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KidnappedByKitties ,

Tl;dr:

Bathtubs started small due to size constraints of rooms, but got smallee because it’s cheaper to manufacture and handle smaller tubs.

KidnappedByKitties ,

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How is it messy for the employer to keep wages at market prices?

You don’t have to match anything or contend with mass quitting if you just pay the going rate to start with.

KidnappedByKitties ,

We’re learning in real time that the ICC and UN are great tools, until they disagree with you, at which point they can be ignored and even threatened.

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Sounds like great news, no?

Just as we had a time before fungus digesting plant matter, we’ve now had a time before fungus digesting plastics.

“Soon” we’ll get bacteria and insects doing the same, and all our plastic buildings will need to be protected just as the wood ones.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Written with ChatGPT no doubt

KidnappedByKitties ,

Maybe, it also has symbolic value, and might demoralise the civilian populace, whose support is crucial to the continued state support.

It still seems a weak move as infrastructure should be a more effective target, but who knows how many layers of distractions and attacks of opportunity really happen in the field?

KidnappedByKitties ,

Nothing to show and a day closer do death, as the song goes.

KidnappedByKitties , (edited )

Yes, as the blurb says in the fourth word or so.

Edit: did the math and counted up to the fourth word

KidnappedByKitties ,

If you’re buying tickets that far in advance, PTO is less of a request and more of “notifying you to fill those days”.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Also work as pocket eggs, a portable snack

KidnappedByKitties ,

There’s a relevant physics anomaly called a Helmholtz resonator, or more broadly waveform interference.

KidnappedByKitties ,

You’re right to be sceptical until more data is presented, but saying no claim of progress is ever true is quite obviously a gross misrepresentation of our current reality. You are doing this on digital devices interconnected with millions of users ar staggering speed and latency. Every part of which are scientific claims.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Unfortunately I don’t agree.

Good reasons to omit details include brevity, legibility, pedagogy and scope.

Showing the supporting evidence for all steps in an evidence chain is simply not feasible, and we commonly have to accept that a certain presupposed level of knowledge as well as ambiguity is necessary. And much of the challenge is to be precise enough in the things that need precision.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Yeah, I’m sure you’re right

KidnappedByKitties ,

Heat is electromagnetic radiation - photons, sound is mechanical displacement - phonons.

They mostly propagate the same due to being waves, in most other respects they are very different.

Heat convection is an entirely separate process where heat radiation is aided by the movement of the surrounding medium. Where it would otherwise heat up it’s environment, convection keeps the environment from heating up. Compare coffee in a thermos (very little convection) to a cup you’re blowing on (significant convection); more air movement - more cooling.

Also, destructive interference does not at all work like that.

Maybe a more useful analogy could be that waves have like walking animations, where in part of the animation they go up, and in another part they go down. Destructive interference happens when a wave in its’ “up” phase crosses a wave in it’s “down”, meaning the resulting movement looks like nothing. The waves don’t however interact in any way, and will continue on their way and on their own animation cycles.

The shifting and heating parts are technically true but require very specific circumstances, enough so that I’m more prone to believe it’s another misunderstanding of the physics behind this. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Me calling you Shirley, no matter how much you insist you’re Tom, doesn’t make Shirley a slur, it just makes me a rude asshole.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Graphene, the superconductor hoax, the quantum electron model all would like to disagree.

Even though you might not need to calculate anything with it, it certainly applies in your daily life. (although the electron model maybe mostly for high school students)

KidnappedByKitties ,

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

KidnappedByKitties ,

A picture of emissions per capita

Notice how the US is among the largest polluters per capita by quite the margin.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I’m comfortable saying yes to that

KidnappedByKitties ,

Lol. Check your privilege.

A. Do a carbon footprint analysis of your life, if it’s above 2,5 tons coe/year you’re a net burden on the planet. My country is as well, although considerably lower than the US.

B. It is possible for you to be a paragon of environmentalism and still live in a country with inefficient systems for water, infrastructure, zoning, industry and food production. Not to mention live in a culture of unsustainable lifestyle. Many Chinese or Indian persons are simply too poor to have a major impact on the environment, but their national industrial practices drive up the average pollution to levels comparable to the US (although still lower). Most US people aren’t as poor, and also have shitty industry standards, and also the means to change that without losing your standing internationally.

C. Multiple countries are shitty, in fact most of the non-developing world countries are a net burden.

D. As opposed to the other countries at the top, the US has had the economy, data, and access to resources to be able to something about it for generations, whereas most have had half the time and considerable need of modernising.

E. The US is much larger than the other countries, and could with quite simple measures make great impact and help pressure other great polluters.

KidnappedByKitties ,

When does this raise questions of precedent? Is everyone entitled to 10 violations of a gag order in NYC now?

KidnappedByKitties ,

The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago, the second best time is now.

KidnappedByKitties ,

From a European perspective, the US centre-right are more conservative than the European fringe right. The European far right doesn’t (typically) want to restrict abortion, sabotage education or reinstate child labor for example. And are mostly about increasing and militarizing police, disenfranchising minorities, and different schemes to control that only the right people get to vote.

I’d argue that the US centre right is actually as radical, or even more so than the European fringe right, they are certainly causing about the same commotion, but of course have much more power in the US.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I’d agree that there are some variation in the European far right. In contrast to Italy, Spain and Russia: German, French, UK, Nordic far right are not restricting abortion, but are doing most of the rest (northern European ones not as much dismantling welfare/healthcare as making it inaccessible to some, especially immigrants, trans, lgbt, etc).

Does color change how hot a laser can get something?

