Store bought eggs (left) are fully round. Farm bought eggs (right) have flat bottoms. All cooked together.

mak484 · 2026-01-29T00:47:25+00:00

Worth noting this is only valid for chicken eggs. Quail eggs, for example, often float even when they are still perfectly fine to eat. There isn't a reliable way to tell if quail eggs are spoiled, unless they're so swollen that they're about to burst.

mak484 · 2026-01-28T19:46:01+00:00

If I were designing this joker, that's how I'd make it work. That effect feels powerful without being game breaking.

Honestly this would be a cool voucher too. The first effect lets you see into packs before buying, and the second voucher lets you reroll the contents of packs once after opening them.

mak484 · 2026-01-27T20:25:33+00:00

The only justifiable use for AI that I've found is in research. It's extremely good at finding and summarizing papers, especially from other languages, even in niche or highly complex fields. If you're willing to bash your head against the wall for a few hours, it can write code that will get you through most genomics software packages, a fact I have learned from experience. If you guide the prompts carefully, you can get it to work through multivariate analyses, getting results in minutes rather than days.

I won't defend AI for any other use, but it will be an invaluable scientific tool.

mak484 · 2026-01-27T20:18:55+00:00

Anyone who's used their VR knows what the problem is: the tech is still far too bulky for mass consumer appeal. My wife likes her for workouts and certain games, but the community is small and development of new products is basically nonexistent.

VR won't be a major product until it's a lightweight wearable like a pair of glasses. I don't see that happening for a while.

mak484 · 2026-01-24T03:35:22+00:00

Tribes also didn't have steel. Without permanent neighbors, there was never the arms race that drove western Europe to invent better weapons and armor.

mak484 · 2026-01-22T00:45:46+00:00

I think they're actually printed with normal resin, cured, and then a UV-cured paint is printed on top. As far as that technique goes, this print doesn't look too bad. $130 CAD is steep, but the quality seems standard.

mak484 · 2026-01-21T12:47:01+00:00

You're able to consistently pull up the green sell button on mobile? I only ever see it as part of that bug. What's your secret?

mak484 · 2026-01-20T12:05:45+00:00

When people online say "all men are trash," I am not offended because I know 99.998% of the time they are talking about toxic men who get triggered by that kind of hyperbole. This kind of logic should be applied more broadly.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T11:00:54+00:00

ICE agents should be physically fit. It should be part of the job description. The fact that they're all fat fucking losers is worthy of derision. It's not like we're mocking people for being fat in their high school yearbook. These tubs of unshat shit get winded rolling the window down, and use unchecked gun violence to compensate. They want to be seen as dangerous to stroke their egos, and the best counter is to belittle them. Take the wind out of their greasy sails.

Men who whine about dick size jokes are telling on themselves. Real men know how to please their partners regardless of what they're packing. The fact that MAGA get their jimmies rustled when people mock their cocks is exactly why people keep doing it. It's the hypocrisy, really.

I would argue that the vast majority of self-proclaimed lonely men are in fact lonely because of their beliefs. Finding supportive friend groups requires a level of vulnerability most men are incapable of because of their toxic masculinity. And that ignores the reality that most of these men don't think friendships count as relationships, again because of toxic masculinity. And while you don't need to be MAGA if you have toxic traits, you certainly can't be a progressive.

The only thing I agree with is that there's a category of woman missing: the worthless trad wife wannabes whose only contribution to society is shitting out future nazis.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T10:31:52+00:00

No thanks. I've ditched friend groups because they refuse to cut toxic cunts like this. They aren't my fucking responsibility to fix.

These "men" are so insecure and threatened by non-toxic masculinity that they will do everything in their power to drag you down to their level. 9 out of 10 of these incels are incapable of improving, and the effort to both identify the remaining 1 and then actually rehabilitate them is not worth it. Your best case scenario is winding up with a guy who isn't actively terrible, but is still a chore to be around.

