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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of depends on how you define “race” (it’s pretty much scientifically meaningless, so define it however the hell you like)

  But we have several currently ongoing attempts at genocide happening around the world, that to me tells me that a hell of a lot of people out there care a whole lot about race.

  American racism is particularly odd to me due to how broadly we categorize race, trying to lump people into a black/white/Hispanic/Asian/etc. category based on not much more than skin color. And we’re also unusuallly open about the fact that racism is a thing here. A lot of the world kind of keeps it more on the down-low.

  But if you go with narrower definitions of race, you’ll see the same kind of things happening around the world as in America. I’ve seen people from the UK talk about Polish immigrants in much the same way people here talk about Mexicans, and that’s not even going into the cluster fuck of how much of Europe treats Romani people. A whole lot of people in Asian countries have issues with other people from other Asian countries, or even different ethnic groups within their own countries (like Uyghurs in china.) Parts of Africa are patchworks of different ethnic groups that are often at each other’s throats, and of course South Africa is still a long way from having its shit fully sorted out. A lot of white Australians have pretty significant biases against Aboriginal people.

  I could go on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a small part of me that has kind of wished that this kind of pseudo age verification was a thing for a while (even though there’s a much bigger part that doesn’t want any corporation to know a damn thing about me.)

  I remember swinging through Walmart once to pick up a couple things.

  My cart had, IIRC, some deodorant (old spice classic,) masking tape, a can of spray paint, some plumbing parts, a few fishing lures, socks, and a couple of snacks.

  I had one of those “I’ve become my dad” moments looking at my cart. I feel like that shopping list is practically a distillation of every suburban dad who’s ever existed.

  But of course, I rang up the spray paint, and an employee had to come over to confirm that I was in fact some boring suburban white dude and not a teenager who was going to use it for mischief or huff it to get high.

  Maybe I’m giving the juvenile delinquents of today too little credit, or maybe my fellow grown-ups too much, but I feel like the venn diagram of people buying fishing lures, a new toilet flapper, and socks, has basically no overlap with vandals and paint-sniffers.

  So I kind of felt like maybe the almighty algorithm could have picked up on that and let me skip having the underpaid giving me a quick looking-at before punching his code into the self-checkout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you manage the funds for someone saving up to buy a hedge, does that make you a Hedge Fund Manager?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At work I once received a call from someone who worked at a tree service company, trimming trees, tree removal, relocating them, etc.

  She identified herself as the branch manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re at or reaching a tipping point where I’m not sure that’s true anymore.

  Most people with kids now are (roughly) in their 20s-40s. At the older end of that range, you have some gen-xers who might have missed the boat on computer literacy, but by and large we’re talking about millennials and older gen-z at this point. Kids who grew up with the internet, probably very clearly remember their family getting their first computer if they didn’t already have one when they were born, had computer classes in school, etc.

  And we’re running into an issue where younger Gen z and alpha in many cases are less computer literate in many ways. A lot of them aren’t really learning to use a computer so much as they are smartphones and tablets, and I’m not knocking how useful those devices can be, I do damn-near everything I need to do on my phone, but they are limited compared to a PC and don’t really offer as much of an opportunity to learn how computers work.

  There’s a ton of exceptions to that of course, some of my millennial friends are still clueless about how to do basic things on a computer, and some children today are of course learning how to do anything and everything on a computer or even on a phone.

  But overall, I don’t think there’s as much disparity in technological literacy between the children and parents of today as there was in previous generations, and in some ways that trend may have even reversed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get a new line in a post, but not two?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two spaces at the end of the line
  Will give you what you’re looking for

  • Markdown also supports
  • Using asterisks followed by a space at the beginning of the line
  • To create bullet points like this

  1. Or numbered lists
  2. Like this one
  3. Which is pretty much just what-you-see-is-what-you-get
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I work different schedules. on the rare day off that were both home, she’s often out of the house when I wake up. She’s not great at replying to texts. I never know when she’s going to be home, and usually have no clue what she’s out doing or where.

  But I know who she’s doing while she’s gone- no one. Because I trust my wife. I know who she is as a person, I know what our relationship is like.

