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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yeah but then they pull the old you need to enter everything to get the delivery costs. I understand they need my address to figure out what shipping would cost. But they also require my name, email and phonenumber before showing the shipment costs. So annoying, it makes comparing prices between shops impossible as some shops have higher prices and free shipping, where others have super low prices, but then fuck you on the shipping.


  • And everything is SO FUCKING SLOW. I swear my old Celeron 300A at 500mhz running Windows 98 and SUSE Linux was super responsive. Everything you clicked just responded right away, everything felt smooth and snappy. Chatting with people over the internet using ICQ or MSN was basically instant, all the windows opened instantly, typing had zero latency and sending messages was instant.

    My current Ryzen 5950X is not only a billion times faster, it also has 16 times the number of cores. I have hundreds of times the RAM as I had HDD capacity on that old system. Yet everything is slower, typing has latency, starting up Teams takes 5 minutes. Doing anything is slow, everything has latency and you need to wait for things to finish loading and rendering unless you want everything to mess up and you’d have to wait even more.






  • I humbly reserve the right to give you a hug, if you’d consent, for all you did for us. Also I would like your permission to kick you in the balls for this “announcement”. If your biology doesn’t allow for that, don’t worry, I’ve got a magic spell that can give you balls just long enough for me to kick them.

    Just kidding, love you <3







  • First of all, microwaves emit non-ionizing radiation and thus can’t affect anything biological except for heating it. Wifi uses the same radiation and we bathe in that all the time, it is totally safe.

    Second of all, even if the microwave blasted huge amounts of ionizing radiation into the underwear or even food when heating, it will NOT turn the food radioactive. This is a common misconception and radiation is often used to treat food in order to kill all the microbes, this makes the food very resistant to spoiling. Often MREs used in the millitary are treated this way to give them a large shelf life, which is a really good feature to have. The food is totally safe to eat (at least from a radiation standpoint).

    It is possible to use radiation to make something radioactive, but the energy levels need to be extremely high. Think inside of nuclear reactors high. This is actually a large reason for radioactive waste, not just the spent fuel, but a lot of parts used inside the reactor become radioactive. This is why nuclear fusion reactors still output a lot of radioactive waste, as parts used inside the reactor (especially the shields) become radioactive.

    However it’s important to know radioactivity can absolutely spread and contaminate stuff. This is not because of the radiation, but because of the material itself spreading. It’s usually in the form of dust that spreads, gets stuck all over the place and especially when it gets inside of biologics it can be a real problem. But the exact same risk exists for toxic materials that aren’t radioactive, for example asbestos fibres.



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    2 days ago

    I heard a Brit say the other day it was scorching out. So I asked how hot it was, they said 25 degrees C. I laughed so hard I almost fell from my chair. Where I live it was 33 degrees at that time and had been 39 degrees earlier that week.




  • YSK this is actually a bad idea. By repeatedly damaging the skin this way you can actually trigger a nerve condition where the ends of your nerves just send pain signals all the time. People who work in professions where they scrub their hands a lot for their work are at risk of this. It’s probably fine to do every once in a while, but don’t make it a regular thing.

    The chance is small, but I know a few folk who were real men when they were younger so they didn’t wear gloves when they really should have. Just don’t worry about it and scrub it off was the mindset back then and men wearing PPE were (and sometime are) seen as weak. But they describe the pain as getting stabbed in the hand repeatedly and wish they just wore the gloves.