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- Comment on There is probably a subsection of vampires that use careful sun exposure as tattoos or bodymods 1 day ago:
People do that.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 1 day ago:
Sometimes hundreds of snapshots a second.
That’s a pretty neat FPS for a tv.
- Comment on McPenis 4 days ago:
McCockNugget
- Comment on PROGRESS 4 days ago:
If you use 3 slices of ham in a regular sandwich, you will need 9 slices to create the scaled version of the pictured sandwich.
- Comment on PROGRESS 4 days ago:
In comparison to an ordinary sandwich.
Ordinary sandwich: 2 bread 1 ham. Pictured trianglewich : 3 bread 3 ham.
- Comment on PROGRESS 5 days ago:
Probably more than that.
There’s 50% more bread, but 200% more ham.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 6 days ago:
My guess would be yes, somewhat, probably. but maybe not much. As he says in the last part of the video: If it gets hot, you have a problem.
Better ask an electrician.
The devices sold as “EV wall chargers” are not really chargers. They’re simple power suppliy units, whether or not it has bells and whistles to time the charging and what not.
The actual battery charger is in the car. It will attempt to suck as much energy from the PSU as it can and it will itself balance the load and all that. Having a separate unit also trying to regulate the load seems like something that will inevitably create more heat than necessary somewhere in that chain.
Generally speaking you do not need to protect the car from unstable supply. It will protect itself.
I will still recommend getting a proper “EV charger” to ensure that it can utilize all the phases unlike a regular garage plug. Also to ensure that it is properly grounded, which can be an issue for some cars.
At least here in Europe, where we have 3 phases. It’s much better to have all 3 phases wide open and let the car suck a little on each, instead of having it overloading a single phase through a granny plug.
I know the American 2 phase circuit is different, but I still believe it’s better not to put any more heat inducing obstructions in the chain.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 6 days ago:
It’s not fucking overkill. There’s no such thing.
I’m really disappointed with the video. That dude usually knows his shit, but he’s way off the mark here. It’s just plain wrong.
Getting a smaller charger might save a few hundred, but it will also increase your chances of burning the house down. Good fucking advise, huh.
Fuck that. You’ll always want to charge as fast as your main circuit breaker will allow.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 6 days ago:
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 1 week ago:
It could be interesting in a smaller scale or off grid purposes, but you’d still need solar panels as a source.
I doubt it’s worth saving heat from a wood stove. It’d be better to burn less wood to begin with. Some of the modern pellet ovens are very efficient for that.
They use this system to convert excess renewable electricity to heat for storage to be used in the district heating system. There’s probably a lot of loss in comparison to a regular battery, so the point is to utilize excess the electrify. It makes perfect sense in Finland because their electricity is a lot cleaner than their heating.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 1 week ago:
It’s basically a very large sauna stone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The birds are watching you.
Try leaving bird seeds. They’ll know instantly, because they’re always watching you.
If you don’t leave bird seeds they will find your car and shit on it.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 1 week ago:
Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)
I genuinely enjoyed the game. Fans of the series claim that it destroyed the franchise. Perhaps they’re right, but the franchise was pretty fucked up to begin with.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 week ago:
Apps or NFC tags are used where I live.
I charge at home myself, but in the odd case where I’ve used public chargers I’ve had to install an app from whatever charging company it is, because I can never find one that takes cards directly, though they all ought to do that by now.
For people who use public chargers a lot, it makes most sense to get some subscription and get a tag for that. Some of them works across different networks. It’s a bit of jungle.
The apps probably do require a card to setup, unless you get it through some company where you already have direct debit (f.i. your electricity provider or gas station monthly billing etc.)
It’s not that different from gas stations. It’s not possible to pay those in cash anymore anyway.
- Comment on Only $50? 2 weeks ago:
The face of Jesus
- Comment on Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time 2 weeks ago:
This site shows a pretty clear picture of population demographics for countries/continents with both past and future projections. Some places are more fucked than others.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, let me make a treasure map and put the treasure map into the treasure chest and bury it under ground.
Why can’t people find my treasure? Are they fucking idiots or something?
I should probably put more maps in the chest.
- Comment on United Nazis 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
However, persecution is an international crime against humanity, so if someone wanted to, they could make a case against her at the International Crime Court.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Also, WD-40 is not a lubricant.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
That’s not possible with the system in my country, but I agree, it ought to be standard in EU too.
I think the machine attracts more people with lots of cans and also teaches more people not to bother refunding often.
My point, if there is one, is that when technology makes life easier, it’s human nature to become even lazier, to the point where the technology doesn’t solve the issue it was made for.
- Comment on Amazing. 3 weeks ago:
A local store just upgraded the deposit machine, so instead of depositing one single can at a time, I now empty an entire bag of hundreds of cans into the machine and let it sort it out. It’s great, saves lots of time and makes everything easier. Instead of bringing a shopping bag with 20 cans everytime I shop I can take an entire sack of 200 cans every month or so.
Unfortunately… the same kind of people who used to cause queues with their 200 garbage bags at the usual refund machines also figured this out, so now they’re causing a queue at the new machine with trailer loads of garbage bags full of thousands of cans.
I have no idea where they get all those cans.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
The Milky Way is in a sort of orbit around the center of the Local Group which is the name for the local group of galaxies. It’s not a clean circular orbit and it’s not possible to calculate the rotation time, because the pull from other galaxies is stronger than their collective centre of point of gravity, but sure, it rotates overall on that scale too.
The next levels are different. The Local Group is part of a larger supercluster of galaxies that do not seem to rotate. It’s more like flows of galaxy clusters. Depending on the point and scale we look at, it may be shrinking or expanding. Perhaps there is some rotation to it, but the scale of both distance and time is so incredibly large that it’s meaningless.
- Comment on what's the word for a leg elbow? 4 weeks ago:
It’s called “popliteal” in English, sometimes but uncommonly shortened to “poplit”.
- Comment on can you say “what it means?” as proper english? 4 weeks ago:
The correct sentence is “what does it mean?”
As far as I know, Russian doesn’t use the auxillary verb “do/does”.
In many languages, the “do” is often a included in the case itself, meaning that it will be part of the word “mean”, as also suggested by the usage of “means” instead of “does mean”.
I suppose another construction could be “It means what?”
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 4 weeks ago:
Shit dissolves better.
Food (generally) has more fats and oils that will stick and clog the pipes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it won’t make much difference to a shirt, but it’s necessary for a blazer or outerwear, where the fabric is thicker and the button is getting pulled a lot more.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Step 8. The toothpick is used to loosen the loops and make distance between the button and the fabric. This is necessay. The button would be too tight to function properly otherwise.
Step 9 is to remove the toothpick and sew upwards under the button, but not through the button.
Steps 10-12. Since the sewing isn’t tightened down, you’ll need to secure it by wrapping the string around it a couple of times. (This is why you don’t see through the button in step 9).
Steps 13-rest. Sew through the existing loops and tie a knot to secure the thread.
- Comment on Love this 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been skating since 1986. The first time someone asked me if I was too old for it was in 1987. That question is really only in the eye of the beholder.
- Comment on demon named racecar 5 weeks ago:
ok… 3 out of 7 is still pretty good.
(You also fucked up the first two letters)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Driving manual is not difficult, but unlike the opposite scenario, it’s not something you can learn with only short instructions.
It does take time to develop the motor skills in order do it without thinking about it. The practice wlll take maybe an afternoon or two if you do nothing else. I’d advise you to do it over more than one day to allow yourself to sleep on it and come back at it
Once you’ve learned it, you’ll never think about it again though.