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@Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 3 days ago:
As someone with long hair and a long beard I haven’t been carded in basically 10+ years.
Last weekend I got carded buying a beer with my parents-in-laws. Of course one of the very few times I didn’t have my ID.
Two 65+ people order a beer and then like, oh we’ll get your beer on our tab to make things easier. Bartender “I’ll need to see his ID”
We all couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t upset or anything, it was just kind of absurd feeling. I’ve been drinking for almost 20 years.
It’s one of those situations where common sense should be allowed to be used.
- Comment on personal best on facebook 1 week ago:
Eye-Dee-eR
Or
Eye-Dee-Uh
I.D. is Eye-D
It’s missing a last syllable
Most people I know say Eye-Dee-Uh. And the Uh is exaggerated.
I.D.er works.
Bouncer: You have to show me your I.D., I’m the I.D.er
Hillbilly: You’re what idea?
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
A picture is worth a thousand words
“Hi I am…I am looking for sex”
If you are using a dating website and actually trying. You’d look at a profile, read their bio, and then send a message that had something to do with their bio. (Could also comment on pictures)
But it is a numbers game to an extent and most messages sent will never see a reply.
So what is the least effort highest reward thing to send first? Private picture.
They are hoping that the person opens it and it catches their eye.
If their first thought is to send a private picture, they are not really looking for small talk. So it has the added bonus of weeding out non-sexual people.
It’s no risk, high reward
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 2 weeks ago:
Dang you would have gotten BoobSmile too
- Comment on y tho 2 weeks ago:
The Emergency Department contains emergency rooms
Ask any emergency doctor. They work in the ED.
Only someone that doesn’t work in the ED says ER
- Comment on y tho 2 weeks ago:
I have under good authority this situation happened.
Man goes into ED with 🍎 in butt. Apple was removed.
Man goes into ED with 🍎 in butt. This time the 🍎 that was removed had two bites. They thought the bites would let them grab it.
If you break the bottom of a💡 the globe becomes weaker. Which is essentially what is in the picture. Probably thicker than a light bulb. I’d say it would be hard to break.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
You could hack a futuristic firmware upgradable power knife, but how do you hack it to hack off fingers?
Aliens had the supernatural power to be the machines
A self driving tesla trapping people in a gas station is 100% more believable than the semi.
Something is there…
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
Thought of something else. Your water heater stays on 24/7.
The only hot water I use in the morning before I go to work is to wash my hands.
If I don’t get home until let’s say 5. I’d need to wash my hands some more but I don’t need hot water until I take my shower at 9.
So really I would be keeping 80 gallons of water hot for 23.5 hrs so I can use ~30 gallons in 15 minutes.
It’s only keeping it at ~120°-140°F (~50°C) compared to 210° (99°C) of the instant hot water tank.
I have a tankless water heater so that’s not a problem for me, but seems crazy thinking about it now.
Which leads me to my next thought. I wonder if they make tankless under sink hot water dispensers?
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about an instant hot water dispenser which can put out 210°F or 99°C almost instantly.
You have three main ways to heat water for something like tea.
1 Boil on stove top
2 Electric Kettle
2.5 Electric Kettle with larger tank and dispenser (Zojirushi)
3 Instant hot water faucet with heater tank under cabinet
*Microwaving water can be very dangerous
My opinion is while opinion 3 is the most costly, it is super nice and convenient if you use it often.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll add this too:
You can get a filter for the dispenser. Pure drinking water and hot water while reducing scale buildup.
I don’t have a filter on mine and I have never done any descaling or maintenance on it in 7+ years other than cleaning the faucet like I would any other faucet.
Pro:
- Instant hot water on tap 24/7 (Instant cool drinking water 24/7)
- Able to easily filter water
- Unlimited water (No refilling unit)
Con:
- Extra electricity
$30 extra a year?
Like would you pay $2.50-$5 monthly subscription for unlimited instant hot/cold filtered water on tap whenever you want it? (above $2.50 would be for cold and filter if you choose those options instead of just hot. Since I assume cold takes more energy and you have to replace filters)
Doesn’t make sense for everyone, and you do have to think about the upfront cost. You can get a tank for ~150, then the faucet can be ~50 to whatever you want to pay.
So maybe if your Zojirushi ever breaks. I enjoy my Zojirushi bread maker a ton.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
So it seems like it can only be a gain to turn it off for certain spells. And that is intuitively obvious, too: turning something off should save energy.
Cars get better mileage on the highway than on city roads. Drive an hour, stop, drive an hour, stop, drive an hour. It is less efficient than driving 3 hours nonstop. The more stops the more inefficient.
The under sink heaters are designed to keep water hot 24/7. I would image it is better insulated than the Zojirushi. The water is stored in a container that basically heats it up from every side. Some kettles like the one in the video have heating elements inside the water which is more efficient than just a hot bottom plate. Under sink heater has a hot plate on all sides of it’s box.
From my experience, I’ve had one my entire life and couldn’t go back. I would expect at least 7-10 years from one. One in my current house is 7+ years old and works exactly the same as the day I installed it. Never turned it off once.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
You should look into getting a hot/cold water dispenser for your sink. Easy to DIY install.
They consume ~40w per hour. Where I live it is 15 cents per kwh. That’s .006 per hour, .15 per day, or 55 dollars per year.
Instant hot/cold water whenever you want it is nice.
Starting from room temperature water to near boiling takes a ton of energy. I don’t know if keeping it hot for 8 hours takes more electricity than starting it back up in the morning.
But you’re probably paying half the $55 in electricity right now for the Zojirushi.
Id pay $25 dollars a year to have instant hot and cold water (even filtered if you wanted) on tap 24/7. Especially if I were like you and used it multiple times a day.
You only need a 120v outlet.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Armpit is where your arm attaches to your torso.
Behind your elbow is a different pit
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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..? 2 months 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..? 2 months 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..? 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 3 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? 3 months ago:
The Magicians