Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 2 days ago:
Yes, but I already have all the diseases that I have. I don’t need to add all the diseases everyone else has too, or vice versa.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 days ago:
I think it will be 30 hours of Wing Commander The Movie level cut scenes
It never existed!
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
Ah, it’s Muslim belief that the original Quran is sacred and a work of god, but a translation is made by humans, and is thus not the truly correct version and only an interpretation.
Its not that you can’t read a version of text in another language, but it won’t be the sacred text.
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
Yes, but Muslims are rather particular about translated versions not reeeeaaally counting.
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
How readable is the Quran in modern Arabic? Or is it translated?
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
Life advice: no courtesy flushing
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
That’s true. That’s not what listeria though, but it does cause most of the other scary milk diseases.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
Yeah, the Effective Altruisme weirdos are hard into AI religion.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Using lasers to track earth curvature across a big lake for example, absolutely fascinating to see why it doesnt work as you may expect.
Why would it not work as I expect? I’m expecting some beam decoherence, and possible deflecting due to temperature differences over a cold lake.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Only a rich crackpot could distribute pamphlets claiming colloidal silver cures cancer, and then they’d still only reach people in walking distance.
Now, any moron can reach literally the entire world at no cost or effort.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
Also, unlike cows, humans generally tend to give lots of outside signals of having listeriosis.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Middle class white males. Though granted, white women probably had it best out of all women.
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Welcome to conservatism!
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: inspect
Step 2: push hood up
Step 3: rotate clockwise 360 degrees
Step 4: swipe left and right
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Remember though, capital letters. Don’t dot the i.
- Comment on Stranger Things Season 5 will be set in 1987 2 weeks ago:
Perfectly on brand for the 80s
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
Your larynx isn’t really a limb… But nah, its an evolutionary artefact. In primordial fish it’s a straight line, but then the head moves, a neck forms, etc etc. and the nerve can’t detach and move over, so it gets longer wnd weirder.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
And it does that for both humans… And giraffes.
- Comment on A tale of two shires 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to annoy all my relatives with this, thank you!
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 2 weeks ago:
clutch is only required for getting the initial gear in
Is that still the case for modern synchro cars?
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 2 weeks ago:
So, how do these scumbags even get your number?
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 2 weeks ago:
I see nothing
- Comment on The Shocking Experiment That Will Change Your View of Human Nature 3 weeks ago:
We don’t need to know that at all, since it’s nonsense.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 3 weeks ago:
And it turns out that elections have consequences beyond owning the libs
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
Boba IS tapioca
- Comment on Informative review 3 weeks ago:
So… What are the bubbles then?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Do brick or stone roads last longer than asphalt or concrete roads?
That’s a solid “it depends”. And in this case, it depends on the definition of “lasting” and the definition of “road”.
Klinkers are near immortal, but they’re laid on what we call a “street layer” of 3cm of compacted, specifically graded sand, on top of some 25cm of less expensive sand. That sand can shift, compress and ruin the stability of the bricks. That usually happens due to heavyweight transport, or external factors (settlement of the soil underneath, tree roots, etc). If you run just passenger cars in a suburban area on steady ground, it could last 50 years. If you supply your stores on a road like that, it’s more like 10 years. But you can remove the brick, regrade/replace the sand and rebuild it from mostly the same bricks. Concrete bricks don’t last as long, and they break more when removed/packaged/relaid, I don’t really know the numbers.
Asphalt is different. Assuming we’re talking about a road that could also be made in bricks, asphalt has a surface layer of some 3-5cm, then between 10 and 20 cm of underlayers in layers of around 5 or 6cm. Then some 20-30cm of gravel, and up to half a meter of sand. That top layer lasts something like 10 to 15 years, and it suffers most from frost/thaw, UV light, etc. You don’t have to replace al of it at once though, you can patch it.
The underlayers generally fail due to traffic weight, but that can be 2, 3 or maybe even 4 cycles of surface layer replacement later. Generally, for busier (non high-way) roads, they replace the surface layer twice and the third time they do parts of the underlayers, or all of it, depending on damage. Asphalt can be 80 or 90% recycled though, but it takes quite a bit of heat (something like 3 to 6 cubic meters of gas for each ton of asphalt).
So, all in all, not all brick roads are equal, not all asphalt is equal. And “how it lasts” is a complex question too. It’s also a tough comparison, because we generally don’t build roads for the same purposes. If it’s very busy, we usually don’t use bricks.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Google was murdered when the CEO of advertising was made the CEO of search.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
People these days dont realise that confidently incorrect people pre-exist facebook.
It’s different though.
If you were a flat earther in 1982, you probably would have a weird self published “newspaper” by someone 4 times a year, and two or three books and no platform beyond literally shouting on the street at people who all considered you a moron.
Nowadays, if you’re a crackpot, you can instantly find 17.000 other crackpots who will happily not just confirm your idiocy, but make up fake stories to support your bullshit ideas. They will also drag you along by pure crank magnetism into other bullshit. You can spread your bullshit far and wide, and since people are automatically served with similar content, you’re even likely to find other idiots like you “in the wild”, which is actually an algorithmic bubble.
Before, nobody you met in real life would agree with you. Nowadays, everyone you “meet” online agrees with you.
So yes, confidently incorrect people have always been there, but not in these numbers, and rarely to this level of confidence. That’s why people react to vehemently, they rarely ever reach outside their bubble. Your ideas that the world is round aren’t the general concept to them, they hear from flat earthers every single hour of the day.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
No.
Or at least, not always. I’m in plenty of online groups with people who have shown their trustworthiness and expertise. They are people with a reputation.