Allero
@Allero@lemmy.today
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Maybe an infrared heater somewhere?
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Actually yes, because “warm air” and warm solid surface" are at two different temperatures to us due to unequal heat transfer.
The walls just have to be slightly above the air temperature to heat it up, and they may feel a bit cold regardless.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 2 days ago:
Sad to see the tensions between groups inside Lemmy rose so bad that someone has to mention they are not pro-CCP when they say good about China.
China is not ultimate good. China is not ultimate bad. Chinese government just does some good things and some bad things.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 2 days ago:
Yeah I don’t think it’s useful to list GW capacities, as the country consumes and produces more power overall.
A more useful metric would be the percentage of renewables in the national grid.
Still, China is fairly impressive in that respect.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Penetrative sex is not the only kind. But yes, water washes lube off very quickly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh I see
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
As someone who had sex in a tub/shower/all places water, it’s actually good, but not for the hot party kind of sex.
It’s a great way to get relaxed and go deep into something lovely. It’s a place for having it slow and gentle, with kisses all over and stuff like that. Also, standing on the knees, while valid for this kind of sex, can’t be maintained for long without them hurting, so, reacharound or something of the kind is the best
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Some people are only in it for the initial thrill, and couldn’t care less about what it means for others.
You’ll find the one, pal, no worries. Doesn’t have to be near Valentine’s to make it a romance like no other.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
Fair! We just shouldn’t l expect it to be a Lemmy flagship for laymen
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
Is it available on desktop? Also, the interface is not ahint enough for a Reddit dweller
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
Lemmy desperately needs to get rid of toxicity of this kind.
It has become a more hostile place, and this negatively affects the experience for everyone, including the OGs.
And yes, if you want to have more lively conversations, you need more people. If you need more people, you should stop calling them morons and help them figure it out in baby steps. Don’t make it harder than it already is.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
To access it on desktop, just open the browser and type your server’s URL (in your case, lemmy.world)
I guess we have to roll back from “apps for everything”, or else many people might genuinely not know how to access their instance.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 1 week ago:
A far-left Lemmy instance, one of the so-called “Tankie Triad” (along with lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml).
As with all instances of the Triad, Hexbear is commonly hated on other instances due to conflicts stemming from the difference of political perspectives with the majority of people on other instances.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 1 week ago:
Recently began contributing to OpenStreetMap. Information on my place is quite outdated, lots of work to do!
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 1 week ago:
Luckily, shedding light on the unique issues men face is not sexism. It is antisexism. Same for women.
- Comment on What even is fire? 1 week ago:
TL;DR Superheated products of burning in the state of plasma - essentially, an ionized gas.
Long answer:
*Boring part what causes the fire, you may skip it but it provides context
As is widely known, oxygen is the second most powerful elemental oxidizer in existence, second only to fluorine. Our atmosphere contains something like 21% of it, and nearly everything it could oxidize at our normal conditions it already did. We also use it to oxidize our food - for us, this is just breathing, but really it’s a complex set of reactions meant to essentially burn our food at low temperature.
However, one of the simplest thing that can be changed to make oxygen oxidize something else is temperature. Elevated temperatures lead to the weakening of the bonds between atoms in the molecule, making them more readily available for a chemical reaction. As a certain threshold called activation energy, the reaction (in this case rapid oxidizing, i.e. burning) starts to occur. From here on out, the heat provided by reaction is enough to heat the rest of material up to the energy required for reaction, and it becomes self-sustaining, heating further and further. The further the reaction heats up, though, the more heat it emits to the environment, and at some point, different for each fuel type and external conditions, heating and cooling of the reaction equalize at a certain temperature - typically about 600-1000°C (1100-1800°F).
Normally, when a chemical reaction occurs, bonds get so weak that atoms can leave the molecule and reconfigure in a different way - they don’t stay in this separate state for any significant time, and the outcome is always two molecules with swapped atoms. This is what happens inside our body in long chains of various reactions that involve oxygen. The end goal here is to extract as much energy as possible by putting electrons inside atoms in the most energy-efficient position, but that’s a topic for another time.
The thing is, fire works differently.
Now the part actually about the fire At such temperatures at which you see the flame, materials in the fuel don’t just swap atoms - they straight up break into free floating ions, or charged atoms, not bound to anything. They are so energized they rip chemical bonds apart. This state of matter is known as plasma, and it is very similar to gas, except gas consists of normal molecules and plasma is too hot to have that. So, in layman terms, you can see the flame as hot gas, though it wouldn’t be exactly correct.
