makeshiftreaper

@makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying I should view the speed of sound in a medium like the speed of light in a vacuum? That it’s the “speed-limit” of how a wave propagates and so trying to exceed it is impossible for a physical wave?

• Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plague kills Arizona resident, marking first recorded death since 2007, health officials say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bubonic Plague never went away and it doesn’t make much sense to vaccinate against it. It’s still carried primarily by fleas and other small blood drinking bugs, prairie dogs can also commonly carry it. Plague is treated relatively easily by antibiotics and isn’t usually fatal or likely to cause long term damage. As the title indicates there’re usually 7-10ish cases of plague per year in America and those are rarely fatal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do incels have some core complaints with validity? Yeah, online dating has been designed specifically to make the majority of people using it feel bad. There are genuine problems that men face in society that women don’t and they don’t get support for. However you can’t pick and choose the members of your ideology, only your choice to share it with them

  The ultimate problem is that red/blue/black pill ideology is all rooted in the manosphere and incel culture. By utilizing their terminology you are associating yourself with a group of misogynists, racists, and terrorists

  Which is to say someone who says “my MS makes my life difficult enough as is, so I choose not to struggle with dating on top of it” is different from “I’ve been blackpilled because these Stacys won’t consider dating below 8.5/10s”

  There’re other points to be made with regards to being “too ugly to date”, why people dislike non-traditional sexualities, and modern dating culture. However, I’d bet if you went into the real world and talked to real people about specific struggles leading to deciding to no longer date without a bunch of internet words you would see a lot more support

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just started with YAMS using Plex 2 months ago:

  Movies: 241 TV Shows: 30

  About 3.5 TB on an 8 TB drive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck the rules!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bring my water bottle to theaters and nobody gives a flying fuck. 98% of the time it is water but every now and then I do bring an alcoholic beverage and nobody ever bothers checking to make sure it’s only water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to put your life in perspective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it’s basically the same thing as Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to decipher this ancient text. Anyone know this language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s got real Stefon energy. “A long, long time ago, say… Monday”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could have any vision-related superpower, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It’d be something I could turn on/off and choose what’s stats I want to see at any given time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DISC] Time-stop Ugly Old Man Chapter 1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, that was actually pretty funny. Calling it ugly bastard time stop and labeling it nsfw is effectively misleading

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some more physics things, every planet has a limit on how high the tallest possible mountain is based off their surface gravity, the type of rocks present in the crust, and thickness of the crust. On Earth it turns out that limit is pretty close to Mt Everest’s height. Space is still about 50 miles above Everest so I don’t think humans could build this ramp with our current understanding of physics

  If you want to go to space slowly then you can just do what Felix Baumgartner did and take a special type of balloon to get into space. Unfortunately, if you’re not traveling 25,000 mph relative to the surface of the planet, you’re going to fall back to the planet. Just like Felix did

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So for physics reasons it doesn’t really matter what technique you’re using to leave Earth. If you’re going to try to go to space successfully, you’re going to have to go a minimum speed of 25,000 miles per hour. That’s called the escape velocity and it’s a different value for every body of mass in space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look man, as someone who thought Switch 2 mouse controls were a gimmick and has sunk 17 hours into Civ VII, I don’t feel confident enough to tell all these people that they are wrong. If I had been in college and was told people could get scholarships for NASCAR Soccer I would have laughed in your face. Being that cocky is asking to be wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First and foremost it’s bold to put this out before Drag x Drive releases which is just weird enough to become its own thing. Second, even the owner Epic doesn’t even seem to know what to do with Rocket League because they seem to be trying to make it part of Fortnite. Thirdly, esports are everywhere, sorry not all of them look like legacy sports but that’s not a problem for people playing the games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically? You could install a Switch emulator and run a cracked version. But that’s hardly ideal. I haven’t played it but I’ve heard Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is similar and well received

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Animal Crossing (New Horizons specifically) is very similar to The Sims and is all about daily life, decorating, and maintaining a household. So I would imagine that could help with daily vocabulary. It might also give you a weird depth on dinosaurs and fish, but that’s an ok problem to have. Likewise Stardew Valley should be similar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  spoiler

  I’m aware of the electromagnet. I think it’s ridiculous you need to find a compass, a battery, and a workshop in order to make it work. By the time you have all those are you really going to run around the house to hoover up items? If you want it on another run is that what you’re waste a coat check slot on? Also, it doesn’t collect gems or dice, which is stupid. That’s something you should just get permanently at a certain point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They also did one of the poke “raps” ! It’s one of my favorites besides the OG and BDG’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it to be a beautifully frustrating experience. There clearly are a ton of layers and puzzles can help you solve other puzzles. I appreciate the effort it took to make it, but it doesn’t feel like it respects the effort it takes to play it. Here’s some of my frustrations:

