dmention7 @ dmention7 @lemm.ee

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Going off OP's thought--the pump or spray bottles whose design and/or straw length makes it literally impossible to get the last bit of product out. I've had some where the straw just plain ends about 1/2" from the bottom so there was never even a chance to use all the product you paid for.

The worst part is I've also used spray bottles that--through very minor design tweaks--enable you to get virtually every speck of liquid. So it's not like it's even hard problem to solve, but fuck you just throw out the last 10% and buy a new bottle!

Dude, the local Costco had Xmas stuff up ON MOTHERFUCKING LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

I also thought infringing on Halloween's sovereign retail space was going to far, but this is literal insanity.

That seems more than a tad hyperbolic. My wife and I enjoy sitting in our backyard next to the fire and stargazing every now and again. We'll catch maybe a dozen satellites on a good night, during the couple hours post-sunset when you can actually catch the sunlight glinting off them. By about 2 hours after sunset, the number of objects that are both high enough to still reflect sunlight and large enough to see is pretty tiny.

I see vastly more planes with blinking lights and bright landing lights than I do satellites, and this has been the case for decades, but somehow that's not a threat to our enjoyment of the night sky?

I'm going to admit that I rolled my eyes a bit when I clicked on the photo because the plating and small portion size seemed a little pretentious. But then I clicked into the comments and saw OP was a pretty chill dude/dudette who was just excited about something nice they made, and promptly felt like a judgy asshole.

Anyway, this looks objectively nicer than 99.5% of what I eat and probably tastes delicious, so nice job and sorry if you caught any subconscious negative vibes!

(alcohol may have been involved in this comment 😅)

Weird Al wants to know your location

Hey thanks for the reply! I'll admit that paper lost me pretty quickly, so I am probably missing a subtle point. But it feels deeply unintuitive since frequency and wavelength are just two different ways of describing the same physical quantity.

So if I have a given source of photons, how the heck does the color of photons delivering most cumulative power change whether I choose to describe that color based on its wavelength or it's frequency?

Is there an analogue to something like sound energy or is this quantum physics weirdness?

(These are semi rhetorical questions... I'm not expecting you to explain unless you really feel like it 😀)

One of my favorite examples in (American) English has to be "There's more than one way to skin a cat"; meaning there are multiple viable strategies for the task or problem at hand.

I never really appreciated how morbid it is until I saw the shocked face of a fluent but non-native english speaking colleague after using it in a meeting.

Am I missing something, or is the point about sunlight's spectral peak being different in frequency space than wavelength space non-sensical?

Wavelength and frequency are simply the inverse of each other, and two different ways of describing the same color. The color with peak intensity is what it is, whether you describe it unsing wavelength or frequency.

Maybe the author meant some kind of integral / area under the curve concept, since the shape of the curve is different using wavelength vs frequency as the x axis, but even then, the actual power output across some spectrum range is independent of whether you define the range in terms of wavelength or frequency.

I mean, he did write about his miscarriage in a webcomic that was just goofy pop-nerd humor up to that point, which is the entire reason it became a meme.

If people are sending the dude loss comics on the anniversary, that's a little fucked up because it's being used as a personal attack. Which is 100% not the case with the typical loss meme.

Tl;dr I don't think the guys needs people white knighting for him every time a loss meme is born.

Dude's here talking about how much he hates the idea of a meme, on a meme sub.

I'll take "the literal definition of a meme, which is coincidentally also the name of the sub I am currently commenting on" for $800, Alex.

That was my first thought too, but I could see a practical married couple jumping at that deal.

Therefore, I'll one up you with child-size coffins.

AROOOOOOOOO TO THAT BROTHER

Wtf people... Finally a post that is actually mildly infuriating and OP is getting shit on for not being infuriating enough!

This post is doubly mildly infuriating, so I'm going to log in with my alt and upvoted twice.

Don't worry about it. There's nothing inherently bad about having the same content reposted occasionally, and it's pretty inevitable on a platform like Lemmy.

Also, complaining about reposts is just lame "I saw it before you did" humblebragging.

First off, you're a liar. Not a single person on earth has never had their transaction rejected.

I think this situation is a lot less common than you think.

More to the point, use a debit card if that is your gripe. Then you can just deal with an empty account rather than a declined card.

Just like you've never had crypto stolen, I've never had a debit card stolen, so by our combined anecdotes both are equally secure.

I've never been unable to make a payment using my credit card therefore your anecdote is invalid.

This is the one. If you're tech-savvy you could probably find a way to activate a cheap wifi valve based on motion detection from your camera. Otherwise, there's this: https://www.orbitonline.com/products/yard-enforcer-motion-activated-sprinkler

I don't. By all accounts, he personally made the call to interrupt Internet service in a way that directly impacted a military operation.

If he had personally made the call from the start not to allow Starlink to be used for any military purposes, that would align with his claim to not want to take part in the war.

Exactly. It can't buy happiness, but it certainly can alleviate a LOT of misery.