FuglyDuck

@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  School boards are an elected, political position.

  Militias are an illegal organization.

  There’s a gulf of difference between the two.

  There are also plenty of elected politicians that aren’t awful people. Especially at the state legislative level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the moth memes?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one fly into the hinge of my laptop last night. What a weirdo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is flirting redundant?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t flirt to save my life.

  So it’s hardly necessary. That said, I’ve had more than a few conversations with clients about our employees “flirting” only to find out they all the guard said was literally “hello,” without getting up from the desk or otherwise taking it any further.

  (I’m a manager contract security. My employees are guards at our client’s facilities or wherever.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All kinds⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  naw. that’s just a reallllly tiny finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are dating apps really as bad as people say?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. they’re horrible. Find your local library, they have tons of things going on, usually. Probably have something you might find interesting involving others.

  Otherwise, there’s plenty of other 3rd spaces, like community centers, or things more directly dedicated to your interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get rid of swollen batteries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a hazmat disposal center, as well as a recycling center ran by my county a couple miles from me.

  Most people here don’t even know it exists, or that it takes most thins at no cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting some vibes like some things were left unsaid by the OP.

  The concern over a power dynamic suggests it’s going beyond simple camaraderie or friendship into something that will not end well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  KSP players would be unable to watch the movie Gravity (2013) for example without screaming at the screen: “THIS IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS”.

  can confirm. which incentally lead me to playing KSP with my nephew while everyone else watched the very boring movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the longer you spend at sub orbital speeds, the longer you’re spending energy to counter gravity. Building a ramp and lifting it up slowly would only be feasible if you had cheap power to do it. but over all, you’re still using most the same amount of energy to get there anyways.

  also… if you’re going to slow, you’ll just fall back down…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So… define you’re gonna have to define what 'into space" means. 160km is the bare minimum for LEO (its still low enough it’ll degrade, but not so low that you can’t make a full orbit.) the ISS is still in LEO, and still requires some occasional burns to lift it back into orbit at 400km. To get above the atomosphere so you can (mostly) float endlessly inspace, you’d need to go to 1,000km

  Pick one. that’s how high you need to be.

  If you want to just technically reach orbital speeds… you could do that at sea level by going about 7.9 km/s. there’s a small problem of air resistance causing you to burn up and, if you somehow survive that, well, here’s mountains to go splat into.

  If yo wanted to orbit at 160km’s amid musk’s space junk… that’s about 7.8km/s, 400 is about 7.67, and 1000 is about 7.35.

  There are some systems that may or may not be viable in the future that don’t rely on rockets at all, for example, the launch loop which is basically a cable held up by making it rotate really fast. (yeah. talk about whacky.) This thing, as propose, is 60km high and several thousand km long. The idea is that you lift up a mag train and then that mag train accelerates at a comfy 3g. You then use relatively inexpensive kicker motors to circularize your orbit as you reach apoapsis (aka, the point of an orbit that is furthest away from the body you’re orbiting.) This raises (or lowers, depending on which way you’re pointed,) periapsis, which is the closest point.

  The thing about ramps, though, is that if your rocket car is already accelerating at 3 or whatever g (most modern launches push 3-4g, mostly limited by the squishy payload.)… you don’t really need a ramp, and trying to use one anyhow just introduces more inefficiency into the system.

  The point of the launch loop is that it gets us off dumping shit loads of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses- it can be powered by nearly any kind of power (though nuclear is the proposed plant,) and the train is accelerated by riding eddy currents off the loop itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make dinosaurs weirder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wake up babe, they just renamed the Platapudactilisaurus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not the answer you’re looking for, but I have an uncle like that.

  I suggest going no contact if you can.

  Reason being, they don’t care about facts, nothing you say will convince them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m saying “probably not”. If you step out into direct sunlight, you feel warmer because you’re absorbing heat from said sunlight.

  You don’t generally feel warmer because you’re in a well lit room. (Though you do feel warmer if the colors in that room are warmer reds and oranges compared to cooler colors like blues and greens.)

  If there’s enough light on you to feel warmer, it’s likely because the lights are warming you up (like stage lighting for news anchors.) rather than an illusion or placebo or whatever you want to call it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a negative connotation with the poos of horses, bulls, and bats?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why we don’t go on about pigeon and seagull guano though? I have no idea.

  Mammallist birdshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an illusion, no. The sun does impart some warmth (or a lot of warmth in some cases), Even when it’s bitter cold out, being in direct sunlight will be a bit warmer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  out of curiosity… does that first fact account for the continued expansion of the universe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno, but I heard some were that you can fix your phone by microwaving it.

