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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Intersite drama. Boo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the next administration to reside in office

Unless the US' current trajectory changes sharply, I don't think there are going to be any more elections.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And what exactly would we do to help? Invade? Arrest your leaders? Station peacekeepers inside your borders?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Probably a bit like Dr Frankenstein, watching his monster lurch down the hill towards the village.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

If a bidet user was also an Arch user, which would they tell you about first?

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

I didn’t realize “banal” was pronounced “ban all”

😶

I was today years old...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

For years I drove past a sign for Eastport on my way in to the city centre. No-one every mentions Eastport on the news. I decided it must be the single most boring suburb in the city.

Last year I realised the sign actually reads like this:

East

Port

And things finally clicked.

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

I did that to my office once. My cover while I was on leave kept complaining that my storage was disorganised (unfairly) so I took a label maker and helped him out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Lotta downvotes in this thread. Seems like some of you feel like I'm disrespecting your non-beliefs. 😜

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What does a wienermobile do? Hand out free sausages?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That’s kind of the opposite of what atheism is about. It’s literally about evidence.

Maybe I'm being nitpick-y, but I think you're pointing at one small part of the whole and saying "that's it, right there. All of it". Atheism is literally about what you don't do - believe in any god. Some atheists come to that point through consideration and self-reflection. Others don't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't like to see science presented as a belief system. Science is a tool for establishing fact about the natural world in a methodical and reproducible way. For debating the existence of gods, you need philosophy.

 

Especially if the sinners still need their punishment?

 

Either all at once, or over a lifetime?

 

My position is that it's a snack and husband tax must be paid. My wife is arguing that it's a meal or occupies some third food space and it's entirely hers. Who's right, court of Lemmy?

 

To explain what I mean, I think you can level up a cooking style. For example, pasta. At level 1, you're boiling dried pasta and adding sauce out of a jar. At level 1, you add your own spices. Level 3, switch to fresh pasta. Level 4, make your own sauce. And finally at level 5, make the pasta from scratch.

So with BBQ, I guess level 1 would be cooking the meat so it's neither burnt nor underdone. Maybe level 2 is mixing different meats/cuts that have different heat/time requirements and cooking well. Further levels = ?

 

Picture this: you're working in a large open-plan office and you need to send a message to Steve at the other end of the room. You pull out your messenger handgun, dictate your message (because you paid for the voice recognition feature) and let it engrave your words on a bullet. Then you simply fire it at the target mounted above Steve's cube!

Fast, attention-getting and simple. It's the perfect system.

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This site allows you to delete elements from a webpage and save the remaining as a PDF file.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17085827

Lemmyversers, I'm looking for some help developing a new mnemonic device.

Inspired by a video by Epic Spaceman, where he explains a handy system for comparing the size of things from a banana to an atom, I’ve come up with a mnemonic device to aid in remembering these scales.

He lists items, each smaller than the previous by a factor of 10:

It goes:

  • Banana
  • Coin
  • Edge of the coin
  • Waterbear/microorganism
  • Red blood cell
  • Bacteria
  • "Good virus"/Bacteriophage
  • Corona Virus/"Bad Virus"
  • DNA
  • Atom

So a coin is roughly 1/10 a banana, and the edge of that coin is roughly 1/10 the size if that coin.

It gives good references for thinking about other things if similar size. A sort of banana for scale at each factor of 10.

And allows you to quickly determine approximations like Covid is roughly 1000 times smaller than a red blood cell. Or an atom is roughly 1 billion times smaller than a banana. (That doesn't sound right. Is that actually right?)

Do you think that's a useful memory tool? And are these best touchstones for scale at each level?

The mnemonic I've come up with for it as you may have guessed, is:

  • Be
  • Cool
  • Even
  • When
  • Really
  • Big
  • Goblins
  • Casually
  • Drop
  • Acid

Do you have any better ideas or tweaks you"d recommend for the mnemonic or the touchstones?

Would this be helpful when trying to wrap your head around the scale of the micro?

Also, what would make for a good macro version of this? Where everything got bigger by a factor of 10?

 

I'm sharing this because any reduction in unnecessary packaging waste is good for the planet - and because I think laser-etching avocados is funny. 🙂

 

I followed a Jaime Oliver recipe for curry, which started with grating onion, ginger and garlic. I liked the curry, but grating an onion is a miserable job. He said that technique unlocked the onion's 'sweetness'. How much difference do you think I'd notice if I used a food processor?

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