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It took me over 30 years to figure out that shampoo needs a lot of water to lather up properly. I was able to better than halve my shampoo consumption by just adding more water.
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The foaming effect does make it easier to get coverage of whatever you're washing. Especially for hair, it's handy.
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Hyperlynx posted:And the successor, "battleship", comes from "line of battle ship". It's an interesting problem, defending against torpedo boats in the late 19th century. Everything's so slow. They didn't have speedboats; they didn't even have internal combustion engines. Torpedo boats had steam engines on them and weren't that much faster than the ships they were trying to take out. But the guns were also ludicrously slow and hard to aim. Plus, we're still in the era where after you've fired your guns once or twice, you're covered in thick smoke and can't see a drat thing, such as e.g. whether or not you hit your target. Destroyers had numerous advantages in anti-torpedo-boat duty: they were smaller, faster, and more maneuverable than your battleships, they had smaller, faster guns, they could hopefully intercept the torpedo boats before they got close enough to the battleship to shoot at it, and of course, being cheaper, they were less appealing targets for torpedoes themselves. As terrible as early torpedoes were (and they were pretty terrible), it's still clear they were a legitimate threat to your average warship. Navies tried a bunch of different defenses. One of them was to fit every warship with anti-torpedo netting, which was attached to booms on the side of the ship. When the ship was in harbor (parked, thus easy to plan attacks around), it would swing the booms out with the idea that they'd catch torpedoes before they could strike the hull. Of course, weapons manufacturers responded by adding net-cutting capabilities to their torpedoes. I could go on about this...one notable evolution in WW2 was the "manned torpedo", which is basically a submersible motorboat ridden by frogmen. They ride it in close to the target, attach mines to the hull, then make their escape. They were used successfully in the Raid on Alexandria, but the Italian military failed to capitalize on their success. All of the frogmen that carried out the attack were captured, and the harbor at Alexandria was so shallow that the damaged ships didn't visibly sink. So the Royal Navy just quietly pretended they were still fully operational while carrying out repairs.
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MariusLecter posted:Star Destroyers protecting the Super Star Destroyer. WHAT IS THE BIGGER ONE DEFENDING?? What would you classify the Death Star II as? Presumably it's a carrier like the original Death Star was, so the closest analogue would probably be something like Project Habakkuk (a WW2 project to make an "unsinkable" giant aircraft carrier out of ice and wood fiber). But they both feel more like siege weapons than anything else.
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Nov 11, 2022 23:42
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doctorfrog posted:Bread and cake might be types of foam That's what the leavening is for, yeah.
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Dec 14, 2022 02:55
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Sometimes a song just needs words to fill space  I guess it would've been better if they'd just said "yeah" a bunch
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Really what we should do is just ditch pennies, and round all amounts to the closest nickel. That'd make a bigger impact than replacing quarters with quinters.
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Dec 30, 2022 19:29
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I keep a couple of twenties in my phone's case, just in case. Same with the removable insert in my wallet that has my driver's license. The cashless society isn't here yet, and I prefer cash for smaller businesses because it saves them the credit card processing fees they otherwise would have to pay. There's been plenty of times when paying cash has gotten me preferential treatment or a sweet deal. I wouldn't discount it as a payment method just yet.
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credburn posted:Am I alone in being generally much less interested in a video game if it's licensed from a movie / comic book / television series? I'm glad they didn't get the rights, I probably wouldn't have played it, especially since it was years before the pretty cool reboot. I don't think you're alone, but studios aren't going to stop. Licensed games have big built-in audiences from all the fans of the previous media. That makes the game way less risky to develop.
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Spek posted:This is the exact opposite of my experience. I used to have very long hair and not shampooing even for just a couple days would have it incredibly oily. Which was particularly annoying because of wearing glasses, and the hair oil somehow smearing the lenses constantly even though I almost always had it in a pony tail. Protip for folks with long hair: a French braid goes a long way to helping keep it under control. They're especially nice when sleeping, because if a single strand somehow gets pulled on, it'll distribute the force to a bunch of other follicles instead of yanking out and being painful.
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I've always had trouble with eating salads, because they're so, uh, not-dense. Take up a lot of plate space, kinda fiddly to eat compared to something heartier. Today I realized I can just, like, buy a bag of salad mix and eat it straight from the bag like it's chips or something. Sure, it's goony as gently caress and makes dressings an impossibility, but at least I'm eating greens now.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well yeah. Any opportunity to link this is a good opportunity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNpIn4fJrA
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"Bated" is still around in the word "abate".
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Mar 28, 2023 23:25
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Hardcordion posted:Movies use unrealistic sounds effects all the time for all sorts of different things; animals, firearms, cars, tools, etc. Its not a case of the sounds editors being big dummies who can't tell a bald eagle from a red tailled hawk; there was just a decision made at some point that one sound effect was more satifying and communicated more clearly when paired with the footage. In this case, the sound editor or whoever thought (correctly imo) that sped up/reversed tape audio sounded better than a quiet click-whirrrrrrrrrrrrrr-clunk. Remember when bullets always made gigantic "kapwiiing" sounds? And yeah, gun firing sounds especially are routinely faked, typically by making the gun sound bigger than it ought to. This is also one of those things where the sound designers have to play to the audience's expectations, though. The little "chirp" sound made by a silenced gun is of course laughably unrealistic, but it's also what a significant body of the audience understands to indicate "a silenced gun was just fired". So even if you know it's unrealistic and they know it's unrealistic, if what you're trying to communicate is "silenced gun firing", you gotta use that chirp. Or teach the audience "hey, in this movie, silenced guns sound like a staple gun firing".
