Fermion

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick to getting the pit off the knife is to not whack it in to begin with. Hold the knife parallel to the first cut and use the point on the heel to pry the pit up. It doesn’t take much force and the pit pops right out without sticking to the knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a neighbor who was rather compulsive about her yard. She would mow her yard/have it mowed 2-3 times a week and would use a leaf blower to push the grass clippings onto her neighbors yard every time. She would also leaf blow her roof with surprising frequency.

  I gotta say, I was a little relieved when I saw the for sale sign in the yard earlier this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually that kind of thing is done through a bond measure. The increased tax isn’t enough to pay for a big project while it’s under construction. Big projects are financed by selling bonds. Those bonds need to keep being payed back well after the project is complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He hasn’t had a great streak in completing progress in haunted chocolatier because he keeps getting pulled back into stardew valley ports and making new content for stardew valley. If he and his collaborators soon have to support both stardew valley and haunted chocolatier across multiple platforms, I don’t expect development on a new stardew valley game to progress quickly at all. I would expect half life 3 like timelines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ping pong bot returns shots with high-speed precision⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the subject matter, I thought this was going to be a StuffMadeHere video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The recruiter sent you a non-elligible candidate. That’s just as much their problem as it is yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The North Carolina legislature has a supermajority of far right republicans. The NC GOP is currently brazenly attempting to throw out legitimate ballots to steal a state supreme court seat, and the courts are going along with it. If they want to move for political concerns, I don’t think NC is enough of an improvement to justify the disruption involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way to view it is that college classes are filled with your future colleagues, and should be treated similar to a workplace. Students should generally dress similarly to how they expect to dress in their future workplaces. Whether that excludes a tank top is a matter of discretion, but clearly the proffesor did not find it to be professional. There’s no hard and fast rule, but I am surprised by the indignant tone in the comments here. Lectures are the domain of the professor and its not outlandish for them to set expectations about what they consider acceptable conduct for their lectures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They already thought of that. The department of education has already been dismantled. If there are no school nights there’s no problem, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the sales tax in your area 7.5% by any chance?

  $16 x (100/107.5)= $14.88

  I don’t see any gloves priced at 14.88 on their website at a quick check. I wonder if the store is trying to set a price that tallies to an even dollar amount and doesn’t know the connotation. I only recently learned about those numbers being associated so I would like to believe a benign explanation. Maybe you could ask to talk to a store manager next time you see it an make sure they know to avoid that price point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CISA fires then rehires security crew, and puts them on hold⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do the terms of their employment change when they get rehired?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New technology could save declining honeybee populations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honeybees are not the bee population that needs to be saved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking an oral steroid like prednisone can help prevent asthma attacks for milder allergies, but that might not be sufficient for a severe peanut allergy.

  Epinephren is not a gentle drug. You do not want to have to use an epi pen if you can avoid it. It causes the heart to race and result in lots of side effects that would make a flight extremely uncomfortable. I think it’s also metabolized quickly enough that a single dose is not going to last a whole flight.

  I’m not an expert though, I just have multiple family members with moderate to severe allergies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say water doesn't help after eating piment are just wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe make it into a white Russian?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see it as an extension of the myth of American purity and external corruption. “This person is evil, some outside power must have compromising info on them.” “Immigrants are violent criminals preying on innocent americans.”

  These attitudes ignore the reality that bad people can come from anywhere. There are plenty of villians with very mundane origin stories. What matters is if everyone else has the will and ability to keep bad people in check and hold them accountable.

  The grifters in charge need no other motivation than a sense of superiority and an opportunity to make a buck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been doing this with “natural intelligence” for ages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The scavenger predator formerly known as Avago Technologies Limited currently wears Broadcom as a skinsuit to disguise hostile takeovers as normal tech mergers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From wikipedia

  Zelle (/zɛl/) is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.

  So PayPal does not seem to own an interest in Zelle, but the group of owners isn’t necessarily better than PayPal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sadge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The justification given was incoherent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The neighbors just point their solar panels at that house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NATO plans to deploy sea drones to monitor and protect undersea cables — Admiral expects drone fleet patrols to begin from June 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cutting a single cable feels like a means of probing the response. Where does the traffic get rerouted through? How long does it take to repair a cable? Which handful of crews even have that capability. Could selective sabotage be used to force traffic through a compromized node?

  I definitely think there’s a bigger game at play and Russia and China are both trying to characterize communications infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sampling bias⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or some portion of people generally prefer throwing surveys in the trash, but for unknown reasons decided to complete that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would he? I’m terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.

  As bad as Trump is, I’m almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either “I have got to get in on this” or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want president Vance? This is how you get president Vance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this what you’re referring to?

  instructables.com/Face-Changing-Projection-Mask-B…

  That’s pretty neat and I didn’t know that existed. The whole external projector requirement is rather limiting though. A cloth like screen could be a nice improvement to the concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Make a mask with this that continually changes the appearance of the wearers face to confuse ai surveillance tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby Showers!! :)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Were they drinking soda in a lab room filled with fissile material?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Pro just got even more expensive as Sony admits these accessories won't work.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no risk for a factory condition unit. This rumor started after people with units that had been dissasembled and reassembled had issues with vertical orientation. It turned out that it’s very easy to mess up the seals that keep the liquid metal thermal interface in place. So units that had been previously taken apart had liquid metal slowly leak, causing overheating and/or shorting.

  If you haven’t taken the cooler off the mainboard, using the vertical stand is just fine. I haven’t seen any evidence of factory assembled units suffering leaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.

  The part that’s missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a directory of comunities compiled somewhere? I’m not sure how I would go about figuring out the best place to post something if I wasn’t already familiar with a relevant community.