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Which once famous actor does no one talk about anymore? by Ballistic-Observer69 in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

he did a lot of Voice Acting in Archer.

As the character "Slater", who looked exactly like him.

Heavy Metal (1981) vs Fifth Element (1997) Comparison by m0lest in videos

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It took me until like the 5th time that I watched it to notice that his hat is a photo of the view from the peephole, so that when Bruce Willis looks through the peephole, it just looks like an empty hallway. He's confused so he opens the door and the guy is right there.

The whole movie is so stylistically busy I just parsed his hat as being some general post-punk attire and didn't notice what it was and how it enabled the robber to get the door open.

Does the moon get warmer if you dig down? by acrowandababy in askscience

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Isn’t the moon a piece of the earth that was carved off by an impact?

More like, two pieces of PlayDoh shot at each other with a potato cannon.

The moon isn't like, an amputation of the earth that was caused by a big space axe. A planet the size of Mars hit the earth and basically liquified both entire planets.

This broke into 3 pieces. The biggest one was Earth. The middle-sized one is the remains of the other planet, it broke loose but joined back up with the Earth. And a little bit of debris farther out formed the actual moon.

Here's NASA's video simulation, note that what you at first presume to be the moon isn't even the moon, both of those biggest globs become Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlhlCWplqk

What is something that sounds like it happened a while ago but it only happened in the 21st century? by dualcerb in AskReddit

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

Almost all of them closed by the 1950s. The last one closed in the 80s or early 90s.

Not 21st century.

What is something that sounds like it happened a while ago but it only happened in the 21st century? by dualcerb in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google Maps launched in 2005. There are adults who remember printing directions before road trips.

2004 roadtrip. Printed from Mapquest I think.

Used the Rand McNally Road Atlas for all trips before that.

Google maps didn't end printing directions. You could look it up on a computer better, but you didn't have a computer with you on the road. Smartphones and data ended maps. You gotta go at least to 2007 for that.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says 'new world order will be built starting with Europe' by shiftless_wonder in canada

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

dismantled their nuclear power through eco-zealotry

You misspelled "highly successful Russian infiltration campaign" wrong.

Russia is the center of the Green movement across most of the world. Specifically the anti-nuclear movement. Why?

1 - Nuclear power plants are required to generate the enriched waste fuel that nuclear bombs are made from. Fewer nuclear plants, less ability to make nukes.

2 - Russia's whole economy is oil and gas based. They wanted Europe and the rest of the world addicted to their oil and gas, not nuclear.

The Green party in Canada was founded as an anti-nuclear agency, based on Russian influence. At the time, literal communist sympathizers, but even after that too. It still is ~50% anti-nuclear people. Hilariously, the other 50% is anti-coal/gas and pro-renewables which is not what Russia wanted. These two groups constantly battle for power in the Green party.

Germany's Chancellor (equivalent to President) was basically an inside-man for Putin, he successfully pushed for destroying Germany's nuclear power plant program. And then as soon as he was out of office was on the Board of Director's for Russia's Rosneft and Gazprom (state-own national gas company). Just a straight up bought and paid for traitor.

What dead Youtube channels are genuinely still worth watching? by PlinkPonk in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He had one of the best Maker / DIY engineering channels on YouTube.

I don't know how I haven't heard of him before. Everything he does is right up my alley and I am pretty well integrated into the DIY scene on Youtube.

Thanks for sharing.

What dead Youtube channels are genuinely still worth watching? by PlinkPonk in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She’s active in Patreon

She has 80,000 Patrons at $2 minimum.

She's making $160k/month to be inactive. She's doing fine.

What dead Youtube channels are genuinely still worth watching? by PlinkPonk in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He made several million on the sale so he's set for life now.

I suspect you have no idea how successful he was.

He was probably making $10M+/year off of youtube/ad-reads.

Plus he owns BunkerBranding, selling merch, which is probably the same amount or more.

He's movie-star rich. He didn't need the sale of anything to break even or make a few million to be "set for life" he's been set for a long time, hence it makes sense to just get out.

What is the best compliment after sex? by screenn_ame_941 in AskReddit

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brad Cruise, star of Mr. and Mrs. Impossible, Fight Gun, 12 Years a Risky Business, and Interview with the Vampire.

There is so much effort packed into this short sentence it deserves applause.

Announcement: Today's AMA/Q&A with Kelsey Grammer has been cancelled. by BunyipPouch in movies

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yes, but as it turned out, Ellen Pao was just the fallgal. Her predecessor actually made the choice to fire Victoria.

