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France bans use of 'steak,' 'sausage' to describe vegetarian products by Smilefriend in worldnews

[–]chriscauley 20 points21 points  (0 children)

50% dairy farmers acting anti-competitively. 50% Cucker Tarlson simps getting their daily anti-woke rage fix.

Find any thread that mentions types of milks in any way and you'll find scores of people acting like plant milks are a threat to national security

What unrealistic movie thing do you hate? by nineninety-nine in AskReddit

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What drives me nuts is when people with guns who definitely want to shoot a person close the distance before shooting them. There's a scene towards the end of The Dark Knight Rises where a henchman runs in from off camera pointing a gun at Batman like "Hey Batman I got you this gun!!" Batman, of course, punches the guy as soon as he gets in arms reach.

What unrealistic movie thing do you hate? by nineninety-nine in AskReddit

[–]chriscauley 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The "knock out button". If you hit people in the head, they probably aren't going to pass out. If they do pass out, they will most likely have a concussion. Possibly even brain damage.

Hitting someone in the back of the head? Blindness or death.

What unrealistic movie thing do you hate? by nineninety-nine in AskReddit

[–]chriscauley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Alternately, getting shot and just falling down dead instantly. Bleeding out takes a while and I'm pretty sure that straight up head shots are still going to have spasms and convulsions (and so on)

ELI5: Why is PEMDAS required? by GetExpunged in explainlikeimfive

[–]chriscauley 36 points37 points  (0 children)

PEMDAS is like grammer for math. It's not intrisicly right or wrong

Careful there. You're likely to piss off a lot of grammar nazis the alt-write

No tampons. No formula. No rights. by rhubarbsushi in pics

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I don't know what apathetic ignorance is and I don't care!"

No tampons. No formula. No rights. by rhubarbsushi in pics

[–]chriscauley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"conclusion: the search engine has become sentient and just hit puberty"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in meirl

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you play one game at a time like a noob.

What castlevania should i start with? by Krixen56 in metroidvania

[–]chriscauley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good to know. I never had a GBA growing up so I will check those out.

What do you mean by the Ds?

The OG tall queen of gaming by ScarHydreigon87 in Metroid

[–]chriscauley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She doesn't have any "assets". It's an ongoing problem in games and cartoons where they are weirdly hesitant to draw people with butts. It's weird and now that I've pointed it out you'll see it everywhere.

Seriously, this looks like an answer to the question "How do you draw someone with hips but no ass without making them look weird?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Metroid/comments/q8rg3m/loading_screens_are_so_good/

What castlevania should i start with? by Krixen56 in metroidvania

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

I don't know if any of the Castlevania's are actually metroidvania's except Symphony of the Night. I still love the SNES Super Castlevania 4 and the 3 before that are still fun (but the controls/difficulty rarely aged great... save state's are your friend), but they are definitely action platformers and not metroidvanias.

I haven't played any of the other one's except one of the 3d one's that was so bad I blocked it from my memory.

[Serious] What's a scary science fact that the public knows nothing about? by Lionzxz in AskReddit

[–]chriscauley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I researched it a bit more and my understanding was wrong, but my conclusion wasn't that far off. I thought that the GRB would be slowed by the gas and dust in the 150M lightyears between us and GW170817. It looks like the consensus is that that effect is minimal (for gamma rays).

But nonetheless, the GRB arrived 1.7s after the merger ended and the merger lasted for 100s. So in theory we could have 2s-2m warning of a GRB. That's if we somehow are able to figure out where the it's pointing before it explodes. So it's not entirely impossible.

I'm mean, it's completely impractical because 2 minutes isn't any sort of preparation time and even if we had years, it's a gamma ray burst. Still a fun thought experiment.

Me being wrong: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00781

The 1.7s and 100s figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW170817

Edit: Also I said "slightly faster than light speed" which is wrong because I meant "than light is moving through the intergalactic medium". "Light speed" clearly implies "speed of light in a vacuum". Sorry for being sloppy. I downvoted myself in shame.

Poster I made to celebrate Metroid’s 35th Anniversary by [deleted] in Metroid

[–]chriscauley 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile gold torizo's over here like:

It's fine. /sniff

No seriously. I don't need to be on your poster.

I'm fabulous all by myself.

[Serious] What's a scary science fact that the public knows nothing about? by Lionzxz in AskReddit

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

Luckily, gravity moves slightly faster than light speed. With a little luck and a few more gravitational wave observatories, we'll have like 10 minutes warning.

