TheOakTree
@TheOakTree@lemm.ee
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 1 day ago:
How do you find out if you are a supertaster? I’m curious because growing up I couldn’t stomach any vegetable that was bitter. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, celery, etc. were enough to make me gag just from the flavor. Nowadays, I can cope with the bitterness by focusing on other flavors and textures but I’ve definitely been in positions where I have a single bite of celery and then can’t muster up the courage to eat for a solid hour.
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 1 day ago:
I think they’re asking because you can develop taste aversion by eating something and getting sick (even if the sickness is completely unrelated).
My sister got H1N1 when it was proliferating, and she had a box of nilla wafers before the symptoms started hitting hard. Now she inexplicably can’t eat a single nilla wafer.
- Comment on nuclear 5 days ago:
I think people underestimate the value of intertia in power generation. I liken it to the way capacitors regulate voltage changes or coilovers absorb bumps and vibrations.
The inertia of the generators connected to the grid helps stabilize frequency changes caused by blackouts, power plant issues, etc. by resisting and therebly slowing down frequency decline. It buys time for grid operators to find a way to balance loads in a way that doesn’t weaken or disable the grid as a whole.
Here’s a great NREL report explaining how this all works, and what other systems we use to stabilize grid frequency.
- Comment on Warning 1 week ago:
Care to explain why this fish is shitting out a brazil nut?
- Comment on As ‘Kraven’ Hunts for Audience, Sony's Marvel Universe Takes Final Bow for Now | Analysis 1 week ago:
I had to see it for myself, and then I made a gif of it so others don’t have to hunt the video down:
- Comment on definitely 2 weeks ago:
My reasoning for why “infinite” would be easy to remember is because “infinity” is notably a word with only i as a main vowel (excluding the y)
But I see what you mean too
- Comment on definitely 2 weeks ago:
I always told people “definitely is spelled like infinitely, so just remember how to spell infinite”
But I suppose “finite” is even better than “infinite” since there’s less to remember.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
That Dragon, Cancer turned me into a blubbering sobbing mess.
There’s are so many spots in the game that could hit someone the hardest, and I know what mine was.
- Comment on I like Genesis 3 weeks ago:
I, too, quite like genesis Image
- Comment on Fuck geometry 3 weeks ago:
The easiest way to think about it is that 1 full rotation (pi radians) in 1 second makes 1 Hz.
The number of rotations made in a second corresponds to Hz in the same way that the number of sine wave periods that fit in a second also represents Hz. This gif does a really good job of showing how rotation relates to sine/cosine waves, which just so happens to help visualize the rad/s -> Hz <- periods/s relationship:
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 3 weeks ago:
You made me doubt myself lol, I was like “you’re right, 540° neck turning range seems excessive so I should do a searcg”
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s a scientific paper or anything, but a quick search led me to Smithsonian Magazine’s article:
“Owls, on the other hand, can rotate their necks up to 270 degrees in either direction without damaging the vessels running below their heads…”
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 3 weeks ago:
So what you’re is that power creep and meta chasing ruined the creativity in the Earth server?
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 3 weeks ago:
I mean, if they can turn 270 degrees in either direction then I suppose they can cover 360 degrees, just not from resting position.
- Comment on What are the best games you can play on a laptop? 3 weeks ago:
Not an RPG but is open world: Hyper Light Drifter
I’ve run it on a potato laptop before, so it should run fine.
- Comment on 2k Launcher has been fully removed from all games 3 weeks ago:
You can always use the GOG Galaxy launcher!
which I never use - Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, definitely can’t rely on it for too long. Double granite walls can hold off basic enemies for a ridiculous amount of time, though.
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 3 weeks ago:
This is advice I’ve given to new Rimworld players, and I hope it was helpful. The game (on most difficulties) is itching to give you the next “scenario.”
Building your wealth in valuable equipment is not very good at the start of the game, because your town’s silver value will go up much faster than its defensive/offensive capabilities. You end up putting a target on your back for raids.
Better to build a surrounding wall and set up trap corridors than to worry about getting everyone a gun.
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 month ago:
Same story here. You described it perfectly. Mitutoyo comes next.
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 1 month ago:
This may or may not help, but a nickel is very close to 5 grams. You may be able to slap something silly together with a bunch of nickels taped together :P
- Comment on Halloween is upon us 1 month ago:
Wasn’t expecting the dark eco one lmao
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 1 month ago:
Maybe I’ve just been lucking out, but every concert venue I’ve been to recently has let me in with my vape. I usually tell the security person I have it on me, and then they tell me it’s fine and pass me through. You’re right though, it would suck to have to toss it.
I don’t agree with the “smaller” part though. Most of the disposable units I see are thicker and wider than my refillable one, since they need to be long-lasting as a value proposition. I think the main draw is probably pure convenience.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 1 month ago:
As someone who is using a nicotine vape to wean off of nicotine, I still don’t understand why people buy disposable ones.
It’s less cost-effective, less customizable, and more sketchy.
- Comment on Mom of the year 1 month ago:
Yes, and Your Grace’s (my) pronoun is “Your Grace,” also always inflected and conjugated in whichever way is convenient to Your Grace.
You mean to suggest that the first person and third person of your pronouns are conjugated exactly the same. So the sentence “Drag’s pronoun is Drag” exists as the first, second, AND third person version of the statement. At that point, what is the point of having distinctions in perspective? It almost seems like your system of pronouns changes the grammar of the language into a different version of the language… hmm…
- Comment on Mom of the year 1 month ago:
Oh no, I hurt two dragon-sexuals with one comment! Your argument is stupid. If someone repeatedly injects their foot fetish into unrelated conversations and I write a comment of a similar nature about the foot fetish material, does it really take someone to make me write about it? No, it doesn’t, I’m entitled to say what I want about it, and it’s reasonable to bring up the issue at hand.
How else do you want me to address it? Jfc.
People who identify as dragons or wolves cause the same kind of harm as “I identify as an attack helicopter” jokes. You are delegitimizing HUMAN gender issues so you can fictionally identify with a fictional creature.
- Comment on Mom of the year 1 month ago:
Every time I see you refer to yourself that way, I want to gouge my eyes out.
Firstly, we don’t consent to engaging with your dragon kink. I’ve seen your comments that reaffirm that this is the core of your ‘identity’. Your screen name is another clear example. Leave us out of this “Dragon Rider” nonsense - I don’t care what your kinks are, keep it private without consent.
Second, why do you still use third person perspective here? Your bio clearly states that “Drag” works in the first, second, and third person, so why leave it in third person instead of speaking about yourself in first person? You are writing in english, right? Or is this Dragspeak/Dragtongue/[some other fantasy bullshit]?
If you’re going to make up rules, put on an act, then submit everyone else to it, at least try thinking through it for longer than a few seconds. I get the feeling you never properly considered how poorly “Drag” works in first person. “Drag keep Dragself happy by exposing unconsenting strangers to Drag own dragon kinks!” Perhaps that’s part of it: adopting a lizard’s attention span.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 1 month ago:
Germanium My Ass
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 months ago:
I think it’s a genius solution to the explicity problem, but a terrible solution in a larger scope. There are many animals that feed on mosquitos, and they would suffer from massive decreases in mosquito population. This includes birds, frogs, bats, fish, and other insects (many aquatic animals eat mosquito larvae). I would hate to see a cascading reduction in animal populations as a result of these tactics.
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 2 months ago:
The idea is to introduce this genetic expression into wild mosquito populations. That way, the inevitable act of mosquito reproduction lowers the next generation’s population size.
- Comment on Explains a lot... 2 months ago:
Starfish is a sphere?
