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chuckleslord, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

It’s a goober

Mylemmy, to comicstrips in "Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions

Fake. Wolves get the Zoomies also

rambling_lunatic,

I think that the comic is depicting wolves.

Godort, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.

In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here

grue,

I was going to guess LS120 (a.k.a. “superdisc”), but that’s not it.

Turns out after some searching that it looks like 3.5" magneto-optical.

Godort,

I’ve never heard of that format before. These things are neat.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Yeah that was the episode where shredder had some software that could create holographic clones of people. But Bebop and Rocksteady fucked up and caused the machine to make Shredder behave like Michaelangelo.

OttoVonNoob, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
grue, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once
someguy3, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

I can’t believe this doesn’t have Tom Cruise.

CommanderCloon, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

Climate change increased drastically since the era of floppy disks, coincidence!?

Katana314, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

I remember when movies/games first started using UBS sticks to contain important plot-macguffin data, it seemed very high-tech and expensive. Of course, now high-capacity sticks are incredibly cheap so anyone can have a whole drawer of them.

BruceTwarzen,

I liked when they used minidisks. It looked high tech and you could toss it around, unlike a cd. And it was bigger than a usb stick, so it was a better plot device.

IWantToFuckSpez, to memes in Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once

And it was microfilm before floppy disks. And after it was CDs then USB sticks.

pete_the_cat, to comicstrips in "More sleep" by Chris Hallbeck

I woke up yesterday at 9:30 am. I didn’t fall asleep until 7 am this morning, and that was after two 6% ABV beers, 40 mg of melatonin, and about 150 mg of Benadryl, along with natural herb sleeping pills.

nte,

Are you americans doing OK?

gothicdecadence,

no

pete_the_cat,

Yeah we’re great 🫥 😭🥴😥😰😵‍💫😵🥵🤒🤕😷

^please ^send ^help

(I guess superscript doesn’t work on lemmy?)

XbSuper,

That’s… Not healthy.

pete_the_cat, (edited )

Captain Obvious to the recuse!

You think I wanna live this way? I woke up at 8 am today, exercised, got time outside, and I popped 20 mg of Ambien about an hour ago (midnight). I’m still awake and I’m not sleep-typing lol it’s 1:40 am

I think it’s this damn Stratera, so I’m stopping it.

kofe,

I know alcohol is a depressant, but initially it can wake you up and long term absolutely fucks your ability to sleep. I highly recommend dropping that from your sleep aids. My ex claimed it helped him but it was honestly disturbing how he couldn’t tell just how wrong he was: waking up every few hours at most when he finally did manage to get to sleep. I had to help him taper down to prevent seizures, though, so this is obviously an extreme example.

pete_the_cat,

Oh yeah, I know it’s not good, it’s just what I had around, I rarely have any alcohol in my fridge actually. I prefer smoking weed, but my tolerance is insanely high, so I stopped smoking but have to deal with this until I can get my tolerance down (like a month of no smoking) and get a medical marijuana card from my state.

helpImTrappedOnline, to memes in Scary

As an American, I can confidently say I’m sick of this Imperial/SAE shit.

MxM111,
@MxM111@kbin.social avatar

Length, volume and mass specifically (and derivatives, like PSI). Temperature is ok.

Omgarm,

As a celsius user I have absolutely no need for fahrenheit. It needs more numbers when there is no need for more precision. Half a degree C is barely even noticable.

KrankyKong,

It’s one of those things that truly and honestly just doesn’t matter. Celsius makes more sense if you think about water freezing at 0 and boiling at 100, but beyond that it really doesn’t make a big difference.

set_secret,

actually water melts at 0 deg it freezes below zero.

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Freezing/melting does not have hysteresis

set_secret,

thanks for teaching me a new word :)

mauwuro,
@mauwuro@lemmy.ml avatar

what happens at 0 F?

I mean 0 C is when the water change its state, but then what happens at 0 F?

dudewitbow,

The lower point of Fahrenheight is near the freezing point of brine (salt water) which freezes at -6 F (-21 C).

It was designed around what the coldest day at the time of its invention could get and the 100F was marked around how hot the hottest day of the year at the timr would get. Hence its choice to scale 0-100 to local weather vs celcius’ choice to use kelvin and offset it to standardize it to pure water.

KrankyKong,

Nothing in particular, it’s an arbitrary starting point. But that’s really not a good reason to knock it.

Does water actually freeze at 0 celsius? It depends on the air pressure, right? I guess 0 celsius is the freezing point of water at sea level, but air pressure’s not consistent at all. I guess maybe it’s the temperature water freezes at the average air pressure at sea level? I assume that’s the case.

