Tar_alcaran

@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t say anything about 80, but the 20 year old guys I liked when I was 20 are definitely not hot anymore now that I’m in my late 30s. The late 30s guys I used to think we’re basically one foot in the grave look a lot more interesting nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy Electric Holiday Snake⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrocuting anyone who comes in contact with the power line, i.e. a lineman who might assume the line is de-energized

  This is one of the reasons why your solar panels don’t function during a power outage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s apparently not true, since the majority of you did vote for them.

  I mean, I know how hard it sucks to have that keep happening. I know the only thing worse than having a shit Government is knowing that your idiot countrymen actually want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the other part of “why do so many people die from cows” is along the lines of “They work with cow every day”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had all books stickered on the spine though, with the shelve/genre (for novels) or number (for educational books) and the first three letters of the author’s name. So it wasn’t overly hard and mostly worked out.

  People can mostly manage to match the picture and then alphabetise “DUM”, so the Three Musketeers would generally find it’s way back alright. We still had walks to check though, and that’s probably where my lifeling obsession with alphabetising and straightening shelves comes from. I do it even when i’m in a random bookstore, just alinging the spines with the edge of the shelve after putting a book back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do occasionally cook for larger groups, and you need entirely different techniques. At home, you don’t need to account for the time the water spends between 70 and 100 degrees because that’s a minute at most. When you’ve got a hundred liters of water, that suddenly becomes very relevant. If you set your timer for 10 of actual boiling, your pasta will resemble porridge.

  Also, I don’t personally own cooking gear to make food for 20+ people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assumptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why cows kill so many people. Its really easy for an animal five or six times your weight to kill you just by interacting the same way it does with its own species.

  That gets worse as the animal gets bigger.

  And cows are basically calm little angels compared to say, hippos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily you have a couple hard copies of your journal paper and an inked up copy of your thesis after reviewer number 2 decided to no longer like his own suggestions on how to graph the mass accuracy

  I hate this because it’s true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For an academic Library, absolutely. But I worked at the local library here, and we didn’t track anything unless you checked out the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, are people checking out books, bringing them home and then… Just putting them on the shelves again???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, if you buy a 10 dollar scratch card, you can deduct 9 dollars from you income for tax purposes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My husband has stopped joking about his hair growing distinguished and started admitting it’s turning grey.

  Now I feel old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop insulting us LARPers. What have we ever done to deserve it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced lots of people actually don’t think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This person would break the sound barrier on their way out. Mostly on account of the last smart guy trying this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAWK BAHD! PUT THAT DART OUT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in anything Petrochemical. They rulebooks habe a very clear restriction on “anything that is, or appears to be” (a cigarette).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can set up a genetic engineering lab for under 5000 bucks in your garage, and I would prefer you being able to google how to DIY some super-ebola, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying it for a while, even if we figured out fusion, it wouldn’t see the light of day.

  Fusion reactors would be absolutely massive, centralized facilities that provide something of great value for very little labour input. They’re the PERFECT tool of capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be quitter talk, but I just haven’t found the regiment i like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s almost as big as the Xbox360. We can reuse all the all the old memes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about we stop posting AI slop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ain't no one breaking in⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how you’re supposed to attach hinges to ironwood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we’re not OK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has an h-index.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recall being a grad student, and one of my friends was super happy their paper was mentioned. The context was basically “Contrary to claims by [friend et al]…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, on Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The upper teeth are solidly in the “danger triangle” of the face. If those get infected, there’s basically just a highway to the brain.

  Without dentistry, getting a cavity could easily lead to an infection, and without antibiotics, that could easily kill you.

  People don’t really realize how lucky we are with modern medicine. People used to die from all sorts of things we consider trivial today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, on Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad teeth used to frequently kill people as little as a century ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sushi delivery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, serving the ends is kinda not-done in high class sushi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sushi delivery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Freeze, batter, then fry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1: every professional knows LNT is wrong, but there isn’t an agreed alternative.

  2: there are safe limits set for people who work with radiation, so the LNT model isn’t actually used there at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely nothing!