ConstipatedWatson @ ConstipatedWatson @lemmy.world

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Interesting! So it would make sense to have tons of sodium batteries for all purposes for which one doesn't need maybe higher capacity or performance as I understand lithium batteries offer

Question to anyone who might know more: would sodium based batteries be better than lithium ones for the environment, in terms of recycling or disposing of it?

In case they are indeed better, would they be better because it's better to use less lithium in general (so if you use more sodium based ones, you use less lithium) or would they be also better because their own disposal is "nicer" (as in less toxic) for the environment?

I get that this is yesterday's news, but I did not hear of this development in 2018 when the article came out. So for me this is a "Today I learned" (even if it's old news for everyone else).

I learned about the Stanford Prison Experiment from the crappy German movie "The Experiment" they made in 2001 and then listened to some interviews by Zimbardo around 2006 or so.

In fact, though the linked Vox article provides several examples of experiments that cannot be well reproduced, it is interesting that the Wikipedia article says Zimbardo is still very much convinced his experiment is sound (at least he still was in 2018).

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You're talking to me or the guy above?

Care to elaborate either way?

Ahem, what about car rentals when you travel? 😜 Just kidding: in this case you know very well you're not owning the car and only using it for a very short time

There's one thing I haven't read yet in the previous answers: after you s**t you still wipe your ass with toilet paper before using the bidet, and you do it pretty well too.

When you get to use the bidet, your butt is already pretty clean, but washing it with a bidet makes it entirely clean and feels really nice.

You use a towel right after using a bidet, which is why you see one hanging right by a bidet in most (if not all) bathrooms with a bidet. This prevents spraying water everywhere after you're clean.

Also, when you use it once, you learn how strong you want your water stream to be, not to wet the whole bathroom. You do the same the first time you wash your dishes (if your faucet shoots water too strongly, you wet the kitchen beyond the sink)

Also: those who use bidet go through a rigorous training to master its practice and transmit it's secrets orally to the next generation.

Bonus: Crocodile Dundee VS a bidet

You just reminded me of this awesome bot on Reddit called "please respect tables".

There is still a subreddit about this, though it's been abandoned

Please respect tables

It would be fun to have it here too! 😄

I've gotten used to just accessing Lemmy through the Eternity app.

How would I look at the graph showing instances and which ones are connected to each other?

I remember that during the development of Black & White they had a journalist writing about its development and how exciting it was going to be.

Black & White got realized, but these interviews seemed a very fishy way of hyping the game and it's when I got wary of Molyneaux grand claims

It will be out exactly 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop 3.

Is that the longest ever between official sequels?

Sorry guys, Monty Python beat us all at this game

Disclaimer: I am neither knowledgeable enough about economics nor the Mercosur situation.

That said, I have an honest question for whoever may want to chip in: why would a single currency be bad or good in the case of Mercosur?

On one hand, I could see a single currency simplify trade over there and be perhaps less volatile than all Latin American currencies, on the other I see very different economies and so the opposite might happen (aka, they're so volatile that the single currency would fluctuate in weird ways due to country X or Y having different scandals or issues)

I suppose my question is if asymptotically it may help stabilize all countries a bit or it would just not work amid such a diverse pool

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In 2011 Gotye wrote a song about Reddit today

I don't disagree with you!

I just would like to see certain niche communities grow here too because Lemmy is great and (so far) it feels like the conversations here are nicer, so I'd like people to move here to make Lemmy even better

Ah, I hadn't noticed this level of worsening. I suppose because when I visit I still go to niche subreddits and there the impact is less noticeable (but you do notice it).

I suppose great moderators have left the platform and they've been replaced by others who would like to be as good (but are crippled by new Reddit rules allowing many more trolls) or those that just don't care or are straight crazy!

Well, I still visit Reddit once a week since there are communities there that don't yet exist here (or they are nearly empty).

I'm now all the time on Lemmy and am even much more active than what I ever was on Reddit, but I only have so much time.

I noticed there are slightly less quality posts in some subreddits, but I wouldn't call Reddit crushed.

In fact, subscribers in all the subreddits I used to follow are actually up and even by a lot, while Lemmy users don't really seem to increase by much (though I'd like them to).

I'd like to see a sudden growth in Lemmy and fall of Reddit, but I don't think it's anywhere near (though I'll keep doing my part here!)

Eternity does that too, when you click on the comment button you can change the account from within the comment

Yay for Portal and Portal 2!!!

Is this a Portal reference? I remember hearing it from GLADOS!

Wonderful!