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5 days agoI’ve had some other friends mention only a tiny increase. Surprising.
I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It’s not the unhealthiness of this that disturbed me, but the fact they did it without the requisite paperwork.
Unlike those disorganised people I have a formal waiver. I primarily drink steam and crushed glaciers.
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7·12 days ago(Yes deleting the UUID breaks the URL. Which means everything in the URL except that is probably useless)
don’t worry about it
reaches for flamethrower and glyphosate
I have too many questions about how the teleportation works, like what happens if you instantly (or over a small time t) transition from one location’s air pressure to another?
3·21 days agoHad no idea about this, ty. Usually my local bees enter a drug-fueled rolling-around state inside my magnolia flowers (it’s a sight to behold), will have to watch and see if any beetles also visit mine.
I do not think a single one of your photos shows flowers or spores. Prude!
Cycads? Disgusting.
As a Magnolia man I’m feeling left out.
EDIT: Just showed my mum, she agrees on every point, including Cycads being gross. “Tell them I’m on the warpath and I’m coming after you”
4·28 days agoThe line was closed to passenger rail traffic in the early 1980s, following a downturn in passengers and munitions traffic
No more bullet trains ;(
T9 keyboard
Do you have to tap multiple times for each letter?
Similar layout, but flick your finger in an orthogonal direction instead of tapping multiple times: https://f-droid.org/packages/es.ideotec.t16fling/ . I have been using it as my main keyboard the past year and it’s OK. No haptic buzzes though and it’s incompatible with one app (Aurora store, causes random crashes, have to temporary swap keyboards).
Woah. Where am I? The Lemmy Displacement Field is wobbling!
This week’s attempt to find cheap housing/land near sydney: https://www.domain.com.au/lots-30-31-camberwell-road-vineyard-nsw-2765-2020371791
- Two narrow blocks being solder together for $500K
- Covered in flora, nothing built.
- Zoned for housing
- Few mins walk from a train station
- I think they’re on a creek. Both blocks. Which probably means you can’t build anything there, riparian zone.
- EDIT: Right next to open-air wastewater treatment plant, ooh yeah! I’m tempted to visit just to check it out.
500K is still too much money for me xD Maybe they’ll take $100K for just one? I can do $1K of timtams as a bonus.
4·1 month ago“boosting the immune system” is a marketing term, not a medical term. If you care about your health then have a chat to your doctor and ask them for advice. Supplements are unlikely to give you any health benefits, unless you have a specific deficiency.
The psychology and marketing of supplements is very interesting. They’re easy to take (easier than making behavioural change like diet, sleep or exercise). Pills are seen as something that makes you better, even though the supplements would do the same thing in powder form. They cost a lot so they must be good. They are advertised on TV as being a good thing, in association with imagery of doctors and healthy-looking people.
Ostensibly supplements are designed to be harmless, but that’s not always the case. Vitamin B toxicity on the federal gov’s healthdirect site:
B6 toxicity can occur even at recommended doses
Love the new image on the main page sidebar. Looks to be from 2017? I hope they kept that up every year.
2·1 month agoDitto. I don’t block any captchas though.
I wanted to complain about how hard it was to find the forecasts. At the time it required clicking through unrelated items, they have changed it now. Tried to give feedback and was then chucked in the bin.
This part of Gary Larson’s “new collection”, released this year and made on a computer.
Also tried giving feedback, pile of errors and wouldn’t accept it.
Huh? It’s https now for me.
Ty. Sorry it was a grumpy warning :(
From memory, it felt like the electrostatic discharge that used to happen whenever I was touching my car.
That’s likely a valid comparison. Some parts of the tube might give you the same style of event as static electricity discharge when you touch them. Other parts would give you something more though :D so please don’t take this as a generalisation.
Interestingly, the PC suffered no damage at all and didn’t blow its internal fuse, either.
Fuses are OK as fire prevention devices, but mostly useless as electrocution prevention. They blow based off power draw and time. Many human-electric interactions don’t actually draw that much power or last that long when compared to normal circuit power draws & timescales.
Thankfully, it must have been all volts and no amps so I was OK, even though I let out quite the yelp. 😁
Complete myth. Please don’t repeat this. It’s not even remotely close to a generalisation, it’s completely wrong and dangerous.
(Sorry, pet peeve of mine. Have had family members happy to play with mains wires but terrified to touch car batteries for fear of death)
100mA through someone can be harmless. 1mA through someone can be fatal. Lethal conditions occur under certain complex circumstances involving not just voltage/current, but frequency, exact waveforms, duration, contact points and the individual’s physical parameters (human skin resistance varies a LOT, it’s not an insignificant factor).
The most commonly encountered electrical hazards involve 50/60Hz 120/230V mains and hand/foot dermal contacts. This is a lethal combination that can cause heart fibrillation. Even 5mA or 100VAC can cause this (sometimes you will see lower numbers cited, “it depends”). Death can occur a day later, see immediate medical attention if you believe you have been shocked by mains wiring.
At very high frequencies our nervous system is not sensitive, so we can pass larger amounts of current or deal with higher voltages without much harm. I’ll still hedge this with “it depends”, you can get thermal burns (which if on the eyes includes blindness) and pathways through the body vary with contact points, changing the risks.
Static electricity discharges can be crazily high voltages and currents (many amps, sometimes hundreds of amps). Yet they are not a hazard.
The high voltages in your CRT will supply very high currents when applied to dermal contact points on the human body. This will likely induce involuntary muscle contraction. Prolonged contact could cause burns and unwanted chemical reactions to occur internally, but is unlikely to cause heart fibrillation because of the non-repeating DC nature.
I was young and did not have access to soldering irons. So I bridged the two pins with aluminium foil and sticky tape.
It would slowly peel off and my controller would suddenly stop working mid game. I couldn’t reboot the console because I couldn’t save (no VMUs). So I’d fix it live – I’d leave the screws out of the case, jiggle my fingers in there and fix it.
This was fine, worked for most of a year. Until I killed the console by accidentally touching the controller PCB to another PCB whilst doing this fix. I still have the corpse somewhere, to this day I still feel awful about it.
“I can tell you there’s people right throughout Yarra choking on their croissants this morning,” Cr Jolly told ABC Melbourne radio.
It’s completely off screen :(