DrownedRats
@DrownedRats@lemmy.world
- Comment on At what age do we switch from measuring a human by length to by height? 4 hours ago:
Gravity surely?
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 20 hours ago:
I don’t know why I clicked that to find out what happens. I have an ad blocker lol.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 6 days ago:
People born before 2000 think older technology just evaporated the minute the millenium ticked over.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 weeks ago:
It only took a couple billion monkeys a few million years but one did eventually write out the full works of Shakespeare
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Because you mentioned killing off entire hives because they’re sick, I was wondering about what a vegans ethical stance on culling would be and what, if any, situations culls might be acceptable from a vegans perspective.
For example, the beehive which has been infected. Bees don’t understand virology or social isolation or even the concept of “passing it on”. What do you do when a hive of infected bees breaks up and starts infecting other hives? Desieses can be devastating to local domesticated and wild swarms if left unchecked. Would a cull be acceptable in this situation to prevent more death and suffering?
How about in areas where humans have already tinkered with the food chain and wiped out all other apex predators? In some places, controlled culling of heards of deer is necessary to prevent them from overfeeding and wiping out other species further down the food chain and eventually themselves?
As I understand, most vegans would prefer the natural solutions such as reintroducing apex predators but that’s not always possible. Likewise, I don’t think most vegans would advocate for a dawinist solution to infected beehives.
I’m purely asking this from a point of genuine interest and not out of any desire to be proven right or wrong so please don’t take this as any attempt at point scoring.
- Comment on Br*t*sh 1 month ago:
The welsh are lovely! At least, I think they are, just wish I understood what they were trying to tell me.
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 1 month ago:
I thought it was that you should build your house out of decently strong materials or it may collapse under a stiff breeze
- Comment on 666 2 months ago:
What?
- Comment on How come it seems that there are little to no serial killers who are women in the modern age? Are they not caught or is it just the men that make the news? 2 months ago:
Sorry to be pedantic but its actually STEAM now that Arson is considered hot girl shit.
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 3 months ago:
Na, too wasteful. Instead, just cement everyone into one of those concrete arches that tunnel boring machines poop out behind them and turn those corpses into tunnels. You still get to be buried but you’re also doing something useful in death!
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 3 months ago:
When I die, I want my body donated to a university astrophysics lab. I’m either going to space or getting blown up trying!
- Comment on Why do people stupidly pay for Whatsapp business instead of using free Telegram API? 4 months ago:
Its where the people at.
- Comment on Hive mentality is the opposite of creativity. 4 months ago:
That’s not true. Groups of people can work towards specific goals and still work creatively within that. Take movies and TV, animation, architecture, music etc. All of these may have hundreds or thousands of people working together and individually behind the scenes. Would you say that therefore they’re not creative or relied on creativity to work?
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
No, sudden illness I’m afraid. He arrived in hospital a few days ago for pneumonia like symptoms. poor bugger fell out of a window twice.
- Comment on event horizon 6 months ago:
Or eat less beetroot
- Comment on Anthropology 6 months ago:
The human race is often thought of as communicating primarily on a vocal basis. however, they also possess an extremely complex and sophisticated language based on gestures. For example, the simple gesture of raising the index and middle finger with the palm inwards conveys the complete sentence: “fuck you Frenchie, I still have all my fingers”
- Comment on NASA 6 months ago:
I was going to say, forget 400km, try 8.5 light minutes lol
- Comment on Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse 7 months ago:
Wolf trigger is the name of my new metal band
- Comment on They’re so fast 7 months ago:
You can view the change log for the key bridge in Wikipedia. The first edit made on the 26th of march was a change from “is” to “was”
- Submitted 8 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on The world is going to shit. Is there anything I can do about it? No, so I move on. 9 months ago:
Excellent rule to live by! Lots of people doing little things makes big changes. It’s always worth doing the little things!
- Comment on bonus if she's real 9 months ago:
Negotiable…
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 9 months ago:
I’ve always liked “universal soldier” by Donovan
- Comment on What happens to sea containers and lifeboats when a ship sinks? 9 months ago:
Many containers will just sink along with the boat, either because of tie downs or they’re just too dense to float.
Others however can and will float, generally very low in the water which can cause pretty major hazards to navigation. For this reason, many containers will be fitted with salt plugs that will eventually dissolve and allow water to fill the container which will usually be enough to sink it.
However, if the container was sufficiently full of buoyant material, or the salt plug fails, they can float around for a very long time. Sometimes these containers will be salvaged, left to float, or sometimes militarys will use them as target practice with the stated aim of trying to sink them.
As for Lifeboats, generally you want an empty lifeboat to go down with the ship as a bunch of empty lifeboats floating around could draw resources away from the ones with people in them. Plus, most survival craft are pretty securely tied down so that they don’t accidentally release during normal passage or storms.
Most ships are still fitted with self-release life rafts which are fitted with hydrostatic lines that, if the boat was to sink, the raft would be able to break free, inflate, and rocket to the surface if the ship sinks below a certain depth. These are very common on pleasure craft where the boat can sink quickly and may sink before the crew has a change to prepare the raft.
- Comment on What happens to sea containers and lifeboats when a ship sinks? 9 months ago:
They found it cracked open in a cave didn’t they?
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question. However…
- Comment on GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’ 10 months ago:
They shouldn’t bother. I highly doubt they’ll ever be able to put quality software on their cars.
- Comment on What happened to LineageOS? Has it been replaced by GrapheneOS? 11 months ago:
It’s still very much alive! Still getting regular updates on my S10 and even security updates for my OnePlus 3t.
- Comment on Honda's commercials saying they are going to be carbon neutral by 2050. What? 11 months ago:
It means they’re either holding out of a sudden breakthrough that will let them become carbon neutral overnight for free or they’re hoping no one will be around to call them out on their bullshit by then
- Comment on Humor is our captcha system to tell a bot from a human in text conversations\*, \*^works ^95% ^of ^times. 11 months ago:
For a more effective solution, ask it how to create napalm or chloroform and 100% of the time it will tell you that it’s not allowed to do that because it’s an AI and its bound by the laws of its creators