Malfeasant
@Malfeasant@lemm.ee
- Comment on Oxygen 3 days ago:
Which side is the front? I don’t think it’s fallen off yet.
- Comment on Oxygen 3 days ago:
The sun isn’t space, it has plenty of oxygen.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 1 week ago:
Don’t be silly, there are no women on the internet.
- Comment on Anon falls in love 1 week ago:
Also “she gave me her number.” And? Did you call her?
(I guess I’m dating myself here because texting is a thing, but…)
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 week ago:
No, if you fall off the rollers, your wheels just stop. Bicycle wheels don’t have anywhere near enough mass for their momentum alone to move your body.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 week ago:
Actually, the gyroscopic effect (specifically precession) has more to do with making the steering go the right way than keeping the bike upright directly.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 week ago:
Gyroscopic effect is not even significant. Lock your steering and you will fall over no matter how fast your wheels are spinning. (Which can happen with a badly pitted headset)
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t say easy… But yeah, you don’t just fall over.
- Comment on Anon starts asking questions 1 week ago:
It’s not that. Gyroscopic action exists of course, but it’s fairly weak against the weight of your body. Balancing a bicycle is just like balancing an umbrella on your finger, except you can easily move your finger any direction you need. To move the bicycle sideways, you need to already be moving forward.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
I live in the Phoenix area - if it ever gets down to 32°F I’m dancing in the street.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t classify 0°C as very cold, just cold. 0°F definitely deserves the very.
- Comment on I hate people like this 3 weeks ago:
Having worked both retail and call center, no, they’re not in the same league. People can be assholes over the phone, absolutely, but it’s quite different from face-to-face. Someone threatens to kill me over the phone, I can say “I’d like to see you try” and hang up, and the worst that happens is I get fired. In person, they can carry out the threat.
- Comment on I hate people like this 3 weeks ago:
It’s nice when you have a boss that has your back. I worked at RadioShack back in the day, and the manager of the store I stayed at the longest was like that. Of course we didn’t have the whole x items or less, but we were in a busy college area, only on-street parking, so we’d get people running in and wanting to be served immediately regardless of how busy we were because they were double parked. The boss empowered us to tell them to fuck off, politely of course. “Come back when you have more time, we’ll be happy to help”. Also, we were next to a parking lot, it wasn’t ours, though we did have a couple of spots that were clearly marked employee parking only. Few things gave the boss more pleasure than calling a tow truck… Literally rubbing his hands with glee on multiple occasions.
- Comment on I hate people like this 3 weeks ago:
I never worked food service, but I did my time in retail… That “Well we’re here now” just gave me a PTSD-like flashback…
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 4 weeks ago:
They’re safer than humans already. It’s just you hear about every robocar crash because they’re unusual, and every time one happens, the whole industry learns from it. With humans driving, it’s doubtful the people involved learn from a crash, let alone anyone else, we just accept it as inevitable.
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 4 weeks ago:
Just to be the man who died 12000 times to … rise up at your door? Bbbrains…
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 4 weeks ago:
Holy poeslaw Batman!
- Comment on Toot toot 5 weeks ago:
In my late teens/early 20s I won a roughly 2 month long fart battle by eating McDonald’s every day. Made my adversary kneel before me.
- Comment on Toot toot 5 weeks ago:
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
- Comment on Toot toot 5 weeks ago:
Fight fire with fire.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
That’s people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Fahrenheit makes more sense for human experience… 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to what can be survived for a significant amount of time. Below freezing you can survive without shelter as long as you’re dressed for it, but as you approach zero it gets a lot harder, you really need shelter and heat at that point. Same with above 100… 117 won’t kill you right away, but without some sort of man-made cooling device, you’ll be wishing it would. I say this having lived both extremes, mountains of Colorado in winter, and Phoenix in summer… Honestly, given the choice between 115 and -15, I’d rather have the cold.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Base twelve would be great if we went all-in, as in new symbols for single digit representation of ten and eleven, then 10 would mean twelve. Having a base that’s divisible by several primes is handy.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Then how to differentiate from 2x6? 2x8?
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Planing. Planning wood is very different.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
When you build a wood house, how far apart are the studs? I once tried to hang a shelf made by/for the European market, it had predrilled holes that were far enough apart that I could almost hit two studs, but not quite.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
We see it as sticking to what we’re used to… As conservative as we are overall, is it really that surprising?
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 1 month ago:
Same in US…