  This recharges the bars, too!

  (/s, if it was t obvious. Don’t microwave yer phone.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the R. Pi is kinda that. it’s not really a phone, but Raspbian is a fork of debian. Plenty you can do with it if you want.

  The problem is that “full desktop OSes” expect full desktop peripherals (key board and mouse) and get clunky if you try to have something like a touch screen instead. Which is a large part of why win 8 was as bad as it was- they wanted a “seamless” OS for their phones and what they found was… NOPE.

  Sure laptops frequently now have touch-screen monitors, but you still have the KBM input too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming you’re just using it for water or something and not actively cooking, a good bottle should be fine- the ceramic lining is basically sintered on at high heat and will improve the inertness of the pan.

  Cheaper versions I’d stay away from (same as cheap aluminum or stainless bottles.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re worried about microplastics, consider a stainless steel bottle. Clean Canteen is a solid brand that doesn’t put plastic films on the inside.

  but I’ve only had a ‘problem’ with rather old bottles cracking (crazing, technically,) from age. Bottle Bright might be more harsh and prematurely aging your bottle if you consistently have a problem. I just use warm water and a scrubby somewhat regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to the Beach? Keep Things Safe & Fun!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is probably more for things that people won’t bother stealing. I certainly wouldn’t be trusting my phone to it.

  I’d also be worried about it getting covered and misplaced/lost. piles of sand look much like another.

  Could be a fun geocaching thingamabob, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I’d say it is. a hard 06:00 wake up time/bedtime is probably going to fuck your kid up. Teens are rather more prone to sleeping in and staying late as a matter of biology. teenage circadian rhythms are shifted later than young children and adults shift back as the age. it may be necessary to wake up that early to get to school, but when there’s no school? probably not his normal.

  Also, just for the record smartphones are how teens tend to communicate with one another, as well as the outside world. Does it need guardrails? yes. but you’re not doing your kid any favors by keeping them high, only delaying the inevitable as well as forcing him to hide and go around your back for things he’s going to find anyway. And I’m just going to assume that screentime doesn’t include things like homework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno that stop sign would totally defeat the purpose.

  Part of why roundabouts work is that everyone is basically turning right to enter and right again to exit, meaning none of the traffic streams actually cross.

  Stop signs would slow it down, but not by much. At least, not for the smaller things.

  My biggest issue with people here is the frequency they wait for it to be completely clear before going, or the idiots trying to drift around it because, hey, that’s actually fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically. It comes down to habit and some times laziness.

  There are a few times I intentionally don’t use mine, mostly because there’s this one intersection that if you’re turning left, for whatever reason people get into this “no you go first” bullshit that’s hard to read. So I turn it on after they start going.

  Other tkmes, I fail to single entry into a roundabout. All the round abouts here are single lane and it’s pretty obvious you’re gonna enter. Also, they’re small so it becomes easily confused with signaling an exit from The roundabout. I do signal the exit appropriately, though.

  But in MN the 2 things people don’t know how to do is a zipper merge and round abouts. It’s embarrassing, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A general AI would be very good at playing the stock market.

  But Gemini is not a general AI and it’s dumb as fuck. (As are all LLMs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US it’s because our cops are incompetent and having a lawyer in the room makes it “too hard” to do an investigation.

  In the US, the only answer you should ever give a cop without a lawyer present is “I don’t answer questions without a lawyer present.”

  And when they lie to you and try to tell you that you have to answer… don’t believe them. They’re legally allowed to lie to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t want to talk with this guy!”

  Fuck Peterson…. He’s a white supremacist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just his go to when he realizes he’s going to be mocked. Or he’s about to be proven stupid.

  Guarantee you his definition of “god” would have changed had someone called him on his bullshit about Elisha or Jonah. (They expressed a view that one’s conscience is “the voice of god”… not god…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  JP expresses a belief in a deity.

  That makes him a theist, even if that deity isn’t how we would typically conceive of god.

  “God is conscience <that exists beyond the ideal as a social construct>”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  without relevant regulations, though, you won’t know what you shouldn’t eat because you won’t know that they’re putting sawdust in peanutbutter or borax and fermheldahyde in milk.

  Maybe it’d be okay to have plaster of paris in flour, though. I mean, how else are you supposed to sculpt that Italian loaf like the french baguette?

  Don’t be fooled. The people screaming about unpastureized milk and other things are being used so corporations can go back to poisoning you with shit. and that’s pretty much the most charitable I can be of that particular lot.