OptimusPhillip
@OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world
- Comment on What makes a content creator an influencer?? 1 year ago:
Wikipedia lists influencer as a synonym for internet celebrity, so I guess just when they become famous.
Unless you take the title literally, then it’s whenever they become influential over a statistically significant portion of the population.
- Comment on Can acidic and carbonated drinks corrode aluminium bottles? 1 year ago:
Aluminum soda cans have plastic linings, because the acids can dissolve the aluminum. What that means for your drinking bottle, I don’t know.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
As an American who has gotten very used to metric units in studying engineering, the general rule I picked up is that you typically only change units every three orders of magnitude. So 8 decameters would typically be expressed as 80 meters, maybe 0.08 kilometers. Decameters and hectometers are a thing, but they’re not common units. Even centimeters don’t see much use compared to millimeters.
- Comment on ‘Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Sequel First-Look Images Revealed (Exclusive) 1 year ago:
What rock have you been living under? I could not escape this movie when the discourse was at its peak. I can absolutely believe it was one of the most talked about movies.
- Comment on Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them? 1 year ago:
Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you’d be better off getting a heat pump. It’s the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I’ve been told.
- Comment on [Hypothetical] What would have happened if the US Supreme Court had arbitrarily declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election? Constitutional Crisis? 1 year ago:
But they didn’t decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.
- Comment on Can cockroaches live in your penis 1 year ago:
No, this is a myth someone made up to scare people. There have been no recorded cases of cockroaches living in a human penis.
- Comment on Anybody Else Heard of Death to Smoochy (2002)? 1 year ago:
I’d heard of it, but only ever as a joke. Sometimes, someone online will see a purple rhino and make a Death to Smoochy joke.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
J.J. McCullough did a really good video about this fact, I’d definitely recommend it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCVQKD3jH2M&ab_channe…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Because the Republican Party aims to represent the minority of Americans who do oppose abortion access. That’s the job of a political party, to represent a voting interest. If every political party aimed to represent the voting interests of the majority, they would become irrelevant.
- Comment on Does people who hold beliefs that are rooted in hatred ever change to become a better person? 1 year ago:
Daryl Davis has managed to persuade several KKK members to leave the Klan by being a friend to them. So it has happened.