ApathyTree
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- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 4 weeks ago:
In that case, I’d recommend the sanding, then a wipe down with bleach for the algae, then primer impregnated with a fungicide like Zinsser mold blocking primer (just an epa-approved example, but decent place to start). It’ll form a barrier between the raw degraded plastic and the paint (so anything existing won’t continue to grow), as well as helping prevent molds from growing in the new paint layers.
Just wait for a really dry day to do it (much as you can, you know, or if you have a garage you can run a dehumidifier in that may work too), and let the paint dry for a long time between coats to prevent any moisture trapping.
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 5 weeks ago:
Probably best option is to sand it, prime it, and repaint it. Use a UV resistant paint or top coat, and should be good for several more years.
The green black gunk is probably algae, maybe with mildew (guessing you live somewhere that gets humid, or at least takes a while to dry from dew) so feel free to wipe it down with bleach or a fungicide after sanding but before you paint it.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
So I’m not a biologist either but I’m going to speculate on the temp thing. (Somewhat educated speculation - science of all varieties is my jam)
Basically my hypothesis is that between insulation and size, they aren’t capable of losing heat fast enough to fall below their baseline temp, but any old temp would probably have worked fine, as long as their fats stay liquid (and for all I know that’s 36C, but that seems highly unlikely - you’d want to be several degrees warmer in case of emergency, else you’d get stiff and die for sure).
They have a nice layer of fat for insulation and that’s all well and good, but they are massively huge and a lot more spherical than most animals. So, they have a small surface area to volume ratio, and lose heat slower as a result. And because they are huge, and muscle twitch is heat generating (to say nothing of leaky heat-producing brown fat, idk if they have this, but most mammals seem to for thermoregulation), they likely produce a gob of heat internally just existing. Much like we believe the larger dinosaurs were endothermic due to sheer size (and some evidence from their bone structure).
Side note - Imagine how many calories it would take to maintain basal metabolic rate when you are losing that heat to 4C water at literally all times. It takes us about 1500-2000 calories for this function and we only lose heat to air that’s relatively close to our body temp.
I did a super quick scan of melting points of various fats, and while without knowing exact compositions of whale blubber idk the melting point, a surprising amount of the animal fats we use for cooking melt around 25-40C, with most large terrestrial animals (cow, pig, deer, etc.) falling between 32-40C (goose fat was the 25C).
If their composition hadn’t worked, though, they could have evolved a polyunsaturated fat (like fish oil) with a lower melting point.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk ;)
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
Plus side for squick thoughts, probably not that warm. The ocean is quite cold and things lose heat 25 times faster in water than air, so it would likely cool down considerably between being…… extruded…? And consumed.
Then again, I don’t know a whales body temp to start with, so there might be a lot of heat to lose. Idk if that’s better or worse…
- Comment on Human brains found at archaeological sites are surprisingly well-preserved 1 month ago:
So does that mean we probably have brains of other preserved and possibly extinct species…? That would be pretty neat.
- Comment on Does more knowledge/awareness have a tendency to reduce enthusiasm for some subjects/activities? 1 month ago:
It depends what makes you tick, and how much you care about a particular thing.
If you like learning a lot of superficial to mid-level information about a lot of things, diving too deep will naturally result in a loss of enthusiasm, and that’s ok. You only have so much energy for each thing to take.
But if you really enjoy doing a deep dive into one or two things, more extensive knowledge is the best reward for the effort, so it’s a self-reinforcing cycle.
I’ll never be the latter person. I’ll never know all the lore for anything, or know every model of machine or whatever. That’s not what makes me tick. I do tend to get bored when I know too much about a thing and learning more means engaging other people’s thoughts (books/media), or using math, or whatever boundary I don’t feel like crossing. But that’s ok, my enjoyment is from knowing a lot about a lot, not from knowing everything about a few things. Which is also ok.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Scientists have discovered that the diaphragm is not the only body part that aids in breathing; the other will shock you.
- Comment on I just want my nuggies 1 month ago:
I lose them entirely too often for that to be an affordable option for me 🤭 I get like 80 clothespins for $1. I’ve gone through like 5 packs of them in 15 years, give or take.
But maybe I’d hit a level of saturation eventually (I find random clothespins all the time now) and it would work out.
Probably not - I have a habit of MacGyvering stuff from whatever I find laying around… clothespins are stupid handy for that, and binder clips would be too… so I’d definitely repurpose them… :)
- Comment on I just want my nuggies 1 month ago:
Or the very first time you open the bag, the zip seal pulls away from the rest of the bag.
Or the seal doesn’t line up properly and can’t be zippered no matter what you do.
Or the seal is one of those cheap single layer ones that cross-threads and pops back open every time you think you’ve got it.
Or the zip opening doesn’t cover the whole bag, and you, moron you are, cut the top instead of the disturbing mouth hole they want you to use.
I end up clipping them half the time anyway… good thing large packs of wood clothes pins are still commonly available at the dollar store :)
- Comment on Fucking finally! 2 months ago:
Same, or until the next power outage. And then they will be wrong by who knows how much for a week or two until I set them.