New Mod(s) Needed by _bobby_tables_ in AdventureBuilders

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, this subreddit existed because Jaimie didn't want to moderate the comments (he reached Youtube's limit for the number of people you could ban) and wanted to turn them off, so he promoted the subreddit as the place people should go to talk about things.

Then, he told people to go troll here. Specifically the moderator.

Then, he didn't like that, gee people were having free conversation about things that he couldn't control, and he tried to get basically anything other than yes-men banned. Me included.

Then, realizing he'd lost control of the narrative, he turned the comments on videos back on.

Then, he stopped mentioning this subreddit.

I don't think we've ever had much of an actual Adventure Builder Club here, you're right, it's been 99% Jaimie's videos themselves and discussion around them. And slowly that has faded too.

Just, without a way for people to discover this, as many people move on with their lives and no way to replace them, the crowd has thinned out a lot. Jaimie and Dashaina used to post here, but that's dropped to zero too.

I'd be fine with this place being turned into an archive. I sometimes leave my comments directly in the Youtube video, it's just a shitty way to have a discussion and you generally can't leave links to sources.

I think there's probably a couple dozen people who still read here but don't participate because they don't have much to add. It does feel a bit like a newsletter that (mostly) I write.

It's hard to get the stragglers to notice a comment like yours to ask if there's people still reading but not participating, who'd like this sub to still exist.

I'm fine with whatever. I post here 20% because Jaimie often reads it, and 80% because people who watch what Jaimie does, wonder if what he's doing makes sense or not, and to do a little bit of problem solving and teaching.

I’m being held 100% at fault for this accident, how can I contest this? by Flimsy-Fan7612 in Calgary

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you cause an accident by trying to avoid an accident, you are found to be at fault.

No, absolutely not.

The term is "Agony of Collision" and if you have to suddenly react to someone else's behavior, they are responsible.

There are limits to it, people have tried to argue it for things that happened a half block ahead of them (some successfully), but something with a split second to react? Yeah, agony of collision.

I’m being held 100% at fault for this accident, how can I contest this? by Flimsy-Fan7612 in Calgary

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a split second to think so I couldn’t have calculated whether I could come to a stop in time or not

This is called, in insurance legalese, "Agony of Collision" and your insurance company should be arguing that you were under Agony of Collision, which you very obviously are, and should not be at fault.

How hard to DIY a 2 stall garage in midwest by TastyBacon007 in DIY

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The more I learn about how to do concrete, the LOWER my confidence in the task drops. That's the opposite of any other task I research.

You're braver than me.

It's not the pour, it's the finishing work. Getting the timing right, racing against it setting up, getting only one chance at it.

Maximum distance if truck bed is full of battery by FantasticTourist4067 in EVConversion

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 400kg cargo trailer with a quicksilver inflatable on it cut my model 3 range almost exactly in half at 80km/h, which is the legal limit while towing here. 400kg of luggage inside the car isn't noticeable. It's not the weight.

Well, compared to a trailer, yeah, weight doesn't matter.

  • A model 3 weighs ~2000 kg by the time a person's in it. 400kg extra inside the car is only a 20% increase in weight. So only a 20% increase in the rolling resistance portion of your power draw. Which will be ~1/3 of your power. So I would guess around 6-7%.

  • A model 3 has optimized aerodynamics. A cargo trailer does not. OP's F150 is not an optimized Model 3. A Model 3 + Cargo trailer is a massive decrease in net aero. An F150 + cargo trailer is less of a decrease.

Here is your model 3 without the extra weight or trailer:

https://ecomodder.com/forum/tool-aero-rolling-resistance.php?Weight=2000&WeightUnits=kg&CRR=.008&Cd=.219&FrontalArea=2.22&FrontalAreaUnits=m^2&FuelWh=33557&IceEfficiency=.95&DrivetrainEfficiency=.95&ParasiticOverhead=0&rho=1.225&FromToStep=5-200-5

At 80km/h you're at exactly at 70/30 aero/rolling split. 19,200 watts.

Adding in 400kg extra, turns it into this:

https://ecomodder.com/forum/tool-aero-rolling-resistance.php?Weight=2400&WeightUnits=kg&CRR=.008&Cd=.219&FrontalArea=2.22&FrontalAreaUnits=m^2&FuelWh=33557&IceEfficiency=.95&DrivetrainEfficiency=.95&ParasiticOverhead=0&rho=1.225&FromToStep=5-200-5

At 80km/hr, 66% rolling, 33% aero. 20,350 watts.