  • At a certain point you should get a magic vacuum upgrade to pick up all common items in rooms. Hunting for gems and coins in rooms on my 25th day sucks and adds nothing
  • I should be able to move at least three times faster. Fuck, navigating the house is slow
  • It really sucks that the first time you “solve” the primary puzzle you actually can’t progress until you solve a separate other puzzle that is dependent on finding one room and then another, and that is not clearly indicated at all
  • While footsteps eventually become trivial it’s an annoying resource when you don’t have full control over the layout of the house. So you can build a maze through no fault of your own and then you don’t get the steps to explore them
  • Eventually there’s a special room you can pick every run. Why do you make me actually traverse to that room? It burns useless steps and again, is slow as fuck
  • Additionally, the only “permanent” room you can place (to my knowledge) you can get way too early. So if you put that in a crappy spot you just kinda fuck yourself for the rest of the game
  • Sometimes you will think you have solved a puzzle but need to assemble the rooms to implement the solution. So you can: spam runs and rooms to get lucky and find it, do normal runs and just hope you find it, try to manipulate RNG to maximize the chance of solving that puzzle. None of those are fun when you have a couple of solutions to try and you spend multiple in game days manufacturing that opportunity
  • The items are kind of crazy. There is a puzzle that requires you to assemble three items in a specific room, then discover a separate other room, then get to that room to use that item. There’s like 15+ items in the game, how are you ever supposed to organically put that together? Also finding a metal detector in my first 5 days made me paranoid that every room was hiding keys and coins on the floor even when I didn’t have it
  • Some of the puzzles are so obtuse and have so many layers that if you ever happen to solve one that you suddenly think all puzzles could be that crazy. I solved the chess puzzle before the periodic table puzzle and was building this wildly complicated solution to that puzzle when it was actually really simpke

  Despite my gripes I do think it’s a good game with incredible puzzles and a very unique design. I just think it doesn’t account for people actually playing it. I would bet there’s a really intriguing story under this but eventually I got so hung up on performing solutions I had already discovered I couldn’t be bothered to also discover the plot. I did read a summary after that helped contextualize things. Honestly what I’m looking forward to is when someone else takes these mechanics and refines it into a really cool rogue-like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to them, very well. Dave Grossman traveled around doing police training for years and this was part of his training

  [In the widely shared clip filmed at one of Mr Grossman’s police training sessions, the former Army Lieutenant Colonel says: “Killing is just not that big a deal.”

  He then talks about an officer describing that they had the “best sex” after fatally shooting someone, before adding that it is a “perk of the job”](independent.co.uk/…/police-training-video-kill-se…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When it comes to saving, Gen Z asks: 'What’s the point?' That's dangerous, expert says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The generation that lived through 3 “once in a lifetime” economic disasters doesn’t trust their money will be there when they need it. Gee I wonder why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to basically not snore at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To live an entire life and never snore? Probably not. You’ll probably get sick and stuffed up and snore at some point in your life. Is it possible to generally not snore? Yeah, maintaining healthy weight, good sleep hygiene, not being sick, avoiding allergens, and proper sleeping ergonomics will probably prevent 99.9% of snoring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former 22 year old, I should have absolutely been on a leash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did they already take the porn?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s entirely possible there’s an issue with lemmynsfw.com that either has screwed up federation, or the majority of their content. I’m at work so I can’t investigate right now but I’d bet it’ll be fixed by the end of the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I made a lemmy post about it but I theorize they’re crowdsourced AI training. Post something, post a couple of separate AI interpretations of it, then analyze the highest up voted AI and “organic” responses, and feed that back into the model. Rinse/repeat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the bots don’t help. The sheer number of obviously AI subreddits and response farms is crazy. There’s like 6 prominent “Am I the Assholes”, a bunch of text message “screenshot” subreddits which have always been easy to fake, and a bunch of “explain the joke” ones too. I stop reading halfway through most text posts and comments because it’s obviously AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice place to shop but sometimes gets sticky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans have a weird quirk with preferring “local” grocery stores but not bothering to look up who actually owns their grocery store. So the majority of “local” chains are just regional Kroger brands or in this case Food Lion is the southern equivalent of Dutch Delhaize

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unironically, yes. If the “internet” were to disappear tomorrow civilized society would no longer exist. Too much had been built on an unstable jenga tower of technology. We put a lot of faith in the status quo existing despite the fact that little evidence suggests it will

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instant rotten milk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You jest but there’s a carbonated Persian drink called Doogh and Milkis is a Korean drink that they remove a lot of the lactose from. It’s not a crazy concept

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instant rotten milk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbonating water creates a small amount of carbonic acid in the water and makes the whole thing slightly acidic. Usually it’s not enough to instantly curdle milk but it would certainly give off the same smell/taste as almost expired milk. This would almost certainly be very gross, even ignoring the bubbly milk part