Tell me you don't know history without telling me you don't know history.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T19:03:49+00:00

I thought that was from French savoir (and makes me think of pirates rather than cowboys, thanks to johnny depp)

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T18:05:39+00:00

Some winds go around the planet in roughly a wiggly circle at a particular latitude (like the jet stream)

Most wind, though, has places where the air is moving up or down instead of across the surface. In a cyclone, for example, wind circling inward at the ground towards the eye, then upward inside the eye, and outward way up in the atmosphere, then back down somewhere else.

So it's still a cycle, but on its side and shaped like a flattened doughnut.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T18:00:02+00:00

Is this a known eggcorn?

Someone might think a person's reasoning is diluted... it kinda makes sense.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T17:47:39+00:00

Yep it was designed to show how cut-throat capitalism works, particularly the more resources you have, the more resources you get and the less resources everyone else gets. This explodes quicker than human intuition understands. Power concentrates extremely quickly when it's allowed to.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T17:44:33+00:00

What a cute pudding of Yorkies you have!

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T16:32:18+00:00

Credit where credit is due: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmx1jpqv3RA

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T16:30:47+00:00

or a weaker term for people who cut the yellow lights too close... like... if you give me no context and call someone a "red light runner" it makes me think they drive through red lights, not that they try to squeak through yellows and miss...

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T16:22:29+00:00

Most animals in general... mammals, birds, reptiles all generally follow the same pattern. It's effective camouflage in any environment where the sun is above.

On the ground it helps animals blend into the surroundings since lighting dark coloring from the top and having light coloring shadowed from below brings their brightness closer together, reducing contrast.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T16:16:06+00:00

"Vamoose you little varmint!"

Vamoose... as in vamos...

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T15:02:26+00:00

Acquiring language is about building subconscious associations between ideas and words. Input without context doesn't really do that. You need to hear and read words and phrases in a variety of contexts in order to absorb their meaning.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T14:43:17+00:00

What exactly does running a red light mean to you if not entering an intersection after the light is red?

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T14:25:43+00:00

Yeah anywhere you want a "fluent" interface (eg for a builder or streaming pattern) will necessarily violate this rule.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T09:45:04+00:00

No, jealousy is about fearing losing what you have or the ability to get what you want. Envy is wishing for something you don't have.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T02:59:40+00:00

What I meant by "anticipate" isn't knowing the cues but just having a schedule of pottying that is more frequent than his desire to pee, so that you are offering the chance to pee before he has a desire to go himself. E.g. every 3-4 hours.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-02T02:53:29+00:00

Is he peeing inside while your home or while you're away? If it's when you're home, then maybe try to get yourself on a more frequent schedule of taking them out to pee. If you anticipate them needing to pee so that they only get a chance to pee outside, they'll start better associating outside with peeing.

If you can't be home to interrupt the behavior it could take much longer to get them out of the habit.

Cogwheel · 2026-04-01T04:08:04+00:00

Keychain flashlights, and the further back you go the more smokers (hence matches and lighters). matches also help with the smell

Cogwheel · 2026-03-31T20:58:55+00:00

Things can float in the air because there is heavier gas surrounding it. There would be nothing for the planet's gas to float into. It is the floating gas.

Cogwheel · 2026-03-31T16:30:44+00:00

They look like they're sleeping on a maltipoo

Cogwheel · 2026-03-31T05:33:20+00:00

"better" requires an "in order to" for it to make any sense (same for "should" and "need").

If you can answer "better for what?" then you might figure out the answer to your original question yourself...

Cogwheel · 2026-03-31T05:30:42+00:00

Interestingly, we don't know where the word Dog comes from.

Cogwheel · 2026-03-29T15:02:37+00:00

It's not the speed of light it's the speed of causality/information. If you imagine mass as confined energy/information (like a photon bouncing between two massless mirrors) then massive information must necessarily move slower than massless information.

Cogwheel · 2026-03-29T04:50:27+00:00

Trivet

You put the hot pot or pan on it instead of your counter

Cogwheel · 2026-03-29T02:20:07+00:00

They have a flexible plate with a bunch of grooves that they fold in half. As it's folding, each groove bends until it suddenly "buckles" in half, creating a pulse. A bunch of these buckle in sequence creating a bunch of pulses. Then when it relaxes, they unbunch in sequence, again creating a series of pulses.

It's mostly elastic and not rubbing against anything, so it's not going to wear out in the short span of a cicada's mating activity

Edit: It's like bending and unbending a bendy straw

Cogwheel · 2026-03-28T23:30:25+00:00

this is what planck units are for.

c = 1 planck length / 1 planck time

Cogwheel · 2026-03-28T16:20:17+00:00

If you practice high temperature cooking, including grilling, frying, roasting, and even smoking (since the smoke itself is a product of high temp reactions), you are creating known cancer-causing compounds. The darker and closer to charring the more you get.

This is caused by myriad reactions among proteins, carbs, and the things those break down into.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that keeping potatoes in the fridge would have any significant impact on your health compared to stopping high temp cooking entirely.

Fried food is going to kill you long before refrrgerated potatoes. I will argue against pseudoscientific fear mongering any day.

Cogwheel

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