Tar_Alcaran

why does heating up two take exactly twice as long?

A microwave works by exciting the water molecules in an object. They start to vibrate from the microwave energy hitting it, and vibrating molecules is what heat is. The microwave energy mostly bounces around inside the metal microwave until it hits something that has water (which is why you should never turn it on empty), so it doesn’t really get wasted.

So, if you put twice as much stuff inside, it will take twice as much energy to heat it to the same temperature, so at the same setting it will take twice as much time.

If you want to get nitpicky, it will require very slightly over twice as long, because by needing more time to warm up, it will give off more energy to the air around it, so you need to compensate. But the question of “how much will my food cool down in 90 seconds compared to 45 seconds” should be answered by “shut up dude” and not with a number.

Honestly it’s a nice feature.

I have a thing that takes 45 seconds to warm. I take two of them, type in 90 and it just works!

Of course that breaks down if I take four of them and type in 180, but meh. Worst case is that it’ll be a little cold.

Its counts down 90 seconds to 1:00 before rolling over to 0:59.

I love that someone made that feature.

“Look, people are morons, just let them enter up to 99 seconds”

time is the one resource Big Tech steals that we can’t ever get back.

That’s an odd argument, since DIY takes significantly more time than just buying a solution.

By… Stepping outside and talking to people? I think all neighborhoods have that ability, even if we don’t really use it much.

Because you, and everyone, is in a huge bubble.

Normal people don’t give a shit where stuff is hosted, or if it’s hosted at all. The vast majority of people couldn’t care less what happens to their catpics if their phone gets crushed and they don’t want to use a separate messaging platform just to talk to you.

The things you think are important absolutely don’t matter to them. Most people don’t give a single second of thought to where their documents should live, and will just download it again on a second device instead of synchronizing anything.

It’s really nice that these things exist, but why would someone do anything with them if they literally don’t have a purpose for it?

Anyone able to fill me in on what the sort of “steelman” argument would be for such a punishment?

I’m having a hard time understanding the expected outcome - I guess just hoping he leaves the country, without actually kicking him out? Why not just kick him out?

These are two entirely different cases. One is a private company not wishing to deal with a private group due to fundraising for Cuba. While that’s a legal thing to do, it’s also perfectly legal for a bank not to want you as a customer. If the DKP thinks they’re being discriminated against, they should sue the bank. The government is totally not involved here.

The second example is a dude who is literally a paid Russian propagandist. Putting them on the sanctions list is much more effective, since they’re not actually in Germany most of the time, but base a lot of their work out of Turkey. Kicking them out would do nothing.

Dogru (…) was previously a key part of Red Fish, a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Dogru closed Red Fish and started his own independent outlet (red. media)

Quite a few Russian propagandists are using the antifa label and Palestine support to get away with their propaganda work. In the case of Dogru is not even well hidden, he went straight from openly paid Russian propagandist to barely-covered propagandist without even bothering to change the name much, or the media channels at all.

The NFT is a non-fungible paper that says “you own this thing everyone can use”, and as soon as you make that thing private, the NFT instantly loses its value.

A land deed is a “non-fungible” paper that says “you own this thing everyone can use”, and as soon as you make that thing private, the deed massively appreciates in value.

Most of the Europe right is screaming about refugees, which form a tiny fraction of all immigrants. They’re totally with the rest.

Of course, “asylum seeker” is really just a dogwhistle for “brown person”.

The last few times, at least the corporations showed a real interest. This time, the US government just kind of assumed.

They know one thing: Trump’s support won’t last 18 weeks, let alone 18 months, let alone any real timeframe.

And the US produced more oil than Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the UAE combined in 2024. You can probably add Qatar and Oman on that pile too for 2025…

Nah, religions mostly reflect on others, not themselves.

The US probes women and children all the time.

Oh. That’s not what you meant.

The more they shoehorn copilot into everything, the more they can claim it’s the most popular LLM ever and all those billions of dollars were totally not wasted. So please give me my huge bonus

Welcome to 2026, where “kill”, “obese” and “predator” are swearwords.

Google search, youtube and android at least make owners money. ChatGPT just burns dumptrucks full of cash just to create the option to burn more cash.

An AI subscription will have to be the next internet or phone bill for this thing to even think about making a profit.

Not really, since even the paying subscribers are costing the companies money. If they were a baker, they’re doing the equivalent of selling 1-dollar loaves of bread that cost 2,50 to knead and bake, and that’s not even counting the fact that you need to buy flour first.

Were you an anarchist? Did you have other options?

Well it was the 90s, I guess you could have made a website if you felt like doing everything at home.

Magical forcefield though.

Zero times over my life.

I had great parents, who had a rule that I could just tell them any fuck ups and mistakes and they wouldn’t get angry and help me.

On the other hand, I was an incredibly boring teenager whose worst bad habits were staying up too late reading books in bed.