xkforce

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xkforce ,

One supports Israel no matter what and the other supports Israel no matter what and wants LGBT people dead, tried to overthrow our government, killed over a million americans by ignoring epidemiologists' warnings and guidance about dealing with covid and packed the supreme court resulting in women losing rights restored to them 50 years ago. Dont fucking tell me the two are the same.

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    xkforce ,

    The island of stability isn't going to result in anything most people would consider "stable" i.e no Naquadah or Trinium. It could however, result in new superheavy isotopes that last seconds instead of milliseconds or microseconds like what would otherwise be expected.

    The island of (relative) stability results from the filling of nuclear shells similarly to how noble gases are as unreactive as they are in chemical reactions because their (electron) shells are full.

    xkforce ,

    Realistically none aside from testing that our models are good.

    Best case scenario the particle accelerators we use to make them take months, years just to produce a couple atoms that last maybe a few seconds then decay to something much less stable

    xkforce ,

    High voltage: "WHERE'S THAT FUCKING WIRE!? ... NEVERMIND I MADE A NEW ONE"

    xkforce ,

    If you thought it was, you need to ask yourself why you are here because Lemmy and Reddit are both forms of social media.

    xkforce OP ,

    We have cavandish and red bananas here but none of the more interesting ones like the giant hawaiian cultivar etc. So completely agreed.

    xkforce OP ,

    Yeah... there are a lot of south american fruits that dont survive being transported here. eg. cashew fruit. Ive had the juice but not the fruit itself.

    xkforce OP ,

    The original intent was to learn about fruits and veggies that most americans would be unaware of or dont have access to eg. brazilian grapes, ube, drumstick, adzuki beans etc. but good point.

    xkforce OP ,

    Oooh white tomatoes. Ever had the purple ones? Or the ripe green varieties?

    xkforce OP ,

    We have the canned ones which arent bad but now im curious what the fresh cut ones are like

    xkforce OP ,

    I remember getting one when one of the supermarkets around here carried them and theyre huge fruits. Probably 20 pounds of fruit that we ate from it and by the time we were done I never wanted to see another one again lol. I wouldn't mind trying them again now but probably maybe just a pound not a whole fruit.

    xkforce OP ,

    Google tells me asian pears are basically the same and if thats true, then they're one of the best fruits I have had.

    xkforce OP ,

    Google says they taste like a mix of lemon, orange and grapefruit. Is that accurate?

    xkforce OP ,

    I know. I was pointing out that banana selection is limited and arguably not very interesting here.

    xkforce OP ,

    Botanically it isn't a fruit but it is a culinary fruit because of how it is used.

    xkforce OP ,

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moringa_oleifera

    xkforce OP ,

    Ive tried the juice which tasted weakly citrusy with a strong nutty flavor. Is that anything like the fresh fruit tastes?

    xkforce OP ,

    People probably instantly took their meaning to be mundane beans eg. pinto. Adzuki beans or at least the red paste desserts made from them, I bet most people here haven't tried but would like.

    xkforce OP , (edited )

    When I was a kid, we had a patch of it in the back yard and mom would make desserts out of it. Or wed just eat it raw.

    xkforce ,

    Tastes like soap I am guessing

    xkforce ,

    iOS faithful

    That's a weird way to say brainwashed cult member.

    Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?

    The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....

    xkforce ,

    Sometimes people do but it mostly happens when it is a topic that they've tethered to their identity.

    xkforce ,

    Just once Id like to meet a gun advocate that didn't day dream about hypothetical scenarios where they get to use them.

    xkforce ,

    Or a misscarriage.

    xkforce ,

    Thats a weird way to say "threaten to murder people that disagree with them politically."

    xkforce ,

    Because the point was to show that he's worthy without completely changing him. Same with vision.

    xkforce ,

    Stark was literally written to be a character that people should by all rights despise but was nonetheless a hero. That was entirely the point of him.

    xkforce ,

    Batman. He's a billionaire playboy living in a city full of poverty. He may not kill but he has no problem crippling someone for life. And the fact he apparently learns nothing about the joker over the decades has resulted in so so many people dying to the joker's schemes.

    And the reality is that he's still that same child in that alley but in an adult's body. He takes on different child robins because he never grew past that. He has trauma that was never treated and one of the main symptoms of trauma is being stuck in the time period that the trauma happened. He doesn't really have a personality beyond the trauma.

    xkforce ,

    They made that up to be edgy

    xkforce ,

    Vision is alive. His body is composed of living tissue woven together with the mind stone and vibranium. That whole speel by Stark arguing that vision could only lift the hammer in the same way an elevator would was him rationalizing why his creation was worthy but he wasn't. The whole point of the scene where vision lifted the hammer for the first time was to show that he could be trusted. Because at that point, almost everyone had their doubts.

    xkforce ,

    *The population is 50 times what it was when I was a kid.

    *All the cool places we used to hang out at school as kids are fenced off.

    *The big tree that shaded half the yard of the house I grew up in was cut down. The property has been split into 3 separate "apartments" for rent. Everything was repainted and the yard looks nothing like it used to.

    *Everything around town has been built up. Most of the empty fields have businesses or houses on them.

    *The lake my grandfather and I used to fish at is no longer publically accessible. The lake was choked to death by algae caused by farm run off pollution.

    *The main road is paved, has gutters, street lights etc. and isn't a dirt road anymore like it was when I was little.

    *Trains don't go through the railroad going through town. They haven't for years so no train watching.

    xkforce ,

    I think Ill pass on reading that article if theyre going to sell my data to this many "partners"

    830 partners

    xkforce , (edited )

    Op you can follow Reddit and Lemmy users just the same as on Facebook or Twitter. So by your own definition, Reddit and Lemmy are forms of social media.

    xkforce ,

    This is my cat Cygnus. I named him after Cygnus x-1 which is thought to be a black hole. He's a very very smart cat. He does tricks eg. shake, opens doors etc.

