davidagain
@davidagain@lemmy.world
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 6 hours ago:
Me neither, MrSulu, me neither.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 10 hours ago:
MrSulu, you stud! I heard that gay men get more sex, but that’s a bold attempt. Does Brad now about this?!
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 11 hours ago:
If the numbers were correct and your aim was to reduce pregnancies, you could prevent 90% of pregnancies by getting roughly 90% of sexually active women to take the pill. Getting 99.95% of sexually active men to take the pill would have NO effect whatsoever on the pregnancy rate, because the remaining 1 in 2000 men would continue to meet and impregnate a woman roughly once every hours for roughly 12 hours a day with breaks for food and resting his dick for 9 months straight, with time to visit 430 women a second time in case these miracle impregnators somehow didn’t always impregnate on first meeting a woman. (This would very drastically reduce diversity in the gene pool and the world would be very very very badly interbred within two generations.)
But of course humans don’t behave like the numbers suggest AT ALL, thank goodness.
- Comment on I'm sure the liberals have a great explanation 2 days ago:
I don’t know, but I’m certainly not sure that the Italian liberal-national party was liberal any more than the German national socialist party was socialist.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 3 days ago:
Definitely, but then thirty years later, I look just like my uncles, and my daughters are starting to look more and more like their auntie and I stopped worrying about it all.
- Comment on Well organized people always plan a head 5 days ago:
OK, but what if I want the benefits without the pain? Is there another way?
- Comment on Well organized people always plan a head 5 days ago:
What if you don’t like pineapple juice?
- Comment on Top economist on the economy’s dirty truth: The only people who feel good are ‘making over $200,000’ and ‘have large stock portfolios’ 5 days ago:
Correction: The only people who feel good about the economy are earning over 200k.
I can feel good about other things including my wife, my family, my friends, my colleagues, my music, films, tv etc without a stock portfolio, thank you very much.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 5 days ago:
Even if they didn’t know that the Rochdale Herald is a satirical newspaper, the fact that Rochdale is a random satellite town of Manchester, about 200 miles away from London, ought to have given them pause as to the credibility of the article.
No, scrub that, the headline was enough of a clue. Idiots.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
I like it.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
Shame.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
You’ll have to make your point more explicitly, I’m afraid.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Unclear. Does this mean you blocked me?
- Comment on got this ad and uh 6 days ago:
It’s a phone. Do you have a 40" phone?
Imgur is not an international image hosting platform. The link is broken. People should use Lemmy for images. How hard is this for you to understand? No wonder Texas votes Republican.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Ah thank you.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
All this hate for a little quirky difference!
You’re supposed to grow out of hating people for being different when you’re in school, and if you never reach that level of tolerance/maturity, join the Republican party.
There are people in this thread acting like homophobic boomers freaking out over boys having long hair: “I’VE TOLD YOU IT’S WRONG AND YET YOU PERSIST. YOU’RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE ME ANGRY. WHY DO YOU INSIST ON MAKING ME ANGRY?” Er, we were just having fun.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Haters gonna hate.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Niiiiice thank you so much for pointing this out.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
You’re posting this exact comment up and down the thread. Get a new hobby. Hating on people for doing things differently is juvenile and Republican.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
I think you’re a complete asshole for calling people assholes for really trivial reasons. Block me too!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Interesting. Do I have one?
- Comment on got this ad and uh 6 days ago:
It’s not the money that matters, it’s that you’re whingeing about how great or not it looks on your oversized computer screen when neither I nor anyone in my country can see it at all. Have some perspective.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
historyofenglishpodcast.com (Not me, but I enjoyed it a great deal, one of my favourite podcasts ever.)
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
They were used interchangeably in Beowolf, for example.
See this answer with plenty of authoritative references:
linguistics.stackexchange.com/a/31881 - Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
In modern Icelandic, yes, and that’s certainly more pleasing, but historically thorn was also used for the voiced phoneme, and with the advent of printing press (which didn’t get imported with a thorn), it got written y, which is how you got “ye olde”.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Voiced is like the th in the, unvoiced is like the th in thin.
Unvoiced sounds the same whispered, whereas voiced loses its buzz when you whisper.
Voiced:
that then with the then this breathe bother those thoughUnvoiced:
thin thanks width breath both youth pithy smith thatch thought throughout thorough - Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Doh! You’re right of course!
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Here’s my working. There are about 31.56 million seconds in a year, and so
30 GWh/year ~ 31.56 GWh/year = 31x10^9 Wh / year
= 31x10^9 Wh / 31x10^6 s = 10^3 Wh/s = 1 kWh / s = 3600 kWs / s = 3.6 kwI used the duckduckgo autocalculator just now, and 30/31.56*3.6 is about 3.4, so it’s much closer to 3.4kW.
(It’s not power output, it’s manufactured storage output. I think of it as like a factory that produces 3.4 litre capacity jugs per second, but they’re not jugs, they’re actually batteries.)
If these were sold at lithium ion prices, that would net them about 120*3.4 USD/s, or roughly 1.5 million USD/s.
Or to calculate another way, they could make a 120kWh battery, (which would give a family car a range in the region of 450 miles), every two minutes.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
In fact, I very much agree.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
Buying new cars is stupid. You wasted several thousand just by driving it out of the dealership. Let someone else do that and buy it a year later with low milage and ten grand off.