BussyCat
@BussyCat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 7 hours ago:
If nfl is owning a business then high school ball is being a cashier.
Claiming that a high school business teacher is unqualified because they don’t own a business is like an nfl coach being unqualified because they can’t play at a pro level.
This is also laughable for high school where the teacher gets paid trash and needs to teach only the most basic level of info
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 day ago:
Playing at the college or high school level is not even remotely comparable to playing at the professional level it’s like comparing a manager to a ceo
A quick google search of the best coaches brings up
Bill belichick (never played pro) Vince Lombaradi (made it to semi pro but not pro) Don Shula (did actually play for 7 years) Bill Walsh (never played pro) Paul brown (never played pro)
So 1/5 played pro yet they are able to coach profesional athletes, it’s almost like it’s a different skill set
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 day ago:
And those amazing football coaches would get trounced if they tried to sub in to play
Especially at a high school level (since they don’t teach PE in college) their job is to teach you the fundamentals like knowing the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
And in the same day the crime was at the lowest someone still got killed, and the day the stock market rose to a new high some stocks went down.
Just because a problem exists doesn’t negate that it was the best time period
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
From 2006-2012 we had decently reliable, simple to operate vehicles, that got not shit gas mileage
- Comment on Sad but true 1 week ago:
Women have much higher rates of being sexually assaulted than men. But unwanted sexual harassment can increase with both sexes which is an objective negative. More attractive women are also more likely to have their intelligence questioned compared to a more attractive male. There are also issues of not knowing if people like you for your character or just your appearance that negatively affects everyone. The point is life isn’t just better in every way if you are attractive there are some downsides as well
- Comment on Not Looking for a recipe or a how to guide. But when meth rolled thru my town they called it either redneck speed or bathtub speed. With all chemicals did people really do it in a bathtub?? 1 week ago:
Comparing a drug manufacturer who supplies drugs to people in hospice care and an insurgent group is such a strange comparison.
Did a pharma company make a drug that could cause harm to patients? Yes.
Did they pretend it was less harmful than it was? Yes.
Did they encourage over prescribing? Yes.
Did they intentionally try and kill off their paying customer base? No.
- Comment on Just to make this clear 1 week ago:
Your preference is posting the image on the left and saying I like this
Your phobia is posting the picture on the right and saying eww
Your weird and non funny if you are posting anything about it in a subreddit dedicated to shitposting…
Like imagine a person posted “what I mean when I say I like dark men” and the picture on the left was an Italian man and the picture on the right was an African man. Wouldn’t you think that is vaguely racist? And wouldn’t you also be really confused why someone randomly posted that here?
- Comment on Just to make this clear 1 week ago:
Curvy would at least make sense but chubby?
Like if you are going to be fatphobic can you at least make it funny?
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
The point is that may people will instinctually call mushrooms a vegetable
If we take that same example and add 4 categories and then add milk as another item I am still willing to bet the average person will put mushrooms as a vegetable and make the categories fruit vegetable dairy meat even though vegetables aren’t real and you could have a category of animal products.
Now if you only quiz the biology majors you might get a different result but in the U.S. only 38% of people are college educated and the most common major is business
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 1 week ago:
Did it actually help people understand it?
In my experience most laymen’s explanation involve knowledge of the word superposition but not any clarity on what it is and they treat the cat in the box as a real cat
Every once in a while someone seems to understand it but that seem mostly limited to people who had to take a class on quantum/ statistical mechanics
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week ago:
Apple, tomato, peppers, and cucumbers are all fruits
Mushrooms are mushrooms
Pork is meat
But if you give the average person those it’s much more likely they will make the categories fruits, vegetables, and meat and put mushrooms in the vegetable category
- Comment on Not a meme, just superpawsition 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, schrödingers cat is one of those things that a bunch of people have heard of but it seems nobody actually understands
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 weeks ago:
Take a piece of paper with 3 squares drawn on it
And hand a person a picture of an apple, tomato, pepper, cucumber, pork cutlet, and mushroom and ask them to put the pictures into the squares and then label each square
Average person will definitely label a box as vegetables and put the mushrooms in it
- Comment on Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not done and it’s annoying. Logically speaking management knows what you are working on so if you are working on a 25% complete deliverable they have a reasonable expectation what that should look like. When management doesn’t do that it’s also annoying.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about a persons “only human connection” but it is a human connection that is being taken away.
