing Trump twice.
- Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable 8 months ago:
I’m sick of being lumped in with people that elected Trump because I live in the United States. But that’s how it is, we’re part of a collective.
- Comment on Anon plays an SMS lottery 10 months ago:
Yep. Like my first wife.
My salary was “our money”, her salary was “her money”.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
You’re right, but but carry-out drinks are a big part of it too. If you’re keeping disposable straws for those, you might as well use them in both places for the reason you cite.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
Even more unpopular opinion: come to terms with the fact that it’s not unreasonable for even a large company to want to charge a fee for the service that they provide and that I consume for several hours a week.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
Interesting. I’ve never heard that one either, but perhaps. These things evolve.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
I’ve never once heard it called “Not Safe for Looking”.
Thats like a few years ago when my wife said she thought LOL was “Lots of Love”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I love Dime Store Adventures! Guy does amazing research and has a fun presentation style. I’ve been contributing to his Patreon for a year or so.