For convenience sake let’s say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn’t heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn’t have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x...

KidnappedByKitties ,

@toboggonablaze is essentially correct, but let me try explain it in a slightly different way.

Lasers do a bunch of things to basically shoot a stream of photons at something. There’s basically two ways you can affect how much energy comes out of a laser, you can make the stream denser (more photons per second) - called intensity, or you can increase the energy in each photon.

The weird part about photon energy is that higher energy photons are of a different “color”, where red is lower than green, is lower than blue, is lower than gamma rays, etc.

So changing the color of a laser already means you’ve changed how much energy it can output.

Then there’s another part of your question: how lead gets heated up. Different materials respond differently to different types/wavelengths of light, an example you might be familiar with is that glass panes let through visible light, but not the heat from the sun, or that water also is see through, but can easily be microwaved (by microwaves - low frequency light).

Basically, a material can be more or less “translucent” in certain frequencies. I’d like to look lead up for you, but Google isn’t cooperating today. But basically, there are frequencies that lead will be more and less susceptible to.

That’s probably not what you meant with the question, but if that’s the application you want to use the laser for, you might want to take it into consideration.

So, in summary: color is energy, intensity is energy, you can change both independently, so your question doesn’t quite make sense.

Also, different targets will heat differently, also not making it a fair comparison.

KidnappedByKitties ,

We’re trying to describe the scarcity of something in units of something becoming less scarce every year. ftfy

KidnappedByKitties ,

This is such an understated but useful description in this context. It’s also how I understood algebra for applied matrix computation.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Honestly, how many more times is the answer gonna be “vote”, you don’t seem thrilled about either party, nor the judicial system, nor the oligarchy.

It might be time for political action: demonstrations, organised negotiations/pressure, striking, etc.

At least the French seem to get a lot done with national strikes.

"Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ?

I don’t do “batch cooking” per se, but often cook something larger on saturday/sunday so I have leftover, either for Monday/thuesday lunch or for when coming back from sport, keeping food 2-3 in the fridge doesn’t worry me (Obviously, I am not gonna keep a tartare so long in the frige, and don’t even cook meat). Things...

KidnappedByKitties ,

How long food lasts in a fridge will also depend on your climate, cooling speed (as mentioned elsewhere), fridge cleanliness, and how much you use your fridge.

Keeping everything covered with lids/clingfilm and/or everything vegetarian/vegan will also prolong fridge life. Keeping out ethylene (bananas, apples) from your fridge also helps.

I just had a soup batch in a few covered jars stay good for 9 days. In summertime things sometimes go bad in a single day.

The best measure is your own senses, if the food smells or looks bad, it probably is. And even then you can sometimes recook it (wilted vegetables can often be used in soup, stew, or even pie), especially if you catch it early.

Also here’s a neat summary with some other tips and tricks.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Only if he manages to write a manifesto, I’m not sure Trump can write anything coherent longer than 140 characters.

KidnappedByKitties ,

I was assuming the help of a speech/ghost writer, as he did in his presidential days

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KidnappedByKitties ,

Consent.

You might be fine with having erotic materials made of your likeness, and maybe even of your partners, parents, and children. But shouldn’t they have right not to be objectified as wank material?

I partly agree with you though, it’s interesting that making an image is so much more troubling than having a fantasy of them. My thinking is that it is external, real, and thus more permanent even if it wouldn’t be saved, lost, hacked, sold, used for defamation and/or just shared.

KidnappedByKitties ,

But the issue is not with the AI tool, it’s with the human wielding it for their own purposes which we find questionable.

KidnappedByKitties ,

What I find interesting is that for me personally, writing the fantasy down (rather than referring to it) is against the norm, a.k.a. weird, but not wrong.

Painting a painting of it is weird and iffy, hanging it in your home is not ok.

It’s strange how it changes along that progression, but I can’t rightly say why.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Inb4 Kelpians…

KidnappedByKitties ,

To the Mun!

KidnappedByKitties ,

What? Most religious dogma is predicated upon free will, meaning we are capable of rearranging things according to our own machinations.

It would be like bacteria in a petri dish reorganising and reproducing, but it’s still creation in a sense separated from the creator.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Remember that every lie has consequences for all negotiations.

That Trump regularly turns on a dime and trashes or backs out of any relationship that doesn’t immediately benefit him persinally, means everything from trade negotiations to maintaining army bases becomes much harder.

And/or more easily manipulated as we saw with Saudis, China, and Russia.

KidnappedByKitties ,

There is no lesser evil when it comes to genocide.

This is obviously untrue. If the option a) is genocide and b) is genocide and also dismantling the methods to protest it, methods to oust the decision makers, dismantling national security in resources and relationships, at the same time as blatantly plundering both the pockets of citizens and communal coffers, there’s very obviously a more evil option.

Equivocation and black-white thinking is comfortable, but there are still shades of brown when the shit has hit the fan.

In the best of worlds you wouldn’t be in this situation, now you are, make the better choice.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Still means there is a committee who thinks this is a good principle to build a country upon.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Yeah, we got people in droves.

Elephants however are rare and majestic.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Not really true, it’s part of religious shame propaganda in 12 step programs to make you more susceptible to conversion.

Might be effective in the short term, but has many other negative psychological effects.

Secular rehab programs are equally or more effective, and require no such shame or disempowerment.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Doesn’t actually take long to greenify a city, but you need the will and resources for it, and it will inconvenience people until they adapt to a new usage of the public/common areas.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Fair. Scratch it up as a casualty of the climate collapse.

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To the GOP there are no allies, only chumps and marks.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Not dead, also wounded beyond combat effectiveness.

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