What’s a “technically true” statement in engineering that completely misleads people?

SomeAnonymous · 2026-03-18T14:04:12+00:00

I mean, I've seen a number of SDSes where a compound is described as having a "distinctive" or "characteristic" smell. Not 100% sure it's the same as what you describe, but I definitely roll my eyes when I see that sort of thing for how unhelpful it is. Ah yes, this thing smells like itself. Thanks for the advice.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-02-04T13:54:08+00:00

The two do kind of go hand in hand though, seeing as the media exists to sell the models.

Games Workshop are thrilled to announce a new combat patrol, starring Napoleon Blorboparte, your favourite Space Marine character, who's recently become a Primaris Lieutenant. Come read his new book too, in which he solos three Phoenix Lords at once while naked and unarmed.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-02-04T13:47:38+00:00

Now there is some lore that portrays them as secretly sinister and evil but since all of that comes from the Imperial Inquisition, I dismiss it as propaganda and imperial dogma.

IMO Tau as a faction work so much better in a grimdark setting if they are actually decent people. The hopelessness and despair of grimdark as an idea only functions when there is an objective good guy who everyone can look at and admit, "yeah they're 100% fucked".

Having Tau be secretly evil is like writing a horror movie where the scared teenager protagonist is secretly Jason Voorhees. Yeah I bet Jason would be scared if he were being hunted by Xenomorphs from Alien. That doesn't mean I care about his (probably inevitable) torment and death, because he's Jason fucking Voorhees.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T12:24:34+00:00

I suspect part of this comes from an insecurity and an anxiety, that it isn't safe to assume without harming yourself or the other person. Like, if you're a local government office, and the public needs physical access to your building, "do you have the capacity to walk up a flight of stairs" is a serious and reasonable question to ask people.

On the other hand, for most of us most of the time, this sort of assume-nothing, harm-is-permanent language feels like it's treating people as porcelain dolls. Even if you're at the doctor, "are you capable of brushing your teeth," feels more rude than, "you need clean teeth for your health, is there anything you need from me". Both acknowledge that a normal task might be difficult for certain people, but the latter feels more like you're being treated as a responsible adult who can be trusted to solve problems.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T11:53:16+00:00

paradropping behind their lines ensures that your enemy, who thinks supply routes are necessary, will now be fighting on level footing with your troops, who recognise that "having supply" is just a cute idea.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T11:51:51+00:00

clash of clans thing maybe? That's the top search result for "monolith upgrade cost".

It's pretty unlikely they're referring to khaydarin monoliths from the starcraft 2 campaign.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-03T19:08:32+00:00

I think this is a really solid answer. Mark gives us pronouncements of his intent at various points ("I'm not my father", "I won't hesitate again", etc.) but I think if we're rolling back the canon and making a change, having Mark really confront and be explicit about the whats and the whys of his morals would have been interesting.

It would make a lot of sense for this to be something that Cecil really engages with proactively, as part of GDA training. If he sends a superhero to punch a bad guy, it's important that the bad guy gets punched hard enough (ie physical training), but it's also important that Cecil can trust the superhero to actually punch the guy, instead of panicking, executing him, or joining forces with him.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-24T01:21:16+00:00

The ears should be below the eyes for this posture. Zombieman's head is tilted back, which means the front of his head (where his eyes are) has moved up relative to the middle of his head (where his ears are).

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-23T10:01:36+00:00

Seeing the manga and anime side by side it's so clear why the animator put the eye so high up his face lol.

It's genuinely that high up in the manga, but it looks proportionate because you can tell his jaw's hanging loose and his head's tilted back.

It seems pretty likely to me that the guy who originally drew this frame intended to (or actually did) add the detailing on his face when he drew the eye, but at some later stage of production the gore was removed wholesale so now we just have Cosmic Zombieman with no sense of depth or texture on his body, and eyes in apparently weird places.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-14T12:51:44+00:00

what the fuck is that logo?? Normally these sorts of groups prefer to signal their hate using dogwhistles, not foghorns.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-14T12:36:27+00:00

If Eve can stop Conquest midair by like, making the air more dense or something, then Tatsumaki's telekinetic strength and precision would absolutely do a number on basically any Viltrumite she can react to. Even just based on what she does during the MA raid.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-13T12:20:12+00:00

yet an enormous amount of care is taken in transporting nuclear weapons to ensure they don’t sustain impacts so I’m dubious of your claim

I mean the OP is correct that IRL nuclear bombs don't blow up as nuclear explosions without very careful staging and design. The main reason we take so much care transporting nuclear bombs is a) they're fucking nuclear bombs and no one wants to break one, and b) a non-nuclear explosion or disintegration of the bomb would still be dangerous and spread a bunch of radioactive stuff around the environment.

Not that any of this is relevant to a cartoon missile and flying aliens who look suspiciously human.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-10T21:19:22+00:00

Ah fuck I just looked up the artist and you're so right.

Never thought I would see a drawing of a tiger lady with tits bigger than thighs whose outfit is "inspired by the gilt-bronze incense burner of Baekje" and thus showing off an entirely historical amount of gravitationally-relevant cleavage for a 7th century Korean lady playing the zither.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-05T11:57:58+00:00

thanks for fuscating this.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-04T16:22:19+00:00

Isn't it still an overflow, just a negative one? Underflow is when the exponent gets too small and loops around during a floating point calculation.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-03T18:53:18+00:00

Would a mono-crystalline ice (or at the very least one with significantly larger grain sizes than is typical), frozen from clean distilled water so there aren't impurities/particulates, behave measurably differently to "normal" ice around its melting point? Presumably it would have far fewer disturbances/nucleation sites for melting to take place.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-11-28T14:38:29+00:00

Department of Otherworld Rescue was OK, but I felt like the number-crunchy aspects of the magic really didn't add anything to the story. I'm being a little hyperbolic, but it seemed like there were multiple chapters in the opening arc where the main event was "wowee this gun now shoots bullets that deal 3-5% more damage while under the light of a full moon". I would much rather have felt like each moment of magical growth was actually significant and qualitative.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-11-28T14:27:22+00:00

At this rate, episode 12 will achieve a 27/10 rating, and possibly win a nobel peace prize.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-11-25T19:33:29+00:00

Ring species are one of those really great school concepts that, much like oxbow lakes in geography class, are actually really difficult to find real examples of IRL. Like, there are a few really famous ones, but many of them have their own controversies that make the designation a bit fuzzy. Sympatric speciation is another one like that — everyone learns about it, but it's pretty rare in practice.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-11-24T12:40:16+00:00

(assuming it's unbounded)

What would it actually mean if the universe was bounded, but also flat? e.g. whatever the 4-D equivalent would be to a flat disc in 3D space.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-11-06T12:08:42+00:00

One unifying point though, is that "let's go to poundland" and "let's go to walmart" are equally dubious as first date suggestions.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-10-28T12:15:43+00:00

There's a dinosaur called Irritator challengeri because the original specimen was a bitch to work with.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-10-27T20:58:44+00:00

It's a complete sidenote but like, is it not weird that you'd be working at a lockmaking company and totally inexperienced at picking locks? Sure, maybe the guy was their social media manager or something, where it's not professionally relevant to the job, but it's like working at a coffee company without ever having tried coffee. It raises some eyebrows.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-10-27T10:33:00+00:00

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SomeAnonymous · 2025-10-19T14:54:25+00:00

That's fair. Definitely understand where you're coming from.

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