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- Comment on Anon finds a glitch 3 days ago:
For fun I’m going to explain why. So air can hold some amount of water in it at any temperature. Water energy in form of heat is not evenly distributed so some molecules move faster than others, at the surface some move fast enough to escape the water and into the air. That’s called evaporation, boiling does however require 100°C.
This also explains why humid weather affects evaporation (lower capacity to hold water in air) and at high humidity there’s an a similar chance of water being deposited to the body of water as water escaping which affects evaporation speed a lot.
Honestly, I really like this quality of water, it would be super annoying to deal with otherwise.
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 1 week ago:
It reminds me of this one. Sure you could make a case for selection based on breeding qualities but that’s a huge investment for just looking good. I think this guys take is more plausible.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
US culture varies a lot by state to state, YMMV.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I want to get another map which includes rules for guests. In some countries it’s shoes off unless you’re a guest.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
Just as a side note that gas power plants capture two types of energy, both the expansion of the burned gas and the heat. This is why they’re now more popular for new builds than oil.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 2 weeks ago:
I’m pulling this from some random place in my head but horses have a strict hierarchy. There’s a head horse that runs first and people became the head horse. This is in stark contrast to zebras that don’t give a shit and cause chaos.
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 2 weeks ago:
I respect a bro powerleveling his finances.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 2 weeks ago:
I’m sometimes surprised of how few people play indie games. I’m playing Neon White now and having a blast.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, anything that prevents the financialisation of residential housing floats my boat. In Iceland we have big corpos selling each other houses at over market price to increase the average m^2 price in an area. It’s pretty bonkers.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 4 weeks ago:
Residential housing shouldn’t be owned by corporations. It should be built by them and then sold to individuals.
- Comment on Anon plays DOOM 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I still remember hearing distant screams slowly getting closer and being “Oh shit” about seeing a headless guy with one bomb in each hand.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 5 weeks ago:
I was in denial about being autistic for around a decade after I first had suspicion because of exactly the reasoning you provide.
To provide some insight to my experience is that I had to manually decode all the non-verbal communication with logic while keeping track of the verbal stuff and monitoring my own expression back when I was masking. That shit is exhausting. Masking isn’t just picking a personality to wear based on the occasion, it’s doing that while it doesn’t come naturally and consciously tweaking behavior. Jokes on us, we give of the uncanny valley vibes when do that because it “feels off”.
If there’s something loud around me I will intensely try to hear what people say to me but I just can’t because the surrounding is louder.
I was so bad at throwing and kicking balls that I was made fun of despite actually practicing both football and handball.
I went to sleep scared for a long time because I imagined people breaking in because of slightest squeek in the house.
It’s also hard to explain how easy it is to have conversations with other autistic people vs normies.
- Comment on Games then vs now 1 month ago:
This is such an immersion breaking aspect of modern games and an absolute garbage approach. They’re idea is to not break the “flow” for the action players but for players that like puzzles it’s absolute horror. They just need to add during new game a “Puzzle hints” menu with Normal, Low and None.
“That rock looks fragile”, “Have you seen the rock next to the windmill? It has cracks in it”, “What if we shoot the rock with the ballista?” at those points I just want a “Shut up” option.
If I can’t figure out the puzzle myself it removes all satisfaction from solving it. I want to be confused, open up a journal that I need to skim through to get relevant information and then put the pieces together.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
No, I wait 3 years usually. All bugs fixed, everything works, mods in great shape and price down 50%. Plenty of games older than 3 years also and much lower hardware requirements.
I made an exception for Elden Ring last time but that’s about it.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Onions and mushrooms are the two things I can have with pretty much every meal.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 1 month ago:
Subhan allah 3ndna eshahar addura.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 month ago:
In Iceland it’s althingi.is
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 2 months ago:
That’s a question that is very hard to answer. Dogs have a similar-ish brain structure but there’s a good chance you need a massive prefrontal cortex to have a chance of getting autism.
- Comment on Seeing so many corn posts today 2 months ago:
It’s a sin doing that to an elote.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Gonna leave this here for those who need it. It’s surprisingly fun to grind arithmetic skill.
- Comment on Introverts Rock 2 months ago:
I’m introverted and I got invited everywhere all the time. People liked inviting me because I always showed up and was dependable. Those people who invited me are still my friends today.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 months ago:
It’s a commodity that’s widely used as a way to keep the value of a portfolio in case of inflation. Gold has a lot of utility but recently because of uncertainty about the US dollar central banks have been stocking up on gold.
Complete societal collapse is very unlikely and we have studied economics enough to the point where hyperinflation is avoidable.
For investors keeping some gold (10-20% of portfolio) can be very nice since it allows you to buy the dip and is inflation proof. On the other hand, gold can become a speculative asset so it’s value can be inflated just like any other commodity. So in a way currently it’s either a nice tool or a bubble (or scam as you call it).
Silver, used in solar panels, is also pretty good for same reasons.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 months ago:
The Indian operator just finished his shift
- Comment on Simple test to see if you are normal or have a flithy mind 2 months ago:
I don’t get it, how do you see something that’s not a duck?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 2 months ago:
I know about a funky thing where if you have equal amounts of sweet, salty, bitter, umami and sour you feel less full after eating it. It might be completely unrelated though.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 2 months ago:
I’d say because it’s still new and the content is very nerd heavy as you have probably seen from all the Linux posts. Also, most user’s here come from the reddit exodus after the removal of third party apps.
One other thing is that when you link content from Lemmy you can just link the image directly instead of sending a link to Lemmy with a login screen. The adoption rate from people linking will be a lot lower since Lemmy is not sacrificing quality to increase numbers.
Either way, I like the size and it suits me, I can “finish” my Lemmy for the day in a reasonable amount of time and I get my fix of Linux news, memes and shitposts so it’s just a win for me.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 2 months ago:
Pretty sure you’d have to label nicotine content and age restrict it no matter how it’s consumed.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 2 months ago:
It’s science, I don’t know the specifics of craving but I know they spent a lot of money to figure out how give you that feeling.
- Comment on Have LLMs killed all future programming languages? 2 months ago:
That’s a shit take, it’s assuming that the LLM has the same thought process for learning a programming language instead of being autocorrect no steroids.
I’m pretty sure LLMs will be shit at Lisp for the foreseeable future just because the language is sort of created by the programmer.
- Comment on Influencers 2 months ago:
Venus has CO2 air at 50km at same pressure as earth and has good protection from radiation. You could make tons of blimps, heat them up with solar energy to float make a small science colony.
Downside is that it’s very weight limited because landing on a surface full of sulfuric acid is hard. The challenges are still there and Venus has it’s challenges but you could have people running around with oxygen tanks instead of space suits.
