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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
So soup sounds like an idea and is actually an idea. Checks out.
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas
Submitted 6 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
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Drusenija@lemmy.world 6 months ago
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I dont know, soup has always been a better idea than it first seemed to me
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Depends on the soup I find.
flerp@lemm.ee 6 months ago
YMMV. For me soup sounds like a good idea but I find it annoying to eat so for me personally it is a bad idea.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What is this transition lense slander
FMT99@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was under the impression that bloodletting could in some cases actually be beneficial.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, for people with hemochromatosis (too much iron in the blood) the main treatment is still bloodletting.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or go piss off Magneto
FireTower@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, it’s still practiced. But the whole four humors thing is a bit old hat.
I think there’s a few of these misplaced. Heeleys>transition lens.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And also often in such cases, blood donation is suggested instead.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Also leeches are used to help veins heal after reattaching fingers/ears/other dangly bits, which is a form of bloodletting
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 months ago
Yeah it can reduce PFAS levels in your system. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790905
Though better to just donate that blood than let it go to waste.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Didn’t Paul McCartney write a song about blood letting?
🎵if this ever-changing world in which we’re living makes you give in to neeed… Live and let bleed!🎵
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
Excuse me, what about pizza in squares?
tacosplease@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess because there is no crust to grab. Gotta get grease and maybe sauce on your hands to eat the inner squares.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
But square pizza is the sort you eat with fork and knive tho?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
As a fork-and-knife pizza eater, I have come around to pizza squares.
That said, PIZZA BELONGS IN A TRIANGLE
ItzzMe@midwest.social 6 months ago
This can be solved by using a napkin
criticon@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
If the pizza is a square or rectangle (like Detroit deep dish or a flatbread) it is on, but round pizza cut in squares is just bad
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The only correct way to cut (not too gigantic) round pizza is into six parts so you get equilateral triangles (well, modulo a curved section) which is ideal for holing.
Home-made pizza rarely if ever is round, though, yes also and especially in Italy. You probably don’t want to go for squares though but eyeball some appropriately-sized rectangles.
De_Narm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think sliced bread is overrated as fuck. It used to be nice back when people couldn’t just buy knives for cheap, but nowadays it just means getting stale bread faster.
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 6 months ago
For some types of bread, the machine can do it much more uniformly and without crushing. This can be difficult for humans.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Those aren’t good types of bread, though.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I recommend a very nice bread knife! I have a mediocre bread knife that was like 15USD like 15 years ago and it still saws solid slices of soft bread without schmushing the bread!
biddy@feddit.nl 6 months ago
But sliced bread has become something else that doesn’t exist with loaves. You can’t buy an unsliced loaf of ultra-processed white bread.
De_Narm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can get a wide variety of both sliced and unsliced loaves in pretty much every supermarket in my area. The ultra-processed american type bread is something else entirely and it’s also a pretty bad idea too, like pretty much all ultra-processed foods. Can that stuff even get stale? I remember it staying exactly the same up until it grows mold.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
For pan loaves, people store it in a plastic bag to keep the crust soft.
Pan loaves should be presliced, stone baked loaves with thick crust should not.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 months ago
oh lord that alt text
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What’s wrong with Transitions lenses. I like mine
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Transitions are game changing. Sounds like someone who doesn’t wear glasses all the time. I even had transition sunglasses before I needed glasses - got tired of taking them off going in/out all day.
Not sure who created this (I kkow, XKCD), but it’s mediocre.
Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left corner. Sounds bad and is bad.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.
Remember, you’re probably more technical than the average person. Double ended extension chords sound fine if you haven’t heard of them before until you think about it for five seconds.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve worn glasses my entire adult life and I had to get rid of them because being half blind every time I transition from outside to inside was interfering with my job.
limelight79@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It might just be a joke. I use transitions in my cycling glasses, where I might be in shade or when it starts to get dark (but I’ll still have something protecting my eyes). I use regular sunglasses in the car, as transitions generally won’t work there.
Clbull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My only gripe with them is that if I spend any amount of time outdoors, even if it’s not actually sunny, my glasses quickly turn to shades.
RenBiv@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Coming inside and not being able to see a lot.
I specifically got rid of them having had them in my last pair. Too annoying!
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They transition very quickly though. Takes like a minute
yamanii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Every single glasses of mine have had transition lenses, I can’t imagine my life without them anymore.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I love transitions lenses. I have transitions contacts and they are fantastic.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Omg, does that mean your “eye color” changes in the sun?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Holy cow-had no idea they made those.
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Same. Although mine became a lot less useful after becoming a night owl.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
Replying to spammers sound like a good idea first, should be top left.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One of the cooler parts of Three Body Problem was when they attempted the Orion Project to accelerate a probe to 1% of light speed.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Project Orion is a bad idea??
Just don’t start the nuclear propulsion until you’re outside of earths gravity well…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Project Orion is a bad idea??
A tricky bit of math to achieve, certainly.
witty_username@feddit.nl 6 months ago
I don’t get the diver go diamond interchanges one
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Diverging diamond interchanges are a type of road intersection that appears very chaotic from the outside, but are actually pretty simple and safe to navigate
eksb@programming.dev 6 months ago
Diverging diamonds are great if your only consideration is car throughput.
If you are considering people walking or riding bicycles, they are shit.
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Significantly safer to navigate in practice than traditional intersections, and very straightforward to navigate in practice.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Gieselbrecht@feddit.de 6 months ago
Pizza is way too right and too high on this graph.
samus12345@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I always upvote Mr. Skullhead!
