sockenklaus
@sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 16 hours ago:
Although my little fun fact doesn’t apply to THIS flywheel generator, I recently learned, that flywheel generators are used all over Europe to stabilise the Continental Europe Synchronous Area: They are constantly kept spinning and because of their inertia they level any voltage drops and peaks they encounter. Learning this blew my mind because I never would’ve thought that such a simple technology was used to stabilise our electricity grid.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
Huh? I mean… I agree that a lot of people in this thread act surprisingly hostile to you but I wasn’t even referring to those people, just trying to give an answer to your question, that feels kinda underrepresented in this thread: We’re all wired differently and need different forms and levels of stimulus to function properly. 🤷
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
Even though I am listening to podcasts almost all the time I am outside, doing groceries, commuting, running errands, I can totally get that there are people whose brains are wired differently than mine that need what you might describe as auditory monotony because listening to familiar sounds in a familiar surrounding gives then safety and is easier on their brains.
I don’t find this surprising because most people need some degree of routines or rituals to function so I don’t see why this human tendency to reduce complexity (see: Niklas Luhmann) wouldn’t apply to what you’re listening or not listening to.
This doesn’t have to do anything with brain rot, just that brains work differently and need different stimuli.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 weeks ago:
That was my initial thought… Nice pickup line btw. Do you have more? :)
- Comment on See ya. 5 weeks ago:
The movie mentioned turned out to be a 10 minutes long documentary:
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 2 months ago:
When Ant-Man grows to giant size, a breeze would blow him away.
Wait what? Is that canon? I only watched the movies. Growing in size but not increasing your mass proportionally sounds like a shitty super power because you would probably still punch like a normal human.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 months ago:
I don’t think this is the whole secret because that’s basically what our left party in Germany is doing and they’re at 11 % in polls…
People are looking for an enemy image onto which they can project their frustration, and they are not willing to target the wealthy class because they irrationally hope to belong to it someday. Instead, they direct their frustration against the poorer and weaker, as it is much easier to distinguish oneself from a group that one definitely does not want to belong to.
This is class struggle from above…
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 2 months ago:
Will they? That would be awesome but I haven’t found any information on that.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 4 months ago:
Alter, wenn Du doof bist, dann hau ich Dir eine runter sodass der ??? Hund mit dem Kopf wackelt???
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 5 months ago:
In other news: the German military partners with Google to provide the software for their new cloud service…
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 6 months ago:
Did you know there is last aid? It’s a project, pretty much like first aid, that aims to educate as many people as possible about end-of-life care.
It’s amazing and everyone should learn about last aid!
- Comment on incredible that this was a show for childrend 6 months ago:
Oh no, you got me… I feel stupid now. 🙄
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Which browser did you switch to?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Which means you have to check each and every formula and we all now how difficult it is to read and understand excel formulas we didn’t write ourselves…
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 7 months ago:
Kinda off-topic but I have a Rotring fountain pen that looks nice but writing with it is really a sad experience…
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 7 months ago:
Okay you got a point. Luckily I don’t have to do lots of math on paper in my day to day life.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 7 months ago:
Who writes with a pencil? Drawing… Okay… But writing is what fountain pens are for.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 10 months ago:
How does Dear Esther work for you as a go to title? I played it years ago and was under the impression that the game was done in a few hours with no replay value whatsoever.
What did I miss?