ExtremeUnicorn
@ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 1 hour ago:
Whoa there, no reason to be that hostile!
- Comment on The HOA isn't going to be happy about the colour, though. 1 day ago:
What colour are tennis balls again?
- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 3 days ago:
The idea is that you would just need to simulate that level of detail if someone actually looks. You don’t have to simulate any atoms if nobody can see them Computer games do this all the time to save ressources.
There is no real argument against a simulatin just as there is none against god being an alien, just the probability is not in favour of it.
But I also believe life is just kinda what it is.
- Comment on How would you describe that post sneeze smell? 1 week ago:
Honey?
- Comment on Button down squares at UT Austin 2 weeks ago:
I meant the text that was pasted onto the image. It’s perfectly perpendicular to the image frame, not to the paper it’s supposed to be printed on.
I don’t even know why it was done, but it’s edited in.
- Comment on Button down squares at UT Austin 2 weeks ago:
That’s a nice Photoshop you got there…
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 weeks ago:
This is SO true. I let a few people pass at a narrowing in the evening and they sometimes thanked me by blinding me temporarily. Like, I appreciate the gratitude, but just don’t.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 4 weeks ago:
Google Docs basically crawls everything you type into it and uses it to profile you. It’s in their TOS.
I think that’a pretry bad, but that’s what you get for using a free service, you’re paying with your personal information (and possibly that of others).
I can’t deny it has some useful functionality, but I just don’t need most of it personally. I don’t think you need it for 99% of your usual work.
- Comment on Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors 5 weeks ago:
Maybe “visits” would have been the better term, I don’t think a lot of babies visit Wikipedia every month.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
Source 1 simulates that closing the toilet lid very much concentrates the droplets near the user instead of a wider area, so you either spray yourself or more of the toilet area.
Sources 2 investigates how the bacteria behave in vitro, without any evidence of any person actually getting infected in the process.
I believe you’re missing my point. I’m not claiming that it’s impossible to get sick if you hold your head over the toilet while someone else is flushing their diarrhea.
Just that putting the lid down is not some kind of magical thing that will make your bathroom into a cleanroom. And I highly doubt that any droplets you could even get in contact with from visiting the toilet after a healthy person should be your top worry. Do you also hold your breath after you flush?
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
Quite the opposite is true, actually. I personally consider myself on the cleanlier side from what I’ve heard and seen.
I just don’t belive that inventing terms like “shit aerosols” is a reasonable way to discuss this topic, nor is it in any way scientifically accurate.
I would rather trust personal protection guidelines from people who are in danger of getting sick by working with feces daily than hysterical people discussing toilet seats. I think hospital staff would laugh at some of these claims.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Are you maybe using some kind of processed oil with dryers?
Because I haven’t been able to get any natural oil to dry faster than maybe a couple of days to a week. That was on pieces of foil sitting in the sunlight with constant airflow.
So inside of a workpiece, I would assume it will even take much longer than that.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Not the person you asked, but I recently did some finish tests with natural drying oils.
Besides tung oil, linseed oil, hemp oil and perilla oil, the wallnut oil dried the slowest by far (talking weeks of difference) and needs added airflow and UV light to make anything happen (tung oil and perilla oil even dry out in the dark).
Besides, there’s the slight chance of an undried pocket coming into contact with someone who is allergic.
In my opinion, not worth it with those great alternatives.
I might have used “bad” walnut oil, I had only one sample, but it was unprocessed, organic walnut oil, the expensive stuff. Maybe you need to use the refined, cheap oil to get better results for woodworking.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
“Rancid” is not really a clearly defined term.
As long as you use tung oil, hemp oil, linseed oil or perilla oil, they will harden to a solid finish.
They will become “rancid”, but then polymerize and dry after some weeks to a month. Hemp and linseed oil may need some UV light and airflow, so you’d have to keep it by the window.
Just don’t use olive oil or other cooking oils, they will just go bad.
Mineral oil will not go bad, but it rubs and washes off with time, so needs to be reapplied constantly.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Just to clarify, mineral oil will never dry. It’s food-safe, but it will rub off just the same and wash out eventually.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
Yeah, or maybe just don’t do that, because that’s not how physics work.
Do you think you are contaminated by something when you walk the subway in smell urine?
It’s just a harmless combination of gasses that we have learned to identify as such. It’s literally impossible for any “particles” to travel that far, else you would constantly get smear infections just standing near a public bathroom.
What people write here sometimes borders psychologic compulsion disorder.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 2 months ago:
The singer of Chthonic, a Taiwanese metal band, explained this briefly in an acoustic libe recording. You do have to watch out which tone you choose exactly, otherwise the meaning can change drastically. I also think this is part of the “sound” that you get in these cultures.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
How nany have you killed today?
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 months ago:
Do more! Do more! :D
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 months ago:
We do call it that in German as well, I mean, not colloquially, but it’s used in literature or poetry.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 months ago:
Literally dodged a bullet there either way.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 2 months ago:
Does that do anything beyond disabling DuckDuckGo’s own AI answering box at the top? Because I still get AI generated results on sites.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
You’re spinning in circles. I already admitted to understanding your point.
Since you like writing in proverbs, sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Let them feel what it’s like to be on the reciving end.
Those rich fucks tend to only pick fights with underpowered opponents, which is not that difficult due to their vast financial advantage. It’s only fair to level the playfield by such measures and one of the few things we can do.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 2 months ago:
The paradox of tolerance.
It’s a fine idea, but you can not equate the right to privacy of an innocent person and a perpetrator. (I know courts see this differently.)
The only point I would agree on is leave out the kids, they had no choice.
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 3 months ago:
Do you, by any chance, have slight trouble breathing with a light cold, get a clogged nose easily or even have reduced sense of smell?
Because I do and I can also do what you describe.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 3 months ago:
Imagine living in a country with 900+ billionaires, with growing tendency, where regular people are discussing about the vest ways not to starve.
Not thar it’s much better where I live, but damn, what the hell is wrong with this world?
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 3 months ago:
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 4 months ago:
Flash was always broken, as any Adobe software…
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 5 months ago:
When you’ve had too much wine, that’s ammoorree.
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 5 months ago:
Ok. I guess I’m more of a purist, meaning I prefer to view content as neutral and close to what it essentially is, as possible.
It’s fair to prefer a more saturated or subjectively better-looking image, but I guess this is just not on many people’s list of top priorities.
I have no solution here, except maybe use that display solely for media consumption and do serious work on a more traditional display. That’s at least what I do, except with a projector in that case.