TranquilTurbulence

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Extra mittens and gloves. If you’re working otdoors, you’ll appreciate keeping your hands warm.

  When I worked in circumstances like that, I used super large mittens, and they were worth it. You should pick up mittens that have a leather outer shell, removable soft inner mittens and enough space for you to also use extra gloves inside. In cold weather (-25 °C), I used all three layers. When it was warmer (-10 °C), I just used the outer two layers.

  When the temperature begins to approach zero, sunshine can melt some of the snow during the day, which will make your mittens wet and your life miserable. For situations like that, you should make sure the outer layer of your leather mittens can deal with water. If that’s not an option, you should bring some spare mittens with you. When the mittens and gloves get wet, you need to try to dry them during breaks. After work, hang them to dry in a warm place, so that they will be ready for the next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, it’s going to be like Ready Player One, but with 2020s references.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just about to leave, put my shoes on, and that’s when I remembered that I needed to take out the trash. The good thing is, I remembered that before tying the laces.

  Seems like I usually remember everything once the laces have been tied, but this time was different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you remember that it was written in 1984, the color is obviously black and white static. If you don’t think about the year, you might be lead to believe it is blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proportional representation is pretty close. You still vote a specific politician, but the vote benefits everyone in that party. Basically this means that you really need to read what the party is trying to accomplish and pick the one you like the most. Then you’ll pick your favorite candidate in that party, and cast your vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Third World countries handle the Covid Pandemic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having looked at this table, it would seem that western countries are at the top of the list when sorted by deaths per million.

  However, I don’t think the poor countries even had the resources to collect realistic statistics nor the will to report them honestly. I would only use this table for comparing similar pairs of countries against each other. Comparing wealthy contents with poor ones doesn’t appear to make much sense.

  My guess is that poor countries handled it badly, and these statistics don’t even begin to tell how bad it was. Then again, what can you expect when you don’t have many hospitals, nor the money for vaccinating everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is exactly what I’m looking for in a logo shirt. The longer you look, the more it hurts your eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LPT: Design your own generic company logo, and have it printed on t-shirt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the correct way:

  1. Take a photo of your screen using a camera.
  2. Print that photo on paper.
  3. Make necessary highlights using a pen.
  4. Scan the paper.
  5. Upload here.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couscous is the glitter of foods.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that super flaky dough used in some salty or sweet pastries? Today someone brought a bag of those at work, and the break room was totally nuked as a result. No matter how careful you are, those flakes are going to get everywhere. [insert relevant prequel meme here]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy really any different from reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. Depending on what kind of differences you care about. Want to clarify a bit?

  In both, you have communities and voting sorts the posts. However, the number of communities and voters is much lower in Lemmy. Reddit has ads, so I guess that counts as a pretty clear difference too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My cat lives in a bigger house than I do.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine what it’s like for a microbial spore. It’s like landing on an alien planet ripe for exploration and exploitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devil’s accountant here. A possibly legitimate reason ISPs put in data caps is shareholder profits.

  1. Charge more

  2. Provide less service

  3. Profit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first time I saw a mobile plan without any limits was somewhere around 2003-2004. Pretty soon after that, all the competitors started offering similar plans. So glad we got rid of those stupid limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would also need to find a suitable location. If the reservoir is really far away, you’ll be losing too much energy. Think of transmission losses, but for water in a pipe. The reservoir would need to be pretty high as well, so a flat desert won’t work for an application like this.

  Ideally, you would have a solar farm in the desert and use the excess energy to pump salt water to the top of a small mountain that sits right next to the ocean. With this setup, you would have a stable source of energy, which you could send to the grid. When the reservoir is full and energy demand is low, you could dump the remaining energy into desalination.

  You could also use some of that energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water. During peak demand hours you could used a fuel cell to make electricity from the hydrogen.

  You’ll also get oxygen as a byproduct, which could be used for a bunch of different chemical processes to get some additional revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When in doubt, see the emojipedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I can tell, salt precipitation in the Dead Sea is a result of evaporation. Water can only hold so much salt in it. If there’s too much, the excess gets pushed out into the solid phase as salt crystals. It’s all about the solubility of each compound, which depends on all sorts of things such as temperature, pressure, pH, other ions, etc. As the conditions change, solubility changes, excess salts get precipitated and the solution finds a new equilibrium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that feeling at some point, and then I just stopped reading news about technology. No more news about the fancy new storage device, no news about exotic mobile displays etc. I just read about science stuff in general. It’s more delightful to read what astronomers have found on the moons on Saturn or what microbiologists have found at the bottom of the Mariana trench. I felt much better after adjusting my news diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To some extent, these compounds will inevitably mix together. During the early stages of earth (hadean period), there was a time when it was raining all the time, which meant that all of the minerals on the surface were exposed to water. Naturally, some of those were water soluble, which changed the composition of the growing oceans at the time. Some minerals also underwent various other reactions, which caused them to crumble (weathering) which exposed even more reactive surface. In some cases, you ended up with cracks that allowed the rain water to penetrate deeper into to the crust and find its way to larger deposits of water soluble minerals, such as NaCl. The initial exposure to water only kickstarted the process, but later rain and rivers continued to deliver even more salt to the oceans, resulting in the current salinity over the course of billions of years.

