Maoo

@Maoo@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey kid⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice is made up of water molecules. Very tiny things.

  When water molecules move around really fast, that’s the exact same as them being hot. They are steam when they move around a lot, and steam is hot - and a gas. Steam might even be so hot it hurts - that’s because they’re smashing into the molecules in your body and making them move around too even when they shouldn’t and could damage you. Your body senses this and sends you pain signals so that you know to move away from the steam.

  Water molecules can also stick together. With steam, the molecules move so much that they’re just bouncing around all over the place and the stickiness doesn’t really matter. If two water molecules stick together in steam, other ones are likely to ram into them and break them up This is why steam billows out in all directions. When water molecules in steam cool down, as in slow down, their stickiness to each other becomes a more important factor than before. The molecules still move around, just less than before. They interact with one another, keeping themselves tied together in the same general area but still moving a lot. This is why water settles into one place in a glass and why you can pour it as a room temperature liquid.

  When water molecules get even cooler, the stickiness starts to matter even more. The molecules aren’t bouncing off each other much anymore, they’re just stuck together. This is what a solid is and ice is a solid.

  Now, I’ve been saying stickiness, but with how small water molecules are, and what they’re made of, it’s actually very specific properties of the molecules that make them interact to “stick” together, with the strongest one being charge polarity. But that’s for a difference explanation!

  Finally: so, for ice to melt, you need to get its molecules moving again. One way to get them moving is to expose them to a hot material, i.e. one that’s moving around a lot. Put your ice cube on a room temperature table and it will slowly melt because the molecules in the air and table are moving along so much that if the water molecules were doing the same they’d be in “liquid mode”. Another way is to add energy to the system in the form of radiation, which induces movement within the molecules and, therefore, between them since they’re in close proximity. The reason it makes them move is complicated and is literally quantum mechanics so I’ll also leave that for a different explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨palaeoartists are dreamers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He touched grass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlizzCon won't happen in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you guys but have phones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They dared to ask.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, evolutionary psychology. The realm of making shit up and somehow getting to be a professor for doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic job talks⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After the candidate leaves the room: "okay so we don’t know their advisor and they’re not from a prestigious program so that’s an automatic no, right? Glad we could get the token plebian out of the way so we can look at the serious candidates. Sorry, Wendy, I know you planned on collaborating with them and said some things about “good work” but we’ve gotta keep our ability to attract talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Natives⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong. The first step in gardening advice is to call someone a kkkracker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *dethrone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft are adding a dedicated AI button to Windows keyboards as they call 2024 “the year of the AI PC”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they do their user testing exclusively on failson C-levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mentally unbalanced behaviour⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no way those tubes are balanced step away from the centrifuge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Love to see other instances defed given why they’re actuslky doing it, just gotta tell us the real reasons or put on a little farcical show that’s fun to watch. It’s fun to watch the lying and rationalizations, like defederating before hexbear was even on a code base that had the ability to federate or contradicting themselves several times in tge dramatic break-up post.

  Usually, it’s the folks that tolerate fascist rhetoric having a meltdown over getting made fun of by people to the left of them. Getting criticized from the left breaks liberals’ brains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What mask?

  We are honest people dunking on bad takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Show receipts lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  90% of the time when I attempt good faith argument with liberals, they almost immediately begin deflecting and pretending to be incompetent.

  I still attempt it, but it’s easy to see why it’s probably better to just make fun of those people. Obviously honesty, knowledge, and good faith engagement means nothing to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope they’re super funny. Get on our level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Brigading is when people comment on a post on their front page but I don’t like their opinions. Someone has to do something about this!

  Vote manipulation is when they are more popular than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I block all of Hexbear from All?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m scared of commies but actually it’s their fault so they’re stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Season 4, Episode 1 of Star Trek: Lower Decks on YouTube right now (I assume USA only)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ACAB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, the precious “economy”!