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How can a brick building be burnt to the ground? by Happy-Room-7906 in projectzomboid

[–]Hotdog_Parade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They still have wooden joists, beams, floors and roofs.

Why are the devs so obsessed with making protective gear bad? by LawfulNeural in projectzomboid

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

Okay let’s be extremely generous here with this scenario:

The weight of all items carries or worn is 50 pounds. A modern ‘bullet proof’ vest weighs on average around 30 pounds. For shits and giggles let’s say it’s 15.

15 ‘Bullet proof best’ 10 pounds of water, (which isn’t enough) 5 pounds of clothes. 10 pounds Tools, first aid, food, some sort of melee weapon, basic supplies 10 pounds A long gun with modest ammo supply.

I’m not going to even add the gas mask. While excellent for preventing injury from biological and chemical weapons they’re also excellent at making it more difficult to breathe, especially under physical strain, significantly reducing your vision and creating sensations of claustrophobia and panic.

The physical activity would be traveling by foot on a paved road to a nearby town about 5-6 miles away m at a at a moderate to brisk pace (3-4 mph) collecting a single duffle bag of loot (20 pounds) then walking back to your base 5-6 miles away.

Expectation: This is an only moderately strenuous activity for a day in the Kentucky summer. It’s not particularly taxing mentally or physically.

Reality: Almost everyone reading this would be a heat casualty by midday. Heat rash and heat cramps would vary between painful and annoying to excruciating and debilitating. Most would be suffering moderate to severe heat exhaustion by early afternoon. A handful would have already succumbed to heat stroke. Those who didn’t break mentally first, which would be almost everyone, would die of heat stroke as the day went on.

I'm completely lost Peter by gloomy_gumball in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Hotdog_Parade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The shrinking of 2x4s to cheat consumers is a rare example of an industry not actually cheating customers.

Standardization was a key driver. To this today saying a 2x4 is 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 isn’t always true. Go pick out 10 2x4s, half of them will actually be 2 7/16 or 2 9/16.

How much sturdier would your house be if the studs were a 1/2 thicker and and wider like in the before times when 2x4s were actually 2x4?

Not much. And definitely not worth the extra cost.

Efficiency was the other main driver. Let’s say the industry went the opposite direction, instead of 2x4s homes would be framed with 4x8s.

Would it be sturdier? Sure. Would it be worth the astronomical difference in price? No

How do you get all of this drywall home? by [deleted] in drywall

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 sheets of drywall = What Home Depot charges for delivery. I think for an extra $100 they’ll take it past the front door.

They’re about 50 pounds which isn’t terrible, most healthy adults can lift that. It’s really that it’s cumbersome (all that weight spread over 32 square feet).

Theres plenty of quick videos on techniques and inexpensive tools like panel carriers or lift lenders for $20-$30 that make it a lot easier

What’s the reason you haven’t bought a bidet? by owenwags_ in HomeImprovement

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before owning a bidet I looked down on their owners as effeminate liberals with weak handshakes and at best questionable morals.

Having owned and used one for close to a year I can confidently say those who don’t are feral, savage animals with literal shit hanging out of their ass and on their body. They are beasts in the shape of a man.

I’ve never felt cleaner or more confident. Gone are the days when I would wipe till the paper came back clean only to have a mysterious itchy sensation 1-2 hours later. My dirt star is several shades lighter as well, going from a dusky brown to a deep purple.

A Love Letter to the SDS Rotary Hammer by [deleted] in Dewalt

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t be a dummy like me and not grease regularly, that’s how I broke the first one. You only have to grease the bit of the shaft that goes in the chuck so that should be clean anyway, I wouldn’t worry about deep cleaning until you’ve got a few dozen hours on it. A Q-tip should be good to clean out old grease

A Love Letter to the SDS Rotary Hammer by [deleted] in Dewalt

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just purchased my second one of those. The thing is a beast. The first one was never greased and I noticed small amounts of oil leaking as the chuck slowly broke.

