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If the colour of light emitted by hot objects is based on their temperature and nothing else, and orange is around ~1500 kelvins, does that really mean the heating element of toasters get that hot? That sounds really high!
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Hyperlynx posted:If the colour of light emitted by hot objects is based on their temperature and nothing else, and orange is around ~1500 kelvins, does that really mean the heating element of toasters get that hot? That sounds really high! There’s slightly more to it, but yes, heating elements do get that hot.
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Jul 1, 2022 06:35
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It gets hot enough to turn orange and yet we call it blackbody radiation? Checkmate scientists.
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Jul 1, 2022 07:32
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Hey another question, since Google and Bing aren't really turning up what I'm trying to find, which is: Is there a good video of a debate between a transgender person and a conservative person about gender? I hear so many isolated rants from either end, I want to hear what these two sides actually say to each other.
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Jul 1, 2022 07:33
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credburn posted:Hey another question, since Google and Bing aren't really turning up what I'm trying to find, which is: No, it always devolves into shouting on one side or the other, because one is denying an entire people personhood, and the other is emphatic that they deserve to be people. There's no way to calmly debate that without making it seem like there's a valid point to denying an entire group of people personhood.
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Jul 1, 2022 07:43
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Hyperlynx posted:This advice hasn't been correct for at least 40 years, but for whatever reason it's still really persistent in the general consciousness. um. I will say though for certain classes of entry level and service jobs showing up in person can still hold. Restaurants, bars, convenience stores, some grocery stores, small businesses and shops that are public facing. Basically, just show up in person when they're not obviously super busy (no need to dress formally, but don't be unkempt) and ask if they're hiring and have any applications on hand. Fill it out in person and turn it in. If they don't call you you can politely call and check in once within a week, but otherwise drop it and move on. For an office job though yeah no. Absolutely not.
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Jul 1, 2022 07:54
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Hyperlynx posted:If the colour of light emitted by hot objects is based on their temperature and nothing else, and orange is around ~1500 kelvins, does that really mean the heating element of toasters get that hot? That sounds really high! They do! A relevant factor that's easy to overlook here is thermal mass. Basically, the amount of energy it takes to heat something up to a certain temperature depends on its mass, and it can take deceptively little energy to heat something with very little mass up to a surprisingly high temperature. Since the wires in your toaster's heating element are very thin, it doesn't take all that much energy to get them to that temperature, and they will also cool back down very rapidly. Another classic example is striking sparks with a flint stone: all the energy going in there is just your arms hitting the things together, but since it's all concentrated into a few tiny specks of metal flakes, those also end up with temperatures of several thousand kelvin.
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Jul 1, 2022 08:02
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Stealth Tiger posted:anyone interested in answering my actual question? I didn't ask "Which colors are easy to perceive at night" I asked "How come people claim certain colors affect your mood in a certain way, but I have found the opposite to be true?" Does staring at a computer screen that has been shifted towards warm colors help others to sleep? Because looking at that kind of screen makes it tougher for me to sleep. My guess would be that your computer monitor isn’t actually shifting the colors over properly and it is still putting out a lot of blue light. Staring at a bright light source, like a computer monitor, is not ever going to make it easier to sleep than not staring at any light at all. If you must have some sort of light, the best is a red light.
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Jul 1, 2022 08:12
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Boba Pearl posted:No, it always devolves into shouting on one side or the other, because one is denying an entire people personhood, and the other is emphatic that they deserve to be people. There's no way to calmly debate that without making it seem like there's a valid point to denying an entire group of people personhood. It's this, OP. I got into an argument with a terfy lesbian on Monday and this is pretty much how it felt. Until she got drunker and started trying to get into my pants. She was visibly quite confused by the whole thing. Maybe I changed her mind in the end! Of course I didn't change her mind. She probably decided the hot trans girl she aggressively pursued was actually a sign of us being even more insidious and dangerous than she previously thought Squibsy fucked around with this message at 10:48 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 10:43
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Evilreaver posted:I'm writing a sci-fi book (right now more like a handful of short stories) and while describing the setting to a friend, I came across a mental block. I feel like there's some similar ideas in Ann Leckie's Ancillary series. There is a whole complex subplot about AI's controlling masses of 'drones' and having secret blocking subroutines/defences/self destruct systems to force them to take sides in a secret intra-factional war.
