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- Comment on Shrimps 5 months ago:
I feel like this would be funny if the text in the top left corner just wasnt there. Like the shrimp just randomly transforms into an arch user for no reason
- Comment on UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government 5 months ago:
And your suggestion is what exactly?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I think Ill pass on reading that article if theyre going to sell my data to this many “partners”
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 6 months ago:
Nintendo is a company that only wants make new stuff
They’ve been digging mario out of the dumpster for the last 40 years wtf are you dementia-ing on about?
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
If enough people believe that it is, they’re not going to be as likely to fight things that they should be.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
Saying nothing at all is better than only being allowed to say good things and none of the bad. The former doesnt shift opinions in either direction but the latter introduces a pro-buying bias to reviews. Good for the publisger and no one else.
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer 6 months ago:
Op does have the power to post the exact same link that this person did.
- Comment on BREAKING: Microsoft has closed Redfall's Arkane Austin, HiFi Rush's Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda. | IGN 6 months ago:
Just because the company you work for is making bank doesn’t mean they won’t fire you at the drop of a hat if they think they can make more by doing it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 months ago:
Looks like Nintendo and Sony are competing who can get away with being a bigger asshole. Boundary testing sociopaths. Game becomes popular, dev and publisher foist unpopular requirement to continue playing in order to see what the response is and if it doesnt tank numbers too much, they now have a green light to weasel this into other games. Hell even if it does tank numbers, they already have their money and you probably wont be able to get a refund at this point.
- Comment on youth risky 6 months ago:
This has “dont wear your seatbelt or wear condoms” energy. It never made any sense to argue that point there and it doesn’t make sense here either. Wear your lab coat and goggles or you’re going to be kicked out of the lab until you grow up.
- Comment on youth risky 6 months ago:
Yes we know salt and water arent dangerous. We ask that you wear labcoats etc. in the lab despite not working with anything dangerous so tjat you form a habit of using protective lab garb regardless. Because a lot of accidents in the lab cause harm becaude someone thought it was safe to lower their gaurd and it wasn’t.
Case in point: one of my undergrad professors during his time at grad school walked around in the lab without his safety goggles on. He felt comfortable doing that because he wasn’t himself working on anything particularly dangerous at the time. He was just walking from one end of the lab to the other. Well it turns out that someone else was. There was a fairly good sized glass bottle with fuming nitric acid and other stuff for a reaction in it that was boiling away in the fume hood. There was a funnel sitting in the neck. Occasionally the jug would “bump” in other words, some liquid would spurt up top due to a slight build up in pressure caused by intermittant boiling. And one time while he was walking by, it burped a lot more violently than it normally would and some of it sprayed into his eyes while he was walking by. He spent the next two weeks in a dark room occasionally dropping antibiotic eye drops into his eyes so his corneas would heal. Apparently it was fairly painful and every blink felt like he rubbed sandpaper over his eyes. If it had been a strongly basic solution, it would have eaten his corneas and potentially blinded him permanently. Point is, we are trying to stop you guys from becoming too casual in the lab so you dont have your corneas half eaten by nitric acid because you felt safer than you actually were.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 6 months ago:
Getting the attention of your intended audience is part of communicating effectively. Buzzfeed has the reputation that they do because they embellish and distort the truth for entertainment purposes. That is the problem not that they make use of memes to get their intended point across.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 6 months ago:
A lot of the language you use is a reference to other things. And language evolves precisely because enough people repeatedly used a word or phrase in a new way. It seems that your main criticism of the use of memes in literature is that they “dont feel right” or that you merely dont like where things are going which isn’t a solid rationale for disallowing them any more than people thinking the use of the word literal figuratively somehow makes the figurative use of the word literal “wrong.”
- Comment on party poopers 6 months ago:
This was at a community college in the US. Instructors are supposed to be supervising them with lab coordinators supporting them. The lab that had the gas incident was downstairs and the student was left unattended or otherwise gained access to the lab after class. Hence their supervisor had a chat with them about not doing that. The biology lab coordinator responsible for those labs found the gas was on and had to shut off the gas.