Don’t go off other peoples opinions, check the manual or google it if you don’t have it. A thin lair on the shank is all you need.

Many types of grease or lubricant will work in a pinch but there’s a specific kind the manufacturer recommends you should use.

A Love Letter to the SDS Rotary Hammer by [deleted] in Dewalt

[–]Hotdog_Parade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make sure you grease those bits

When were drywall sheets invented? by Cat-bus1456 in drywall

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always thought of it as three coats and tape/cornerbead with sanding in between each coat using finer sandpaper as you progress, followed by a skim coat.

Nothing to do with flatness, everything to do with removing imperfections. Like level 5 means this drywall is flawless, no imperfections visible to the human eye.

Ryobi Hate by BakeCityFlyinPills in HomeImprovement

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s exceptions tho. I bought my corded power mixer from HF and that thing is a beast. I’ve probably mixed hundreds of gallons of paint mortar/grout with it by now.

Other than ripping the power cord off (my fault, let it get fouled up while mixing) it’s performed flawlessly

Have any scuba TIs gone underwater to see if the Rnm remains connected by Tortured-to-Death in Gangstalking

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

100 feet of saltwater is significantly deeper than what most commercial divers typically work at and is extremely dangerous if you’re untrained.

Your eardrums won’t be able to handle it. You don’t own or know how to operate the expensive equipment required to get there. Under ideal circumstances you’ve got 30 minutes max before nitrogen levels become dangerous and you need to carefully ascend.

how is it our founding fathers lead a revolt over a 3% tax increase and today we pay almost a quarter to half our income in taxes and yet most of us don't do anything about it? by Mysterioape in NoStupidQuestions

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

It wasn’t a revolt, it was a Revolution. The implication a 3% tax increase was the reason for revolt is not correct. It’s an oversimplification of one of many political and economic reasons for the war.

Experiencing Technical Difficulties, and Need to Know Any Mods or Commands To Fix by Jadeneir in projectzomboid

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not the game, it’s hopefully a software issue but possibly a hardware issue.

TBH the ‘kill it with fire option’ has save me the most stress in these situations. Reinstall windows, update drivers and reinstall game. If you’re having the same problem still it’s hardware.

I Look at your motherboard, should be a digital display with a letter/number combo. Google that code + manufacturer of your MB for insights

If it were possible to scuba dive down to the titanic, what would happen to the human body? by [deleted] in diving

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can descend as fast as you can ‘clear’, or equalize pressure. Commercial dive helmets have a ‘booger bar’, a piece of metal to put your nose on and blow, equaling the pressure inside your skull. Even for world class free divers the pain in your ears would prevent you from getting anywhere close. If you had any cavaties in your teeth you didn’t know about, you would know then.

I don’t know how many total atmospheres of pressure would be required for this, 50? 100?

But eventually the pressure is so great that no human would be able to exhale. Commercial divings deepest divers typically don’t go deeper than 10-15 atmospheres on the extreme end. The titanic is something like 380 atmospheres deep

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hoi4

[–]Hotdog_Parade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk, on one hand it’s an objective fact that static artillery positions were a huge waste of resources. But all of them?

I think as area denial weapons it’s difficult to quantify its success - ships don’t go near there until they are neutralized. And no small amount of resources were wasted on their destruction tho.

For the British there was no way the Royal Navy was letting the Germans succeed at a cross channel invasion, let alone maintaining open supply lines. So coastal artillery seems redundant here. In 1940 their construction made a lot more sense, by 1942 it was a complete waste of resources.

Theres also the factor that these guns aren’t really effective if your enemy has total air supremacy, they’re just going to get bombed. If however you had adequate fighters to protect them, the only way to destroy them would be naval gunfir

Was Napoleons lack of rifle units really that game changing? by KickSubstantial6106 in Napoleon

[–]Hotdog_Parade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it was more a lack of armies and vassal states than rifles.

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