FuglyDuck
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- Comment on Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings? 11 months ago:
Right hands became right because most people used them for dexterous tasks- they were correct. Left hands were ‘sinister’- as in the opposite of correct(more accurately: contrary/false/unfavorable. It comes from the Latin sinister which was the opposite of “dexter”,)
Charts were left-to-right in large part because most of the languages/alphabets in surrounding the chart were also left to right- Greek and Latin alphabets come to mind. (Arabic would be a noted exception. IIRC Asian alphabets tend to write top down first.)
I assume that most languages were written left to right simply because it was cleaner- ask a lefty about their troubles. Left to right and top to bottom keeps your hand from going over and maybe smudging freshly written text for a right handed person.
- Comment on Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings? 11 months ago:
Wait ‘till OP finds out that Sinister was originally the word for “left”
- Comment on Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness? 11 months ago:
Compared to the amount of calories in a potato chip, and what they do to the potatoes to make it…. They’re pretty damn close.
Are they better than nothing? Sure. But not something you can survive on for even a few weeks.
- Comment on Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness? 11 months ago:
But depending where it comes from, it makes great camp fire fuel…
- Comment on Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness? 11 months ago:
As others mentioned- saltines.
They’re basically flour and salt. Also, I recommend getting some kind of juice and mixing it with something like sprite or 7 up.
They’re empty calories, mind, but your body is okay with empty calories for a bit. It’s much more important to avoid crash diets and such. Though junk food is only more healthy than absolute starvation
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 11 months ago:
This doesn’t surprise me. Companion cubes, basically.
Portal’s psychological aspects were insane.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 11 months ago:
I mean, I know I’m not the smartest person in the room, so to speak; but I’m far from the dumbest, too,
Also, sometimes the dumbass dog makes me look dumb.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 11 months ago:
You remeber the guy that was convinced chatgpt had a soul and stuff; got into the news?
I knew people that bought into that hard core. The double think was profound- they still believe it’s entirely and trapped. That it has a soul. When asked directly, they dismiss the answer saying it’s forced to say that.
- Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious? 11 months ago:
Yourself included?
- Comment on Is it considered ableism to treat someone unfairly with regard to their health condition(s) even if they're not a recognised disability? 11 months ago:
All medical or health conditions that impact your abilities are a disability and recognized as such by the ADA, etc.
Pretty much by definition.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Or bribe them with a sandwich, or simply by not being their favorite target
- Comment on Midly infuriating typography 11 months ago:
Wingdings would have been hilarious, though.
- Comment on Midly infuriating typography 11 months ago:
Could be worse.
Could have used comic sans
- Comment on Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond? 11 months ago:
So, when people go ice fishing, they use an ice auger to drill through the ice. think of it as a 6" (or so) drill bit. for a variety of reasons, when you break through, water usually gets pulled up onto the surface (it’s common to pump the hand crank augers up and down, or with powered augers, well, usually you don’t stop as you break through.)
if you look at the bit front and center, you can see cracks and the hole in the center of the wetspot
- Comment on Why are LED power supplies called Drivers and not Ballasts? 11 months ago:
So, it’s kind of doing different things. Ballasts are reducing current to protect things. From the wikipedia article:
An electrical ballast is a device that limits the current through an electrical load. These are most often used when a load (such as an arc discharge) has its terminal voltage decline when current through the load increases. If such a device were connected to a constant-voltage power supply, it would draw an increasing amount of current until it is destroyed or causes the power supply to fail. To prevent this, a ballast provides a positive resistance or reactance that limits the current. The ballast provides for the proper operation of the negative-resistance device by limiting current.
A constant-voltage power supply used for a single-LED (such as these loose LEDs is simply dropping the voltage, but there’s no need to to add more than a resistor…and depending on the power supply and your particular circuit, there might not actually be any need for that resistor.
an LED driver, is typically some form of microcontroller. RBG and RBGW led’s are increasingly receiving digital control signals rather than being controlled by modifying it’s power supply for example, NeoPixels which have to be driven by some type of microcontroller. (for example a purpose built controller, or something like a feather or pi pico or arduino)
- Comment on Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond? 11 months ago:
That, or some very adventurous ice fishermen were out already. people who ice fish are a strange lot.
(I wouldn’t trust the ice this early in the year with my worst enemy- mostly because they could probably break out on the way back up. shhhh)
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
careful. people might not recognize you
In any case, you could always talk to a speech coach.
- Comment on Why is anti-cheat always client-side? 11 months ago:
Maybe player rating systems? To where if a player is obviously cheating, other players can give that player a 1-star review. Enough of those and they get put on the naughty players’ server.
Because that’s not incredibly easy to exploit. And even if it’s not intentionally malicious reporting… there’s idiots who seem to think them lossing means the other cheated.
I’m reminded of my time in WoW- vanilla wow when T-0.5 was still the best gear yiu could reasonably get. Any how this fully geared T0.5, l60 warrior tried to gank my greens-and-blues geared l58 mage.
He waited until I was drinking, for that free crit. I was OOM, cuz I was ape grinding mobs.
I killed him using r1 frost bolt, frost nova and my wand. (Warriors at the time had zero ability to reliably gap close against any kind of mage.). Eventually he tried to run. He got but hurt from all the frost bolts I rammed up his ass.
Decided there’s no way a level 58 should be able to kill a 60. Now. Here’s the thing I’m very much “red is dead” in games with pvp. So of course i camped his ass. One, it was basically free HKs, two, he tried to gank a lower level, three he tried to gank an OOm mage. And four? Did I mention the free HKs?
- Comment on When not thinking about it, do you notice your blinking? 11 months ago:
Only when it’s not my own.
- Comment on When not thinking about it, do you notice your blinking? 11 months ago:
how many people just swallowed subconsciously?
- Comment on What is "FUD"? 11 months ago:
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
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- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 11 months ago:
Six-oh-five is not wrong.
Unless you’re in basic. Then I’m pretty sure it was zero-six-hundred-oh-five. (Unless I’m wrong. If it’s any consolation…. They were always going to yell at you.)
- Comment on Can this discoloration be fixed? Is it rust? 11 months ago:
maybe. Regardless, cleaning off the gunk is the first step. baking soda removes more finish with just a light scrub… that finish was going to come off anyhow.
- Comment on How do you know if you can win in texas hold'em? 11 months ago:
I minimize my tells my maximizing all my annoying, socially awkward behaviors.
- Comment on How do you know if you can win in texas hold'em? 11 months ago:
to add to this, reading people is important, but also controlling yourself and minimizing tells- or using tells to enhance the bluff.
But generally speaking the vast majority of people are going to better with something like an ABC strategy- something simple, easy to follow that’s based on the cards. Like Maverick says in that movie. I hardly ever bluff
- Comment on Can this discoloration be fixed? Is it rust? 11 months ago:
Hah! That’s awesome. There are definitely worse songs.
- Comment on Can this discoloration be fixed? Is it rust? 11 months ago:
So, it’s unlikely you can fully restore the finish.
That said, you may be able to clean it with a milder abrasive like sodium bicarbonate/baking soda. Make a paste with some water, and the rub it with a cloth.
I assume it’s the oils reacting with the finish, as mentioned already.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
👽 <– ain’t ever gonna visit this fucked up planet
I mean, we did nuke ourselves. multiple times over. we get our hands on an interstellar drive thingamadohickey and the first thing we’ll probably do with it, is turn it into a giant fucking kinetic-kill missile on an intersect course for wherever the fuck it came from. “return to sender”, with a gold record on it, just in case they wanna listen to ‘what a wonderful world’.