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Jul 1, 2022 10:46
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Hyperlynx posted:If the colour of light emitted by hot objects is based on their temperature and nothing else, and orange is around ~1500 kelvins, does that really mean the heating element of toasters get that hot? That sounds really high! the incandescent light bulb in the link is also noteworthy in that it gets up to around 3000 kelvin in actual temperature https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/AlexanderEng.shtml interestingly, a lot of the EM radiation emitted by an incandescent light bulb is actually outside of the visual spectrum and the amount of visible light produced compared to all radiation is actually very low https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Efficacy_and_efficiency Goon Boots fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 11:12
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El Mero Mero posted:um. I will say though for certain classes of entry level and service jobs showing up in person can still hold. Restaurants, bars, convenience stores, some grocery stores, small businesses and shops that are public facing. Well, fair enough. But still, pestering people repeatedly seems like a bad idea. Perestroika posted:(thermal mass) That makes a lot of sense! Just because something is very hot doesn't mean it has a lot of energy...
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Jul 1, 2022 13:04
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Boba Pearl posted:No, it always devolves into shouting on one side or the other, because one is denying an entire people personhood, and the other is emphatic that they deserve to be people. There's no way to calmly debate that without making it seem like there's a valid point to denying an entire group of people personhood. This and a lot of the more calm debates are carried out by academic reactionaries like Jordan Peterson who tend to “selectively”* choose studies that support their argument. * a time honored academic tradition of choosing only studies that support one’s argument even if many more contradict it. Or arriving at conclusions based on interpreting results from research of a completely unrelated topic. This is how vaccine misinformation and climate change denial first got their start  Edit: you could say that both sides of the gender debate engage in this but the cultural elite is primarily older and more conservative so voices representing the trans experience are in the minority Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 13:34
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 So... how does an icicle form directly onto a light bulb? Is the heat from the bulb creating just enough condensation to make the water that is then immediately frozen from the room being sub zero?
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I'm looking at buying a flat. I'm going to view somewhere really weird tomorrow. It occupies the top half of a standalone church hall, and it's completely discrete from the facilities below. Basically the church seems to have funded building this annex by having a flat on top that the developers rented. Good news: for the money, it's an entirely detached property with massive square footage for the city I live in. Bad news: the church hall below is rented for events on the weekend (theoretically up til 10pm), and open from 7.30 - 6.30pm on weekdays as a daytime nursery for children aged 0-5. My viewing is afternoon on a weekend so it will be dead quiet, but my small/stupid question is: how loud is that kind of nursery generally? Like on the inside? I know kids running outside make infinite noise, but the day-to-day operation. I work from home several days a week so I'm fretting a little bit about there being unending screams starting at 7.30am. Equally, the draw of somewhere I can blast music in the evenings and not disturb anyone is very strong and almost unheard of for my budget. Easily 99.99% of places share a ceiling or floor with someone else's house, so I can handle a moderate amount of daytime disturbance in exchange. Obviously I will go at some point and visit during working hours, but with how hot the property market is, I would need to put in an offer basically immediately on Monday, then back out later if I found that the floors were made of papier mache and the nursery only catered to the children of professional yodelers. Also since it's through an estate agent, and the property has previously just been short term rented, there's no current tenants to ask.
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Jul 1, 2022 17:02
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Jeza posted:My viewing is afternoon on a weekend so it will be dead quiet, but my small/stupid question is: how loud is that kind of nursery generally? Like on the inside? I know kids running outside make infinite noise, but the day-to-day operation. I work from home several days a week so I'm fretting a little bit about there being unending screams starting at 7.30am. That's basically impossible for anyone in this thread to answer. It'll depend entirely on the building, the grounds, the kids, the activities, and a bunch of other factors.
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Jul 1, 2022 18:09
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Is there a section of the forums where torrents / private trackers are discussed? Also, I realise I only ever really post in a select few threads, most of which are in Games. I see all the other sections of the forums but I don't understand half of it because it's all abbreviated. Any advice on how to branch out?
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Jul 1, 2022 18:41
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What are you interested in?
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Jul 1, 2022 18:45
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There's a reason why  is an emote. We're not supposed to discuss piracy here.As for branching out, just poke around and see if any threads sound interesting. Many forums have "don't know what to do, go here" threads that can help you get started.
