GOAE

7092 pts ยท December 5, 2015


They were always just made that they weren't the ones to get them.

18 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And? Did you think that tidbit of knowledge somehow disproved what they said? It doesn't much matter when it was enacted or what past president and congress honored because it, it's not being honored today and that's relevant today. Why would anyone trust the US when we go back on our word and betray allies constantly under this administration. Laws mean literally nothing when they can be ignored or suspended at any time.

1 day ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 5

Is that so? Because the text appears so high density I can't fucking read it.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And as another point of poof, you can clearly thermally see the garbage bag in your provided video. As such, if that bag were 50 times thicker, any infrared that makes it through would almost certainly be drown out by the infrared transmissions of the bag itself creating a noise floor the sensor can't reasonably see through.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just to really drive home this point, multiple feet of concrete or water is often used to shield reactor cores so the measured radiation is at background radiation levels beyond that shielding. But if you had 10 mils of concrete or water shielding a reactor you might as well have none and your geiger counter's probably gonna tell you you're already dead.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The thinner an object, the less its ability to block or reflect radiation. This holds true regardless of the type of object or type of radiation. If you had glass 10 mils thick you'd see infrared through it. So you haven't really disputed anything of relevance, you're just arguing extreme semantics. And while you're technically correct, the type of material is not the biggest factor in why a garbage bag can be thermally seen through, it's thickness is.

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meh, it's kind of just a somewhat hidden recurring cost that becomes "out of sight out of mind". Smart from a business perspective, but the consumer is still paying regardless of whether or not products are amortized by the membership fee. It's just a way to make them think things cost less than they do. It's sort of like calling Amazon Prime shipping free. It sure as fuck ain't free, you just paid for it in advance. The Costco food court is discounted because customers pay for it in advance.

5 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I can't even count the number of times someone thought "oh this time MAGA is done for, they finally are leaving their movement because of ___." Over and over. It's almost like people tell themself that so they don't actually have to get out of their house to try to make a change, because they'd rather wait for things to magically solve themself.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not really, MAGA has not fallen apart yet. Hardly a day goes by where some person convinces themself something is causing MAGA to fall apart and tweets about it, and it gets posted here. MAGA is strong because they love believing Trump's comforting lies, and Imgur I guess loves being on the opposite side believing the comforting lies of people tweeting about MAGA's impending collapse. Gas prices won't be the line MAGA can't cross, Trump already blamed Biden and MAGA believes it.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That helps for sure, but buried power lines are designed to insulate for voltages the lines carry. Ground is normally zero volts, but when a strike happens the ground is suddenly not zero volts and can easily exceed the low voltage the line is intended to carry. Luckily much of the electricity is not going to want to go into the line, so it attenuates pretty fast when it does, limiting damage more than overhead lines would.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep. Or the lightning strike exceeds the surge protection and cooks everything. And then the UPS manufacturer denies the warranty because almost any surge from a nearby strike will exceed the joule rating.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wish they would, but they're trained to take orders. So...

1 week ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

One lightning strike is actually usually a series of strikes that happen so rapidly it just so happens to look like only one strike due to the visual persistence of our eyes. So it could actually be argued that lightning almost never strikes the same place only once.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When it's the account of the literal guy saying the news is lying and that he's gonna be at a convention in person the next day... Yeah. I think we can believe that. I hope you're being sarcastic and at least read the Twitter URL to see who tweeted it.

1 week ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

He rounded up. From maybe 1%? Idk.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Even if every comment were true about Bill Gates, it was very weird for Dr. Berg to focus entirely on negativity. He did not like any comment talking about science, just ones that were emotional and negative.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How could it be expensive because of the ingredients but then give such a discount for volume? The second nail in the coffin was a video about Bill Gates adding wax to fruit to extend their freshness. Regardless of how you feel about that, going through the comments of that video was eye opening. People were saying some pretty horrible things about Bill Gates, many were speculation, and only the horrible comments were getting liked by Dr. Berg.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah, a few years ago he showed up in my feed. Every video I watched seemed to make sense, and a few things he said in his videos I verified that were true. But then when researching Keto, he mentioned in one of his videos that he sells powder you add to water for potassium. It's expensive because it has high quality ingredients he said. Well, buying twice as much of the powder barely cost any more than half. And that's when I knew he probably didn't actually care about helping people.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He said he'd "support the consensus". Basically, his ethical and moral compass is free to be calibrated.

2 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Uh huh, and how do you handle back feeding into the grid? Totally no safety concerns with that when you buy some sketchy Aliexpress solar panel. It's not like electronics ever short when they fail, after all. Linemen have nothing to worry about at all, there's definitely no reason to have isolation between generators and the grid and partially energized out-of-phase lines during an outage. Because a random guy on Imgur totally knows how power grids work and says it's a great idea. /s

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Oh there's definitely more to it than that. If you could just plug a solar panel right into a mains outlet, during an outage you'd risk killing linemen because you'd back feed into the grid, or in general causing huge grid issues when reclosers are closing after an outage due to phase mismatch. There's a reason why it's illegal to hook up a generator to your house without proper equipment to isolate it from the grid automatically.

2 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Eh, I don't agree. Some fans are impossible to impress, but most fans absolutely can be impressed by a new season; this has already been proven with similar fan bases. I used to think Star Wars was a dead franchise because it lose all of its originality and kept regurgitating the same stuff over and over. But then Andor came along, and I and many others found Andor to be excellent. It is not rated quite as high as A New Hope, but it's impressive how it's not far behind it.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Even if they were not bought and paid for, they are still multiple generations out of touch. How can we trust people who are technologically illiterate to write laws for technology? Congress is completely fucked.

2 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I mean AI is made by humans. Even if the AI made a decision humans erroneously trusted, it doesn't change the fact that the AI did not evolve on its own; humans made it into what it is. While I don't know if AI could statistically make decisions like better than humans, I do know that humans have in the past made countless poor decisions that lead to civilian casualties. Blaming AI now really just distracts from root causes.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'll never understand people who think that everyone should just step down in a fascist regime or you're considered one of them. Like holy fuck, do they not realize how that makes it 100x worse? When you're confronted with fascism, you should just step out of the way?! Just zero critical thinking skills.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They're not having a crisis of confidence either. Month after month I see garbage articles like this claiming the Republicans are jumping ship, yet every poll shows that they are the most stubborn human beings and once bamboozled they embrace the bamboozle. They cannot be swayed, because it just takes Trump telling them something they want to hear, no matter how blatant of a lie, and they fall right back to their hive mind programming.

2 weeks ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

America has long thought ourselves better than the likes of Russia, North Korea, and China; countries we label as undemocratic. Yet we repeat their very same propaganda, just with different wording, and because it's our version it somehow becomes completely okay.

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It's actually kind of amazing how effective propaganda and shaming can be. If you can step away from American propaganda, you realize how objectively weird the pledge of allegiance is; indoctrinating kids to be blindly loyal to a country before they can even vote. But because politicians frame anyone against the pledge of allegiance as unamerican, they are effectively shaming the entire nation into supporting it despite how it's something you'd expect Russia, North Korea, or China to do.

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Technically no, rust is specifically forming iron oxide and thus can only occur on ferrous metals, not titanium unless of course it's an alloy containing both iron and titanium which is very uncommon and as far as I'm aware bolts are never made of such an alloy. Sorry for being that guy. You're right that it is oxidation though. Also not sure I'd say it's very controlled, for that I'd argue you'd need a timed switch and circulation that would precisely control the reaction.

2 weeks ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 2

Ironic that they lecture Democrats on family values when Republicans have higher divorce and domestic abuse rates.

3 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0