    This is Cygnus. He is a superior lifeform.

    xkforce ,

    He stands on his back two legs, takes both paws and grabs the door knob and tries to turn it. If the door isnt closed that well, i.e somewhat ajar, he can actually open it. The last black cat I had that I inherited from my uncle did the same thing. He'll also "knock" if he can't get through a door. And by "knock" I mean he'll find the nearest loose bit of wood or paneling or something that he can grab hold of, pull it a little then let go so it snaps back and makes a fairly loud noise.

    xkforce ,

    Moon dust is functionally a lot like asbestos. It is composed of a sizeable amount of tiny shards of rock that aren't great for your lungs.

    xkforce ,

    Yakitori, tom yum soup, chicken skewers, sushi, exotic fruit, foreign snacks eg. biltong, ukrainian candy, japanese gummies

    xkforce ,

    Hummus is pretty cheap if you make it yourself.

    Chickpeas, oil, tahini or peanut butter, garlic, lemon juice and some sort of hot pepper powder if you like it spicy.

    xkforce ,

    Where are all those people that said Cannon "wouldnt ruin her career" doing something like this after it was pointed out that Trump appointed her?

    xkforce , (edited )

    You cant bike around town safely anymore because a lot of the empty land around town was developed and now has a lot more traffic. There are several crosses on the side of the road dedicated to dead cyclists.

    The trees that my friends and I used to play on at school when we were kids are fenced off.

    The lake that my grandfather and I used to fish at is now off limits because it was choked to death with algae due to fertillizer runoff pollution.

    We didn't need to have active shooter drills, metal detectors or safe rooms in school.

    The cost of housing has more than doubled adjusted for inflation. Wages have not kept pace.

    When I was a kid, the bullying stayed mostly at school. Now bullies can torment you 24/7.

    Embarassing moments live forever because the internet never forgets.

    In the early 90's Dan Quayle was roasted for "correcting" a child's correct spelling of potato. Now we've got congress critters running around that are worried about "jewish space lasers" starting forest fires.

    LAN parties and split screen gaming died with a wimper. Singleplayer only games require a constant internet connection. Games are often a buggy mess at release because they can be patched after the fact.

    Malls are basically dead.

    Before cell phones, you weren't expected to be reachable 24/7. Hell there used to be "its 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?" commercials because kids and teens weren't kept on a short leash as much. Parents couldn't just call you wherever you were.

    xkforce , (edited )

    Does Trump realize that if he "wins" that particular argument, that would empower Biden to have Trump killed without consequence? Or the supreme court justices he rammed into the court? Or his voters?

    Oh wait... republicans are utterly incapable of forseeing potential consequences of what they want nm.

    xkforce ,

    No but it does force republicans to contort themselves into a pretzel to defend that decision given their rhetoric about democrats.

    More likely theyll just point to it as a reason to never cede power because they're unrepentant ghouls.

    xkforce ,

    How much time have you spent being single?

    Since the last "we might get married" relationship its been almost 15 years.

    If you're currently single: is it by choice or circumstance?

    The main reasons I am single are that I dont go out and socialize enough to find someone and I haven't really tried to find someone because I didn't feel I was in a good place to be in a relationship.

    Do you / did you enjoy single life?

    I am ok being single but it would be nice to find my other half or at least have a stronger social network.

    What are / were the pros and cons?

    Pros: freedom, not being with someone that made me feel worse than being alone

    Cons: can be lonely, a healthy relationship is more appealing.

    Is / was partnership a goal of yours?

    Eventually I'd like to find "my other half" but I also know that there are worse things than being single and I'd rather make meeting my social needs my goal rather than not being single the goal.

    xkforce ,

    How many communities are on lemmy.ml?

    xkforce ,

    Do not underestimate Trump. The last time people did that he won the damned election.

    xkforce ,

    Yes we know salt and water arent dangerous. We ask that you wear labcoats etc. in the lab despite not working with anything dangerous so that you form a habit of using protective lab garb regardless. Because a lot of accidents in the lab cause harm because someone thought it was safe to lower their gaurd and it wasn't.

    Case in point: one of my undergrad professors during his time at grad school walked around in the lab without his safety goggles on. He felt comfortable doing that because he wasn't himself working on anything particularly dangerous at the time. He was just walking from one end of the lab to the other. Well it turns out that someone else was. There was a fairly good sized glass bottle with fuming nitric acid and other stuff for a reaction in it that was boiling away in the fume hood. No I dont know why the sash was as high as it was. There was a funnel sitting in the neck. Occasionally the jug would "bump" in other words, some liquid would spurt up top due to a slight build up in pressure caused by intermittant boiling. And one time while he was walking by, it burped a lot more violently than it normally would and some of it sprayed into his eyes while he was walking by. He spent the next two weeks in a dark room occasionally dropping antibiotic eye drops into his eyes so his corneas would heal. Apparently it was fairly painful and every blink felt like he rubbed sandpaper over his eyes. If it had been a strongly basic solution, it would have eaten his corneas and potentially blinded him permanently. Point is, we are trying to stop you guys from becoming too casual in the lab so you dont have your corneas half eaten by nitric acid because you felt safer than you actually were.

    xkforce ,

    This has "dont wear your seatbelt or wear condoms" energy. It never made any sense to argue that point there and it doesn't make sense here either. Wear your lab coat and goggles or you're going to be kicked out of labs until you grow up.

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