mynachmadarch
@mynachmadarch@kbin.social
- Comment on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? 5 months ago:
I can't comment on fairphone, but the Discord thing is likely not your phone, it's Discord or something. The same happens to me randomly on a Pixel 6a.
- Comment on Ball's in your court, Mikey. 5 months ago:
My coffee table is also above a basement, so I'll have to reinforce the joists, and probably the whole support of the house. Eh, I'll just make a scale copy out of Styrofoam on my CNC or something.
- Comment on Ball's in your court, Mikey. 5 months ago:
I think the Pietà on my coffee table would be more of a conversation starter.
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 months ago:
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idifferentiates then thelwould still be a dot. - Comment on Parfait au pork 5 months ago:
Uh, have you had a food allergy test? Nothing in there should cause problems. It's just a regular bbq plate, but layered. Staple of the South and most don't have problems like that.
- Comment on Parfait au pork 5 months ago:
A tiramisu is a sweet lasagna. You have alternating layers of carb and sauce and cheese mixture of some kind.
A shepherd's pie is it's own unique thing as there are no alternating layers and the cheese layers are not mandatory.
The French parfait (different from what you're probably thinking) is a flipped shepherd's pie.
The American parfait is lasagna, as it's usually alternating layers of carb, fruits (with their sauce, often very jammy), and not cheese but a dairy mixture still.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 5 months ago:
I did an internship in a small data center. That hurt to read. Made me miss the job too.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 5 months ago:
Brings me back, Xbox live just doesn't have the same finesse in it's trash talk these days.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 6 months ago:
Beached - hauled up or stranded on a beach.
Beach - a strip of land covered with sand, pebbles, or small stones at the edge of a body of water, especially by the ocean between high- and low-water marks.Dangit, you're right, try as I might I'm having a hard time twisting those definitions to anything other than the colloquially accepted meaning.
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 6 months ago:
Dry is used both for the sugar content and the mouth feel from tannins in wine, but yeah, it's usually referring to the residual grape sugars left after fermentation. Dry = low sugar,
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 6 months ago:
Although technically coffee beans might fall under the literal definition of "burnt", most use it to mean overcooked, which coffee beans aren't, they're cooked just enough. Unless you're Starbucks, then yes they're burnt
- Comment on who's tried it? what does it taste like? 6 months ago:
Ukrainian water, da. будмо
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 6 months ago:
He had better handlers and PR team back then so more people thought he was just an eccentric billionaire Playboy inventor and were willing to do the dirty work needed to make it happen.
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 6 months ago:
I've actually played this! 🙌🏻 Well, some. My teacher made me learn a good chunk of it when I was learning third position. It's a great piece.
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 6 months ago:
Cat music slaps. You might also like Meow mix
Here's some gummies to munch while you listen
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 6 months ago:
Oh man this hit me right in the feels. Love it. Pretty much the only happy memories I have with my dad are the like once a year gold panning trips he'd take me on, he'd always blast bluegrass and southern gospel on the like 4 hour drive into the mountains. (I actually made my wife's wedding ring from that gold). I stopped listening to much in college. I should go back and listen to more. It's more folk but this song reminded me of This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt.
Anyways. Enjoy the gummies: https://thekmp.com/cdn/shop/products/Sour_Gummy_Bears_1200x1200.jpg?v=1633223351
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 6 months ago:
- Comment on I don't like M&M's 😔 6 months ago:
I just got some sour gummies. Big bag. I'll share with everyone who leaves a book or song recommendation
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
No, Stupid, Questions!
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 6 months ago:
Do you mean with the Voyager FDS? There's a big difference between patching a system 30+ years past it's planned mission date because at everyone's amazement it just keeps going and being valuable versus the Neuralink developing issues a few months after being installed when many expected it to fail because of the news of high failure rate among the primate test subjects beforehand.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 6 months ago:
I've looked into this before for arguments with my mother trying to get her to stop saying there's a gay agenda. Her argument was because I enjoy the videogames and sci-fi I wasn't smart enough to understand the truth. The science has actually been done (though I'm sure more still needs to be done).
