Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs will start March 4, plus additional 10% on China 2 days ago:
I read that in Picard’s voice
- Comment on Smoking, and to a lesser extent non-combustible nicotine use, is associated with higher levels of alcohol consumption and risky drinking. 3 days ago:
“do people with substance addictions also have other substances addictions” seems like a REALLY hard thing to control for too.
- Comment on Trump refuses to label Putin a dictator 4 days ago:
yeah, obviously he doesn’t want to tell on himself.
- Comment on Pope Francis now in a critical condition after respiratory crisis, Vatican says 5 days ago:
You should just pray harder.
- Comment on Observer 6 days ago:
This makes me pretty annoyed, mostly because I get flashbacks to assholes pushing The Secret
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 week ago:
Beeristics sounds like an awesome field, too bad Brad is in it.
- Comment on Xenon 1 week ago:
At the worst, you can use it like people use nitrogen. To get a very brief high from lack of oxygen (and then possibly die)
- Comment on Started Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1 Today 1 week ago:
Yeah I picked it up last month, I’m finally getting the hang of combat, or Henry is getting better at it.
It’s both. They actually made a pretty neat system, where you get warnings to attack/block earlier at higher levels. So as your real-life skill improves, the games also makes it easier for you, meaning you get a double whammy of improvement.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There are converters from pulse to tone! They cost something like 40 bucks though, or you can build your own for like 4.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Mine came free with fiber, but I don’t have a device to plug in. Nor do I have a cable running from my entry-point to anywhere in the house, so I’d have to buy a wireless set.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I just realized I haven’t seen a payphone in… multiple years.
- Comment on Wheres Waldo, for the educated 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had missing children reports at large fantasy events and they would be 40% “Bobby is wearing a black shirt with a knight costume and plastic sword”, 40% Anna is wearing a pink dress and scarf, with a magic wand". And 20% “Joey is dressed like Flognip the Enmagicer from Flognip visits the Elves”.
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 2 weeks ago:
“Don’t expect me to change my mind”
Surely the hallmark of someone with a healthy view on reality.
- Comment on "Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of writers seem to have forgotten that scifi uses aliens and new worlds to talk about humans. They just think that scifi uses aliens and new worlds.
- Comment on My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don't know how good they got it 2 weeks ago:
Or they had little clay horses as well
- Comment on AI starts to help India's struggling farms 2 weeks ago:
New AI:
IF $soil_moisture < $Dry AND $Temperature > $Warm THEN Print “Water your plants today”
- Comment on Is this blockchain? 3 weeks ago:
Most babies eventually turn into productive people though
- Comment on xkcd #3047: Rotary Tool 3 weeks ago:
The scariest lab centrifuge i’ve personally seen went to something like 100k rpm, and 800,000 g. It’s basically a cartoon safe with a piece of lab equipment inside, because when something fails at 800,000 times the force of gravity, it’s going to end up outside the city borders, or inside the next building over.
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
I agree, but you aren’t. I think all IP law is stupid, but until i’m president of the universe, it’s still the law.
- Comment on I made the clues as hard as possible so my teacher won't be able to solve it 3 weeks ago:
I understand none of the hints, except the worst one
- Comment on fck yea 3 weeks ago:
Micropipettes ftw!
- Comment on xkcd #3047: Rotary Tool 3 weeks ago:
Wow, dental drills spin stupidly fast. I never realized they’re jamming something in my mouth that makes a turbopump seem sluggish, and that makes the scariest laboratory centrifuge I’ve ever seen blush in shame.
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I totally agree with all forms of breaking IP law on ethical grounds. But I also recognise that it’s still breaking the law right now.
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
Also, most farmers use hybrid crops, which you already can’t save, because they’re hybrids. (You can save them, but they’re not going to produce the same plants you get them from).
- Comment on imagine 3 weeks ago:
No they won’t.
They will sue you if you take your neighbors pesticide resistant seeds, sow them, douse them in pesticide so only the resistant ones survive, and sow your entire field with them.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 3 weeks ago:
According to wikipedia, you can own up to a gram, and you can gift it and make your own. But you can’t sell it…
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t say that. The X axis is basically the inverse of how many times a “usefull dose” you need to take before you die. Or you can see it as “overdose potential”.
It’s basically impossible to overdose on cannabis, but really easy to overdose on heroin. Coffee is kinda weird, because if you’re drinking just coffee, you’re more likely to kill yourself from just drinking water-based liquid than from caffeine.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 3 weeks ago:
It also doesn’t explore the mental health effects of repeated exposure to large doses of hallucinogens on people, which we still don’t have research on because of how demonized hallucinogens are in most countries doing research on drugs.
Also, I don’t think you’ll get that past an ethics board…
- Comment on Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books 3 weeks ago:
Oh, OP, what’s the most amusing damage you’ve ever seen?
My absolute favorite damaged return was a book covered in weird hardened-goopy pink material, named something like “wax casting for beginners”. Probably one of the only times I laughed at a damaged book.
- Comment on Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books 3 weeks ago:
The library i worked for for a while also had an archive system. If there were fewer than X books in the system for the whole country (not counting most novels) it would never get removed. It was wild spotting books that predated my grandparents just sitting on the public shelf, defended only by a “no checkout” sticker.