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- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 weeks ago:
Cowlick doesn’t go against what the post is saying
Their hair can lay in any direction at anytime
It’s not saying that you can make their hair all perfect in any direction.
- Comment on No looky for you! 5 weeks ago:
Insulation on the dishwasher is mostly for noise and stopping moisture or heat from damaging surrounding cabinets.
The dishwasher is using new water or heating water. It is not designed to keep the same water hot for an hour plus.
The whole back of the dishwasher is a tiny piece of plastic. Not insulated at all. Some fancy ones now put a little insulation on back.
But the idea isn’t to keep heat trapped to wash dishes, but to keep heat from being released and damaging things.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 5 weeks ago:
24" on-center wall studs aren’t uncommon in building practices today
Most residential interior walls are 16"
If their house is single-story, then 24" would fit in a lot of local building codes.
- Comment on Rip willy boy 5 weeks ago:
Walking on stage and physically assaulting someone? It was premeditated, he sat there and thought, then walked up and thought. It wasn’t just a heat of the moment thing.
Nothing said verbally should warrant that.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 5 weeks ago:
Armpit is where your arm attaches to your torso.
Behind your elbow is a different pit
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 5 weeks ago:
You can’t check for back feeding.
Cable coming from house to pole has no power. Electrician goes to hook up wire. Homeowner puts on generator. Electrician gets electrocuted.
Yes the testing and hooking up could be a small window of time but a fraction of a second after testing is all it takes.
- Comment on Shine a laser on the moon 1 month ago:
Space is a vacuum, the other stuff just makes it not a perfect vacuum as a whole.
When you say “space” it is talking about the nothingness.
If you put something in the space it is no longer space but the object you put there
So like the whole outer space isn’t a perfect vacuum. But the parts where it is empty are, the space.
- Comment on Shine a laser on the moon 1 month ago:
Space isn’t really a vacuum
Wait what?
Space is a vacuum.
Could argue it’s not a perfect vacuum. We haven’t created a perfect vacuum on Earth but we have come close.
If I have a container and remove all the air inside. I have created a vacuum. Not a perfect one, but a simple vacuum.
If I add rocks to the container. The rocks are now in a vacuum.
Just like space. Space is a vacuum and there is “rocks” in it.
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 month ago:
Yes that’s a physical asset.
Silo full of grain is known as a future or a commodity. I might not have the Silo or the grain physically in my possession, but my note says that I own it.
BTC is a commodity and commodities are very similar to stocks
BTC just isn’t backed by anything
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 month ago:
A corporation is an entity
It has assets and profit tied to it. The “share” is a share of that.
Is a share worth it is debatable. But the share is a physical piece of the corporation
- Comment on Selling BTC or not..? 1 month ago:
Same can be said about traditional stock markets. The prices are entirely fictional there, too.
Not true at all.
Microsoft has 7.4B stocks outstanding.
Microsoft has a valve as a company.
Owning 1 stock gets you 1/7.4Bth of the physical company.
If Microsoft goes bankrupt or dissolves you could get some value out of your share.
There are 19.9M BTCs
BTCs have no intrinsic value
Owning 1 BTC gets you 1 BTC
If BTC goes under you get nothing
The stock market does have artificially inflated/deflated prices but they are roughly based on a company’s value. The stock is backed by the company.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 months ago:
So, feel free to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Jesus is A-ok with that.
How did you get that it was alright to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk out of that?
Sure, he says you could eat the young goat that has been boiled in its mother’s milk.
But nothing saying it’s alright to boil the young goat in the first place, which the OP verse clearly states.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 2 months ago:
#1 Ontario being the population of Pennsylvania
#9 New foundland being the population of Wyoming
#10 Prince Edward Island only has 150k, could lump in 150k from northern territories
20 senators for 40m, 5.0E-7 senators per person
200 senators for 340m, 5.88E-7 senators per person
It seems pretty fair
- Comment on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has the Most Words Per Minute of Any TV Show, Study Finds 2 months ago:
A lot of downtime in Gilmore girls
Conversations are wordy and fast though
Most words per minute is a weird metric
A TV show that had an average talking narrator throughout would probably win.
Yet “Most words per minute” seems to portray that the characters speak fast.
When in reality the show with the least amount of non-conversation is going to win, even if the characters don’t talk fast.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
I think a lot of the problem is that they cheap out to maximize profit.
They could spend 1 million dollars and make a decent game for $70.
Or
They could spend 2 million and make an amazing game for $140.
But the price of the video game has been locked around 60-70 for years.
Even if you made star wars outlaws just a little better it’s not going to sell that much more.
Looks like it’s already at least 50% off
You can’t spend 2 million, sell for $70, then expect your game to go on sale anytime soon.
Spending 1 million, and selling a ton at $70 or even $35. Turns a profit.
TL;DR: We’d get better games if we were willing to spend more
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 months ago:
“games are ridiculously expensive at full price”
A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars
People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night
Hell I’ll pay 100 if it’s a good game
I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it’s free now.