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Silver Falcon posted:The same is true of movie birds too! I gotta say though, red-tailed hawks live in my neighborhood and it's pretty cool to hear them.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"Pulling out all the stops" refers to the drawknob 'stops' on pipe organs which are used to regulate the amount of pressurized air allowed into particular pipes. The more stops that get pulled, the more ranks of pipes & effects you get during play And that reminds me of this fantastic instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OihbIgXBsMU
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May 14, 2023 16:32
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The whole "nobody" thing is just there because people aren't confident enough to say their wacky stuff without any kind of lead-in.
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May 16, 2023 19:51
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Bacon (and other fatty foods) can contribute to causing migraines. I still have like two pounds of Costco bacon left, now what the hell do I do?
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May 31, 2023 14:55
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And here I thought it was from naval warfare, where there was big pressure to not simply run away from battle because it'd look like cowardice. So you'd get close enough to fire a shot that might theoretically hit if all the stars aligned, and then run away.
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Jun 1, 2023 23:42
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Sir Lemming posted:Villain Inflation has been an issue in superhero movies before Spider-Man though, going back to the Batman movies. I'm not googling that
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You can't get away with slapping giant boobs on family-friendly shows, but wide hips are A-OK. And female characters have to be sexualized, or else Dad won't pay for tickets, I guess.
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It's bonkers to me that NSAIDs are controlled but there's an uncontrolled opioid.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Americans looks to be English people who can't believe they English Hey now, Americans have barbeque. That's one* actual legitimate cuisine, which is more than the English have. * feel free to argue amongst yourselves about which kind of barbeque counts as legitimate
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Aug 21, 2023 16:34
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Yeah, amicus briefs are basically "I'm not directly involved in this case as a prosecutor or defendant, but I have an interest in how it turns out, and I believe I have information that is relevant to the court decision."
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Sep 22, 2023 16:37
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Christ, what a badly-shot fight sequence. The two combatants clearly never come anywhere close to each other when contact is supposedly made. Lots of shots where someone is doing big "impressive" moves while the only one on-screen. There's no tension. Anyway, on the topic of capoeira: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eqNp8eYp0
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I always figured Skeletor was a skeleton in a body suit too. It never occurred to me that he might be a blue muscle dude with no flesh on his skull.
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The platters in hard drives (the ones that still use spinning rust, anyway) are sometimes very brittle and prone to shattering all over the place. On the plus side, I have successfully securely deleted the contents of that old hard drive! 
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Baron von Eevl posted:My understanding is they're also full of extremely toxic heavy metals! Apparently the more recent ones use cobalt, yeah. This one was 15 years old, dunno how that stacks up. I cleaned thoroughly!
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If you want to read about the textile industry circa 2000 years ago, the blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry has a series on it. But yeah, the tl;dr is that it used just gigantic quantities of labor. "Spending every waking moment on textiles if you aren't doing something more important" isn't really that far off.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's also people that watch TV shows at 150% speed. Gotta get that poo poo over with as soon as possible! There's plenty of media out there that is tedious and dull at 100% speed, but actually interesting and entertaining when you speed it up. One of those "would you rather be bored for 30 minutes, or entertained for 20" kinds of situations.
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Reminds me of that guy that changed his name to be basically a long string of popular food chains, because in the country he was in, a popular way of doing restaurant promotions was "if your name is [e.g.] Kentucky, you get free fried chicken this week!" ...and then got stuck with that name, after the government put a limit on how many times you can change your name because they got sick of all the overhead from the promotions.
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Pookah posted:Wild to be reminded how ephemeral the coasts of countries really are on the longer scale. I'm reminded of the Terry Pratchett book where an island pops up out of nowhere, and all the various nations rush to claim it as their own.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
That's neat that you could identify the specific bits involved. The technique in general is called "kitbashing", and it's a good way to make sci-fi props. It's kinda like buying a bunch of lego sets and then mixing their parts together to make weird stuff, except you do it with kits instead.
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Yeah, I spoke with one of the mail delivery people in my area, they said the old trucks were more convenient in some ways, but holy poo poo the new ones have air conditioning, that is 100% worth it.
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The main example of YouTubers quitting I can think of is Tom Scott, who used to do a lot of "here's a weird/quirky [usually transportation-related] thing that only exists in this one part of the world, I traveled to it and am now experiencing and explaining it" kinds of videos. He was consistently successful and certainly not plagiarizing anyone, but the relentless grind was too much, so he quit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0
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Domus posted:Yeah, I was a pinball tech for seven years, and now instead of thinking they’re cool and fun, I see a machine and all I can think of is what will break. It’s not like I would refuse if someone asked me to play, but I‘ll never seek it out myself. I Let's Played several of my favorite games, that I used to play every year. I haven't touched any of them since finishing their respective LPs. There's something about exhaustively documenting a game that makes it lose the magic, I guess.
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When working on trailers for my game, my rule of thumb was that it would take me most of a work week (call it 30+ hours) to produce a new trailer, going from no footage to finished video. And that was for 60 seconds of footage, granted that they were a really tightly-choreographed 60 seconds. Video editing is hard and time-consuming work.
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Harvey TWH posted:
Surely a group of bees would be "elles"? 
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they (ils) bourdonnent, n'est-ce pas?
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Honestly, I get it, I've had some devices for over a decade before realizing that I hadn't removed the clear plastic film from them.
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