BigDanishGuy

@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah but maybe a small obscure group of elves decided that they could rule middle earth by their sheer superiority and therefore stayed behind. Such arrogance would make them perfect as tech overlord types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ADHD not stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With you on 1 and 3, not so much 2…

  When I was 18 ADHD was something kids had and you outgrew it. I probably couldn’t have been evaluated then. So nuclear engineering it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh… it would be kinda cool though: the modern world set in middle earth. Maybe add a little steam punk dwarven tech and some elves with electric doodads. I could definitely see an elven technological schism with one traditional group and another consisting of hipsters with the latest innovations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when you used to host your own citrix? Pepperidge Farm remembers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  * word used in the neural sense

  There’s good propaganda and there’s bad propaganda.

  Good propaganda is your effective propaganda, or your opposition’s ineffective propaganda. And vice versa.

  This is good propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have guards at a safe distance ready to flood the casting floor with molten iron, while the dwarves are working. It may be cruel, but an influenced dwarf wouldn’t get away with the ring.

  Imperfections would be acceptable. I mean once the ring is encased in 2 tons of steel good frigging luck getting to it unnoticed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not big on lotr lore. My Atlas of Middle Earth was mostly just used for RPG, and the Silmarillion has been left untouched on the book-shelves in my home. But are you saying that there’s a nazi-hunting-artifacts storyline? Like Indiana Jones in Middle Earth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More police busts in Italy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually don’t put my rocks in my socks to get my rocks off (ತ◞౪◟ತ‵)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why nor????⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have the dwarves cast in into a huge lump of steel a dump it way out in the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, maybe it was hyperbole. Maybe it was just me, reacting to waking up and unexpectedly seeing a majestic elephant suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you !Trudov@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betty the Elephant of the Leningrad Zoo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FFS mark this NSFW/NSFL who needs a tortured dead elephant in their morning feed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Holding down the up and power button brings my phone into recovery mode… It’s a bit like that. Just don’t run both commands, if you don’t want to wipe your device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, and it’s rats that we are citing the LD~50~ for.

  You still haven’t answered my question: are you trolling? or just not intellectually capable of understanding simple medical terminology and statistics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is the LD50 is much lower than 192mg/kg. Even a middleschooler could observe that much…

  Are you trolling or do you genuinely not understand basic medical terminology or statistics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And claiming that the story is fake because “36 red bulls would literally kill a horse” is just plain old hyperbole.

  While I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 14l of coffee at once. But going from “some horses would die from this” to “this story is definitely fake” is just bad reasoning.

  Sure, it’s reasonable to question the story, but dismissing it because a horse couldn’t do the same? WTF?

  Not every horse, human, or humpback whale would survive consuming 36 red bulls. But it’s not unreasonable to assume that a majority of humans would survive.

  Personally I want to believe the story, if for nothing else than it’s not a story about how the world is going to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, there’s always going to be outliers, that’s how statistics work. That LD~50~ is 192mg/kg just means that 50% will have died by that point. Some individuals can survive beyond that point, while 50% couldn’t.

  I’m not saying that 50% of the population will be honky dory a-ok after surviving, what killed the first half. Just that it’s not unlikely that you could survive consuming 18l of red bull over the course of 10h23m. You’d probably still be pretty fucked up, but surviving is a subset of being fucked up, not the other way around.

  And claiming that “20g of caffeine could kill a horse”, as someone did in this thread. Well sure, while I’m not big on equine nephrology, or veteranary physiology in general even, I suppose that it’s reasonable to assume, that not 100% of horses would survive ingesting the caffeine equivalent of 50l of coffee at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a racket, plain and simple. There used to be laws against this sort if thing.

  Keyword: used to

  I hope that it was worth it, and that America is great again. Let me just check some news articles… Oh my

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK at the current price trend, maybe we’re approaching a point where having sweatshops make ferromagnetic memory modules in GB sizes. I’d better start building a couple of hangars for my GPU memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing is how you’d feel, another is survivability. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine states that LD~50~ for oral caffeine ingestion in rats is 192ppm, and only estimates the value for humans. Wikipedia doesn’t exactly state it but it’s safe to assume that the surviving 50% of rats will definitely not have had a good time though.

  But “36 red bulls” is how much? I can buy red bull in 0.25l and 0.5l cans in local stores, what is available in the US in unknown to me, so I’ll assume equivalent can sizes. So between 9l and 18l of red bull over about 11hrs. IDK that sounds like a lot of fluid no matter what. Maybe the electrolytes in the red bull will prevent water intoxication, but he’d definitely have had to pee a lot. Perhaps his kidneys would have a hard time following along with the excess electrolytes, but enough to become hypertonic?

  Anyway a liter of red bull contains 320mg of caffeine, and thus 9l is 2.88g and 18l is 5.76g. Assuming a 100kg human body that’s 28.8-57.6ppm spread out over 11hrs.

  Had the caffeine been ingested all at once, then he’d at worst have hit 30% of LD~50~. But given that the subject probably didn’t ingest 18l of fluid instantly, because then the story would include that in the title, the consumption was spread out. Elimination half-life for caffeine is 3-7hrs, meaning that the initial caffeine could be reduced to 1/8 by the end.

  I don’t have the time to do the integral equations, but my best bet is that our subject plausibly could survive, but his kidneys, penis and psychiatric state could do with a check up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, and that’s just the ones where swapping the email is possible without access to the original. More and more services seem to send a verification code at login. I guess you’re just shit out of luck then.

  I better stop watching youtube then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you lost access to gmail as well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna go make some popcorn while I wait for the random Swede or Canadian to wander into this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow me for more shitty diet tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sowreee ofeesir, I’m on a diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice horsie! 🐎⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The usefulness is dubious for most house cats. Most households don’t have mouse infestations, and cats who go outside actively endanger wildlife (and yes, that is an issue for humans as well).

  I’d say our cats are useful. These are their stats:

  Number of birds killed by cats in my household over the last 5 years: 1
  Number of birds killed by going full speed, beak first, into a closed window, then tried being passed off as a successful prey: 2 Number of mice killed: +500
  Other wildlife known to have been affected: 1 mole

  Can other wildlife have been affected? Possibly, but we’re confident with regards to birds. And the only other weve seen cats go for are mice. Not even rats, I guess they’re too big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize why we’re scrambling to get a European credit card, right? I mean what’s going to stop us from cutting Americans off when Trump decides to invade San Marino?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s just indoor shooting, right? (The page doesn’t work on my phone)

  I wouldn’t want to shoot much larger guns than 22 indoors routinely. But that’s maybe the viking in me talking ❄️⚔️🔥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever this comes up I like to add:

  • Don’t get a gun in some obscure caliber. Get a pistol in 9mm or a riffle in 223 (even better get a 5.56x45 NATO) or 308 win, that way ammo will be cheaper and you can better afford training with it. Shooting a few hundred rounds is not really enough. You’ll need to train regularly.
  • Learn how to maintain your gun. As in how to clean it, what parts need lubrication, adjusting the sights, etc.
  • Speaking as an electronic engineer, get passive ear protection. Active noise cancelling is cool and all, but what about when the batteries run out and you have no protection? Or what the electronics fail? Protect your ears, but when you can get +100 rounds of ammo for the price difference, then I would prioritize the ammo budget.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not a gun person don’t bother with a rifle or handgun, get a shotgun.

  You don’t have to worry about over penetration with a shotgun, and it’s easier to hit with than a pistol.

  If you want to know what a proper rifle is, then that’s really a subjective assessment. I would say that a 22lr is ok, unless you need fight people in body armor. But I can see how big burly Muricans want something in 338 lapua or 50 bmg.