topherclay

@topherclay@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding of hard water is just that there’s more calcium and magnesium ions than would otherwise be present in softer water. The varying degrees of hardness would just be the varying concentrations of these ions.

  The way you experience as a human (as opposed to measuring this with a water probe) is that soap will form a complex with these ions and maybe precipitate out a little soap scum, and this reaction will happen at the same time as the reaction which complexes with any oils or dirt so it’ll effectively be wasting some of your soap and you will have to use more soap.

  So you’ll be shampooing your hair and you’ll use the same amount as you used back in the soft water city and you’ll be thinking “I used the same amount of shampoo as I always do so why does my hair still feel oily?”

  I have one of those articulated segmented hose things on my shower head so you can pick it up and move it around while it’s spraying and the whole thing gets all covered in limescale super fast because the hard water evaporates and precipates out the magnesium and calcium as calcite or aragonite crystals. I had never seen this happen so fast and it ruins the hose so often that I thought I was dealing with excessively hard water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t really fit with my understanding of what hard water is and I’m very concerned.

  The place I live now has hard water that is way different from what I grew up with, but it just means that I have to use a lot more soap to clean any oils off my skin or hair, and every faucet gets a ton of lime buildup obnoxiously fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh cool, I can see that it’s similar Borderlands by the screenshots, and I can see that it’s like Star Citizen because it’s not actually released yet and they’re taking money for early access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now this is how you do pride month, take notes AAA devs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  e-dealt urn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵life is unfaiiir. 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it was a different time. The gameplay was solid though imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah, diablo with guns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you read the blog post one day older than this one from before he got the code, he speaks more about the Israeli ties. The CEO for TeleMessage is former IDF.

  micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-obscure-unofficial-sign…

  I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into TeleMessage, but what I did find at a quick glance is that several of the executives on the teams page list Israeli universities in their bios, and the CEO, Guy Levit, says that, “From 1996 until 1999, Guy served as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.

  English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.

  English doesn’t have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn’t stand out to anyone because it doesn’t otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I’ve read that in Japanese the “F” in “Mount Fuji” is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won’t go stale as fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian woman discovers fake Instagram wedding was real⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they could have found older ones if they wanted to, and of course the argument that it’s the direct words of the witness oath that they swear to do so would of course be much older citation.

  But that 13 year old case was one where they could cite the judge directly stating that a witnesses oath mean they have to speak precisely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just what I see outside of my window.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, the thumbnail compression made this look real and when I opened it and it was still loading I thought it was a real photo right up until it flashed into full definition.