chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 weeks ago:
H5N1 is way, way more lethal than Covid19.
If it were to mutate to spread between humans without decreasing in lethality it would probably be the deadliest event in human history by a significant margin.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 weeks ago:
It sure would be nice if one side of the political aisle hadn’t convinced its voters to disarm themselves while the other side stockpiled guns.
- Comment on flouride 5 weeks ago:
Its presence in groundwater is how we discovered it’s good for teeth.
In fact, there used to be so much in some areas,it actually stained the teeth. In Colorado Springs a dentist noticed that the children were developing brown stains on their teeth. In researching it, it was discovered that the “Colorado Brown Stain” was caused by excessive fluoride in the drinking water. But it also lead to the discovery that regions with natural fluoride present but in lower levels than Colorado Springs didn’t have stained teeth, but did have lower levels of tooth decay.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 1 month ago:
Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.
Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 month ago:
Yes. They cost more than some cables. But we aren’t talking about wiring a stereo.
A new nuclear unit (4 billion-ish) costs about as much as 2,000 miles of transmission-grade cable (about 2 million per mile). Considering that there’s about 30 cables on a tower run, you’re looking at around 65 miles’ worth of cable for the cost of a nuclear unit.
And that’s just the cost of the wire. No towers, no conduit, no substations, no land acquisition (aerial easement and underground are very different things), no labor.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 1 month ago:
You really don’t understand how expensive underground cables are. You know those big, huge steel transmission towers that you see lined up, hundreds in a row?
Those towers costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars each. And the reason they’re used is because that’s way cheaper than underground.
Shit - just the cable is a couple million per mile per cable.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 month ago:
They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.
“They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels.”
“The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren’t allowed to love.”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 month ago:
Because the team that headlines with this guy giving bis to microphones and bragging about sexual assault is worried how things look.
- Comment on Optimisation is a Slow Process 1 month ago:
It would raise some pretty interesting philosophical questions.
- Comment on aerodynamics 1 month ago:
Hey - I ain’t judging nobody.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 month ago:
But sometimes CE is “Clear Everything” and it works exactly the opposite way.
- Comment on Amateur Entomologists 1 month ago:
I can hear that screenshot.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 1 month ago:
We have 11 people with clearance and I know them all.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 1 month ago:
Well, considering the only elevator I take is to a secure area, I’d ask to see your visitor’s badge and inform you civilians aren’t allowed here unescorted.
- Comment on The grand prize 1 month ago:
You divided by 2 instead of 2000 on your pounds/tons conversion.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 2 months ago:
Yeah: because getting people to get a vaccine during a pandemic that’s killing millions isn’t going to be difficult.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 months ago:
The film?
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
I just want to chime in and say I appreciate your willingness to absorb knowledge, as well as not doing the “I was mistaken so I’ll delete my comment” thing so that other people can read along and learn as well.
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months ago:
But it’s not.
Celsius and Faernheit are interval scales, not rational scales. The absolute change from one number to the next is consistent, but since you can go into the negatives, 1 is not double 2.
Kelvin and Rankine are rational because they use an absolute zero.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 2 months ago:
If it’s literally in your job description, as it has been in my last several positions, does it qualify?
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 2 months ago:
“Other duties as assigned” is a bitch.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 2 months ago:
As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s, I don’t think McDonald’s corporate had anything to do with this. I’m pretty sure this was a franchise.
That being said, McDonald’s may need to revisit some of the restrictions in their franchise agreements with regard to direct participation in political campaigns. A candidate visiting a location is one thing, but this restaurant directly arranged and participated in this nonsense.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 2 months ago:
If it doesn’t do it on its own, one of 2 things will happen:
- They get bought out, which almost always results in a bump.
- The government bails them out, which is an even bigger bump.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
My Galaxy Note 8 is a backup phone. It was a flagship when it launched, yeah. But even so, it’s 7 years old, the last update for it was over 2.5 years ago, and it’s still chugging along like a champion.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 2 months ago:
Smartphone design is mostly a solved problem. Take today’s screens and processors and throw in a few features from the past (removable storage, IR blaster, and headphone jack) and you have a 10-year phone.
I used to get a new phone every year because phone got way better each generation.
My phone is top-tier from 2021 (Z Fold 3), and I have had zero temptation from the newer versions. All they really have is faster processing, but since all apps are designed to run well on budget phones from 5 years ago, there’s no reason to upgrade.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
The scale goes from “No professional training” to “Doctorate in Medicine.”
So to be on the far right you need to be an MD, but having a different doctorate will still be above “no professional training”
It’s a weird scale.
Also, it’s wrong. Dr Horrible has a PhD in Horribleness.
- Comment on That hurts a little 2 months ago:
I am very upset with you right now.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 2 months ago:
I worked at a major destination-store focused on fishing and hunting products.
We had a hurricane hitting and the manager on duty made it clear that anyone going home to help out their families would be fired. Then when he got the call that water was rising near his house, he took off.
I’ve never hated a manager more than in that moment. When I was in management later, I made sure that I took all the shitty holiday shifts so my staff didn’t have to work until 10pm on Christmas Eve and then be back in the building changing prices for the after-Christmas sale at 2am on the 26th.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 2 months ago:
I just add 1 to the number at the end of my password every time they force a change.
I’m on 18 right now.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
They’re trying to argue that an EULA isn’t valid because they can’t sign away their rights, and thats legally incorrect in this case.
How much you like a situation is not correlated with legal realities.
