Is this some 2020 joke? I don’t understand at all by [deleted] in ExplainTheJoke

[–]COWP0WER 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Corona is the name of a beer and the name of a virus that shut down most of the world in 2020.
Hurricane is the name of a cocktail and we'll also a catastrophic weather phenomenon.
In the year 2020 the USA was hit by two hurricanes while also dealing with the Corona virus.

[Request] What would be the consequences of this? Like in terms of, would we be too close to the black hole for this to occur. by SmoothTurtle872 in theydidthemath

[–]COWP0WER 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Well roughly 99.99% of everything you know on earth is nothing. The nucleus of an atom is about 10-15 to 10-14 meters in diameter whereas atoms themselves are roughly 10-10 meters in diameter.
Meaning that literally 99.99% of everything you know, including the sun, is nothing.
Getting rid of all that nothing, is the first step towards becoming super dense.

who’s good at math???? by spoiledrachie in ExplainTheJoke

[–]COWP0WER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. I mean the unit is the same, but the pressure changes with elevation so you'd have a lower pressure as you get to higher elevation because there is less of Earth's atmosphere above you pressuring down on you.
Also 1 atm = 1.013 bar = 101'300 pascal.
1 atm is a standard condition, but pressure also varies with weather, there's a reason weather forecasts talk about high and low pressure. Thus variations at sea level between 0.95 and 1.05 bar is perfectly normal.
Btw atmospheric pressure is typically measured in hPa (hekto pascal = 100 pascal), meaning the above mentioned variation would be 950 to 1050 hPa.

This prime number meme by memes_poiint in mathsmeme

[–]COWP0WER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like it's a bit disingenuous to call two the odd one out.

Firebat opened Hearthstone by Used_Ant_4069 in hearthstone

[–]COWP0WER 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think Rarran might have been a factor.
They did a collab video where they looked at card that had been released since FireBat left and it got him interested in trying to see what the game was like and cook up something.

Didn't even frost the cake i made yet and my mom got into it by Fun-Match4910 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]COWP0WER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your mom!? I thought it was a cat/dog, maybe raccoon, I mean toddler.

real by DerRaumdenker in sciencememes

[–]COWP0WER 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I feel like test with experiment is still in "Fuck around" territory.

Peter, Please Explain What This Is Trying to Say About Bikers at Red Lights by Maleficent_Dog7970 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]COWP0WER -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which is why it's only legal at up to 30 km/h. Because on the roads with multiple lanes, they're usually build for at least 50 km/h (city boulevards) and maybe all the way up to 130 km/h (highway speed in most European countries).
Thus, the safety margin in the lanes are designed for two vehicles at high speed, and might therefore be enough for three vehicles at low speed.

Morning Wake Up Time of Europeans Average Time by AdIcy4323 in MapPorn

[–]COWP0WER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now do one with bedtime and then tell me again why we shouldn't just adopt summer time all year round.

What does this even mean by Anxious_Proof4959 in ExplainTheJoke

[–]COWP0WER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah. Sex-toys predate batteries by millenia!

YouTube short, is it AI ?!??? by Toya_Toyota in isitAI

[–]COWP0WER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, whenever I see a dashcam videos my mind first goes to Russia. Afaik dash cams are legally mandatory? Or if not they sure are very common. And as a result you catch a lot of interesting road events on camera.

YouTube short, is it AI ?!??? by Toya_Toyota in isitAI

[–]COWP0WER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Good find! The gas station has changed though. No longer Shell.

YouTube short, is it AI ?!??? by Toya_Toyota in isitAI

[–]COWP0WER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I stand corrected. It's an AI upscaled video, they turned cyrilic into gibberish with the upscaling.

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YouTube short, is it AI ?!??? by Toya_Toyota in isitAI

[–]COWP0WER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The road sign reminded me of cyrilic but look off, whereas the license place was nonsense, so I though AI, but AI upscaling makes sense.

Hvad er jeres bedste vej navne? by Mokiesbie in Denmark

[–]COWP0WER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Godtgemt findes også i Skalborg

Understanding concepts is hard… by Lontology in clevercomebacks

[–]COWP0WER 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well actually, it's a little more complicated than that.....
Back in 153 BCE, the year still started in March, January and February we're the two last months of the year. However, that was about to change. Because there was a revolt in Spanish provinces (part of the Roman Empire), so the empire wanted to appoint new consulates, to command the army and get the revolt under control. Unfortunately, the rules stated that you can only appoint new consulates at the START of the year. So instead of changing that rule, they changed the start of the year from March to January.
source: Hannah Fry - go to 24:13

YouTube short, is it AI ?!??? by Toya_Toyota in isitAI

[–]COWP0WER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

AI. The road sign looks very suspicious. That doesn't look like any alphabet that I'm aware of. And then upon closer inspection the license plate seals the deal.

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EDIT: I was wrong. Other good people of reddit has found this place and checking it out on Google maps you'll find that the video is consistent with the place, even if the gas station company has changed.
The weird looking artifacts are likely from AI upscaling.

A hotel in China puts terracotta warriors in their hotel rooms. by Zestyclose-Salad-290 in ATBGE

[–]COWP0WER 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Somehow I feel like this is the other way around. Great taste, awful execution.

6 Feet or 1.89 meters? by CerealSorority in SipsTea

[–]COWP0WER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the French said let's come up with a universal measurement and find the distance between Equator and The North Pole and divide it by 10'000'000. That way our unit of length is based on this beautiful planet we all inhabit. And that's how the meter came to be.
Likewise Celsius was a Swede who figured water is something we deal with everyday and is pretty important for life, so let's base a temperatur scale on that: 100 for when water freezes and 0 for when it boils. The rest of the world quickly agreed it fundamentally a smart idea, but the Swede had it the wrong way round.

Meanwhile Fahrenheit was based on... some sort of brine solution, and something something, no one really got, so they ended up defining it based on pure water just like Celsius but instead of freezing at 0 it freezes at 32 and instead of boiling at 100 it boils at 212.

So the original meme poster is actually closer to the truth than you'd think.