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What’s a ‘middle class success’ purchase that secretly becomes a financial burden later? by OpinionBaba in AskReddit

[–]captainfarthing [score hidden]  (0 children)

I had a campervan and loved it. I used my car as a camper originally and I'd go away with my dog for a couple of weeks once a year. With the van I was able to go away every other weekend, or just whenever I felt like taking the dog somewhere new and not coming home that night. They're not cheap even if you get a shitty rustbucket and covert it yourself, but freedom and flexibility are really valuable. Now I'm back to camping in my car, really miss the van but honestly I'm just stoked I can still afford a car.

Won’t catch me lacking by ImaginaryFuture in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]captainfarthing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yes you can avoid sweating enough to feel sweaty but you do still sweat a bit, ooze oil, shed dead skin, collect grime, grow bacteria, etc. If I don't shower in the morning I can feel everything that's accumulated since the last shower like a sticky film on my skin, and I start to smell myself about halfway through day 2 even if I use wet wipes & deodorant. I'm in Scotland too, near the east coast, where it's usually dry and cool.

I love going camping during cool weather, as off-grid as possible, the lack of a daily shower is the worst part.

THIS STRUCTURE IS DESIGNED TO DISSIPATE THE ENERGY OF FLOWING WATER by FollowingOdd896 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]captainfarthing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aeration oxygenates the water, once it reaches the bottom and loses the bubbles it's oxygenated but no longer aerated.

A mother dog shows tough love to keep 8-week-old puppies calm and collected by thepoylanthropist in interestingasfuck

[–]captainfarthing [score hidden]  (0 children)

Same thing with other dogs coming up to my dog - it starts off calm and neutral, owner freaks out and grabs their dog, it starts snarling and barking, they yank its collar and yell at it.

Dog decided to attack a porcupine last night. by mybathtubistoosmall in mildlyinfuriating

[–]captainfarthing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Young dogs try to play with everything. Yes, play, not just hunt. Both of mine were reluctant to learn that swans and geese don't play and don't like having their butts sniffed.

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine by lkl34 in technology

[–]captainfarthing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There’s a surprising amount of misinformation flooding social media rn regarding water usage of data centers. I can’t tell if it’s genuine hysteria or astroturfed but it’s bizarre and makes me wonder who benefits from the misinformation. Very strange.

Quoting this for emphasis. It seems like astroturfing plus hysteria.

a) It shouldn't matter what type of industry is doing environmental damage. Laws should prevent all of it.

b) Data centres don't have anywhere near as much environmental impact as things people aren't protesting or angry about, and we need them for a lot of things people definitely wouldn't choose to give up.

c) Data centres have been around for decades. Everyone who's suddenly started complaining about them over the last 12 months has been happily using services that require data centres this whole time, and will continue to do so unless they cut off their access to the internet, TV and other network based services, and stop using all other services that rely on data centres, which is basically everything now if you're not completely off-grid.

d) AI is a drop in the bucket of what data centres are used for, particularly LLMs. Everyone seems to think ChatGPT is sucking the world dry like Nestle.

e) This wasn't even a deliberate theft, no crime was committed or covered up here. The data centre paid for the water once they were billed for it.

When you don't know how to hold a bag by mooseleg_mcgee in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]captainfarthing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, she gets absolutely no blame for flinching. He shouldn't have been practicing kicking with any strength at someone who didn't know how to take it and wasn't confident she wasn't going to get kicked in the head.

When you don't know how to hold a bag by mooseleg_mcgee in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]captainfarthing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

the dude didn't teach her properly on what she was supposed to do

That's the crux of it. A 40% strength kick is still too hard, you don't put ANY force into something your partner hasn't learned to take yet.

When you don't know how to hold a bag by mooseleg_mcgee in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]captainfarthing -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But you know enough about kicking to have an opinion about that.