The point I’m trying to make is the Celsius isn’t super rock solid either, and it really doesn’t affect anything if water freezes at 0 or 32 degrees. The best argument for celsius is that it’s standard, but that doesn’t make necessarily make it better.

If we really cared about having a rock-solid starting point, we’d use Kelvin because you literally cannot go below 0.

mauwuro,
@mauwuro@lemmy.ml avatar

yeah I was looking for something like “at 0 F something happens” as in Centigrades you can be sure that at 0C and with 1atm the water will freeze, instead of something arbitrary, so you can compare calibrate instruments

KrankyKong,

Well it doesn’t really matter what you were looking for lol. I promise you Fahrenheit thermometers are calibrated same as Celsius ones.

psud,

We live in a world rich in water. When the overnight temperature is below zero, we have frost, for example

KrankyKong,

Yeah, same here. When the temperature dips below 32 we get frost

MxM111,
@MxM111@kbin.social avatar

I use both equally well. Since both of them are base 10, no difference whatsoever. You just know the feeling of 70F or 21C.

slackassassin, (edited )

Same, Fahrenheit rules.

Edit: Fahrenheit kicks ass, I just love it.

Edit: Sorry, still like it a lot.

Edit: I just love the scale.

Edit: Random thought, Fahrenheit is really great. I enjoy it and will continue to use it alongside metic units.

alcoholicorn, to memes in Scary

Europeans acting smug like knowing how close to boiling the temperature is is more important than knowing how close to 100% hot out the temperature is.

Kusimulkku,

100% hot

The what now

psud,

The hottest a specific person believed in. Obviously never visited $countryThatGetsHotter

Masimatutu,

100% hot out

what does that even mean?

XEAL,

It’s 100% “me” hot out?

doggle,

100°F is roughly (like really roughly) the hottest temp your likely to see in most temperate climates throughout a year. 0°F is(again really roughly) the lowest. The result is you can use Fahrenheit basically as a percentage, or a 0 to 100 temperature score to help you decide how to dress/prepare for the day. If the temperature is above or below 100 or 0 then you need to consider fairly serious precautions before going outside for any length of time.

It’s not a very precise system at all, and it obviously has no place in a laboratory or similar situation. But it does work quite well for communicating the weather to common people. There is very little desire among Americans to change to Celsius not because they don’t understand it (we’re all taught Celsius in grade school) but because Fahrenheit serves most people’s needs perfectly adequately.

OP is also arguing that easily recalling the boiling temperature of water (one of the big purported advantages of Celsius) is useless for most people as nobody actually measures the temperature of water while boiling it. Except, maybe, in a classroom, probably while demonstrating to children how the Celsius scale works.

Kusimulkku,

Knowing when water freezes is really useful though for places that ice/snow.

alcoholicorn,

If it’s 0 F, it’s 0% hot out. If it’s 50 F, it’s 50% hot out, if it’s 100F, it’s 100% hot out.

It’s a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.

doggle,

I get what you’re saying, but only people who live in a country where (American) football is played would know how big a football field is.

Masimatutu,

I mean… I could say the same thing about Celsius and it would make the exact same amount of sense.

alcoholicorn,

It has never been literally boiling outside (except for when you’re in the middle of a forest fire or next to a lava flow).

Besides, Fahrenheit is more scientific because it translates 1:1 to Rankine, where 0 is absolute zero.

happyhippo,

Rankine?

Science says Kelvin.

Masimatutu,

Percent of what, exactly? It has been a lot more than 100 Fahrenheit and a lot less than 0.

Edit: Kelvin is the scientific standard with 0 at absolute zero, and that translates directly to Celsius.

alcoholicorn,

Percent of how close it is to 100% hot out.

But in seriousness, 100 was supposed to be based on the human body temperature. When it’s above 100, it’s harder to cool yourself off.

Masimatutu,

Are you just trolling? “100% hot out” literally doesn’t mean anything.

Edit: Ah, I see :P

But the human body temp isn’t 100 °F, though

alcoholicorn,

It’s based on how humans react to the heat, you need active cooling such as sweat, moving air isn’t enough above 100 degrees. 100% hot out is just a silly way of putting it.

Masimatutu,

I see. But is zero degrees Fahrenheit based on anything?

alcoholicorn,

Supposedly the temperature salt freezes at, but it’s off by quite a bit. I’m not sure if it has any implications for staying warm in cold weather.

