spittingimage

joined 2 years ago
[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

They'd tell you, but...

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

If you're a gentleman, two nothings.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

At this point I'd settle for any overlord that has a realistic plan.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"We dropped all our bombs! PEACE!"

Wish I could appreciate the irony, because there's nothing else going for the situation.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm surprised to see David Seymour's name linked with this. Everything that man touches turns to whatever the opposite of gold is.

Maybe he got the first prescription.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In the books, you couldn’t mistake Murderbot for a human.

In the books, Murderbot repeatedly remarks that it can easily pass for human among humans, but other constructs would spot it immediately.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I love the books. Murderbot is my competence porn. It's all about smart people getting out of bad situations by doing smart things.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

C'mon guy, don't be like that.

You can contain so much more coffee than that tiny mug.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Intersite drama. Boo.

 

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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