  In order to prevent the initial dissolution of salts, you would need to have a planet without oxygen in any form, so that there would not be any water. If your planet has oxygen and water, but no chlorine, you would still get various other salts such as sulfates, which would make the oceans salty. Either way, it would be a very exotic combination of elements, and might never actually happen.

  If you’re ok with the initial dissolution of salts during the hadean era, but wish to prevent any later dissolution of salts, you could do that by evaporating all the water, just like Venus and Mars did. However, then you won’t have any oceans either, so that’s not ideal.

  Another way would be to make the planet as cool as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, so that there would be hardly any liquid weather. This way, the midly salty oceans produced in the hadean period would be covered with a sheet of ice, preventing any further weathering and dissolution.

  The dead sea mechanism is also an interesting alternative. Just replicate that mechanism at a massive scale, and you have relatively fresh water oceans and massive dead seas that just accumulate all of the salt from other bodies of water. Those surface salt deposits would need to be close to the equator so that the sun can evaporate all of the water that flows into them. Those deposits would also need to be lower than the rest of the terrain, and they would need to be connected to the surrounding oceans via rivers, which is a tall order IMO.

  Over the course of billions of years, some of those salt deposits might get pushed into the fresh water oceans, which would mess up the whole thing. I think this setup is not stable for billions of years, but it could be possible for a certain period anyway. Maybe this could be a good place for a scifi story. Imagine a planet with massive fresh water oceans and several saturated salt pools near the equator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People of the future might think that we deliberately messed up the hands of AI-generated people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But what if there’s some sort of nuclear/zombie/robot/alien-apocalypse which results in tremendous data loss. Maybe a thousand years from now a future archeologist wonders why there are so many cursed pictures from a particular area. That might be a deeply unsettling mystery until someone finds an ancient research document about image generating AI. However, if nobody finds that document, the archeologists might just go with the traditional “ritual purposes” explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water and salts are a package deal. If you have a planet with one, you’re going to have all the others as well, because they all come from an exploding star.

  When a star goes supernova, it creates oxygen, which can later combine with hydrogen to make water. That very same supernova also makes sodium, potassium, magnesium, chlorine, sulfur etc. so you end up with all the elements for making a bunch of different salts. Ask physicists why supernova does this sort of packaging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aah, so that’s what’s holding back my spontaneous adventures. I need to upgrade to a bigger account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My back account seems to be pretty big. No matter how much money I throw in there, I never seem to run out of space. As far as I’m concerned, it’s infinite.

  I guess eventually there will be some sort of limitation and the bank gives you a call to tell you that this is a personal account not meant for managing the cash for of an entire country. Until then, we’re all good, and I’m going to think my account is infinite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They had proper equipment.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pasteurization means that most commercially sold milk is technically Evaporated Milk.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me introduce you to the concept of vapor pressure. The volatility of a material depends on the temperature. Even cold water will still evaporate slowly. Instead is being a binary things, the vapor pressure will gradually increase as the temperature increases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to earn a record for "youngest person to <insert a thing>" is just an IRL speedrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s next level determination. I thought that walking around a planet in No Man’s Sky was impressive, but that didn’t take years.

  For some reason, there are always people who are willing to do amazing things like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to earn a record for "youngest person to <insert a thing>" is just an IRL speedrun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the other extreme where you can, for example, be the oldest person to run a marathon? What’s the gaming equivalent of that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people think of industrial developments in slightly different terms. Industry 4.0 is a fairly modern way to look at it.

  “The First Industrial Revolution was marked by a transition from hand production methods to machines through the use of steam power and water power. “

  “The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, is the period between 1871 and 1914 that resulted from installations of extensive railroad and telegraph networks, which allowed for faster transfer of people and ideas, as well as electricity.”

  “The Third Industrial Revolution, also known as the Digital Revolution, began in the late 20th century. It is characterized by the shift to an economy centered on information technology, marked by the advent of personal computers, the Internet, and the widespread digitalization of communication and industrial processes.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can users avoid bad content on Lemmy (particularly rule breaking or illegal comments/posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I’m mainly using the subscribed feed, and it has made this place a lot nicer than it was before. The All feed can still be nice from time to time, but that’s not my primary feed.