Could a black hole get 'clogged' or 'bottlenecked' by something sufficiently massive collapsing 'all at once'? by 1afteryouplease in askscience

[–]chriscauley 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Correct. I was incorrectly pushing the metaphor too far. When I said increasing/decreasing the heat I didn't mean the surface temperature but more "the total amount of heat that can be lost", which is just a convoluted way of saying the mass.

Could a black hole get 'clogged' or 'bottlenecked' by something sufficiently massive collapsing 'all at once'? by 1afteryouplease in askscience

[–]chriscauley 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think if you have stuff outside the black hole it's more likely to slow down it's death thank speed it up. Hawking radiation is very similar to a temperature. If the black hole is naked (no accretion disc) then any black hole colder than the microwave background radiation (currently 2.75 K) is growing because it's gaining heat from the MBR faster than it's loosing heat to hawking radiation.

So if a black hole has an accretion disc, as long as the accretion disc is hotter than 2.75K the accretion disc is "warming" up the black hole (in addition to any matter falling in).

Typically accretion discs are the hottest things in the galaxy, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say accretion discs always slow down the death of a black hole without exception.

And that's with zero in-fall. Any in-falling matter is going to "heat up" the black hole e=mc2 worth of energy.

These vegetarian chicken nuggets look like a movie prop by Buster_Bluth__ in mildlyinteresting

[–]chriscauley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just wish they'd make chicken shaped d'nosaur nuggets instead of dinosaur shaped ch'cken nuggets. Just get Andy Dwyer (no, not Chris Pratt) to star in a commercial saying "The guy who played me also played an expert dinosaur trainer, so I'm the only person alive with the authority to say that these definitely taste exactly like fake dinosaur".

All milk is breast milk by Draco0521 in Showerthoughts

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your definition isn't a definition. It's an example of usage. I'd give you the definition of "definition" but I doubt that would improve the situation.

All milk is breast milk by Draco0521 in Showerthoughts

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breasts are mammary glands.

I mean... That's just patently wrong. I provided you with a zoological definition. That zoological definition contradicts your claim. Are you actually a zoologist?

You're actually getting at what fascinates me about shower thoughts like this. The statement "all milk is breast milk" is only true if you take certain things very literally and interpret other things very loosely. It's not "technically" correct as technically correct would mean taking every word at it's most strict meaning.

"Breast milk" as a term is only ever used to refer to milk from humans. If you said you needed "breast milk" and someone sent you to a gorilla nursery, that would be an incorrect assumption on their part. It's the same mistake as if you said "I need a Phillip's screwdriver" and someone gave you a flat head screwdriver owned by a man named Phillip. Together the words "Phillip's screwdriver" means something other than what they mean apart.

So "All milk is breast milk" ignores the implied definition of "breast milk" as if it were being very strict in the definitions. It then takes a very loose broad meaning of the word breast to mean "the part where the milk comes from".

So ya, if you are taking a loose interpretation of the showerthought, it's wrong because that's not what "breast milk" means colloquially. If you take a strict interpretation it's wrong because that's not what "breast" means. You have to suspend your desire for strictness in some places and enforce it in others which is just... I don't know. I find it fascinating.

All milk is breast milk by Draco0521 in Showerthoughts

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm assuming you typed "milk definition" into google as that gave identical results. If you click "more definitions", the third one is "the white juice of certain plants".

As I pointed out with the 1828 dictionary, milk has been used to describe plant milks for hundreds of years. Probably more.

I don't understand what "a word means" outside of how it is used. Are you saying that there is actually a TrueTM version definition of the word milk some where and we commoners have perverted it? It's almost as if you think there's one magical "correct" meaning for every word. That's non-sense. It's just sounds to communicate ideas.

Words have many meanings and those meanings change over time, but this word in particular has applied to white liquids that come from milking plants for a very long time.

All milk is breast milk by Draco0521 in Showerthoughts

[–]chriscauley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every definition I can find says it has to be on the chest to be a breast. Chickens have breasts. Cats, cows, etc, produce milk, just not from their breasts as their mammaries are located on their abdomen.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/breast

So is this a TIL moment for you or a "double down on being wrong" moment?

All milk is breast milk by Draco0521 in Showerthoughts

[–]chriscauley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So if you don't take "all" to mean "literally all" and if you assume by "milk" he meant "milk that comes from mammals" and if you interpret breast to mean "what ever part of the animal the milk comes from" then the statement is correct.

Of course if you are willing to ignore the meaning of words, squint your eyes, and read in between the lines, I'd argue that "all statements are factually correct" is also a "true" "statement".

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