  I have no particular desire to know her location at all times. I’m sure if I asked, she’d share it with me, and I’d do the same for her. I might occasionally do that when I’m off hiking or something in case there’s an emergency, but half the time I wouldn’t have a signal anyway.

  We are two humans with our own lives. Those lives are very intertwined, but we’re both allowed to go off and have our own adventures, occasionally some secrets, and we don’t need to know where each other is 24/7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we must protect them from exotics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were able to target it properly to the right species, depending on where you are in the world, there’s a good chance that the rats and sparrows you’re thinking of are invasive.

  I know around me in the US I see a whole lot more house sparrows (native to Europe, Asia, and some parts of North Africa) than I do any native Sparrows.

  And the two most known rat species- the black and brown rats, originated in different parts of Asia and more-or-less spread around the world with human trade and migration.

  So getting rid of those would probably be a good thing to reduce competition for native animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How active is too active while being on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends a lot on the community and what you’re posting.

  But in general, you’re posting good quality, relevant content and not just spamming with every article you come across, engaging with people in the comments, not x-posting things to a bunch of different communities, and of course not being a dick, I don’t think there’s an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Repairing Broken Sofa?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re going to need some details on how your couch is constructed and how it broke to really answer this

  Since you mention unscrewing the other legs, could you just go out to home Depot (or local equivalent big hardware store) and purchase 4 of something like this and replace them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen A(lpha) or Gen AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to ambiguous sans-serif fonts, we don’t really have to choose

  Gen AIpha Gen Alpha

  Il

  At least on my phone, those look damn-near identical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stop trying to make fetch happen”

  Everyone has their own verbal idiosyncrasies- local dialects, accents, words and phrases you picked up somewhere that have a nice ring to them, in-jokes with your friends and family, etc.

  You’ll come by them organically, no need to force it.

  Inevitably, when you try to force them, at best people just won’t notice, or more likely they will notice and think you’re a weirdo, or a pretentious asshole, and at worse they might actually have a hard time understanding you which kind of defeats the purpose of speaking in the first place.

  Seek out new experiences, acquire knowledge at every opportunity, meet people, go places, do things. Without even trying your speech will acquire plenty of interesting character and you won’t have to expend any effort to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Birkeland–Eyde, yes, but that’s even more inefficient than the Haber process.

  Ostwald is something else though, that’s basically the next step after the Haber process to turn the ammonia into nitric acid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there is a relatively simple way to get from liquid nitrogen to nitrogen compounds

  These days we do have the means to do it, though I don’t know how achievable they are to the home-gamer

  But historically this was actually a huge chemistry problem

  I’m not a chemist, so I gotta gloss over some stuff I don’t fully understand

  But nitrogen tends to form bonds with itself and makes an N~2~ molecule. That’s what the nitrogen in the air is, that’s what liquid nitrogen is.

  And unfortunately for us (for chemistry purposes) that molecule is very stable, it doesn’t like to react with much, for most practical purposes it can basically be considered inert.

  However, nitrogen is of course part of a whole lot of other chemicals as well, very important chemicals that plants and animals need. You probably heard about the nitrogen cycle in middle or high school science class at one point, and how nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil can convert atmospheric nitrogen into stuff that plants can use, and then animals eat the plants, and their waste also contains nitrogen compounds that can feed plants, etc.

  But for us to do that through chemical processes isn’t easy. We can’t just pour some liquid nitrogen into a beaker and mix in some other stuff and it reacts to make ammonia or whatever other nitrogen compound you desire.

  Until around 100 years ago, we basically couldn’t turn atmospheric nitrogen into anything else, at least not at any kind of scale and not in any commercially viable way. Which was a huge problem as the world’s population was growing and growing enough food to feed everyone was hard without being able to make synthetic fertilizers. The US actually has a law saying that they’re allowed to just claim uninhabited islands that are covered in bird shit because that guano was rich in ammonia and other nitrogen compounds and so immensely valuable as a fertilizer.

  Then along comes Fritz Haber, who comes up with the Haber process to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. This was a huge deal and he won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for it. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that if you’ve eaten pretty much anything grown on a farm you owe it to the Haber process.

