gazter
@gazter@aussie.zone
- Comment on What TV character had the best, well-written and understandable redemption arc? 2 weeks ago:
Prince Zuko
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Formula 1 races average about 200kph, with a top speed of 375. These are the best of the best professionally trained drivers in multimillion dollar equipment tailored to them and designed to keep them (and others) safe at those speeds.
300km/h on the highway is essentially suicide by stupidity, not to mention manslaughter for whoever you hit. You are travelling fast enough that you literally don’t have time to react to something several hundred metres in front of you.
150 is really fast, 200 is stupid fast, and 300 is really fucking stupid fast.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 5 weeks ago:
Because wanting things is what causes suffering. If you don’t desire anything, it’s ok when you don’t get anything.
- Comment on Anon's friend is Buddhist 5 weeks ago:
Are you worried about this sort of thing in general? I would argue that these things are pretty esoteric concerns.
- Comment on The earth is a mitochondrion 5 weeks ago:
Ah, the planetary core, the powerhouse of the planet.
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
It’s a jpeg, it has lossy compression. There could be compression at any point in that chain, most likely right on creation of the screenshot, storage on your lemmy instance, download to my device, upload to my colour picker…
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
Plurple
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
There would have been a bunch of image compression and transcoding along the way. Are the other values as expected?
- Comment on Is this green or blue? 1 month ago:
That’s RGB 1, 122, 134.
So while it’s slightly more blue than it is green, I would argue that by calling it one or the other, you are cutting yourself off from a whole spectrum of wondrous complexity. Needing to win an argument denies you the subtle beauty of expanding your view of the world, opening your eyes to the possibility that not only is the other side correct, but you are correct as well.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
I believe that’s what dark energy is- the shortfall from not violating conservation of energy, given what we know about physics vs what we observe in the universe.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if this answers the question, but it might help.
Everything in space is moving, but it’s not expanding outward from a central point, like an explosion. Instead, the space between the things is getting bigger.
The balloon analogy gets thrown around a lot, but I find it misleading- It’s not about the balloon getting bigger, expanding outward from the center of the sphere. It’s more about the surface of that balloon stretching.
The rubber sheet analogy helps. Scatter a bunch of things on a infinite rubber sheet. Now stretch that in all directions - the things get further apart, but are not moving away from a central point.
- Comment on Labor promises mobile phone reception 'anywhere where Australians can see the sky' 1 month ago:
Would this be using Starlink? To reduce relying on a third party, would telcos be launching their own LEO constellations?
- Comment on Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients. 2 months ago:
I reckon they’ll go down the ‘we were acting a character’ route, given they claimed to be doctors.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I like the idea of being able to switch floor lamps and what not from the doorway. No-one likes the big light, right?
Not sure if I like it enough to implement it in my dream home though. Possibly with some kind of different shaped plug, or a colour code that matches the switch?
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
We’re getting into the weeds a little bit here, but there’s a lot of things that have power buttons that will put the thing into standby, not off. I’ve often done a ‘hard reset’ on my ‘smart’ tv when it starts acting up, just gotta cut the power.
It’s a small convenience, but it’s nice. I’ll happily pay the extra three cents in manufacturing costs for something that lasts decades and may be occasionally mildly helpful.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
Huh, it’s interesting- Here the power switches are a similar size to the UK, so when I searched up a picture of the Indian switches I thought they were ridiculously giant, not like regular sized UK/Australian ones
I guess it’s just whatever you’re used to is the ‘regular’.
Are light switches the same? What happens when you have a lot of switches together, like six or eight? Do you just have really wide banks of switches?
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, television, phone charger, robovac dock, lamps, computer monitor, aquarium pump… I could go on.
It’s not strictly necessary, but it’s a convenience.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
I like the Australian 90 degree plugs, too. Much slimmer than the UK ones.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 2 months ago:
Only half of one outlet? That sounds super frustrating. I think it would take me a while to discover that the random light switch that doesn’t do anything is related to the power point where only one side charges my phone.
- Comment on How is TikTok being blocked in the US? 2 months ago:
I’m not an expert. Removing it from DNS would stop anyone using that DNS from accessing it, right? So if I’m in Australia, using a US DNS, I wouldn’t be able to access it. And vice versa- Anyone in the US could just change their DNS to something outside the US.
- Comment on Darn it 2 months ago:
Transcription for screen readers:
The meme is making a broad generalisation about a large group of people all heading the same undesirable trait, that trait being making broad generalisations of large groups of people having undesirable traits.
- Comment on Darn it 2 months ago:
Bench seats were much closer to benches than couches.
- Comment on For work-sore hands 3 months ago:
Vaseline is not flammable.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Ok, I can see you aren’t interested in debating this.
- Comment on Grirrrll.... 3 months ago:
Oh my fuck, we absolutely would shave our tails, and there is just something so horrid about that thought that how I won’t be able to fucking sleep, thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
It’s fairly straightforward- if a new car is an EV, consumption will be less than if that car was ICE.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
Good point, and well made. However, ICE cars are already wearing out. 250 million ICE cars on the road. ICE sales stop. The next day, some of those 250 million cars wear out. Gas consumption goes down.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
I’m still trying to understand what you’re saying about needing to stop producing any ice cars if we are to reduce consumption.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 months ago:
I don’t want to sound like I’m being another hater, you’ve copped a lot of unwarranted downvotes and vitriol. People not willing to discuss things is part of the problem- attacks and trying to silence people through downvotes does not contribute to discussion.
If you’re willing to keep presenting your viewpoint, I’d appreciate some clarity. I urge anyone replying to your comment to engage with thought and maturity. We all learn from opinions that aren’t aligned with ours.
My main question is around your claim that we would have to stop producing any new infrastructure that relies on oil, to prevent consumption going up. I’m not sure I agree- To use a simple example, if some industrial plant uses a diesel engine, and replaces it with a diesel engine that uses less diesel to achieve the same outcome, does that not reduce the overall consumption? Of course, this is a very simple example.
- Comment on This is the life I dream of from my cubicle 3 months ago:
Old puppy