Those ions then recombine into regular molecules, attempting to take the most energy-efficient configuration, and are moved out of the flame by the current s of air that itself gets expanded on heating. The products of this process are primarily carbon dioxide and water, as they are the most stable, energy-efficient bonds of carbon and hydrogen with oxygen, respectively.
As per why it glows - this is the property of its temperature. In fact, every object in the Universe that is above absolute zero temperature (0 degrees Kelvin, the lowest temperature there can be, signifying full stop in motion of any particles) emits electromagnetic radiation. The interactions of protons and electrons between particles form paired electric and magnetic fields. These fields radiate photons, and at the temperatures above about 500°C (950°F) the emitted electromagnetic radiation begins taking form of visible light. Due to the amounts of heated matter and the energies involved in the process, we see fire as a very bright light.
That’s it, in the nutshell :)
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 1 week ago:
…or I don’t care about fitting into 2 unhealthy Internet stereotypes, and neither should you. Touch grass.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 2 weeks ago:
Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Feminism is driven primarily by, and meant primarily for, women. Men (and nonbinary people) can occasionally benefit from it, but they don’t commonly have a say in the way it develops.
Antisexism encompasses all people, and everyone has an equal voice as long as it calls for equality. It makes no sense to break it down to smaller units if everyone’s on the same page in that no one should be discriminated against. Men can be on the watch for cases of discrimination against women, and vice versa.
MRA (as in patriarchal men calling for male dominance and against feminism) are not welcome here. Coming from the men’s perspective, MRA may occasionally raise very real issues of men, which can cause the intersection of topics between them and the community; the problem is, many if not most of the MRA folks don’t want equality and also think of patriarchy as the magic pill to solve their issues, issues that are often caused by it in the first place.
You can look into men’s issues from the men’s perspective without encroaching on women’s rights in any way, shape or form, and this is one part of the multidirectional message the community tries to send.
The false dichotomy of “feminism or patriarchy” commonly leaves the opinions and unique struggles of non-patriarchal men out of the picture, and nonbinary people are straight up invisible in this conversation.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 weeks ago:
Here’s my guess:
We all know LLMs train on human-generated data. And when we ask something like “how many R’s” or “how many L’s” is in a given word, we don’t mean to count them all - we normally mean something like “how many consecutive letters there are, so I could spell it right”.
Yes, the word “strawberry” has 3 R’s. But what most people are interested in is whether it is “strawberry” or “strawbery”, and their “how many R’s” refers to this exactly, not the entire word.
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane how much people are self-limiting with all those stereotypes. In my own relationship, I often help my loved one untangle a lot as well.
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Happy to know I’m not the only one thinking this way!
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Exactly! And I think being part of united community helps better understand the circumstances of others, which ends up helping everyone.
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, unfortunately, in the later years the term has been widely used by a lot of bigots to push something very different from the original idea.
Even Wikipedia now mentions both.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism
I only mean it in the original sense, and am happy that quite a few people agree that this community should have its place.
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Happy to have you there! Feel free to post what you find interesting as well!
- Comment on !antisexism@lemmy.today - a joint movement of men, women and nonbinary people against all sorts of gender-based discrimination 2 weeks ago:
Masculism is a movement against gender-based discrimination of men.
It may take many forms, and, unfortunately, some of them are quite clearly misogynistic. Similarly, some forms of radical feminism may get misandric at times.
Those are not the flavors of feminism and masculism I talk about, and those are clearly against the community rules.
Among those feminists and masculists that call for true gender equality, however, contradictions are unnecessary since the end goal is exactly the same.
!mensliberation@lemmy.ca is:
- A community about men (!antisexism@lemmy.today is about everyone)
- Openly focused on the feminist perspective, which, in my opinion, is limited because it only takes one angle.
Think of !antisexism@lemmy.today as an attempt to form a wider group (men, women, and nonbinary) exploring gender inequality from different angles.
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- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 5 weeks ago:
Then go and “blow shit up” - because right now you’re only blowing your ego out of proportion.
Going rough with commenters on the Internet is not struggle, it’s a parody.
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 5 weeks ago:
The Internet is now a mess of people screaming at each other - and so, did anything change for the better?
Conservative autocrats everywhere, environmental policy going to shitter - the progress we’ve made is reversing.
So, when you look in the mirror, ask yourself - do you really make the change? Or do you just sit and scream, much like everyone else?
- Comment on Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s time to realize insults won’t do anything to change someone’s opinion, while tanking the civility of a discussion.
Firmly with the mod on this one.