It’s literally not even about nobody liking you either… as you automate everything it becomes harder to meet people too and harder to have normal conversations so you end up as this weird sad person who sees a person asking for connection and responds by telling them they need a prostitute of to figure out why nobody likes them
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 3 weeks ago:
If it’s directly touching the walls it will decrease the efficiency of the freezer since initially the rate of resistance to heat transfer could have been represented by L/KA+ 1/hA with L being thickness of the wall of the freezer K being the thermal conductivity of the freezer wall and A being the surface area and h being the convective heat transfer of mostly stagnant air. In that case the effect of conduction through the freezer wall is a worse insulator than the transfer of heat through the air but by touching the item to the freezer wall you are trading that 1/ha for another L/KA with a negligible L so the resistance to heat transfer is also negligible.
That’s a lot of terms but you have experienced this before if you have a pan on the stove and you hold your hand above the pan it will feel significantly less hot then if you place your hand directly on the pan. If you have someone put a fan over the pan so there is a flow of air and then put your hand in the same place it will feel warmer since now you have air movement which increases your h term but it will still be significantly less hot then if you touch the pan.
I still might not be explaining this well but the math for it comes from the resistive model of heat transfer that while it has a lot of reciprocals I still find it to be the easiest to get an intuitive idea of what’s happening
In summary though from everything.
Empty freezer bad because the air inside leaves whenever you open it.
Very full freezer bad because it blocks flow of coolant causing hot spots and cold spots so needs to be kept much colder to make sure the hot spots don’t get too hot which causes more losses
Touching freezer wall bad because accelerates warming
Mostly full freezer good because the items work as a heat sink helping to keep a regulated temperature while allowing proper flow of coolant
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 3 weeks ago:
Well temperature goes from hot to cold so are you referring to warm food cooling from conduction of touching colder food?
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 3 weeks ago:
In the off chance this involves the plan to load the fuck out of your freezer since it’s “free” if you overfill the fridge/freezer you are likely to interfere with the flow of cooling air causing cold spots and hot spots to form that will reduce overall efficiency
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 weeks ago:
What do you call people who wear red and black swastikas and say heil Hitler while doing a salute typical of the Nazi party?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that is the norm but more so that it may not be just internal misogyny that causes the poster to reach their conclusion
- Comment on This should be true 4 weeks ago:
First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.
But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 weeks ago:
Like the guy defenitely comes off as a dick but also if you check out conventional social media you will see guys who talk about being expected to pay for not just the girl but also their friend, and you will see girls talk about how if she brings a friend for protection then the guy should pay for the friend too.
So many variables exist that we don’t know but for some people there an expectation that if a girl brings a friend the guy needs to pay for both and I wouldn’t default that to just misogyny
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
I could be wrong but isn’t Ha-Satan just the title for “the accuser” and not the biblical satan who is the fallen angel
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 4 weeks ago:
But it isnt English focused and the reason it sounds militaristic is because the media shows the military use it
Alpha is Greek Bravo is Italian Delta is Greek India is its own country Kilo is Greek Lima is a city in Peru November is Latin Papa is decently multilingual Quebec is an indigenous word that was coined by a Frenchman Sierra is Spanish Tango is Spanish Victor is Latin Zulu is an indigenous tribe
Charlie, Juliet, Mike, Oscar, Romeo are all names that exist in multiple languages
Like it’s easy to think of it as being American since the American military uses it a lot but it was specifically designed to be useful by non English speakers for joint operations
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 4 weeks ago:
Filters and stripping columns. It’s not that hard to do and if you have a clean source of plastics (not mixed with garbage) then it’s basically all just hydrocarbons with a little bit of nitrogen. Carbon + oxygen + hydrogen = CO2 and H2O which while we don’t need more CO2 it’s significantly better then generating that same energy from oil as it is cleaning up our waste vs extracting more from the ground.
Its a lot harder when you do trash incineration as that has a lot more nasty stuff in it but plastics are easy
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 5 weeks ago:
Individuals are essentially useless on a global scale but companies like BP aren’t drilling for oil to accomplish their sinister goal of warming the earth they are producing a product that all of us as individuals are purchasing.
It’s like you are in a dog park that’s covered in dog shit, just because there’s shit everywhere doesn’t mean you shouldn’t clean up after your dog. Telling other people they don’t need to worry about cleaning up their shit because the guy with the dog training school doesn’t clean up any of the shit that those dogs makes you bad.
You cleaning up after your dog isn’t going to clean the whole park but doing nothing until a petition is done that enforces cleaning up your dog isn’t the way. I’m not asking you to spend all day trying to clean the park but you should at least do your best to not make it worse
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 5 weeks ago:
Should just follow japans lead and incinerate the plastic for energy
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 5 weeks ago:
Personally still going to put the blame there on eraser eater, but the whole point of this post was to find something that actually works to curb the behavior
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 5 weeks ago:
It can easily be a chocking hazard, it’s unsanitary, and it can cause the child to be ostracized by peers which can limit their social development.