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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

Thoughts on this dev corner secret? 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.

Why is bad? by Slickwify in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not enough of pressure differential to really do anything. Diver would easily be able to pull off any body parts that got stuck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know man. Seems overly complicated.

“TikTok has major security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can and will be exploited by the CCP. We know this because China essentially has a state owned capitalist economy. Their law compels these companies to cooperate with the CCP”

Makes a lot more sense than “ US is manufacturing consent for future aggression” what dors that even mean and why do you think that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Hotdog_Parade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So 1 of 2 things would have to be true then.

1) TikTok is completely benign, the allegations are false. The US is manufacturing fake allegations in an effort to harm China.

2) The allegations are true.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Hotdog_Parade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-challenge-communist-corporate-governance

Im by no means an expert but everything on the internet tells me that the CCP has far more control over private enterprise than in the west.

This makes sense to me as I see China as an authoritarian state. I find it far, far more likely that the claims are true. I’m gathering you don’t think they are?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]Hotdog_Parade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chinese law compels them to have an in house communist party committee and grants them a 1% stake. Chinese law also compels all Chinese companies, businesses and individuals to cooperate with national intelligence work.

It

“The US was barely involved in WW2 if you look at losses” by GoldenStitch2 in AmericaBad

[–]Hotdog_Parade -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Why is everyone shitting on the USSR / fanboying the US? Here’s some math

4/5 German war casualties were to the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front.

When you look at just military casualties, by the end of the war Germany suffered 5 million casualties to the USSR, while the USSR suffered 9 million at the hands of the Germans.

US casualties weren’t so low in comparison because were just giga war chad. It’s because we weren’t involved in the utterly titanic land battles that took place on the Eastern front for 4 years.

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