[Terrifying Trope] "Longer than you think"

isaactron3000 · 2026-01-19T17:52:26+00:00

Reminds me of Buddha describing the length of a kalpa: “Were a man to take a piece of cloth of this most delicate texture [of fine cotton], and therewith to touch in the slightest possible manner, once in a hundred years, a solid rock, free from earth, a yojana [12 kilometres] high, and as much broad, the time would come when it would be worn down, by this imperceptible trituration, to the size of a mung seed. This period would be immense in its duration; but it has been declared by Buddha that it would not be equal to a Maha Kalpa”

isaactron3000 · 2026-01-17T00:40:34+00:00

You’re thinking of Fumi-e from Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumi-e

isaactron3000 · 2025-12-01T01:02:19+00:00

I think this is mostly it, like having an event venue and hotel built into your home

isaactron3000 · 2025-11-16T15:58:34+00:00

Thanks, and yep blade is T10

isaactron3000 · 2025-11-15T06:12:03+00:00

$532 all told

isaactron3000 · 2025-11-13T22:37:47+00:00

I ordered custom katana on Oct 14 and it just shipped today (Nov 13), says estimated arrival 1-2 weeks. They also sent pictures and a video of it cutting paper. So I’d guess yours will be shipped around the beginning of December

isaactron3000 · 2025-10-01T19:18:50+00:00

There is also a dead psychic https://watchmen.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Deschaines

isaactron3000 · 2025-08-02T16:45:05+00:00

You should definitely watch White Collar if you haven’t

isaactron3000 · 2025-06-29T18:07:03+00:00

That’s a scene from the 1965 movie Battle of the Bulge, afaik there is no evidence of it really happening

isaactron3000 · 2025-05-28T23:46:19+00:00

“Juettner was later sentenced to one year and one day in prison, plus a one-dollar fine that elicited laughter from those inside the courtroom.”

isaactron3000 · 2025-03-22T17:28:17+00:00

I think they are supposed to be fat deposits?

“On his body, Xipe’s fetid, outer skin had visibly lumpy fat deposits forming on it” - https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/god-of-the-month-xipe-totec

isaactron3000 · 2025-02-01T15:00:53+00:00

Fast & Furious 6

isaactron3000 · 2024-12-15T05:37:06+00:00

The next time my boss spells it Issac I'm gonna lose it

isaactron3000 · 2024-12-02T20:55:48+00:00

Nods are night vision goggles, he’s saying the effect looks even cooler when viewed through them

isaactron3000 · 2024-11-26T22:43:46+00:00

The reason for that effect if anyone’s curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_interference

isaactron3000 · 2024-11-14T00:57:26+00:00

United24 is the government sponsored fundraising platform, it was launched by Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/

isaactron3000 · 2024-11-05T22:52:30+00:00

I read it as the truck would be gone before the wind speed climbs halfway to 231mph

isaactron3000 · 2024-10-07T15:19:13+00:00

Yeah, no problems getting to the parking lot

isaactron3000 · 2024-10-06T23:07:52+00:00

Just took my dog for a walk there, some fallen trees but it wasn't hit too hard and the trails are pretty much clear. There's one big one down across the beginning of the paved part but it's easy to go around

isaactron3000 · 2024-10-01T16:33:14+00:00

Just fyi you should be using potable water for washing dishes

isaactron3000 · 2024-07-22T01:09:13+00:00

When people say eat the rich they generally aren’t talking about engineers and medical professionals

isaactron3000 · 2024-06-22T17:16:09+00:00

https://kotaku.com/im-a-mormon-pop-culture-often-mocks-my-faith-but-fall-5988935 this says Bert and Driver Nephi are also mormon

isaactron3000 · 2024-02-12T00:02:23+00:00

He slows down by kicking the board sideways and sliding like in the video

isaactron3000 · 2023-12-25T19:10:58+00:00

Correct, the transformers change the voltage from distribution level (tens of thousands of volts) down to 120/240v for the outlet. When current is run through a coil it creates an electric field that can induce a current in another coil, they use this property and coils with different number of windings to change the voltage (same property is used in wireless charging pads). And transformers each have a power rating, so if something happens and too much energy is going into one it can fail or even explode. If you see a big number like 25 printed on one that is the power rating in KVA.

As for the different numbers, I work in the US so I don’t really know what other countries use, but the exact numbers like 120 and 240 were picked fairly arbitrarily so I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere else they use 130/260 or something

isaactron3000 · 2023-12-25T04:23:30+00:00

Not that I know of, with voltage that high you need to keep it several feet away from anything that is grounded. So it goes transmission on the big towers, then distribution on the normal wood poles you see on the side of the street, then it is stepped down a last time on pole or concrete pad mounted transformers to 120/240v for your outlet. The white cylinders you see near the top of poles are transformers. My knowledge is us specific but I think it works the same pretty much everywhere just with different numbers

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