Candelestine

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Candelestine , to xkcd in xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness

Peppercorns?

Whole and spherical, not particularly tasty. Changing their shape via grinding, however, unlocks fought-wars-over-the-stuff levels of tastiness.

Please explain.

Candelestine , to Politics in Senate GOP split threatens bipartisan border deal as Trump looms large

Mike Johnson, the leader of our lower legislative house, is blocking all votes on Ukraine aid. He won’t allow it to come to a vote. So, as a way to pressure him, it has been linked to something he ostensibly supports so that he has a harder time unilaterally blocking it.

He can still probably block it, but its harder to justify to his voters.

Ukraine aid on its own is a flat no, though, for as long as he occupies his position, which he got fairly recently.

Candelestine , to askscience in Would it be possible to comfortable survive 10 Gs if the acceleration was slow enough?

So, this is a basic misunderstanding of gravity and acceleration. The measure of Gs is the exact measure of how fast the acceleration is.

This is just like asking if it would be comfortable to survive 100 C if the temperature was cold enough.

There is no difference between acceleration and gravity. If locked into an elevator, you wouldn’t be able to tell with certainty if the elevator started going up, or someone had just turned the gravity of the planet up to make you heavier somehow. If the elevator suddenly dropped in freefall, you would not be able to tell if it was the elevator moving down, or someone had simply turned gravity off somehow. This is part of Einstein’s Special Relativity.

Candelestine , to Ask Science in Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?

I also learned 9.8.

This reminds me of the story of magnetic detonators for torpedos they tried to use in the early days of WW2. They detect the slight disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by a gigantic hunk of floating metal, and that triggers the detonation.

However, they did not yet know that the Earth’s magnetic field is not consistent over the whole planet, so while they calibrated it to the local field, it functioned very badly in other regions with different field strengths. Torpedo would either detonate far too early, doing minimal damage, or not detonate at all, just hitting the target ship with a loud thunk.

This was largely responsible for the ineffectiveness of American submarines in the early days of our WW2 involvement. Took us a couple years to sort too.

It was called the Mk 42 in case anyone wanted to read a little more. It’s an amusing story. They never wanted to actually properly test them, because they were so damn expensive. So they just didn’t. lol It wasn’t until enough sailors complained and got a high ranking admiral on their side that it got sorted.

Candelestine , to Work Reform in Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Nah, that doesn’t sound like them. They like the word “traitor” okay, but the word “class” is to be avoided at all costs.

Candelestine , to Work Reform in Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Can, but this is badly overblown imo.

Water alone cannot grow bacteria. They need a food source too, an energy source. Sunlight is probably not getting in, so where does the food come from? How do they fuel metabolism? Just like you, they need food and water.

“Dirty” water can grow bacteria, because there’s more than just a bunch of H2O molecules in it. Something like distilled cannot.

So, depending on the source of your water, you can be fine. Like, a lot of people use RO, and that’s pretty clean water.

Candelestine , to Work Reform in Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

You forgot the something something unions causing trouble something.

Candelestine , to Ask Science in Why do trees stems grow new "parts" inside and not outside i.e. why is the oldest part of the stem the innermost "ring" and not the outermost?

So, the inner rings are actually the oldest. I’m no botanist, but I know that with your average deciduous tree, you have a layer right between the bark and first wood layers, and that thin layer is where the cell division for growth is mostly occuring. So, it actually is the exterior, just right beneath the bark.

Other kinds of plants are probably different, and again, I’m no botanist. Just have some basic biology study.

Candelestine , to Ask Science in What if the quantum uncertainty suddenly became significantly larger on macroscopic scales?

We already have that. They’re called toddlers.

Candelestine , to aww in Fennec Fox

Now post a secretary bird, a gorilla and a red panda.

Candelestine , to Fediverse in Lemmy and Kbin: The Best Reddit Alternatives?

A thorough, consumer-facing breakdown by a major tech news site? I think we’re moving up in the world…

Though I wish they would’ve added a couple more paragraphs going into the data privacy/security concerns that some people have. I guess the average consumer isn’t particularly bothered these days, kinda gotten used to it. Would’ve been nice though.

Candelestine , to Fediverse in Is jointhefediverse.wiki a good resource?

From a brief perusal, yes, it looks okay. It’s a wiki though, so proceed with the standard caution.

Candelestine , to Fediverse in Anyone else having log in issues constantly on both Kbin/Lemmy?

Can try clearing your cache, see if that helps.

We’ve been having some technical issues on World this weekend though. Your best bet is to go for a smaller Instance and set up there as your main. Then you’ll be able to access the content from world and kbin from there, without having to deal with any of the bigger Instance problems.

Candelestine , to RedditMigration in I think the rush to recreate communities is a bad idea.

I mean, you’re right, but it’s pretty inevitable. There will be a natural wave of creations, inactivity and reclaimings that will take place over the coming couple of years.

For now though, this is wild west internet, so trying to control it would be similar to trying to herd cats with firecrackers.

Candelestine , to RedditMigration in Reddit's Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma

So the incentive to make the best spambots won’t just be some project for influence, but an actual financial reward? Truly, reddit will be at the forefront of innovation.

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