Deme
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- Comment on spoopy skeletal 2 weeks ago:
Humans can already fit through way too small holes.
A wiki article about a particularly gory diving bell incident. No graphic images, but still not exactly light reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_…
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
Also the environmental impacts. I don’t own a huge polluting coal powerplant that is actively contributing to fucking up the planet that I live on, and as such I’m still allowed to criticise them. Why should the meat industry be any different?
- Comment on Worth 3 weeks ago:
Me but every time I think I see a nice cloud.
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 4 weeks ago:
This. The meme is inaccurate in that the polar vortex is in fact currently unusually strong. It’s just unusually shaped placed. I hope the two following images show up correctly.
Strenght of the polar vortex. Blue line is this winter:
source: weatheriscool.com
Map showing the mean geopotential height and surface (2m) temperature anomalies for this week, as forecasted on Monday by ECMW:
- Comment on Religion 5 weeks ago:
I’m not catholic, but I do like the fact that artillery has its own patron saint.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
No. An object within the event horizon is still reflecting light just as it was before falling in. The only difference is in relation to where that reflected light can or cannot go from there.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
That is what I said, yes.
The point being that the event horizon deals with the structure of spacetime, while reflectivity is a material property. An object doesn’t get painted with vantablack when it passes the event horizon.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
The event horizon only obscures objects that are inside it, it has nothing to do with reflectivity of the object itself.
An observer situated between the singularity and an object within the event horizon could still intercept the light reflected from said object.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
No event horizon is made up of matter. Do you mean the matter around and behind the black hole, by which the location and size of the black hole can be inferred?
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.
- Comment on I wanna ROCK 1 month ago:
The event horizon isn’t a physical object. Does a singularity reflect light? (I’m guessing it’s still a no)
- Comment on W reddit post. Is this based? 1 month ago:
Perhaps, but I’m still not going back there.
- Comment on You are all WAY too happy about an extremely powerful and very wealthy CEO who controls a monopoly and uses slave labor. Not to mention he has this two-tiered system based on arbitrary data. 1 month ago:
Oh but the workshop is a co-operative and Santa is a union man. The man dresses in all red, has a beard like Marx and distributes goods without any financial compensation.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 2 months ago:
I’d say that yes it was definitely politically motivated, since it was just as much an attack against the system as it was against the person, but hardly terrorism since there was no intent to scare the general public.
- Comment on Mass Destruction 2 months ago:
I mean, Oppenheimer at least seemed to regret what he did. Teller on the other hand was completely remorseless and unhinged.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
Sure, but the roads the enemy is using are a vast minority of all the roads out there, constrained to certain geographical areas. If one happens to be in the middle of it, they’ll have bigger concerns than whether to invest in a bike or a horse.
If it’s the apocalypse, then everyone will be desperate.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
Eh, depends on if we go out with a bang or a whimper. I’m betting it’s going to be the latter.
If not, then it’s likely that nukes put a stop to the artilleryfest before it has a chance to really get going. And my point about there being a lot of roads in the world still stands. No military would start to target roads in any meaningful scale when they’re going to save their precious shells for the enemy.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
There’s a lot more roads than there are cars to fill them and the good thing about bikes is that if you can get past an obstacle on foot, you can carry your bike while doing so. Even if the major highways get blocked by the occasional massive pileup that you can’t climb over while carrying your bike, you can always take the smaller road. And where would all the craters come from? How many artillery batteries and mortar companies do you expect to see in the post-apocalypse?
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 3 months ago:
As long as there’s roads or smooth paths left, an ordinary person can do 200 km in a day on a bicycle. A quick search tells me that specifically trained horses can do 160 km in an endurance race. Sure a horse would probably be the fastest in a sprint, but a bicycle has the best travel speed.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 3 months ago:
A person can be rich in many ways. A coral reef is rich in biodiversity etc.
The rich refers to the group of people who are financially rich to an obscene extent.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Mostly it’s just people discussing whether flour should be measured by mass or volume. Jokes about using some mcburgers per football field -esque satirical units, some joke about using moles instead. Some comment about a funny misspelling in the meme. Nobody is flying into an incoherent rage.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
I think you’re taking the trollface in the meme a bit too literally. It’s annoying and unnecessary, and can cause mistakes that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. Ahem, the Mars Climate Orbiter is a good example of a particularly costly one.
Nobody is flying into an incoherent rage. It’s merely annoying having to accommodate the outdated quirks of one country. You having to do the opposite is quite reasonable on the other hand, because you’re not accommodating the conventions of one country, but those of the rest of the world.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Fair point. Rephrase: largest English speaking country by internet footprint, global influence or some similar measure.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Thank you for the correction kind sir. My deepest apologies sir. English isn’t my native language. Would you perhaps care to elaborate on the claim made in your previous comment, so that this here conversation may have some substance beyond mere grammar.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Oh I understand it pretty well. I just take no pride in that. If I don’t remember something I can always look it up. Doesn’t mean it’s not impractical nonsense.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Bear in mind that there are multiple countries where English is the largest language and metric is used, and that English is the modern lingua franca. It just so happens that the largest english speaking country has some weird ways to measure things. As such those weird conventions are often forced on anyone who wants to look for a recipe in English, be that their native language or not.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
I’m sorry but who are you referring to? I’m sure there’s idiots in every country, but that is quite an outlandish generalization to make if we’re still talking about entire continents.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
Oh no. I just want to be rid of the imperial system. I would have no issue with it if it wasn’t a part of my life. Unfortunately I work in a field where imperial units are used world wide (apart from China and Russia for historical reasons). Because of this, I use some of those units myself every day at work. I understand some of them but take no pride in it. The only reason that the imperial system is still used so much is purely by convention. It is inferior to the metric system in every aspect. I do not feel superior to people who use imperial units because as stated above, I am one of them. People who I feel superior to are the ones who delude themselves into thinking that this somehow isn’t purely because of convention. I dislike them because they are forced upon me by international conventions. OP appears to dislike them because recipes written in English force those units into their life.
- Comment on I just want to make cookies :( 5 months ago:
There is no pride in understanding a nonsensical system of measurements.
Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot
- Iain M. Banks
- Comment on So professional looking it must be true 5 months ago:
Undeniable DPRK W