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Jul 1, 2022 18:46
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Also 2022 SA Forums are a lot more friendly than they were in the past haha There was definitely a period I felt really confined to a subforum, like I felt like such an impostor poking my nose in, say, Goons with Spoons or whatever it's called now.
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Jul 1, 2022 18:55
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Goon Boots posted:the incandescent light bulb in the link is also noteworthy in that it gets up to around 3000 kelvin in actual temperature To expand on this, the trick of the halogen lamp is that the namesake halogen gas picks up sublimating tungsten from the filament and re-deposits it where it belongs. This enables the filament to be run a few hundred kelvins higher without absurdly short lifetime. At this higher temperature, the emissions curve is shifted such that there is proportionally less infrared and proportionally more visible light.
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Jul 1, 2022 19:25
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Qubee posted:Is there a section of the forums where torrents / private trackers are discussed? As mentioned, piracy is still not allowed on the forums, although moderation is a bit more lax than it used to be. But as for branching out, most of the forums are pretty obvious in their names I feel, except for the pink ones (FYAD, BYOB, YOSPOS, CSPAM, etc). Just go wherever, read the threadlist, lurk a few pages before posting and it's all cool and chill.* *Rivalry between CSPAM and D&D not included.
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Jul 1, 2022 19:27
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Just go on safari, there's a lot of weird and cool threads out there. I have less than zero interest in knitting or gardening so the threads in DIY are bizarrely interesting, its like a portal into another world. Think twice about your contribution before posting in threads that are obviously dedicated to a specific profession or lgbtqi+ etc. Like the healthcare professional thread is fascinating but they get enough poo poo from random folks at their workplace. E: BonHair posted:most of the forums are pretty obvious in their names I feel, except for the pink ones (FYAD, BYOB, YOSPOS, CSPAM, etc). PHIZ and imp zone are kinda in the same group I feel Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 19:27
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Platystemon posted:To expand on this, the trick of the halogen lamp is that the namesake halogen gas picks up sublimating tungsten from the filament and re-deposits it where it belongs. That's cool! I didn't know that the filament sublimates, but I guess that's why bulbs eventually burn out when they lose too much material.
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A few years ago I saw a video where a Chinese kung fu master demonstrated his skill in withdrawing his testicles into his “abdomen.” To show that he could really do it he had a disinterested 3rd party (not a student but part of the film crew) grab his genitals and the guy, shocked, says his testicles were indeed not there. Assuming he didn’t have an orchiectomy and didn’t use a stooge, what physically can withdraw the testicles and drop them on command? Is this a really dangerous skill which is why you never see it?
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Thirteen Orphans posted:A few years ago I saw a video where a Chinese kung fu master demonstrated his skill in withdrawing his testicles into his “abdomen.” To show that he could really do it he had a disinterested 3rd party (not a student but part of the film crew) grab his genitals and the guy, shocked, says his testicles were indeed not there. Assuming he didn’t have an orchiectomy and didn’t use a stooge, what physically can withdraw the testicles and drop them on command? Is this a really dangerous skill which is why you never see it? Wait, is that that hard? I can do it. They sort of... pop up what feels like behind the bone. The coccyx? Leaving the scrotal sac sort of there but more or less empty seeming. I use the same muscles I might use to flex my abs at the same time as sucking in my stomach, but... well, you know, it's sort of tricky to articulate. You can't see it but I'm doing a lot of gyrations and hand motions that help illustrate it. I figured this was something anyone could do. I can also do a wicked "stomach vacuum" that spooks a lot of people so maybe that uses the same muscles? Hey, here's a question: People who use the women's restroom: why is there poo poo everywhere? I used to clean bathrooms for a living, and the men's room consistently has piss everywhere but at least there wasn't poo poo everywhere like in the women's restroom. 100% of the women's restrooms I've cleaned have been nightmares compared to the relative conditions in the men's room. Yeah, piss everywhere in the men's room; piss on the handles, on the seats, on the wall, on the floor, piss piss piss. But the women's restrooms have poo poo on the seats, poo poo on the rim, poo poo on the floor, poo poo poo poo poo poo. The way I think it happens is perhaps a lot of women don't want to sit on the toilet seats? So maybe they do a squatting thing above the bowl, and loving miss like a stormtrooper? Or maybe they stand in front of the toilet, facing away, bend over and just let blast all over the direction of the toilet? I've done custodial work at a department store and a university and the conditions were the same :\ credburn fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 22:38
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Sorry but I just refuse to believe that there's someone out there who thought that all men have the ability to retract their testicles up into their abdomen at will.
