psud
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- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 1 week ago:
I felt I needed more than 1L of DHM after breakfast, I have been a habitual user for pretty much my whole life
It’s there hope for me‽
- Comment on Take a seat, young Australian Magpie 1 week ago:
Australian magpies have a much nicer song than any corvid
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Flat CRTs were excellent though.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 weeks ago:
That do. The failure comes if the spacecraft use lower air pressure, then the ink is pushed out of the pen by the pressurised gas in the ink
The same thing causes some pens to leak in aeroplanes.
- Comment on wednesday, my dudes 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but don’t lick your lips after
- Comment on Disappointed 4 weeks ago:
If you’re American I don’t think you really want passenger pigeons
- Comment on Anon's little cousin plays with MLP toys 4 weeks ago:
People judge 4chan by /b
It has always had wholesome bits too
- Comment on It's the law! 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction – which is perfectly consistent with everything ever measured – you can measure speed between two endpoints using two atomic clocks and a synchronised experiment, with corrections for the relativistic effect of moving the clocks to the different places
- Comment on It's the law! 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately you then get the low bandwidth of the frequencies that can penetrate that much ground
- Comment on It's the law! 4 weeks ago:
That speed of causality is usually at least 3 times better than you can get in real life
You get 300 million metres per second in light (including radio in free space) so wifi to your laptop is at that speed
A wave in wire (eg ethernet over cat6 cable) is seldom better than 0.9c
Laser light in an optic fibre (how almost all data moves long distance) is about 100 million metres per second as it follows a zig zag path in the fibre reflecting off the walls of the fibre
The future promise of starlink – where your connection goes to a satellite then to another and another satellite until being down linked to the server farm hosting the content – should provide much lower latency
- Comment on Anatomy 4 weeks ago:
Because they were illustrating the leg muscles, and the rest was mostly just a sketch to fill out the picture
- Comment on Np fam 5 weeks ago:
Did the new changes affect the suicide rate?
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 month ago:
Nothing is ever a generation’s fault. There are and were good and bad among every generation. Some had luck buying into housing or business at just the right moment that value went up
Boomers, X, and older Millennials all had more luck than younger Millennials; at least the Millennials and later had recognition of autism and ADHD.
My autistic friends weren’t diagnosed until their 40s, some had to work it out out on their own after the internet became popular
– a xennial
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 month ago:
It was a longboat, not a raft, and he had a sextant and almanac so he could look up rise and set times for stars. He lacked charts.
It was a remarkable feat
- Comment on He's just eccentric 1 month ago:
I have a friend who’s sure I’m on the spectrum, and points at things I talk about as my current hyperfixation. Meanwhile I’m talking imprecisely forgetting detail.
If I’m on the spectrum, I suck at fixating on stuff
- Comment on Mother 1 month ago:
Kangaroos form two sorts of groups
- Like most herbivores, they have one male and many females in a mob (kangaroo equivalent to a herd)
- Males outside that mob form loose groups for defence and within that they fight to establish dominance and the top roo may challenge the male lead of a mob to take it over
- Comment on Mythbusters 1 month ago:
That’s a Reddit channel, I downloaded the full lot
- Comment on unleash your humanities 1 month ago:
I am mildly allergic to dairy, so as a kid I had soy milk. I hated that stuff
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 1 month ago:
I used to do that in the swimming pool (I have always lived far inland) it’s often called dangerous on the mistaken belief that it’s like shallow water drowning where someone hyperventilates to swim underwater longer; since those people have blown off so much CO2 they don’t get a signal to breathe and suffocate.
Our method doesn’t involve hyperventilation, and wow does the need to breathe get strong
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
No homo, but the H is for homo
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
Evolution isn’t aimed. A T-Rex needs to be good enough to hunt enough food.
Our ancient ancestors smashed the skulls of animals killed by African predators to eat the brains, smashed bones to eat the marrow.
Later as our ancestors became bigger and stronger they hunted and needed to communicate with each other to effectively track and take down an animal. Maybe they needed twenty words. Chickens have three words (or cluck patterns)
At the same time women collected stuff and needed to share how to identify this from that with younger women. They might have needed a hundred words.
Then those who could talk better were more attractive to the other sex than those who couldn’t (even now being well spoken is attractive) then a few millions of years later we’re making stone knives, hammers, axes; then ten minutes later aeroplanes and machine guns
In short: we had it hard enough we needed to share information. We later found communication sexy. T-Rex had no such trouble. We seem to be the only animal that solved “scavenging is dangerous” and “hunting is hard” with talking to each other rather than by getting bigger and getting claws or vicious teeth
I understand we selected for tall by fighting humans
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 1 month ago:
Brake, not break
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
holding the bag
And not doing shit that tanks the stock price and sales.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
Ok, so list the ones I can buy today
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
Human species before H. Sapiens
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 month ago:
I think they are saying that discord is bad because it is not Free software, that it is bad because it is a commercial service
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 month ago:
Yep. Guy had his life pretty much ruined. Don’t tether your life to a company — that don’t care about you, they have no duty toward you
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s outside my expertise so I’m bad at the detail.
Normal process is the nice efficient anaerobic process that produces ATP from glucose
Cancers use an all aerobic process which is less efficient but faster at producing ATP
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 month ago:
There was that man who was all in on Google.
He had a telemedicine appointment for his son who had a problem with his penis. Dr asked him to send a close-up photo so he could diagnose the skin condition
So the guy takes the photo with his pixel phone and sends it
The phone automatically backs up the photo
Google’s AI says it’s child porn, his account is deleted and police are contacted
Police look into it and say “not porn, totally fine” but have to go to his house to tell him the was no problem because his phone was Google, his internet was Google fibre, his email was Gmail and his photo album was on Google and all that was irrevocably deleted