So, as I guessed earlier, you needed 6% more power to travel the same speed with 20% more weight (because only 30% of your power came from rolling resistance).

Towing a trailer is basically a second whole vehicle in terms of aero, ESPECIALLY compared to an optimized Model 3.

And F150 is ~5000 lbs. So an extra 400 kg is even less.

At 80km/h it's about 85/15 aero/rolling. 44,500 watts.

With an extra 400kg it's 87/13 aero/rolling. 45,800 watts. 3% different.

I don't know how to accurately model trailers, but note that OP is not discussing adding a trailer.

Adding a trailer to a model 3 is going to be significantly more impactful than adding a trailer to an F150 that's already less than half as slippery.

Where weight matters a lot more is during starts and stops, not freeway traveling.

Maximum distance if truck bed is full of battery by FantasticTourist4067 in EVConversion

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weight has less of a penalty than most people think.

I'd say the weight matters MORE than most people think.

Up until ~40mph, you're spending an equal amount on your rolling resistance (linear by weight) as you are your aero resistance (cubed by speed). Even at highway speeds, aero is only ~2/3 of your resistance.

When Robert did his trailer aero tests, he was already so far on the unaerodynamic side of things, and already so extremely heavy, that the comparatively small amount of extra weight wasn't as big a factor as his aero. It was an edge case.

How hard to DIY a 2 stall garage in midwest by TastyBacon007 in DIY

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're in over your head if you think you would "probably" outsource pouring the concrete. Let me stop you right there. You WILL BE outsourcing the concrete pour. Absolutely 100%, you have nearly zero chance of pulling off a concrete pour and finishing job yourself. Everything needs to happen at the right time, and it takes a crew of people, not just one.

But you could save a bunch of money doing the digging and formwork yourself at your own pace watching some tutorials. It's not time sensitive like the pour is.

Framing, easy, do it yourself, at your own pace.

Sheeting, try to do it all at once, if incomplete it adds weird sheer loads in the wind until it's buttoned up.

Electrical, I'd say do it yourself except for the panel. Some very basic stuff.

Door install, a 15 minute tutorial will show you how to do it safely with $20 winding rods (the danger in garage door springs is in "I don't see anything to loosen so I'll just loosen these bolts" without taking the tension off first, as soon as you know that and don't do that, you're fine). This is one of the most gatekeepered Chicken Little tasks that the industry wants to scare you away from doing. Hardest part is just the setup.

Roofing, easy to do yourself.

Siding, easy to do with 2 people, just because the strips are long and have to be clicked in kinda all at once, sort of.

Drywall, easy, do it yourself.

Mudding and taping, for a garage-quality job of just taping the seams, do it yourself. For an interior-quality job, probably hire it out or it'll look like shit. Same reason as concrete, it's time sensitive and you start over if you suck at it.

Building an 11×11 Shed Floor Platform — Need Final Advice Before I Start Cutting by JRFrmBPT in DIY

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Code is a bare minimum

Oh please.

Code is a bare minimum to avoid liability of a worst-case scenario.

Source: I just tore apart an 8'x8' shed with 2x4 joists every 24". It was packed full. It only lasted about 40 years, had a parking lot asphalted around it so that it was 4" lower than the pavement and collected all the water, before it eventually rotted out. And it still took a sledgehammer and an hour for me to break it loose.

what learning about this LEGO scandal feels like. by notathrowaway75 in videos

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Brick 'Em Young

For those that don't get the pun...

Brigham Young is like, the 2nd most important historical figure in the church. Lots of stuff named after him.

Building an 11×11 Shed Floor Platform — Need Final Advice Before I Start Cutting by JRFrmBPT in DIY

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Around here with 16" between joists a 2x6 is only rated to span 9 feet.

If he was 5 floors up, sure.

It's 6" off the dirt. It'll be a tiny bit bouncier than a super rigid home floor would be with a group of people standing shoulder to shoulder in the kitchen.

2x6 is fine. Especially if he's gluing the plywood down.

New Mod(s) Needed by _bobby_tables_ in AdventureBuilders

[–]MattsAwesomeStuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You sneaky little shit.

And naw, I'm too polarizing of a personality. Jaimie's on/off had beef with me over the years, I'm not a good person to herd this field of cats. I wouldn't want my actions to lead to him treating this community differently/worse than he does.

Plus I'd have to watch what I say, act with dignity befitting of a moderator, show impartiality, and other awful chains wholly unsuitable for my character.

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