  And it’s still a huge deal to this day, the haber process is responsible for around 2% of the world’s energy consumption, and about the same amount of our greenhouse gas emissions.

  If you’ve got a quick and easy way to turn pure nitrogen into something else, there’s probably another Nobel Prize waiting for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lag bolts are more like a big wood screw, what you call coach bolts seem to be what we call carriage bolts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if the wire gauge thing is right, unless you’re talking about a different system than I’m familiar with, because with wire gauge smaller number=bigger wire, and with screw sizes smaller number=smaller screw

  Also just my 2¢ on “machine screw” vs “bolt” as a casual tinkerer with various things held together by different types of threaded fasteners.

  Generally speaking if it’s got a hex head or nut that I’m using a wrench to tighten, it’s a bolt

  If it’s got some sort of hole (or God forbid a slot) that I’m going to use some sort of a driver (for the purposes of this, an Allen “wrench” is a driver) to tighten, it’s a screw.

  And of course everything gets really murky when we start talking about things like sheet metal screws, lag bolts/screws, masonry screws, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just an FYI if you’re not familiar with American screw sizes, calling this a 10-32 equivalent is probably going to confuse come people.

  The naming convention used for screws in America includes the shank diameter and the pitch of the thread in threads per inch (TPI)

  So a 10-32 in a #10 diameter screw with 32 threads per inch

  Below about ¼ inch diameter, the American system usually uses that numbered system, a #10 screw is .190 inches or roughly 3/16

  For larger diameter screws they usually just use the nearest fractional equivalent instead of the screw number, so a ¼-20 is roughly ¼ inch (actually .242in/ or #14) diameter and has 20 TPI

  Most sizes have a standard coarse and fine thread, for #10 32TPI is the fine thread, and 20TPI is the coarse thread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess, and I’m just kind of spitballing here, is that it fermented

  Lollipops are basically just sugar and sugar is hygroscopic - it readily pulls moisture from the air. Eventually if it’s humid enough it could pull enough moisture from the air and start dissolving, so the goo is basically sugar-water

  There’s a lot of natural yeast and bacteria and such all around you in the air and on just about every surface you could imagine, some was in the jar and found the sugar and started doing it’s thing fermenting the sugars

  Fermentation takes sugars and turns them into alcohol and carbon dioxide (bit of a simplification)

  Carbon dioxide is a gas, so there’s the bubbling, and the whistling noise was probably gas escaping from the jar as the pressure built up too high for the seal on the container to handle. The bubbling may have also picked up a bit when the gas started escaping too because under pressure some of it probably dissolved into the sugar goo, like it does into a can of soda, then when you crack the can open the pressure drops and the gas comes out of solution and bubbles.

  And of course hand sanitizer is alcohol, so there’s the smell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just recently built a computer, though truth be told it’s basically my wife’s old computer stuffed into a new case, we’ve been holding onto her old components as she’s done upgrades. So it’s basically a roughly 10 year old computer, it has one of the last AMD processors from before the ryzen era, but it was a beefy computer when she built it and it’s still managing to run most of what’s out there on acceptable (for me, I’m not exactly a graphics snob) settings.

  Of course it’s not gonna be compatible with windows 11, so I’ve been figuring out what my next move is going to be. Most likely I’ll bite the bullet and build basically a whole new PC and recycle this one into a home server or something, it’s definitely still got a lot of life left in it, but I’d be lying if the idea of just going over to Linux isn’t really tempting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I go to a nudist resort fairly frequently. Most of it is clothing optional except for the pools, so you see people walking around in various states of undress depending on the weather and what they’re doing (watched a guy weedwacking naked last time I was there, seemed ill-advised IMO)

  You pretty quickly stop seeing nudity as being sexy there . It certainly doesn’t help that the average nudist is middle aged or older and often not in the best shape.

  This resort also attracts a decent amount of swingers. While the nudists aren’t particularly trying to impress anyone, that’s pretty much the whole reason the swingers are there. So how do you make yourself look sexier than just walking around naked? You wear something. Bathing suits, pasties, big flashy jewelry, crazy hats, see-through dresses, ropes, etc.

