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- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 day ago:
Planet Money has some really good episodes. Unfortunately, a lot of filler as well.
- Comment on Senator Alex Padilla forcefully removed and handcuffed after questioning Kristi Noem at press conference in LA 5 days ago:
You have lost your mind.
- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 1 week ago:
Timothee Chalamet is in a relationship with Kylie Jenner. The character Zendaya plays in Dune kisses Timothee’s character.
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 1 week ago:
You aren’t having them redline the engine and slip the clutch going up a hill. Practicing idle starts in first is probably way less wear than a single sporty start on a highway on ramp.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 1 week ago:
I genuinely can’t tell if you’re doing a bit?
- Comment on Peak masculinity 2 weeks ago:
Did it also add a Nazi / fascist type shirt?
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
Sorry bud, it sounds like you think I believe someone could train their body to become bullet proof. That’s not what I’m saying.
I’m saying your argument is fallacious. Your conclusion is correct, but your argument fails.
Also, you can’t just convert impact energy to pressure like that. I’m not familiar with the equation you’re using (is it just energy divided by the volume of a 0.22" sphere?), but I do know that impact is much more complex than that. It’s going to depend on both the bullet and the impact surface. Bullet geometry and material will change things, for example hollow points vs full metal jacket. Then there’s the impact surface, it’s hardness, strength, ductility, even viscoplasticity (materials can deform in different ways at the really high strain rates you get in an impact event). Think about the way Kevlar armor works. It dissapates some of the energy by stretching and breaking the strands of Kevlar and it reduces the impact force on a body by spreading it over a larger area and slowing the bullet over a longer distance. The person wearing the Kevlar armor still gets much of that energy delivered to their body.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
Do you need to have it broken down, step by step, why shooting yourself with a gun, is going to permanently injure you, likely quite severely?
No, I mean the guy in the post demonstrates it pretty clearly. Going from 22 pellets to 22 short was basically going from “this won’t maim you” to “this could kill you at close range”. Could he have used something else between those energies to further develop a callous tough enough to stop a 22 short? Ehh probably not, but going on about how a 223 will blow off his leg isn’t a good argument for why this method won’t work. It’s either a strawman or a non sequitor depending how you present it.
It’s like you’re making this argument: Paper will never stop a 223 bullet and here’s why. 10 layers stopped a small pellet sure, and 50 layers stopped a 22 pellet. But if you just make it 100 layers and shoot it with a 223 then it will explode because a 223 is at least 100 times more powerful and that’s only double the paper! No amount of paper could stop a 223.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
“His way of thinking wouldn’t work because if he skipped a bunch of steps in his process, it would blow off his leg” isn’t the great argument you think it is.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
Oh I guess I’m confused how your first sentence is related to the rest of your post?
Sorry, but that “if” is doing a lot of work when the rest of it seems like you’re building a strawman to beat.
- Comment on Anon takes up microdosing 2 weeks ago:
Check your reading comprehension. His goal was 223 but he went to the hospital from 22 short.
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 2 weeks ago:
Shit I got port and starboard reversed again
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 2 weeks ago:
The guy on the bottom left is the only one actually nailing that look.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
The rules are quite loose? Why else would they have eagle eyed officials watching closely to disqualify athletes for infractions.
Games can absolutely be played asynchronously. Games can have scoring systems instead of head-to-head.
Would you say pinball is not a game?
I didn’t think I needed to get out the dictionary definition of game, but I hope this clears it up… Definitions from Oxford Languages: “noun, a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
Why track and field events not games? They have rules, can be won or lost, and can be played casually if you think that is a requirment.
Take shot put, hammer throw, and javelin, for example. The game is who can throw the object in a certain way the furtherest. I could play a shot put game with some friends at a river bank by drawing a line in the sand and seeing who can huck the heaviest rock on the shore the furthest.
There’s a reason they call them Olympic Games.
Really any activity with some structure is a game if it is play and not “real”, even better if it can help practice a skill useful in life. There is a difference between a running race (a game) and running for your life from a bear (not a game). Between MMA and a street fight. Between war games and a shooting war.
- Comment on Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks 1 month ago:
I wish I read this comment before wasting my two minutes as well…
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
If your game doesn’t involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it’s not a sport 😤
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 month ago:
What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between “sport” and “athletic competition”?
You can extend or contract “game” as much as you want, but I can’t think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).
- Comment on From a purely political perspective, if you oppose the US tariffs as a US resident, should you buy or avoid buying products subject to tariffs? 2 months ago:
That link is just awful. Very difficult to tell where events are or how big they will be.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 2 months ago:
Same with Deftones.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 2 months ago:
The idea that Japan was ever more technologically advanced than the US is a tough argument to make. Perhaps they had better consumer and transportation technologies, but the US led the world in nearly all other forms of technology (see silicon valley, NASA, US defense technology, etc). It’s cool the hate on the US but there’s a reason it was the world super power for decades. It’s too bad it’s turning into an anti-science christo-facist kelptocracy.
- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 3 months ago:
It sounds funny but it actually is more real than you might think
In Southern California there’s a bunch of toll roads for the rich people in Orange County they call The Toll Roads.
- Comment on Delicious 5 months ago:
My brain absolutely refused to read
Jeanut Putter and Belly
as it was written.
- Comment on Oh well... 5 months ago:
See, that’s the problem for drag, because if drag uses first person verbs then drag will sound silly but if drag uses third person verbs then drag will sound like drag is talking in third person, which will also sound silly.
- Comment on Hurry 5 months ago:
- Comment on Hurry 5 months ago:
There’s a ton of reasons that an operator would not want to rely on reverse kinematics. They are a professional who needs to make sure they don’t slam a big machine arm into something. While reverse kinematic control is nice as a user, it has multiple possible solutions, some of which may not be acceptable.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 5 months ago:
100% anything you can do is great.
My girlfriend and I have each been putting $50/month into an investment account instead of paying for insurance for my dog, that way if she ever needs a big procedure I can pull money from there if I don’t have the savings for it. We’ve been doing this for 3.5 years and have now built up a good amount! I’ll divide the numbers roughly in 2 so you can see what you could be looking at:
Total $2750.
Deposits $2200.
Gains $550. - Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 5 months ago:
Fuck you very much for making me read that.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 months ago:
It’s better than dealing with whatever terrible nonsense they put on LGs and Samsungs. I was really close to getting an LG because everyone says it’s the best looking but I just couldn’t imagine going back to completely unmodifiable TV OS, so I got the Sony instead which still looks absolutely fantastic and I have my custom launcher on it set exactly how I want it.
