Pulptastic
@Pulptastic@midwest.social
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 23 hours ago:
I’m not sold on that. I am probably engineer over-generalizing rn, but I can totally see hairs growing as a result of directional growth rate differences and localized fluidity changes caused by the presence of defects in polycrystalline zinc exposed to an electron current.
There could also be a resonance phenomenon caused by waves in the current moving around imperfections the metal.
Maybe the metal atoms undergoing electron drift are guided by electric fields through the air to areas of differing voltage, a self-fulfilling short circuit.
I’m going to guess the challenge lies in isolating and observing these effects to figure out precisely what is going on.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 2 days ago:
TIL I am a walleyed viewer
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 4 days ago:
With some effort I can even see the image in the small thumbnail on a magazine or webpage. I have not yet been able to see them negative where they go into the screen instead of coming out of it.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 5 days ago:
And Pepsi def be lying, no one likes that shit.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
Holy shit it’s true! They no longer make “Pyrex” cookware out of borosilicate glass but instead soda lime glass.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
I use a Pyrex container if I want to safe the grease. Otherwise I make a bowl of aluminum foil, pour it into that, and toss it once it hardens.
- Comment on I finished my 3D Printable screw design! Excellent print ability, reliable for simple use, though the head is prone to strip... can't win them all. 1 week ago:
I worked at a shop that made large hydraulic cylinders and some of them used buttress threads.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
Flopsweat and diaper rash cream
- Comment on The Elder God 3 weeks ago:
The suffering of gingers in the sun is finite.
- Comment on The Elder God 3 weeks ago:
Sun hat
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 3 weeks ago:
Make the company liable and they’ll come up with their own way to prevent or mitigate this. Their business model is causing this, it’s their job to fix it.
Fine them a punitive amount per occurrence. It’s probably not cheap to discover and we probably only find a fraction of them so the cost must consider that. It must also be high enough to either incentivize a fix or fully cover repair.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 4 weeks ago:
I have USB cables twice as old as your blanket, probably even some I’ve never used.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 4 weeks ago:
“Gowl”
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Like cashews?
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
2 years and 2 weeks. I must have left a tad early.
- Comment on Once you are over 30 we no longer want to go out - we want to be left alone, with a beer/wine, a blanket, tv, and tacos… 5 weeks ago:
We don’t even beer any more. The downsides outweigh the upsides. Cuddle, watch movies, work on the house or garden, play Pokemon.
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 5 weeks ago:
You surely will not regret a new set of knives
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 5 weeks ago:
Is there an association between adhd and food delivery?
My moomer trait is I just don’t get food delivery.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 5 weeks ago:
Have you heard the Tenacious D song “Two Kings”?
- Comment on brb goin shopping in South Carolina 1 month ago:
Just add truck nuts.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 month ago:
Yeah the iPad mini is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t suck. I wish Android would offer something decent in 8” but they’re all made to be bottom barrel with extremely low end hardware.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 month ago:
The overpriced nature of subscription services is not a good reason to justify paying more for relatively inexpensive hardware. The fact that you can buy new ereaders for $100 suggests that the $400 models are vastly overpriced. Companies are feature-creeping them so they can increase the price.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 month ago:
It has slowed exponentially because the models get exponentially more complicated the more you expect it to do.
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 1 month ago:
Yep, that won’t cause cancer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A butter knife could cut them all too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can cut bread and tomatoes. A bread knife does a better job with bread.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bread knife would like a word. Chef knife technically works but bread knives are usually longer and work much better at cutting without smooshing.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
No undies = embarrassed kids
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
Socks in bed is a crime. The feet must breathe