Masimatutu, (edited )

I found it on Wikipedia. At first, he fixed zero at the stable temperature of a “mixture of ice, water, and salis Armoniaci [transl. ammonium chloride]” and 96 at the human body temperature, but later he would change the lower reference point to water’s freezing point at 32 and still later the upper one to the boiling point of water at 212. So it has always been pretty arbitrary.

Edit: But I will agree that the scale of zero to one hundred does correspond more closely to how warm humans feel.

Karyoplasma,

I sweat when it’s way below 100°F because I haven’t done any sport in quite a while. Checkmate Fahrenheiters.

doggle,

Except you can’t. 0°C is pretty cold. If it’s 100°C out then you’re already dead.

Masimatutu,

100°C is an acceptable sauna temperature. You won’t last much longer naked in 0°C!

Edit: To make my point more clear, I know some crazy people who go directly from a close to 100 degree sauna to a close to 0 degree ice bath. I think that could be described quite well as going from 100 to 0 % within the human temperature tolerance.

Also, that’s not my initial point. My initial point was that “percent hot outside” means nothing in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

(whoops, pressed delete instead of edit)

SolarNialamide,

Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is?

Everyone outside of America.

Everyone knows what a football field looks like

You’re either trolling or a living embodiment of the ‘Americans think the USA is the whole world’ meme. Nobody outside of the USA knows how long a football field is.

Annoyed_Crabby,

The heck is 50% hot out? How is that even helpful lmao

28°c is a nice weather but 82.4°f(or 82.4% hot) sounds unlivable.

doggle,

Lol 82.4°F is hot af. Depending on the humidity it could be quite uncomfortable.

Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.

50 is fairly mild. Cool, but not really cold at all. Long sleeves, pants, maybe a light jacket weather.

Annoyed_Crabby,

No it’s not, as i live in the equator, and that’s the issue i have with fahrenheit. The whole thing is devoid of context and people think it makes sense naturally.

Kusimulkku,

Truly unlivable would be anything over 100.

Sauna

doggle,

Are you trying to say people can live in a sauna? The whole point is they’re so hot you can’t (safely) stay in them too long.

I’m obviously not saying that people spontaneously combust above that temp.

Kusimulkku,

You can for a while

OKRainbowKid,

Kinda ironic seeing somebody from hexbear defend imperial units.

FlyingSquid, to memes in Scary
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You know what pissed me off earlier this year? We took a trip from the U.S. to Canada and my Prius didn’t even have the option to show kmph instead of mph on the dashboard. We looked through the manual, we looked online. My specific model doesn’t allow it. Why?!

VinnieFarsheds,
@VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world avatar

LifeProTip glue pocket calculator to steering wheel for these urgent conversions on the road

psud,

There’s like five common speed limits to memorise the conversions for. It’s not hard.

Masimatutu,

Because freedom 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅

CommanderCloon, to memes in Scary

The only properly measured thing Americans bring to their schools is 9mm’s 😔

SomeAmateur,

.9mm mechancal pencils (.7 breaks too easy)

psud,

I used .5mm, never had a problem with the lead breaking

ultracritical,

Categorically false. They also bring 5.56x40mm.

comador,
@comador@lemmy.world avatar

Not in California though. You can own it, but you can’t buy nor shoot 5.56 or .223 on BLM or CA owned land. They’re also in the courts (appeals) to ban Assault rifles in the state.

lnee,

Fuck California.

tias, to comicstrips in "Jogging From the Perspective of Animals" by Jake Likes Onions

If you consider the greater evolutionary history, up until very recently humans have been kind of like the monster in It Follows. They’re not very fast runners, but they are relentless. No other animal can run for such a long time. They’ll keep going and going for hours on end, and they will eventually catch up with their victim. For an injured prey with explosive strength but relatively low endurance it must be absolutely terrifying.

Dogs joined the dark side, so they probably feel all cool and mighty next to their running master. In their head they go “yeah bitches you can run, but you can never hide from my human”.

Magnetar,
Amends1782,

Lol at a tldr being a fucking wiki article, the opposite of short

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe it is “do read”

MoodyRaincloud,

Today, learn and do read.

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

They

=.=

kevinbacon,
@kevinbacon@lemmy.world avatar

I’m sorry so many dummies didn’t understand your post fren.

Skinwalker hands typed the OP

Heavybell,
@Heavybell@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t win them all. :) But yeah the joke is that the writer of the comment was not human since they didn’t use “we”.

xenoclast,

Canine are also persistence hunters, bears can be as well. I still like the comic though.

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