If the game isn’t worth it, don’t get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.
Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90’s
I feel like we are fortunate
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 months ago:
You can make money on the stock market when it goes down
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 months ago:
The Magicians
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 months ago:
Well you can start driving in US at 15
Like I said quick Google
Even less Germans driving, proves my point more
Germans only really drive if they are willing and able
Americans are forced to drive
Car deaths in America aren’t happening because they have automatic transmissions and can’t drive as fast as they want.
Just the seer amount of drivers, more cars on roads to crash into, and less willing and able drivers.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 months ago:
Quick Google
In 2024 36% of Germans reported using the car daily.
In 2023 95.3% of Americans older than 16 drive on occasions.
83 million Germans, 63% above 16
340 million Americans, 65% above 16
52 million potential drivers in Germany, 17 million actually drive
221 million potential drivers in America, 210 million drive daily
17 million vs 210 million daily drivers
~12x more drivers, only 2x more death
Per capita isn’t really a way to look at it
Besides automatic cars or lack of a manual transmission is not causing accidents.
Chance of death goes up significantly with speed
No one has ever crashed because they couldn’t go over the speed limit
- Comment on Do You Even Squid Game Bro? 5 months ago:
So a Japanese character that I’ve never heard speak English says something in Japanese. English words pop up on screen.
You’re telling me you read the English words in a random Japanese/English accent? Like a stereotype voice?
- Comment on Do You Even Squid Game Bro? 5 months ago:
I find subtiles distracting
I read the words that pop up on the screen in my own voice in my head and basically ignore the voices because I can not understand them anyways.
I enjoyed Death Note in dubbed
I enjoyed Alice in Boarderlands in subbed, dubbed was bad
I’m split on Money Heist. My friend showed me it in English and I watched the whole first episode without realizing it was dubbed. Trying to watch it subbed after that was like the characters were not speaking the language I thought they did. It was weird.
I can see some people hating the lips not matching up, but I don’t really look at.
Maybe if I was big into subbed shows I’d like them more and I’m sure I’d get better at enjoying subtitles.
But I am the kind of person that would want to rewind a movie or show because I didn’t understand what a character said. I hate feeling like I am missing important information.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 5 months ago:
They would only be in a bad situation because minimum wage is low and they will be missing tips.
A pizza driver in the US is guaranteed at least minimum wage while they are on the clock.
To my knowledge, Uber style delivery services are not going to fire you for not working a night.
The typical pizza place has managers that will force workers to work. If you are forced to work and someone calls in a pizza, you are forced to deliver.
Im sure there are people out there that have 4x4s and enjoy the extra tips in the hazardous conditions.
But you could also be risking some poor soul life that’s being forced to deliver in their Honda civic.
Those people can’t say no to their managers in fear of being fired. It’s what the whole comment was about. They can’t quit, fired could be worse.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 5 months ago:
A delivery driver is already towards the bottom of the job ladder
Not many can say “I can be without work for a week or two while I look for a better/safer job”
Can they say no? Yes, can they really say no? Probably not
- Comment on Potash 5 months ago:
Could be a better term for “Hash Browns”
Potato + Hash = Potash
Hash could be anything chopped up. Really should say Potato Hash Browns to be specific.
Could say Potash Browns or simply Potash
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 6 months ago:
Is it really from scratch if you don’t raise the piglet and butcher it yourself?
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 6 months ago:
Screws maybe
But you have to machine a hole in the metal for the screw to function
You know how hard it would be to drill a hole for a screw in a cave with scrap parts and no power drill?
All you need to crudely weld, probably as strong as a screw, is heat. Fire is easy in a cave.
I’d wager they could melt some metal together before devising a cave drill press.
We have no idea what metal or alloy it is. They could have an alloy that melts easily, but once hard, it adheres to other metals and practically unbreakable. Just find some scraps of that alloy to easily weld.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 6 months ago:
You’re building a light saber.
Do you:
A. Weld everything
Or
B. Drill holes and thread the holes for a bolt
I’m sure they have some kind of crazy riveting technology. Is she installing screws because she wants to be able to easily take apart her lightsaber if needed?
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 6 months ago:
I’ve snapped so many Robertson bits in my life. Screws are fine.
1 5/8" cement board screws
They used to be Robertson. They switched to Torx.
Night and day difference
Like you said, they do grip like a mofo, and with an impact driver, the bits snap.
I tried dozens of different brands of bits. Even paid top dollar for special Milwaukee ones.
I was at a point where I had to pre-drill and counter sink the screws because I was breaking too many bits.
I could probably drive a torx head one through a board
- Comment on Jesus Christ 7 months ago:
The whole Noah story arc proves that God would totally cause storms to cleanse the evil.
Doing it Thalnos’ style and only killing/moving? the bad people isn’t God’s style. He could do it, but “God snapped his fingers and all bad people were sent to Hell, the world instantly became a better place.” Doesn’t get you a New York bestseller.