zaphod
@zaphod@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I'd never let my tongue touch a pineapple 2 hours ago:
Why would anyone censor asshole and not
pineapple? - Comment on Panama Proxima 7 hours ago:
It’s comforting to see that the large cities will still exist in 250 million years.
- Comment on Don't do it, we all care about you 3 days ago:
Don’t give me reasons to start smoking crack.
- Comment on Someone MUST be hiring for this position 3 days ago:
What a cruel world we live in where even smol cats need to find jobs.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 days ago:
Small scale installations on regular houses are probably not the best for grid forming. Any pv installation with grid forming capability would be required to give some control to the grid operator because it’s their job to keep the grid stable.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 3 days ago:
That was Fraunhofer IIS not ISE.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 3 days ago:
Coffee messes with iron absorption.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 days ago:
A bit of market research showed that interest in Nintendo shifted slightly more towards boys. 55%‐45%.
Need a source on this. The more appropriate action in those days with those numbers would’ve been to sell a blue version to boys and a pink version to girls.
- Comment on I'm no fancy bird doctor 5 days ago:
Not an expert, but that’s a Ken.
- Comment on oops 6 days ago:
But PTFE is used for more than nonstick pans.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
Up to 5mm is still considered microplastics.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
What’s the proprietary alternative?
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
Alright, 25€$, but that’s my last offer.
- Comment on Milking dust 1 week ago:
Better than Dominion isn’t hard.
- Comment on How did these 2 things interact? 1 week ago:
I used to use some felt-tip pens, perfect fit.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 weeks ago:
Just goes to show how insane society has become that you’d rather go to therapy than take a 29 day break by being lost at sea.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly no, I think it’s worse here. I blocked so many communities because they’re just about US politics, but that stuff is still everywhere, even in generic meme communities.
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 2 weeks ago:
In general, most words follow certain patterns, for example words ending in -ion are always feminine, -age is always masculine, most words that end in a consonant that is not “n” are masculine (la mort evidently doesn’t follow these patterns). For most words using the wrong article sounds unnatural to the trained ear. Most new words are either derived from old words and keep their gender or they are picked up from other languages and adapted to French either by sound or by meaning (only works if there’s already a french word with the same or similar meaning). Sometimes it’s undecided, for example le covid and la covid are both acceptable, personally I think it should be le as it sounds more natural.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 2 weeks ago:
Otorhinolaryngologist
Ot- => ear
rhin- => nose
laryng- => throat
or just ENT, I’ve heard that being used.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 3 weeks ago:
Trucks? If you move coal for a power plant using trucks you’re going to need a lot of trucks, you use trains or ships instead, or just build the power plant next to the mine and use conveyor belts.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 3 weeks ago:
Coal is unreliable
How? I would’ve said coal is very reliable, it worked for over a hundred years.
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 3 weeks ago:
The noun death is always la mort (le petite morte as used by the other poster is just wrong). The dead person can be le mort (masculine) or la morte (feminine). The adjective for dead is mort for masculine and morte for feminine, as in l’arbre mort (the dead tree, masc.) or la fleure morte (the dead flower, fem.).
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 3 weeks ago:
No, that would be la petite mort.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 3 weeks ago:
It’s also devolving, having less features, being slower/less optimised and so on. Cramming “AI” into it isn’t devolving, it’s enshitification
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 3 weeks ago:
Yes and no, I don’t have an account but I also don’t use the frontpage because why would I, it’s empty. When you watch a video you still get the recommendations in the sidebar.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
That actually sounds like a reasonable response.
If you give the driver enough time to respond, which tesla doesn’t. They turn it off a second before impact and then claim it wasn’t it self-driving mode.
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
How to achieve peace in the middle east with this one trick.
- Comment on Europeans have a meter fetish 3 weeks ago:
Mètre.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on PoV you found oil 3 weeks ago:
Looks more like some variant of the Leopard 2.
