Tudsamfa

joined 8 months ago
[–] Tudsamfa 1 points 2 weeks ago

"What do you mean you lost the funds? Go find them!"

[–] Tudsamfa 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If it makes it any better, this way he might actually notice the generator exhausting fumes in his limited air.

[–] Tudsamfa 0 points 1 month ago

Well I wouldn't know, but I saw this video, which says this is how it is described in "Confessions of a recovering engineer" by Charles Marohn, former professional engineer. If you or your ex find any fault with what Charles wrote or what NJB got wrong in adapting part of the book into his video, let me know.

[–] Tudsamfa 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

...how do you know that? I thought roads, in north America at least, were set on the 85 percentile rule. Measure how fast people are going on a street and set the speed limit to the car at the 85 percentile, rounded.

This sounds like "common wisdom" to justify speeding. And even then, you would never know when the road you are on actually has a correct speed limit and you're endangering everyone. A 5 - 10 mph increase is a lot more dangerous than one may think, because the energy in the system increases quadratic and the reaction time remains constant, it's even dangerous at 5-10 kmh.

[–] Tudsamfa 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Who in their right mind is going to work without being paid?

[–] Tudsamfa 6 points 1 month ago

Nothing 2 minutes in paint cant fix... another time.

[–] Tudsamfa 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Don't know either, but nothing 2 minutes in paint can't fix. Spending that time surely can be expected from our memelords, no?

[–] Tudsamfa 1 points 1 month ago

It really is more of a fear of the unknowable than a horror beyond comprehension, isn't it?

[–] Tudsamfa 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Proteins and DNA and their mirrored counterparts behave like the Tetris L and ⅃ blocks, basically the same but you cannot rotate them to fit in a hole meant for the other. Fitting in holes is, somewhat literally, how most processes of life work on the sub-cellular level.

Processes like the immune system. And if an experimental microbe from mirrored DNA doesn't fit in the holes your immune system uses to identify things, because all the proteins curve the wrong way, there's no telling how it behaves, even if the unmirrored version is one of the most studied organisms. And it's not just your immune system, it's every living things' one. And 1 microbe alone is a potential pandemic.

I am no expert, but I hope the horror is comprehensible now. If not, I imagine minuteEarth's video on mirrored molecules is basically the same reasoning here, with the caveat that mirrored DNA tends to make more of itself.

[–] Tudsamfa 3 points 1 month ago

In the past, I always felt good about never being on Twitter, considering how much people complained about it on Mastodon.

And then I realized I instead visited Reddit daily. To maintain my perceived superiority, I had to quit that and ended up here.

[–] Tudsamfa 1 points 1 month ago

It's a fad, people will come to their senses eventually.

 
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