deranger @ deranger @sh.itjust.works

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It’s totally true from a physics standpoint. A longer lever arm between the load and fulcrum requires more force to move the same weight, all else being equal. Edit: thinking on this more, I think a type 3 lever is more applicable to my chest flye example, but the same concept applies; as you lengthen the load arm relative to the effort arm, more input force is required to move a given load.

“Harder to exercise” is poorly defined, especially when you go on to discuss endurance, speed, and force, all of which are very different terms.

I totally get what you’re saying, but I specifically narrowed it down to force for a reason. My shorter friends kick my ass in lifting due to the mechanical advantage their shorter limbs have, but I smoke them in a distance run because my longer limbs allow me to traverse a greater distance in a single step. This is complicated though because larger lungs are a factor here too.

The smaller the foot, in this case, the harder the muscles have to work to create the same torque (or moment).

That’s backwards, a shorter lever arm requires less force. If you had a 10 foot long foot, you’d have to have insanely strong calf muscles to stand on your tip toes, because how far the load is from the fulcrum.

torque is the cross product of force and length

Correct. The force at the end of the lever is your body weight. A longer foot thus exerts more torque on your ankle and requires more calf muscle to move. Longer arms don’t make chest flyes easier, they make them harder.

That would be relevant to the calf muscles, but the lower surface area of the feet means higher pressure in terms of psi or pascals.

Got the update today! All good now.

I vacillate between the two. Really depends on the words surrounding “data”.

Where’s air involved? Sounds like things traveling through plant vasculature.

I believe those with more resources have more options to resist; this has always been the case. However, they don’t have all of the means.

I don’t think doomerism like this does anything but demoralize. It’s better than them going along with the bullshit. It’s gotta start somewhere, and it’s going to start with those who have the resources to resist.

I don’t believe “he helped Harvard stand up to Trump” is inaccurate. Yes, those with more resources can do more. Has this ever not been the case?

Is the better option that rich man do nothing?

You’re not wrong that the money helps but someone also has to do the convincing part. They both help.

Those would be killer bees, not murderer hornets. The murder hornets are Japanese. Africanized bees is the term, it’s not just a Fox News-ism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

There's nothing stopping anybody

I assume you can do it by hand, right now, in a few seconds then?

The shrines in BOTW mostly suck, with a scant few being actually creative or challenging. It was one of the most disappointing things to find some cool tucked away shrine and it’s just the “walk in and auto win” variety.

It’s also the anniversary of the Columbine shooting.

Gotta smoke tons of weed to cancel out the bad vibes associated with the day.

Yes, it requires infinite energy for any mass to get to light speed.

I don’t think our understanding of physics breaks down at such extremes though. I believe it’s decently understood, as in general and special relativity. I’m not a physicist though.

I mean if we're already violating physics by having objects with mass going the speed of light, I don't see what's wrong with also assuming the thing we have for going light speed can't also instantaneously accelerate.

Time is frozen at light speed. You arrive at your destination instantaneously, not even experiencing a tick of Planck time. To an outside observer it takes you time. From the perspective of a photon from the sun, there is no time or distance passing between its genesis in the sun and it landing on your face. From an observer on earth it took 8 minutes and millions of miles.

Also, due to length contraction, at light speed the universe isn’t 96 billion light years wide, it’s 0 anything wide.

At light speed there is no time and no distance, the origin is the destination. You won’t even experience a single tick of Planck time to get there. Instantaneous.

I wasn’t the biggest fan, thanks for the recommendations. I’ll give em a shot.

I assume just via the normal desktop site? I tried that back when I very first started with Lemmy but I quickly switched to using the Voyager web app just because I like the app features and especially the post layout. I might have to give the default web interface another shot as I only tried way back when I first switched over.

I still have a parallel printer cable in the big box o’ cords should I ever need it, which hasn’t been the case since sometime in the 2000s. I don’t know why I keep it other than the fact the once I get rid of it, I’m sure I’ll need it.