flyingjake

@flyingjake@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s often not so simple as a person making a choice and knowing the outcome. There are often many tragic factors that contribute to the situation that resulted in the overdose. One common situation is someone is injured and prescribed opioids by their doctor, perhaps having been influenced by drug companies like Purdue pharma. As they take it they become addicted, eventually the doctor cuts them off and they go to other doctors, then they may find it easier to buy from a dealer, then they may find it more affordable to buy fentanyl, and then maybe they take too much or get a bad batch and od.

  They didn’t start taking drugs knowing it was going to be a bad path, they started because their doctor prescribed it and by the time they figured out they were addicted they were no longer in control and may not have had the resources to get out. It’s often not just a question of willpower but one of support and resources to help you up.

  There are many other scenarios, but it’s rarely a simple result of a few conscious choices and almost always a result of people suffering in bad situations and it’s ok to feel compassion and empathy even if they weren’t completely innocent in it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Elections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s Pennsylvania

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watts are part of the electrical properties along with volts and amps. Laptop chargers have the same watts and volts but more amps. 
  

  This is incorrect, Watts (power) is the product of amps * volts. The formula is P = IV. Anything with the same power and voltage will have the same amps.

  The volume of power consumed would be Watts * time and gets you to capacity and usage units like watt-hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I believe it would be rapid uncontrolled oxidation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I was thinking, I’m not sure of any example coming before the original Charlton Heston version.

  Don’t have a name for the trope tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas is already after New Year’s in the current calendar year ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This was the first result on Google⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Umm that’s donuts if they’re from Dunkin’ 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idle losses are real but not very substantial in a modern engine compared to the bigger factor you’re missing which is that in city driving tests there is a lot of speeding up and slowing down, ICE vehicles throw away all the energy used to slow down as heat in the brakes which makes city cycles particularly inefficient while an EV captures that energy through regenerative braking, dramatically reducing the net cost of those momentum changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the New York Post, temperature would be a chilly 45F for their American audience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny I never had much Star Trek gaming experience but have recently gotten into gaming more and been a lifelong Trek fan (maybe not an official Trekkie tho). this game looks pretty interesting and I’m now just learning about it since I also don’t pay attention to the epic store!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say this is a sad day, but that’s just nostalgia for a time that’s passed. I grew up reading and loving Popular Science, my dad always has a subscription and I would read it cover to cover usually the day it came in the mail. I let my own print subscription lapse years ago, tried a few different versions of digital magazines (anyone remember zinio?), but today it’s just websites like arstechnica and the verge that have become the focus.

  I still value the articles I come across online but the print edition is just a warm memory at this point to me so I can’t expect them to keep a business going on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ancient Ones⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I feel like I acquired both a new point of view and a chuckle with this one, so thank you Internet friend 😌