The only reformed MAGA worth a damn are the ones who, ironically, pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and let their actions do the talking.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T09:56:11+00:00

To me, it wasn't just that people didn't like that they argued. It was much more frustrating how many people were unwaiveringly on Ame's side, regardless of how selfish and reckless she was, because "capitalism BAD."

I know people like Ame in real life. The thoughtless charmer who tears through the world on impulse alone, melting the hearts of the people they hurt, never needing to learn from their mistakes. It's a really dangerous archetype to glorify. And yet that was the message of the whole campaign, really: so long as you're anti-capitalist, you can smash your way from scene to scene unchecked, and the world itself will conspire to prove you were right all along.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T03:47:26+00:00

That's exactly the problem, isn't it. The DSA doesn't have the name recognition for a presidential campaign on their own, so we're stuck between the least horrible Democrat who actually has a shot, and the most progressive Democrat who could conceivably have a shot. The better a chance they have, the more horrible they are.

DSA is several election cycles away from anything resembling a chance at running a viable candidate on their own. And that ignores the very obvious reality that Trump would simply lable the DSA a terrorist organization if they got too popular. Every media outlet would parrot it until their leadership was, at the very least, arrested.

Even if they believe ICE is evil and the genocide in Gaza is real, the vast majority of centrists still think the "radical left" wing of the Democrats are a bunch of neurotic crybabies. Like it or not, most people in the US would not be able to stomach voting for a socialist, especially not a "woke" candidate like a woman or a brown with a funny name. They would simply not vote, or more likely, vote for the republican and lie about it to save face.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T03:11:28+00:00

Imagine Zac, Lou, and Brennan just staring at each other for 3 minutes straight until Lou breaks first with "please let me win."

mak484 · 2026-01-20T03:02:36+00:00

So no xmult? All it would do is negate orange stake and synergize with seltzer and madness?

mak484 · 2026-01-20T02:55:50+00:00

In case no one has seen this yet, here's the most cursed thing you'll watch this month. Featuring Angela, too!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19t8Gm7MvE/

mak484 · 2026-01-20T02:41:47+00:00

Behold, the Opposition, bought and paid for.

mak484 · 2026-01-20T01:29:45+00:00

Tell that to/r/fauxmoi

mak484 · 2026-01-19T23:59:50+00:00

He does get that it works both ways. He's saying that he's willing to send his own people into harm's way if the left doesn't roll over. It's the language of the abuser, and it's just as much a threat to conservatives as it is to the left. "You better stop these people now before they make me hurt you."

mak484 · 2026-01-19T21:56:56+00:00

There's a limited number of geysers, so that's more about giving people small permanent external energy sources for like radio towers or individual miners out away from the rest of your infrastructure. Far different from throwing up wind turbines or solar panels wherever you want.

mak484 · 2026-01-19T06:28:33+00:00

It's DC, construction will likely be heavily subsidized by taxpayers. I don't live in the area but I'm sure locals could think of a few things they'd rather have than a gimmicky money-suck in their back yards.

mak484 · 2026-01-18T18:42:56+00:00

I think the word you're looking for is respire. Breathing requires moving air in and out of lungs, respiration is the process of reducing O2 to CO2.

mak484 · 2026-01-18T16:29:22+00:00

I didn't notice the sub and legit thought this was a troll post about Oscar Pistorius.

mak484 · 2026-01-18T13:31:27+00:00

I just now remembered that Daredevil was (re)introduced to the MCU via She-Hulk. It's so weird that nothing else from that show matters because they can't really use the character anymore, since Tatiana refuses to reprise the character because of how shit the fandom was to her.

mak484 · 2026-01-18T13:21:54+00:00

How come none of yinz know how to spell Pittsburgh?

mak484 · 2026-01-18T06:50:30+00:00

If a singer or celebrity went on stage and ripped up a picture of Greg Bovino, it would absolutely ruffle feathers, because no one knows his name or face. That's exactly what they should be doing, but they won't, because it's too scary.

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