gasgiant

@gasgiant@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but does anyone call them that? I’d still call that kind of fine cut a paper cut.

  Never heard anyone say “ow I’ve got a cardboard cut”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someday, when society goes fully paperless, paper cuts will be a thing of the past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the cuts from packaging different then?

  Never heard of cardboard cuts…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shame. Although living in that van all those years probably didn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASA bans adverts for Nike and Sky for using ‘dark pattern’ tactics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to coin the phrase distopia.

  To make it clear we’re talking about this dystopia we’re living in now.

  I’m also open to it meaning a world where everyone’s disses are completely on point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t shooting them into Jupiter be the easiest?

  I’m sure I’ve read a few things about what an impact that big bugger has on trajectories in our solar system.

  Intuitively I feel like a push towards Jupiter would be easier than a push to get all the way out of the solar system avoiding Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it count in basketball, if a player found themselves directly under the hoop, threw the ball up through the hoop from underneath, and the ball fell back down, again through the hoop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong but I seem to remember this is one of the reasons why the baskets have a net.

  You’re not allowed to do that but if the net wasn’t there then in pre-video games the refs might not be able to spot if the ball went up through the hoop.

  Think they were also to stop players reaching up through the hoop to defend as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge over 737 Max crashes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’ve pleaded guilty to lying about meeting the terms of last time they were found guilty and have paid a small fine. Which is almost certainly far less than the cost of complying for 3 years would have been.

  Well obviously they will have learnt their lesson and this time they’ll certainly comply…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sweet dreams⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrons do orbit like planets in the solar system however they’re also waves. Which is what gives the set radii they can orbit at and keeps it all stable. The orbits can and do change due to the emission or absorption of certain quanta of radiation.

  So saying like is fine. It’s not an exact description but more of a simile to help understanding. They do orbit like a solar system. Saying electrons orbit the same as a solar system would be incorrect. That’s when the maths doesn’t work and the electrons orbit would decay.