Research by a scientist named Schwartz in 2016 showed that those predisposed to anti-social behaviour are also naturally pre-disposed to watch more TV. When accounting for genetic traits, previous research into negative affects of TV didn't hold up amongst children and young adults (mentally, physically yes, but we already knew sedentary lifestyle has negative impacts).
A (I Believe Johns Hopkins but I'm going from memory) 20 year data evaluation released in 2021 showed that excessive TV can contribute to cognitive decline over time (they measured a 0.5% reduction amongst the adults they tested). The main scientist I remember saying they didn't account for type of media and did think educational content like documentaries would have a smaller impact though he couldn't guess by how much. His worry wasn't about the average adult making decisions but rather preserving as much mental capacity long term so as to help reduce impacts of dementia.
A 2023 UK study backed up the 2021 and 2016 study. Excess causes increased health risks and a long term small measurable cognitive decline.
Everything I've seen points to, for the most part, the amount being the problem as with everything. Moderation is key and living a diverse life that stimulates you mentally overall is important. Manga or Marvel movies when you want to relax is not going to rot your brain. Only consuming them will, same as with any type of media or genre.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 6 months ago:
Seriously, blaming entertainment (actual entertainment, not "news" that weasels in court calling itself entertainment) has been a thing since the stone ages. It wasn't true about rock and roll, it wasn't true about dime novels, it's not true now about superhero stuff.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 6 months ago:
Heck, even "I did too much of the drugs" can usually be solved with drugs.
You heard it here folks. Eat your drugs. Say no to school. Stay in vegetables.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 6 months ago:
He didn't actually think it was the most efficient. It's way worse. He knew he could get a proposed high speed rail line killed so it wouldn't cut into his car sales. He did not care one bit what happened after it died. Everything else was his PR team.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 6 months ago:
Halo infinite multiplayer is free. The forge community has created a battle royale mode I've heard. Maybe give it a shot? I don't know anything other than it exists.
I personally can't stand battle royale games, so sorry, but I hope the next isn't. It's just not what Halo is. If they released a mode, or a side game as a Battle Royale I'm all for it, but not a full main game.
I feel the burnout though. My normal gaming friends and I are in a mode of trying new games right now and don't play together as much.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 6 months ago:
It's possible people won't accept a new game just because of the name attached, but that's not what I'm seeing.
I still play Infinite pretty heavily and most of the people I chat with there are saying the same, thank the lord leadership changed, let's give it a year or two and see.
After that, who knows.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 6 months ago:
Most of the upper eschalon of 343 have left or were kicked out over the last year, including some of the worst offenders who drove the creation of the crap we've had recently such as Kiki Wolf kill.
It seems like they're internally rebuilding 343 because they know how much of a powerhouse that IP can be if done right. I'm not optimistic about the next Halo, but cautiously hopeful now at least.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 6 months ago:
It's unsanitary. Don't want nothin spreading. My kitchens though, let's just say my lasagna ain't the only thing cooking in there.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 6 months ago:
Spent a lot of time with engineers, but am not one myself. Most grinding discs and things that wear stuff down have a surface made to rip in, and higher opposed friction. Think sandpaper, it digs into a surface with those hills from the grit, and uses the friction to then drag through cutting the surface and removing material.
With this floor, it looks like the wheels are smooth, so all though there's some friction, it isn't a cutting action. There's also the fact that their friction is unopposed and can actually move the person, so the energy gets converted into movement, not the cutting force that would grind things down.
They really are just tiny treadmills, the only reason they're discs is so they can be tilted to change the direction the "treadmill" is going to push you. If the disc is tilted to the right, the left most edge is going forward, if the disk is tilted to the left, that right edge is moving backwards. Otherwise exact same principle as a treadmill of creating friction to move the object on it.
Hope that helps some. Diagrams would probably help more.
- Comment on Recommendations for Pacific Northwest Themed Games? 6 months ago:
Just bring a couple extra flashlights, and maybe a
::: spoiler light switch spoiler
::: and you'll be fine.
