MightBeAlpharius

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like you're probably good.

The slope itself shouldn't matter as long as the drain hole at the bottom of the sink is still higher than the drain hole in the wall. You can also angle the p-trap itself a little bit, but it still needs to be able to hold enough water in the bottom to block the pipe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

That is amazing.

Best we had was some idiot who thought he could get away with smoking in the bathroom like the jocks in an 80's movie... Someone walked in, and he threw his cigarette butt in the trash can, where it started to smolder.

A lot.

All told, it was a pretty boring fire. No real damage, but the school was closed for a couple of days while they cleaned up the soot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

In a way, it feels like we worked backwards to "cooking." I've heard "cooking with gas" for ages, but just "cooking" feels more recent.

Tbf, they're kind of the same thing, but at different levels of speed/intensity.

If your friend is working on something and they're in the zone, they're cooking like a trendy zoomer. If they're absolutely plowing through whatever project they're working on, then they're cooking with gas like a crusty gen-x-er.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Their math was flawed, but I'm not really sure how to explain the math part better. I get what they were going for, though.

It's closer to decimal divisions of an inch, so a .223 caliber bullet would be a hair shy of a quarter of an inch (.25) wide.

Edit: just realized you had the second part of that already

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Some of them do... Or at least, they did - I mostly remember seeing it when I was in high school, and it sort of faded out when I was in college. Not sure if it fell out of style, or if it's only a thing with the Hot Topic/mall goth crowd

Edit: uncorrected an accidental autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even for those who don't build their identity around their job, a lot of folks are just used to having something to do.

I work in retail, and I've had a surprising number of old folks ask if we have any part time jobs available - they're not looking for steady paycheck, they're looking for something to do two or three days a week. Even if your job isn't necessarily who you are, it's still a reason to get out of the house.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

...Wait a second, that shooting was at a different nightclub named Pulse.

Pulse might not be the Titanic of clubs, but apparently naming your club Pulse is about as lucky as naming your ship the Titanic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've never had an induction stove, but I grew up with an electric stove - IIRC, it was on a separate fuse from the rest of the kitchen, and it had a weird plug because it needed a different voltage than most other appliances.

I would assume the requirements for an induction stove are more or less the same... Switching from regular electric to induction would probably be easy, but gas to induction would take a lot more work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I never really thought about their succession of consoles, but to me, seeing them listed like that feels surprisingly additive.

Like, the N64 had analog sticks, and the Gameboy was portable... And people liked both of those, so they released the GameCube, which had analog sticks and a handle, so you could take it to your friend's house. They followed up with the DS' touchscreen and the Wii's motion controls, and when people liked those too, they bundled all of that into the Switch: it has analog sticks, a touchscreen, and motion controls; it's a handheld and a very portable plug-in console.

But, as they've done that, they've always pushed the limits of what they could do. As it stands, there's not much that can be added to the Switch, so they're releasing an improved version - like they did with the Gameboys Color, Advance, and SP. Essentially, the limiting factor isn't Nintendo's ability to innovate, but rather the technology available to them.

Give it a few years for other aspects of technology to advance, and I'm sure they'll start pushing the envelope again. They'll probably wait until they can pack an entire console into a VR headset without a bulky battery pack, then release it with something wacky like a charging dock with a built-in projector, or something crazy like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A lot of people conflate "knowledge" and "intelligence." Not the guy you replied to, they seem like a troll; but still, a lot of people.

Our ancestors had intelligence in spades. They figured out an insane amount of stuff just to survive; and it's not too far back in the grand scheme of things that they had to remember it all because they had no way to record it. The first caveman to make a handaxe had absolutely no idea what he was doing, but they figured it out. Wheels, bows, fire, the entire concept of agriculture... They figured out how all of that worked from scratch, with no reference material.

Modern humanity builds on that with knowledge. We've figured out how to record everything our ancestors discovered, and all of our new discoveries as well. We've put men on the moon, figured out how to make electricity from things like waterfalls and glowing rocks, and almost everyone has a tiny computer in their pocket.

None of that means that we're more intelligent now, though. All of that knowledge is iterative, so we've just been applying that same intelligence at a continually higher level throughout history.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's implied that Doom & Doom II weren't fully removed from the continuity, though.

IIRC, the original games end with the Doom Marine stuck in hell... Which is also where they found the Doom Slayer. Additionally, despite his background with the Argenta, the Slayer is confirmed to be human in an audio recording; and his Praetor armor is similar enough to the UAC Elite Guard armor that he can upgrade his armor with tokens taken from dead guards.

So... In short, the Slayer might still be the Marine, but with a ton of interstitial backstory that kind of renders his actual origin irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

maybe a little less sweet

I see what you did there

 
 

I managed to luck out and get a shot of this guy right as he dipped into the water for a fish!

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