- Comment on party poopers 6 months ago:
Tbh these numbers dont surprise me much given my experiences as a lab coordinator. The highschool students were far far more prone to mistakes and accidents than the college students were and those were the gifted students. Theyd do stuff like leave broken glassware and glass shards in the dirty glassware bins for me to find. One tried to cause an explosion by turning the gas on for all the bunsen burners and walking out. (Instructor reprimanded for leaving them in the lab unattended, student was expelled)
- Comment on epidemiology 6 months ago:
People say this but the reality is that you are already traveling through time and you aren’t teleporting into the space where the Earth used to be. Just as traveling backward would essentially just reverse that process. i.e unless you specifically design a time travel device to kill you that way, thats not how time travel works.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 6 months ago:
This is not true. Look up mm-nintendo.com on icann yourself to see who registered it.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 6 months ago:
The domain is owned by nintendo.
Look up mm-nintindo.com on the icann search: lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 6 months ago:
They got it from a twitter post that never bothered looking up who owns the domain. The domain is owned by Nintendo of America Inc not some internet troll.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 6 months ago:
Do not blindly believe twitter posts.
Search for mm-nintendo.com
Registered to Nintendo of America Inc.
This IS an official nintendo domain.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 6 months ago:
Their inability to modernize the grid is not solar’s problem.
- Comment on fossil fuels 6 months ago:
Saying that our only options are to produce stuff or not produce CO2 at a gargantuan scale is a false dichotomy. CO2 production at the scale that it is now is the result of the production processes that result in that CO2 being cheaper than the ones that on the whole, do not. We are flushing this planet down the drain not because we cant do otherwise but because its cheaper right now to do what were doing instead.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
Get better at math and theres no problem.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
People being afraid of the number 13 doesnt make it a bad idea.
- Comment on teachings 7 months ago:
The number of solutions/roots is equal to the highest power x is raised to (there are other forms with different rules and this applies to R and C not higher order systems)
Some roots can be complex and some can be duplicates but when it comes to the real and complex roots, that rule generally holds.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
Hopefully Twitter dying because of this will give other companies pause (or not, would it really be that bad if facebook kills itself copying him?)
- Comment on Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents 7 months ago:
It is your job to support your claims not everyone else.
- Comment on How is the hydrogen made? 7 months ago:
Industry uses A LOT of Hydrogen and that would increase dramatically if we stopped using fossil fuels as chemical feedstocks. eg. plastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes etc.
- Comment on gimmie 7 months ago:
There are multiple high oxidation state metal fluorides that can be synthesized and isolated in relatively large quantities as pure substances that have a higher electron affinity than Fluorine. The most oxidizing of these is Platinum hexafluoride whose electron affinity approaches 8 electron volts. To give you an idea of how insane that is, Fluorine’s electron affinity is slightly higher than 3 electron volts. i.e adding an electron to PtF6 liberates almost 3 times the energy that adding an electron to Fluorine does. It is such a strong oxidizer that it can tear an electron off Oxygen molecules to form PtF6 * O2. It was this observation that lead to the experiments that demonstrated the first nobel gas compounds. PtF6 reacts with Xenon to form a similar salt. This was the first time nobel gases were proven not to be universally inert.
Mixtures of Fluorine and lewis acids like Aluminum Fluoride, Antimony pentafluoride and the like can functionally act as far stromger oxidizing agents than Fluorine itself. These form superhalogen salts when they react with things or just destroy whatever it is that was unfortunate enough to be mixed with them.
PtF6 is not the molecule with the highest electron affinity that can exist. It is just the current record holder for the highest electron affinity of something we have been able to isolate as a pure substance. Hyperhalogens, which are essentially russian nesting dolls of oxidizing agents, can approach electron affinities of 10 electron volts. And while we cannot isolate these in their pure state, their extreme affinity for electrons can be used to stabilize otherwise unobtainable positively charged ions as salts.
- Comment on gimmie 7 months ago:
You know what is scary? FOOF, CF3 and fluorine arent the most reactive or horrifying of the oxidizers. There’s much worse.