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
How dare you put heelies in the bad section
Bread_And_Buried@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
For real, all credibility lost.
PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’m sorry, what transplants?
Woovie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
people with certain medical issues in their bowels can be cured of them by a fecal transplant from someone who is a good donor. It usually means a family member. The purpose is to treat bowel infections. Pretty neat shit.
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s about the microbiome, lots of critters living in your bowels breaking down stuff for you. Some conditions or treatments (e.g. chemo) can fuck with that severely up to completely obliterate everything so you need a donor to get it started up again.
Wiz@midwest.social 6 months ago
I wonder why solar cars are bad?
ours@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s way more effective to collect the solar energy from a station to charge batteries than to cary the whole thing around unless your car is a drone on some remote planet
rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I… am strangely ambivalent and conflicted about soup.
I recognize logically and rationally that it should be lower or to the left, but would personally place it higher or to the right.
Maybe smack dab in the centre gives us the worst of both options.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If anyone else is also curious on why “putting mold on infections” is more good than crumple zones:
They [molds] also play important roles in biotechnology and food science in the production of various pigments, foods, beverages, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals and enzymes. - Wikipedia
EnderMB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Hmm, I had never thought of it…but soup is absolutely a neutral experience. Even a good soup on a cold, winter day is still slightly above neutral, and is improved by non-soup add-ins.
refalo@programming.dev 6 months ago
Yesterday I heard a conspiracy theory that the reason lead was added to gasoline was to keep the Pouge carburetor from becoming viable because it allegedly used pre-heated gas vapor to achieve 100-200mpg efficiency, but the lead clogged it up instead.
Here’s my own counter-conspiracy on that… if everything we read says that it didn’t actually work, why did Breen Motor Company claim it worked when THEY tried it? And why did Pouge suddenly disappear?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Heelies should be at least below the middle line.
southernbrewer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Putting mold on infections? Wait what?
sagrotan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Combo washer dryer are never as good as two decent machines. Empiric fact.
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This graph is rather discutable.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
I want transitions lenses so bad, but the women in my life won’t let me 😔
hactar42@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Wouldn’t a fake prank fire extinguisher just be a normal fire extinguisher?
Lizardking27@lemmy.world 6 months ago
An extension cord with 2 male ends is useful for powering your home with a generator.
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 6 months ago
project orion was awsome and the nuclear panic ended it.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So, about Project Orion from Wikipedia
Excuse me what the fuck
Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
All chemical propulsion is just controlled explosions that we use to push a thing forward. It’s not that different, as long as you don’t use it in the atmosphere or near humans.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah I know, it’s the same principle behind modern fuel engines. Still, using nukes for propelling something forward is a bit of a stretch.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Ah the 50s, when everything atomic was rad.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 6 months ago
::Fallout theme starts playing::
SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not uncommon in scifi. Netflix’s Three Body Problem also explores such a solution in quite some depth.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I love The Three Body Problem, both the books and the show. But it bothered me to no end to read Netflix’s Three Body Problem.
frezik@midwest.social 6 months ago
It would probably work just fine, but it needs a huge ship. It could get up to a few percent of the speed of light.
FWIW, nuclear test ban treaties are considered to outlaw it. I think we’re more likely to solve the technical difficulties of antimatter propulsion than we are to get over the political difficulties of nuclear bomb propulsion.
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
So could a person sticking their head out and blowing, but it’s still a terrible idea.
ours@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Read “Footfall” for a hard scifi story featuring such a ship.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I like Footfall, but it’s also a little over the top for me.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Will do! Thanks
Shurimal@kbin.social 6 months ago
Not worse than a fusion torch. Or open-cycle nuclear propulsion. Or an antimatter drive.
You know, the Kzinti lesson😉
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Never heard of those, but if they are on par with project Orion I have some nice readings to do today.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 6 months ago
Aren’t there plans again?
Considering that you need huge shields and dampening and you only have the mass of the bomb itself as propelant, is it still as effective as controlled propulsion?
Badabinski@kbin.social 6 months ago
I think you may be mixing up Project Orion (let's chuck bombs out of the back to make us go zoom) with NERVA (a nuclear thermal rocket engine where the heat from chemical reactions is replaced with heat from a nuclear reactor to generate gas expansion out of a nozzle). Something like NERVA is actually a great idea. Let me tell you why!
For automated probes, the extreme efficiency and low thrust of ion thrusters makes perfect sense. If we ever want to send squishy humans further afield, we need something with more thrust so we can have shorter transit times (radiation is a bastard). Musk is supposedly going to Mars with Starship, and the Raptor engine is a marvel of engineering. I don't like the man and I'm not confident that he'll actually follow through with his plan, but the engineers at SpaceX are doing some crazy shit that might make it happen. Just think though, if the engine was literally twice as efficient, how much time could they shave off their transit? How much more could they send to Mars? Plus, they could potentially reduce the number of big-ass rockets they have to launch from Earth to refuel. If you can ISRU methane, then I imagine you could probably get hydrogen.
There are problems that still need to be resolved (the first that comes to mind is how to deal with cryogenic hydrogen boiling off), but like, the US built a nuclear thermal engine in the 70s. It was approved for use in space, but congress cut funding after the space race concluded so it never flew.
I'm happy to see that NASA is once again researching nuclear thermal rockets. Maybe we'll get somewhere this time.
Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Don’t forget the mass of whatever ablates from your shield!