WalrusDragonOnABike

@WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Next are you gonna suggest green jelly beans don’t cause autism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it does change how much power you need to use. If you leave the power the same, you’ll need more joules because you need more time and are sending more of it to the atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant up relative to the boiling point. Since the boiling point is lower, the same heat output is relatively higher. It just boils the water faster and does nothing to the temperature. You just need enough heat to get it to a boil if you don’t want to waste extra water and heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belief⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Occam’s razor? Maybe their growth in belief in people’s stupidity explains why their belief in human goodness increased. Instead, they just believe people are incompetent rather than willfully bad? Curious what the mechanism for it looking like a titration curve is though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Boiling water is a fixed temperature at a given air pressure. Turning up the heat doesn’t make the water hotter. You just lose it faster. If you need higher temperatures and are cooking in boiling water, then you have to use a pressure cooker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t it depend on how many cups the original recipe calls for?

  I wonder if it’s assuming you don’t use a slightly lower heat output though despite the lower boiling point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same experience, except without giving a dosing recommendation. TBF, it was getting tested as part of regularly checks, but the recommendation came before testing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious how compatibility with a high-sex-drive ace and a low-sex-drive allo would compare typically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they get the bill too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And you explain it by shocking them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump rapes people of all ages and MAGA react by accusing trans people of being abusers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3167: Car Size⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also humans in the world. Not just drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's so annoying when you just can't spell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once he’s on Pine street, I wonder what the nearest cross-street will be, so that the operator will know where they’re at on pine street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know blahblahblah only knows one person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global Warming [Photographic Evidence]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  polarproducts.com/…/cff_waterlines_1669_detail.jp…

  Active cooling clothing, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twinkle twinkle little star⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Screenshot of tweet = meme” is probably the thought behind it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the difference in price based on? Are they offering an extra discount due to lack of activity? Just random A/B testing? Demographics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My collection is growing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Velcro work in those?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those the things that let you use the force or the things that cause you to spontaneously combust & turn into monsters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, someone enjoys referring to themselves in an unusual way. Lets start dozens of threads to bully them because I don’t like it! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When your comment starts with “but drag is extra weird, so its okay to be rude!” it seems odd to accuse others of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps if those words had any value, they’d be worth reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tldr, but suspect you proved my point that people are way too opinionated about other people’s idiosyncrasies. Does drag even post anymore (or like that at least)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the same crowd that would spend their time making posts about a certain dragon poster all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on team Psyþik here. I always find it amusing when I come across the þ in the wild, especially when replies just treat it as normal because of how much San uses it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A purple dragon

  A diuretic that causes excess retention of potassium (and also blocks androgen receptors and also a medication for high blood pressure, but those aren’t relevant to potassium).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  High potassium isn’t great with spiro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get the question. Sounds like telling people you’re a nuclear engineer is working out well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly an environment that encourages a lot of people to just be nice to everyone in stream by default (except when someone is deemed acceptable to be yelled at and laughed at by everyone else for content…) and some people are lonely enough that they read a little too much into “HI [username]!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Wheel of Trauma" by Toy Box Comix⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Food? Definitely not 5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forgot you are in a country were police bombed a rowhouse (both with surface level explosives and dropping a bomb from a helicopter on it), starting a fire that they allowed to burn that killed 5 children (all children of the ~7 people they were targeting) and burned 61 homes, damaging over 100 more homes (making 100’s of people homeless) within the lifetime of almost all non-local elected officials and then re-elected the mayor responsible: pbs.org/…/the-largely-forgotten-history-of-philad… commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol7/iss1/3/

  Yet, after the bombing, Mayor Goode and the Philadelphia Police Department received support from around the country. The Los Angeles Police Chief at the time, Daryl Gates, defended the use of an explosive device, declaring it “a sound tactic.” Gates also stated that Mayor Goode had “provided some of the finest leadership [he had] ever seen from any politician” and that he hoped Mayor Goode “ran for national office.” Michael Nutter, then an assistant to a city councilman, said “[MOVE] is a group of people whose philosophy is based on conflict and confrontation.” Roy Innis, who was the chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), called Mayor Goode’s handling of the crisis “heroic.” Tom Cremans, the former director of Accuracy Systems Inc., which sells munitions to police departments, said “the police exercised remarkable restraint in not using the device earlier.”

  While there was lots of negative media, there was also a lot of positives:

  The New York Times referred to MOVE as a radical group, focused more on the complaints from the neighbors against MOVE, and framed the incident as a city reacting against behavior that was well out of the norm for a working-class African American neighborhood. In the Times article, Dee Peoples, the owner of a store two blocks away from the MOVE house, said that “all you hear is aggression. You sleep with it, you wake up with it, you live with it.” The San Francisco Chronicle wrote about the group’s strange philosophy and how while it was, in theory, a “philosophy of anti-materialism, pacifism and concern for the environment,” in practice “its history was replete with violence, obscenity and filth.” The Chronicle article stated that former MOVE member Donald Glassey had testified John Africa “had planned an armed confrontation with police and had MOVE members make bombs and buy firearms.” The Lexington Herald-Leader, like the Times, described MOVE as a radical organization and defined the cause of the siege as MOVE refusing “to leave the house under an eviction order from police.” The Herald article also discussed neighbors’ complaints of “assaults, robberies, and a stench at the house.”

  People justify state violence, even when it harms 100s of uninvolved people, based on how negatively they can portray those the violence was targeted at and call the their actions “law and order” and point to the aftermath of their own actions as a warzone to justify additional violence.