OptimusPhillip

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wikipedia lists influencer as a synonym for internet celebrity, so I guess just when they become famous.

Unless you take the title literally, then it's whenever they become influential over a statistically significant portion of the population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aluminum soda cans have plastic linings, because the acids can dissolve the aluminum. What that means for your drinking bottle, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

If I were writing the Star Wars movies with the benefit of hindsight, I would allude to the fact that Vader seems much more aggressive when dealing with Leia compared to other Rebels, like something about her Force aura is triggering to him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As an American who has gotten very used to metric units in studying engineering, the general rule I picked up is that you typically only change units every three orders of magnitude. So 8 decameters would typically be expressed as 80 meters, maybe 0.08 kilometers. Decameters and hectometers are a thing, but they're not common units. Even centimeters don't see much use compared to millimeters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Yes, in fact such a machine already exists. It's called an air conditioner. An air conditioner is just a heat pump that pumps heat out of a building.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

How much you wanna bet this'll get turned into an AI voice video?

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

What rock have you been living under? I could not escape this movie when the discourse was at its peak. I can absolutely believe it was one of the most talked about movies.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you'd be better off getting a heat pump. It's the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I've been told.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

But they didn't decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Could they not afford The Wells Fargo Wagon?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because the onus is on the farter to say something courteous. Because we, for some reason, decided that a involuntary, natural bodily function is rude.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised to be reminded he was still alive. I keep forgetting it was his brother that died, and not him.

 

I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn't do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn't exist? I think it's super convenient, especially if you're subscribed to a ton of channels and don't want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.

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