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Human Tornada posted:Sorry but I just refuse to believe that there's someone out there who thought that all men have the ability to retract their testicles up into their abdomen at will. And worse, another person, who can do it without much effort and thinks that this is a completely normal ability
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Jul 1, 2022 23:14
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Human Tornada posted:Sorry but I just refuse to believe that there's someone out there who thought that all men have the ability to retract their testicles up into their abdomen at will. If this is directed at me I DON’T think everyone with testicles can do that, I was just wondering what was going on with this guy who supposedly could. Thirteen Orphans fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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Jul 1, 2022 23:17
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I don’t think it’s terribly uncommon. Mine can pop back into my inguinal canal and back out without too much effort.
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credburn posted:Hey, here's a question: People who use the women's restroom: why is there poo poo everywhere? I used to clean bathrooms for a living, and the men's room consistently has piss everywhere but at least there wasn't poo poo everywhere like in the women's restroom. 100% of the women's restrooms I've cleaned have been nightmares compared to the relative conditions in the men's room. Yeah, piss everywhere in the men's room; piss on the handles, on the seats, on the wall, on the floor, piss piss piss. But the women's restrooms have poo poo on the seats, poo poo on the rim, poo poo on the floor, poo poo poo poo poo poo. The way I think it happens is perhaps a lot of women don't want to sit on the toilet seats? So maybe they do a squatting thing above the bowl, and loving miss like a stormtrooper? Or maybe they stand in front of the toilet, facing away, bend over and just let blast all over the direction of the toilet? I've done custodial work at a department store and a university and the conditions were the same :\ Every janitor complains about the cleanliness of the women’s restroom, but every trans person complains about the men’s. Such a paradox.
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I can't pop my testicles back into my body but can phase them in and out of the mortal plane with minimal effort. It's great for birth control / not getting kicked in the nuts.
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Jul 1, 2022 23:44
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Maybe I should see the example of this. My testicles don't go up into my abdomen but they can be sucked up to where the scrotum is kind of just a... ugly decoration. I can also invert my penis. I just assumed these were things folks with dicks could do. I've never had this conversation with anyone before.
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I've been told many times that women's restrooms are horrible because women are more likely to try to hover above the seat because they think their rear end needs to be protected from whatever they think is on there, and consequently miss and make a huge mess. I don't know if that's actually true or not because I don't use women's restrooms but it's distressingly plausible sounding to me honestly.
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Thirteen Orphans posted:If this is directed at me I DON’T think everyone with testicles can do that, I was just wondering what was going on with this guy who supposedly could. Nah it was more for credburn whose reaction to a real life Pai Mei was "and this is news how?"
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Human Tornada posted:Nah it was more for credburn whose reaction to a real life Pai Mei was "and this is news how?" Ah, gotcha. As an aside, this wasn’t the original video, but it was this master: https://youtu.be/JVAEPl8rohY I’d still love to know what’s going on down there…
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There's more likely to be a mother doing childcare things in a woman's bathroom, too? That's what I would imagine skews the waste presented into the poo poo territory.
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EricBauman posted:And worse, another person, who can do it without much effort and thinks that this is a completely normal ability It seems it's at least something it seems most could learn. It's a key part of a little-known sex act.
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Jyrraeth posted:There's more likely to be a mother doing childcare things in a woman's bathroom, too? That's what I would imagine skews the waste presented into the poo poo territory. I’m going to guess it’s this. When I was bartending, I had to check the washrooms before closing. The only differences were PISS in the men’s as has been noted and mounds of toilet paper everywhere every night in the women’s. Seriously egregious amounts of wadded up toilet paper, we killed a rainforest every night. The places I bartended didn’t have families with young children so I’m guessing that’s why the lack of poop Fun finds: Mystery bags of weed A pineapple A large black dildo, vibrating furiously
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dirby posted:It seems it's at least something it seems most could learn. It's a key part of a little-known sex act. That was absolutely fascinating!
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