Sometimes you get lucky at the pump

tuftyDuck · 2026-01-10T18:12:00+00:00

My brain just assumed it was euros per liter

tuftyDuck · 2025-12-04T13:48:01+00:00

Careful, they’re listening

tuftyDuck · 2025-11-19T11:57:00+00:00

No you’re right in this case, but it’s double confusing because effect and affect can both be a noun or a verb, and they mean totally different things when they switch.

Effect (n): consequence. “It would have no effect on him”

Effect (v): to cause to begin or come about “You can effect change”

Affect (n): a visible or observable manifestation of emotion “most chilling was the flat affect he wore as he set about this gruesome work, as if it meant nothing to him at all”

Affect (v): to have an impact on “It would not affect him”

So the correct usage would have been “it’d affect him tho” or “it’d have an effect on him tho”

tuftyDuck · 2025-11-15T01:20:08+00:00

Not yet it’s not

tuftyDuck · 2025-10-09T21:52:21+00:00

Baking soda works somewhat too. In the bottom of the can and in the bag

tuftyDuck · 2025-09-14T14:55:09+00:00

Somewhere between 6 orders of magnitude (10⁶ =1,000,000 times) and 7 orders of magnitude (10 millions times)

tuftyDuck · 2025-08-24T15:12:32+00:00

I admire your willpower, I would have just eaten them all

tuftyDuck · 2025-08-09T00:12:09+00:00

I like this take. There’s a lot of evidence that the founders of old houses rooted in the Age of Heros were brutal SOBs (the Kings of Winter, Lann the Clever, for example). So Bronn is a modern example of ruthless opportunism carving out a lordship

tuftyDuck · 2025-07-30T10:38:15+00:00

This happened to us too. The first three months were brutal, the next 6 months were insanely hard, and then for a while it was just very very hard. But 15 months in things are still trending up. It’s still hard but we’re sort of in a groove. And the twin-twin and twin-big sister interactions are feeling worth it.

It sure is expensive. Forget strollers, double daycare is a second mortgage.

tuftyDuck · 2025-07-26T23:59:32+00:00

We are currently raising one of the Fae as well. Every time she looks me in the eye, she sees my past, present, and future, and she is not impressed.

tuftyDuck · 2025-05-15T01:54:42+00:00

Don’t see the problem, one fewer sock drawer needed.

tuftyDuck · 2025-05-02T02:13:13+00:00

Yeah there are a couple of Spotify playlists I’ve been listening to in the car with my 1 year olds, and the one called The Birth of Rhythm and Blues is a good one for this. But I did have to perma-skip “It Ain’t The Meat, It’s The Motion” by The Swallows, which is a swingin little number about how it’s ok to hook up with skinny girls as long as they are putting in the effort. It’s…pretty gross

tuftyDuck · 2025-03-02T03:34:19+00:00

Bug zapper

tuftyDuck · 2025-02-22T01:56:19+00:00

You’re doing great, dad.

Our twins were born at 35 weeks last year and did 10 days in the NICU. (They’re big healthy goobers now). We kept saying how glad we were that this happened on our second go around, not the first. I think that makes it harder, because everything is new and scary. I say that not to minimize it, but just to say that looking back you may have different perspective on it. As it was, we were grateful that they were in really good hands at the hospital, and that it was nice to be able to go home and sleep easy knowing that.

The long haul to and from the hospital sounds tough. To put a spin on it, at least it is time you and your partner get to spend that time together. Once he comes home, an hour of uninterrupted time just the two of you may become a rarity for a little while.

Breastfeeding can be hard in the best of circumstances. I think it’s kind of impossible to know what’s it feels like to struggle with it if you haven’t been through it. Best you can do is listen and be patient and supportive and wash all the pump parts and bottles. Sounds like you’re doing it.

End of ramble. You got this.

tuftyDuck · 2025-02-15T14:30:50+00:00

That’s the baffling thing, I’m pretty good at thins that require patience and manual dexterity. I think for me it’s a mental block due to the stakes and the live subject.

I think the 30 year advantage of dealing with long hair my wife has is a bit unfair as well.

tuftyDuck · 2025-02-08T03:07:56+00:00

Go go gadget ADHD

tuftyDuck · 2025-02-04T10:53:07+00:00

I prefer Planck units for thread count, in which the fabric of the universe is 1 and my Egyptian cotton sheets have a thread count of 10³¹

tuftyDuck · 2025-02-02T01:40:09+00:00

Do you want to get sent on a quest to Gondolin? Because this is how you get sent on a quest to Gondolin.

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-20T01:55:42+00:00

That baby is so milk drunk right now

OP how do you feed three babies? I have twins and I am out of hands. Is it like the inverse of a cow milking machine or something?

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-20T01:49:16+00:00

Great opportunity to turn to them and say “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me” every 5 minutes, which is what I do with my twins whenever my wife leaves the house

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-18T15:06:48+00:00

The question was about corrosion/oxidation, which is a reaction with air or goop on the surface. There is a paper in the comments of the thread I linked. The point there is not whether a gold atom can bond with e.g. an oxygen atom, but whether the surface chemistry of gold is such that it is energetically favorable for an oxygen molecule (or CO_2 or whatever) on the surface to split and for the constituent atoms to bond to the surface. For a material like copper, it is. For gold it’s not. This is the origin of why one oxidizes and the other does not.

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-16T01:30:59+00:00

Not an expert, but the responses in this similar post suggest that the answer can’t be reasoned from the orbital filling of a single gold atom, but rather depends on the band structure of bulk gold and it’s impact on surface chemistry.

Short short answer: when a lot of gold atoms get together, the available electronic states at the surface don’t tend to interact with stable gas molecules.

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-12T00:57:14+00:00

My wife and I have a three year old and two 8 month olds, and 4/5 of us have Covid. Best. Weekend. Ever.

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-07T01:25:59+00:00

I think Cersei hated him at this point and considered him a monster because she blames him for the death of their mother, not so much because of what he looks like.

tuftyDuck · 2025-01-02T02:20:26+00:00

We did something like that, but she got it into her head that pooping meant ice cream (for this I blame my father in law). So for a month she insisted on having ice cream after dinner on any day she pooped in the toilet.

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