psud

@psud@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's a good one⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It should have spaced outstanding to out standing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon eats lunch alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that might be the case :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon eats lunch alone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why censor 4-Chan bad language in a 4-chan community. We can handle reading “normalfag”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm thinking taffy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what the surface tension of magma is, anyway thanks, I had forgotten that one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one heckin' huge fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not pedantry to point out your word choice was so completely wrong. Illusive is descriptive of things that are illusions (a mirage is illusive water); elusive is descriptive of something that is hard to find

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm thinking taffy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I must not watch the right things, I don’t recall ever seeing media of a person sinking in lava

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where's my damn plume⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It will increase suicides in transgender youth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨graceful wombats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they also heard the word from British sources and knew Australia was a British colony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨feral naming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me in Australia: that’s a slater

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨graceful wombats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They thought “wombat” was a synonym for sheep. This image disabused them off that misconception

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cetaceans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You must pronounce cetacean very differently to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats are Healers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But all that running around and buzzing and living becomes low grade heat pretty rapidly

  While most of the heat from the cat food furnace will go up the chimney rather than into the room.

  I would expect the cat to be closer to 100% efficient than the furnace, unless it spends its time sitting on a window sill behind the curtain radiating towards infinity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨explosions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you link to the symbol? It’s not on the Wikipedia list of hazard symbols

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smug Viruses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are computer based systems that evolve. The environment is simulated to direct the desired evolutionary direction, the thing is simulated and reproduces and mutates by rule

  For example antennas might live in a simulation where the EM waves of the right frequency are feed, with the most nourished antennae breeding to make many children and less nourished antennae having few children; over many generations an excellent high gain antenna with whatever other features were adaptive (size, shape, …)

  I wouldn’t call those alive though we use many life associated words to describe them.

  I personally would put the life line above viruses, Wikipedia needs to differentiate between viruses and cellular life.

  I feel like we will have computer viruses that mutate and evolve and those that can better spread, better avoid detection will thrive while those that cannot will be destroyed. When that happens will we call it life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smug Viruses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see them on nebula, I just looked on the nebula app, but also on their Reddit and website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiny pocketsies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting this, it reminded me my fob watch was in my bag not in my fob pocket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t seem plausible. After wiping your hands dry the bacteria either stayed on your hands or were transferred to the paper towel. I can’t see a path to the air.

  Blasting your hands with air fast enough to blow off whole water drops and shatter them would put bacteria in the air.

  I presume that when testing their air driers they use a sterile room and thoroughly washed hands in hospital type soap so any bacteria went down the drain and only sterile water was blown into the air

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you ever watch people wash their hands? Many wet them then dry them. A few rub a little soap around them. Nearly no one does the full hand wash method recommended by health organisations (where each finger is individually washed)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they don’t dry as well, and the air moves faster so whatever is living in the water drops on your hands (depending really on how thoroughly you wash your hands) gets flung further, spread better in the space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from a parody news site. It’s a joke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conditional probability⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The person doing the analysis also takes a statistic about intimate partner rape including where actual rape happened or the woman felt like he might have tried, then immediately casts it as actual rapes against strangers by serial street rapists.

  It’s not in the least credible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conditional probability⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel I’m not in that venn diagram, living in Australia hundreds of kilometres from the sea

  Though I have visited New York, and wasn’t bitten there, and as a kid I lived near a beach and spent summer in the Pacific and haven’t been bit by any sea animals either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subscribe now for more clicks!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a mouse that plugs into a COM port as my 286 doesn’t have USB or PS/2. I’m not entirely sure how old it is, but I’d be surprised if it post dates 1990

  Anyway, good luck making a forever mouse when the main cause for replacing mouses is their connector being out dated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how the law would treat an adult. “That’s not defending your home, that’s murdering a man who isn’t a threat” is what the adult would be told. They’d want a very good lawyer, they also would have wanted to aim better so there was only their side of the story

  We don’t apply the law like that against children* because children don’t have the ability to control themselves or think before acting that adults have.

  Have a bit of empathy for the kid.

  *Except when it’s very newsworthy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intruder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taught first aid in cub scouts by that age. I wouldn’t have done anything to help a threatening adult

  I don’t think I would have shouted insults at him, but I wasn’t raised on games where you shoot people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aha, I thought it was for talk but couldn’t fit it :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have only six circuits and both of my recent electricians checked and labelled each circuit. I must have had good luck in sparkies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Binary is still the fastest search on tape, or in a tape library

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binary search⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the t in that for?