PetDinosaurs
@PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world
- Comment on Did Amazon change their theme colors or did I unknowingly change them myself? 11 months ago:
Ok. I’m also not crazy.
- Comment on Are shops in the US usually this run down looking? 11 months ago:
Be nice.
Jesus Christ. Just be nice.
Why is no one on Lemmy nice.
- Comment on Are shops in the US usually this run down looking? 11 months ago:
My bologna has a first name…
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
- Comment on Would life be significantly different if no light were detectable when closing our eyes? 1 year ago:
Nothing would happen. You blink for a fraction of a second.
Also, note that the eyelids of people with darker skin already pass less light than those of people with lighter skin. (That is the purpose of darker skin)
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
I’m thinking you are agreeing with me on every thing I said.
Jd is bad. Maybe you don’t agree that CR is, but that’s minor.
Tesla’s reliability is the topic at hand. That was my introductory statement.
Per the fires, that’s exactly what I meant. I’ve seen enough burning cars and had my other calls recalled. That’s just not news. It’s news when an EV does that.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
A legacy industry funded advertising group is criticizing the disruptive novel EV companies. All of them, lucid, rivian, and polestar plus tesla.
I’m shocked.
- Comment on How reliable are EV chargers? 1 year ago:
I have yet to see any believable evidence that there is any excessive reliability problems with Tesla cars. And don’t try to cite consumer reports. They lost my business after they wouldn’t stop recommending Samsung products.
We have lemon laws for a reason. Because lots of cars are lemons. You are just only hearing about it because every car fire or trim problem or excessive repair needs on a Tesla is a news story that you recall. There are many similar phenomena that are at play here. Start with the availability hueristic if you’re interested.
I’ve seen lots of lemons in my life. My parents car blew a transmission right away. So many car fires on the side of the road, and I bet you don’t even know that Hyundai and Kia owners are being advised to park outside because there’s a high risk of fire. That’s really bad. If your ice catches fire when it’s parked and off, that’s a serious design flaw.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Fine, but why is this here?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Duct tape, as in the grey fiber reinforced tape that we typically think of, is not really a good solution for actually taping ducts.
When you are taping ducts, you typically want to use some type of foil thing, like this, but there are many varieties.
Of course, tape for ducts is, kinda, duct tape by definition.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
And you can reuse them, especially for something like this.
- Comment on Does anywhere online, shipping shoes in the USA have European sizes as a legitimate search option? 1 year ago:
Exactly. Convert your size to the seller’s size and buy that one. You may need to experiment, but shoe sizes are not scientific units.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Yeah. That’s because of the cold.
If you had said pedestrian deaths, you would have had a solid argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Agreed.
Leap seconds are even worse.
That’s for a different discussion, imo.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Because people would start showing up earlier or later depending on whether we decide solar noon is 12:00 or 1:00.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s about the change being important.
If we stay on a single “time” (say standard work day starts at 4 hours before solar noon), we’ll drift the work time to start/end the work day at some appropriate time.
The issue is that what that time is that most socially useful changes greatly over the year unless you live close to the equator.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t adjust my lifestyle for this.
The rest of the world does.
That’s the point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
My 5 yo’s schedule is already messed up from the darkness.
He wasn’t even out late last night.
We decided to wake him up at 8, while it was plenty dark.
I’d rather it be that dark at 7.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
You kinda need the back and forth or the work day start will drift whichever way.
That’s knew of my major thoughts in favor of DST.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
So weird.
Who on earth thinks I’m criticizing my wife for anything other than liking a candy that’s widely disliked?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I suppose it is horrific to make a joke about Halloween candy that has been complained about for decades and only seems to show up at Halloween.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Exactly!
At least someone here has a sense of humor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I mean. I coconut and chocolate are great.
These are just these are gross on both parts.
It’s just fuel for the insular Europeans being like “American chocolate has vomit in it”.
That’s gas station chocolate for children, and butyric acid is something that occurs naturally in chocolate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
At least it’s not as bad as spunow
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
Music was much better when I was younger and more emotionally vulnerable.
I also like music from before my time, when they used to let ugly people make it.
It’s complicated.
- Comment on Would eating raw human brains make you high? 1 year ago:
Why would you think it’s appropriate to comment if you’re host guessing? Your reasoning is correct in that we do eat brains, and of course they don’t get us high.
You’re wrong is the fact that brain is mostly fat. That’s incredibly misleading. The brain is entirely nervous tissue plus supporting things like vessels. It does contain lots of myelin which serves to insulate axons, since nervous tissue is electrical. Myelin happens to contain a lot of fatty acids, but it is in no sense “fat”.
- Comment on What is the best website to search for scholarly articles? 1 year ago:
Google scholar is fine. There’s little opportunity for them to enshittify since it’s quite easy to construct a journal crawler and there really can’t be that much revenue from people searching for these highly esoteric topics.
And, the people you’d be pissing off would be the ones that are capable of creating a competitor.
Also, their own employees.
- Comment on The Planet, some string and a bell. 1 year ago:
Since we’re doing strings around the Earth, here’s the simplest, most unintuitive fact in geometry:
Say you have a string wrapped taut around the planet (purely spherical), like a belt. You want to raise that string up so that it’s one meter above ground all the way around the planet. How much more string do you need?
I’ll give you a hint. You don’t need to know the radius of the Earth to know the answer.
- Comment on What is the name of this type of image 1 year ago:
I’m not sure what you’re looking for.
This is a composite satellite image of nighttime light sources.
I can’t think of anything unifying other than “satellite image”.
- Comment on Can you just tackle them like puppies? or what? 1 year ago:
I don’t know how new that information is.
It came out kinda concurrently with Jurassic Park.