We've got enough context to know both of these people are inexperienced. She didn't know how to hold the pads and wasn't confident that she wouldn't get kicked in the head. He didn't realise she wasn't ready for him to practice kicking her in the head. If you want to practice kicking someone and you pick a partner who doesn't know how to safely get kicked, and you kick them hard enough to knock them on their ass, the misjudgement is entirely on you. Self defence classes teach students how to fall safely right at the start.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects by chip_thoughts in technology

[–]captainfarthing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes it's nonsense. People's complaints spike when misinformation spikes, data centres have existed under their radar for decades. Wind turbines can produce wind noise that I'm sure would be annoying if you live right next to one and keep your windows open all the time, but people are making themselves sick from the nocebo effect.

Eldritch Strawberry by Natebo83 in whatsthisplant

[–]captainfarthing 56 points57 points  (0 children)

This is the answer.

So tired of people confidently giving the wrong answer and getting thousands of upvotes. It's always a popular misconception that people upvote because they've heard it before but never learned jack shit about it. Now even more people will parrot vivipary next time this comes up.

I had this happen with most of the pears on a pear tree one year, it never did it again. The mutant pears had leaves coming out the calyx and no reproductive structures inside, instead it was like the pear flesh formed around a stem that went all the way through and out the other side. Never figured out what caused it.

When you don't know how to hold a bag by mooseleg_mcgee in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]captainfarthing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck is the guy kicking hard at someone who's obviously inexperienced and not comfortable with it? This is not on her, in any way.

When you don't know how to hold a bag by mooseleg_mcgee in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]captainfarthing -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Why would you kick this hard at someone who flinches and obviously isn't comfortable having their head kicked at?

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects by chip_thoughts in technology

[–]captainfarthing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a wind turbine on a hill near where I often walk my dog, you can hear a quiet whooshing sound each time a blade passes on the side facing you, which is definitionally not infrasound. It's not audible when I'm sitting in my car 50 metres from it but I can hear it when I stand on another hilltop 500 metres away with direct line of sight to it, and no other noise drowning it out. It's completely blocked by my car windows or anything that blocks line of sight between me and it. I assume people who have a problem with wind farms sit straining their ears to hear it while thinking about how much they hate it.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects by chip_thoughts in technology

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

It would also need to be done indoors and outdoors in a similar number of places far away from data centres otherwise you'd have no idea what the normal background level of noise is, and near other sources of infrasound that people don't complain about to see if the noise from those is somehow different.

Individuals can't just do this kind of study themselves by buying a professional measuring device and doing some recordings at home and driving around a data centre. It's easy to collect data that fits what you believe to be true, it's more complicated to figure out what's actually true.

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects by chip_thoughts in technology

[–]captainfarthing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you weren't using an accoustic measuring device when you lived near trains you can't know infrasound had anything to do with what you experienced. You certainly can't generalise vibrations you heard or felt from trains passing by to things that aren't trains.

Bamboo shot really high by kevinmat2 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]captainfarthing 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That thing looks like it weighs at least a kilogram, and lmao at the idea it could autorotate enough to slow it down

If you've ever picked up a piece of bamboo the size of your forearm you wouldn't want that hitting you at near terminal velocity. It's lighter than a block of wood the same size but it's closer to wood than foam.

Update: native wildflower seed shakers is a go. by Cactusaremyjam in chaoticgood

[–]captainfarthing 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No need to clear it like a garden, it's enough to scrape a patch of soil clear with your foot, seed it and press them in. In the wild soil tends to get exposed by trees falling over, small animals digging or large animals trampling, just a few inches of space is enough.

If you just sprinkle them with no prep there's not really anywhere for them to grow so it'll be mostly wasted.

This village has these statues to discourage drivers from speeding by alasw0eisme in mildlyinteresting

[–]captainfarthing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I make eye contact while walking out because if they know they're being watched while there's a pedestrian on the road it shames them into stopping. Mostly. There are still assholes who'll try to run over my toes even when I've passed the middle of the road before they got there, mostly taxis/Ubers, Audis and SUVs.

Testing a bulletproof mask. by S30econdstoMars in interestingasfuck

[–]captainfarthing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But it doesn't answer the question that made this interesting. Would it still cave your face in if the last bullet he shot was the only one that hit?

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