- Comment on Love to do this 2 months ago:
I have had a coupe for the last 10+ years. Because I have no use for a full size sedan, and it weighs less so better mileage and handling. Plus I don’t want people asking me for a ride unless they need it enough to be uncomfortable in a tiny car (“sure, but I have a coupe” is a powerful line when people want a ride). It’s a Honda civic, which you’d struggle mightily to class with sports cars and muscle cars… so I’m pretty confused by your blanket classification - my civic coupe is nothing like the eclipse I used to have.
I’m a super cautious driver (no tickets no accidents 20 years driving) but I also basically never see sporty coupes around here (rural), so I don’t have any reason to assume coupe drivers are worse than sedan drivers as a general rule. As such, I’d be pretty pissed if I had to take a special driving test just because I don’t want a full back seat adding weight to my commute.
I’m with you on the rest of it, though I’d say to just ban large vehicles entirely unless you get special accommodation to have one for work purposes only. They are entirely unnecessary in 99% of cases and seem (anecdotally) to make people more aggressive drivers (I think because the height makes them feel slower), rather than just attracting aggressive drivers.
- Comment on These violent delights have violent ends 2 months ago:
Oh, heh, my bad. There’s a lot of people who don’t seem to watch/like voyager, so wasn’t sure if you’d seen it. Very convincing. 10/10.
- Comment on These violent delights have violent ends 2 months ago:
The doctor in voyager is holographic, he says much the same about being amazing. :) The sickbay in voyager is equipped with holo projectors, and he’s an emergency medical hologram.
But his matrix is too large for the ship to manage multiple copies of his program, or something… or maybe just the sickbay computers… either way, they could probably easily generate drones to do specific tasks with high precision.
- Comment on Just doing my part 🤡 2 months ago:
Idk about theirs, but my silicone bits are removable. You take them off before you wash them.
- Comment on NASA looking for 4 volunteers to spend a year living and working inside a Mars simulator 2 months ago:
I would absolutely do this but I have health problems that would make me an unqualified subject :(
- Comment on Emergency cake 2 months ago:
With brakes on, this close, and this weather, on an on-ramp, they are probs going 20 mph tops.
- Comment on *ACTION ROLL* 2 months ago:
And this… this sentiment… ongoing and supported by their own actions as it is, is how they fall.
We have no respect for them and the institutions they uphold.
Nor should we. They deserve nothing but misfortune.
- Comment on Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account 2 months ago:
I like to tell them “your mother must be so ashamed to have you in the family; so worthless as a breadwinner that you have to resort to theft”.
That always riles them right up.
- Comment on Why do (desktop) PC have so few USB ports ? 2 months ago:
My bedroom media pc (old-ass enterprise tower) has 8 on the back and 5 on the front. So 13 usb ports. It doesn’t have any wireless anything, physical ports only, and there’s no room to add internal cards for it, but plenty of usb ports for dongles!
I use 3 of those ports at most (I use Ethernet, since it’s my acquisition machine, or it’d be 4), and 2 are for keyboards and mice (one handheld with touchpad, the other a normal set).
I’m struggling to even come up with 7 things that would all need to be plugged in together… I guess webcam, mouse and keyboard if they can’t run off a single port, and headset maybe if you got one that bypasses the audio jacks for whatever reason… but that’s still only 4.
- Comment on /c/dadjokes 2 months ago:
Man if someone offered to deliver a baby I’d just give them my address and bounce.
I’m sure I can return-to-sender it then.
- Comment on Get you a man who can do all four 2 months ago:
I’m faceblind, that honestly didn’t register.
- Comment on Get you a man who can do all four 2 months ago:
Really? None of that looks at all familiar (other than the quality).
Wild. Thanks for replying :)
- Comment on Get you a man who can do all four 2 months ago:
What is this from? Continues? (I just found that the other day, haven’t watched it yet)
- Comment on How the codpiece flopped 2 months ago:
So not only did men wear wigs and high heels at various points in history, but crotchless stockings too, but they “can’t today” because it’s “not manly”
Horseshit, bring back the crotchless stockings for men!
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 3 months ago:
I’m not super upset by legal acquisition if it’s not available here.
Thanks! It’s on my list now. I’m actually excited that it’s foreign media but not anime. (Anime is fine, but sometimes you don’t want the sameness)
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 3 months ago:
Is it any good?
I’m always on the hunt for new stuff!
- Comment on even pardner could use a partner 3 months ago:
I think you may be fundamentally misunderstanding the std treatment coverage ;)
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 3 months ago:
Probably far fewer than never had the opportunity to realize they could be great in the first place.
If greatness is one in a billion we have 8 (boy would the richest like us to believe that!). If it’s one in 100 million (I’m bad at math. I think it’s like) 80. Or if it’s one in a million, that’s 350 in the US alone. I’m inclined to lean toward the later, after all, if there aren’t a lot of greats waiting to be called up, how the fuck did we beat the odds by such a large margin??
- Comment on Introducing Sudo for Windows 3 months ago:
Legit didn’t realize until this news came out that windows didn’t have that same sort of “lawl, yes, I know what I’m doing and accept it might break my shit if I’m wrong” override access… but then I stopped using windows at 7 and only started again with 11 when my Linux beast died.
I never really used cmd on windows, everything was gui… but I prefer terminal to gui on Linux (idk why, maybe just because it’s different and feels more in control. Also verbose logs are sexy).
- Comment on awwww 3 months ago:
Claymation nudity strikes again!