Skua
@Skua@kbin.earth
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to homebrewing@sopuli.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Imagine if this becomes a trend though. Every decent-sized website has an exclusivity deal with one search engine. At that point either google becomes the only functional search engine because it successfully monopolised too much of the web, or search engines in general become useless becaue every one of them is missing too many websites
- Comment on Eeeeee 3 months ago:
- Comment on Eeeeee 3 months ago:
"e", or Euler's number, is a constant used in maths because it has useful properties in logarithms and some other things. Basically just like pi except for logarithms instead of circles. Like pi, it's an infinitely long series of non-repeating digits. The crime you have witnessed in the post is a shitload of mathematical operations applying e to e in various ways in order to get (very close to) pi. Like saying "I'm going to make 14 using only 2" and then saying (2^2^2)-2, except instead of 2 and 14 you've got e and pi
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 3 months ago:
I do not, unfortunately. I had actually never heard of that sandwich before but it looks really good. I am vegetarian, though, so it'll have to stay just looking good for me
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 3 months ago:
Green ones with garlic and lemon juice are top notch though
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 3 months ago:
I am in the UK so that would make sense. Going solely off of wkkipedia's page on the romanisation of Arabic, I'd hazard a guess that the UK spelling came via French
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 3 months ago:
God damn do I love a good bruschetta
- Comment on Or meet and cheese 3 months ago:
Nice bread, some houmous and balsamic to dip it in (separately, of course), marinated olives and artichoke hearts, grilled courgette and tomatoes
- Comment on Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian 3 months ago:
Oh my bad, I totally misunderstood what you meant. Excellent drawing though
- Comment on Post a prompt, have an art from this insane russian 3 months ago:
Small fandoms? There is a delightful youtube channel called Colganology in which an eccentric old English man documents his craft projects and whatever else is on his mind. I discovered him because of his series in which he builds a bunch of absolutely terrible musical instruments out of random bits and bobs that he has lying around. I would very much appreciate a depiction of his mighty war horns intimidating his enemies
- Comment on No, seriously, I want to know 3 months ago:
This is actually what an adult cow looks like, we just never get to see it in real life because we kill them for meat before they achieve their true glory. All of humanity used to be pescatarian, but a cult of human skaters convinced us to start eating cows so that they could win at the X Games
- Comment on Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. 4 months ago:
Huh, fair enough!
- Comment on Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. 4 months ago:
Surely an oven that inherently steams everything it cooks is quite a different tool to a regular oven? It probably works well with breads and similar products, though, so I guess that'd work as a pizza oven
- Comment on What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen? 4 months ago:
IP over avian carriers, yes
- Comment on What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen? 4 months ago:
I like this one, but to be fair the article it is summarising was never not going to be a little silly
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
While I agree with you that I don't think OP has correctly described what they're actually thinking about, there is plenty of sex work that doesn't involve actually having physical sex with anyone. Like a solo porn model, or erotic dancers
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 4 months ago:
It seems like you mean a post-scarcity society rather than a currencyless one. Sex work done to earn a living is still done to earn a living if it's in a society that distributes goods and services in another way. I'd hope that the sex worker in question is getting personal fulfilment from it, but unless their basic needs are covered regardless then it seems foolishly optimistic to assume that it's the case
- Comment on What do you mean there was a coup in Bolivia? 4 months ago:
Anglicisation of golpista, I assume
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 months ago:
Never mind the depths I was already on edge when I met the fucking crashfish
- Comment on wizard posting 4 months ago:
Power word: erektiohäiriö
- Comment on wizard posting 4 months ago:
Power word: impotence
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July? 4 months ago:
Depends on what's on offer in the steam sale! Although I did pick up the Myst remaster, so I might just be having a crack at that
- Comment on A beautiful thing... 4 months ago:
It's also known as the kINGdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 4 months ago:
Oh, good call, I didn't think of that! Assuming I did my sums right, the Roche limit probably destroys the fourth innermost moon, but it still leaves the big four (which are the fifth through to ninth in ascending order of size of orbit). They're quite substantially farther out than the prior four
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 4 months ago:
The sun and Jupiter are pretty close in terms of density, and Jupiter would need to get at least an order of magnitude heavier to start fusion. I think it's just a coincidence that the outward pressure of the sun's fusion makes these numbers roughly line up.
Thirteen Jupiters seems to be a commonly-given lower limit for fusion, so let's go with that. To increase mass by thirteen times while maintaining density (and assuming the whole thing is a perfect sphere, which it obviously isn't), Jupiter needs to increase its radius by a factor of about 2.35. This increases its equatorial radius to about 168,000 km, which does swallow up the three innermost moons, but leaves the four big ones alones
- Comment on if jupiter gained enough mass to trigger fusion and ignite into a star... 4 months ago:
The IAU's list of requirements to be a planet is:
- Orbit a star
- Be big enough that it becomes round
- Clear the neighbourhood (meaning you're way bigger than anything else in your orbit)
The last one is the one that disqualifies Pluto. For comparison, Pluto is roughly 8% of the mass of the other stuff in its orbit (not including Neptune, given that their orbits cross), whereas Neptune is thousands of times more than the rest of its orbit. The closest non-planet to meeting this criterion is Ceres, which is roughly one third of the rest of its orbit (in the asteroid belt).
Based on this list, I think Jupiter's four biggest moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) would make the cut.
- Comment on Gonna stab 'em good. 4 months ago:
I genuinely expected this to be Tunic-related. There's a whole area of frog assassins and the isometric viewpoint looks just like this too
- Comment on The U.S. Has Declined in Quality of Life Ranking, Dropping From 16th Place to 28th According to the Social Progress Index 4 months ago:
No, but the OECD is quite a big club. The US is currently ahead of Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Turkiye. That puts it 26th out of 38 in the OECD (this uses the 2023 numbers, while the article is referencing the 2020 ones). The non-OECD countries ahead of the US are Cyprus, Malta, and Singapore.
