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  • I’ve been on Adderall since I was 9 and my relationship with food is basically waking up hungry, taking some pills, and then being hungry but having absolutely no impetus to act on it… And 12 hours after waking up everything wears off and it’s suddenly ‘food horny’ for lack of better word. Profoundly, ravenously hungry.

    I’ve basically been training my whole life to saunter into a pizza place and order a 16" pizza and eat the whole thing in 15 minutes.

    Professional competitive eaters are nuts tho, this pizza place near me has a challenge to eat a 16" specialty pizza, I did it for shits and giggles after work one day in like 20 minutes, but on their wall of finishers, a professional eater stopped in and ate the whole damn thing in 2 minutes and 49 seconds, that’s terrifying


  • It’s normal and actually kind of cool by design - the ‘fediverse’ is basically a bunch of different servers (instances) that can all connect to each other. I’m on Lemmy.world, my other account is on midwest.social, but when I’m looking at posts from all communities on either of those I see more or less the same stuff from all the other communities across the other instances.

    But some instances have a theme, like Midwest.social is kind of intended for people from the midwest, but anyone can join. Lemmy.ml is kind of a communist hangout. Solarpunk(spelling) is a lot more eco-conscious than other instances.

    You can join any instance you want, sometimes after you join an instance you notice a theme that doesn’t really vibe with you, but you can join a more ‘vanilla’ instance, stay on your current instance, or look around for some instance that’s really into whatever you’re into.

    But at the end of the day your credentials on an instance are basically a passport for all the other instances, and it’s mostly gonna be a legit good passport.

    That said, if an instance goes to crap from bad moderation or from horrible viewpoints or culture, other instances can basically block it, and if you’re on an instance that becomes defederated your basically cut off from all the other instances, so you better go find a better instance, but that doesn’t happen all too often


  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBombs Awat
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    2 days ago

    No, it’s all the same in that regard - a ladybug will have a far higher surface area to volume/mass, and that affects terminal velocity.

    Ladybug might have 10 square millimeters and weigh .05 grams, 200 square millimeters per gram

    Elephant might have 15 square meters and weigh 5000 kilograms. 15 million square millimeters and 5 million grams, so 3 square millimeters per gram

    But the elephant in the room (slaps knee) is momentum.

    Let’s say, hypothetically, we shove a ladybug and an elephant off a 125m cliff and pretend they both have a ridiculously high terminal velocity. That’s enough for them to reach 50 meters per second or 180kph. .05 gram ladybug’s momentum would be an infinitessimally small 0.0025 kg·m/s, meanwhile the elephant is at 250000 kg·m/s, and the elephant explodes.

    The thing that makes the ladybug survive the fall (ridiculously low mass relative to surface area) is the same thing that would make a ladybug freeze in minutes if you tossed it in a freezer. Conversely, elephant wouldn’t really be bothered by a couple minutes in a freezer.

    It’s that rapid change in internal body temperature that stresses smaller fish out, dumping them in water that is much colder or warmer than them


  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBombs Awat
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    One of the bigger reasons has to do with the square cube law - as the size of something increases, surface area increases by a factor of 2 but mass increases by a factor of 3, so little fishes have a surface area-to-mass ratio that is quite a bit higher than a larger fish, and they’re more susceptible to abrupt changes in temperature.

    Kinda like how an ice cube will melt a lot faster than a big slab of ice, the core temperature of some small fish like a goldfish is gonna change more rapidly than the core temperature of a big fish like a trout so they tend to be a lot more finnicky in regard to significant and instantaneous changes to temperature and stuff. A larger fish might shrug off a significant change because it affects them more slowly, but that might be a totally wild an overwhelming experience for a little fish to go through


  • I think the thing that would keep me sane is that I’m fascinated in trying to figure out how a single AI-generated paragraph can be accurately detected.

    But yeah, the common permutation of multiple pargraphs, the first starting with reaffirm/validate/reiterate is downright obnoxious.

    ‘I’m sorry to hear you’re having such difficulties with editing ChatGPT-generated content. It can be challenging and even frustrating at times, but with’ lol







  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldnever gonna happen
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    6 days ago

    They probably wish they could pin it on an entity and recover losses through subrogation rather than just taking the hit. By ‘taking the hit’ I mean all us taking the hit, but they’d probably like being able to shake money out of judgments and raise our rates at the same time




  • True, but it’s a little less about the actual content and more about the unusual nature of airing it and the potential implication.

    Could be simple backhanded flattery to the point of thinly-veiled mockery (we’re laughing at you but pretending to laugh with you, immodest Trump family), but then again, if Russia did have dirt, Putin would likely not be blunt about it and instead use a veiled threat. The implication being that they have no qualms airing things that might be deemed too graphic for broadcast, specifically nude images of Trump’s wife. “Look what we can do, take the hint and fall in line”.

    It’s so pointed that Trump should be able to read between the lines, but he’s damn near blind from narcissism to the point that it’s doubtful. A backhanded compliment is a compliment to that guy