  And though many of them aren’t much more attractive than the nudists, they turn some heads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I did not read the article because of a paywall I’m too lazy to circumvent right now

  But from OP’s summary, the main technology they’re talking about concrete reinforced with steel or other fibers.

  And that’s definitely more advanced than “pyramid age”

  But it’s also pretty much a direct descendant of mud brick reinforced with straw which humanity has been using since well before the pyramids. Same basic concept, different materials.

  So yes and no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of reminds me of the daisyworld simulation.

  It’s been a long time since I read about it, so I may possibly miss some details.

  Daisyworld simulates a planet entirely covered by 2 species of daisy- black ones and white ones.

  The black ones are better able to absorb the suns rays, so initially outcompete the white ones, however because they’re absorbing more of the rays, that leads to the planet warming up.

  At a certain point the planets temperature gets too warm and the black daisies start dying off. Since the white daisies are better able to reflect the sun’s rays, they’re less effected by the increased temperature and start to outcompete the black ones.

  After a while the white daisies are dominant, and since most of the planet is now reflecting the sun’s rays the temperature starts to drop, until it gets to a point where it’s too cold for the white daisies but since the black daisies can absorb more of the sun they start to outcompete the black ones again

  Rather rinse, repeat until they reach a sort of equilibrium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “large” is relative.

  Unless you’re incredibly thorough about totally cleaning out the vault, ATM, every teller drawer, etc. you’re probably not gonna be able to get more than a few 10s of thousands if you’re lucky

  But even a few thousand, or hell, even a couple hundred could be huge for a lot of people.

  That might be rent for a month or a couple of months when they’re really struggling, what they need to keep their car from getting repo’d so they can get to their job, pay for some badly needed home repairs, medications, etc.

  I’m not struggling, but I’m not exactly doing great either, a couple extra thousand bucks on-hand would be amazing for me, and for some people it could be literally life-changing (even life-saving)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you have to wake up to to be considered a heavy/light/normal sleeper?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My all accounts, I’m a heavy sleeper, there are basically only 3 things that will reliably wake me up

  My alarm clock
  Having to pee
  My dog throwing up or whining to go out (usually an indication that she’s gonna have diarrhea)

  I sleep through my wife’s alarm going off (usually several alarms, she like to hit snooze,) showering, turning lights on, listening to podcasts while she gets ready, the sun coming up (I work partially overnight, I’m usually in bed by about 4 or 5 AM,) landscapers mowing the lawn outside my window, kids screaming at the nearby playground and school, fireworks, thunderstorms, construction (although I was not able to sleep through the siding repair I had done with a guy hammering on the wall directly behind my bed)

  One time my wife was able to get me out of bed and stand me up so she could fix the sheets without me being fully awake.

  When I was a kid my mom could vacuum in my room without waking me up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We are all ready well-into the discussion and you just kept going further down an absurdist rabbit hole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a solid effort to have a good faith discussion, and you came in with ridiculous claims that tightening a bolt with pliers instead of a wrench is somehow breaking a thing worse. Balls in your court now to defend that or else I can only assume that you’re just looking to stir up shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I will continue to assume you’re a troll since you refuse to prove me wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I’m pretty certain at this point you’re trolling, but I’m curious to hear how you justify this

  If the reason something is broken is a loose or missing bolt, how does tightening that bolt with pliers instead of a wrench equate to breaking it further?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could use pliers, you could very carefully hit the corners of the head in a clockwise direction with a hammer, you could spend a lot of time training the strength in your hand and arm to tighten it by hand, you could use a dremel, saw, or file to cut a slot into it and tighten it with a screwdriver

  But it’s a lot easier to use a wrench.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it easier or harder to tighten a bolt without a wrench?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The more difficult it is to repair something, the less possible it becomes to repair it.

  Damn-near anything is possible to repair with the right training and equipment but there is a very wide spectrum between what an average person can do with tools they can easily pick up at any hardware store for cheap and a little common sense and some YouTube videos to guide them, and repairs that require specialist knowledge and equipment.

  When something is made more difficult to repair, it slips further into that specialist end of the spectrum, so it’s possible for less people.