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  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzp is for pHunky
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    23 hours ago

    That’s actually an interesting one.

    The ‘p’ could have a different meaning for a variety of languages. ‘Puissance’ in French, ‘Potenz’ in German, ‘potential’ or ‘power’ in English, ‘pondus’ or ‘potentia’ in Latin, or ‘Potens’ in Danish (probably the Danish one originally, since it was a Danish chemist who first introduced the measurement).

    It’s very fun that because of the vagueness, various languages can have its meaning directly translated to their own.



  • Why’d you go with Capital ‘P’ ‘Progressive’ and lowercase ‘d’ ‘democrat’?

    If you are a Progressive, it means you run as a progressive in politics. If your a ‘progressive’, though, it means you hold progressive ideals, like women’s rights, nationalized services for people, open borders, etc.

    If you’re a ‘democrat’, it means you are a supporter of democracies, as opposed to authoritarian regimes, feudal states, or vangaurd states. If you’re a ‘Democrat’, though, it means you are apart of the Democratic party.

    Politics is case-sensitive.





  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPLASTICMAXXING
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    That is my bad, not explaining this clearly.

    Our formations of plastics usually utilizes petroleum products being formed into long polymeric chains. That’s what provides the pliable, even stretchy nature of many plastics. However, we don’t make all plastics out of petroleum - we also use resin mixtures and various other chemical processes for specialized plastics - PLA, for instance, is synthesized from plant starch. So, when we’re talking about ‘plastics’, we’re usually talking about petroleum products, but it includes other long-polymer-chain materials we artificially synthesize.

    Having covered that, Teflon is often called a forever chemical, but it’s a chemical which we synthesize into long polymer chains so we can attach it to the surface of things. It’s how pans are non-stick, gore-tex is waterproof, and how many food containers are grease-proof. I am of the view that perflourochemicals classify as plastics because of that. And the reason it’s so pervasive everywhere is the same reason all other microplastics are everywhere: it chips off. You use a metal spatula on a nonstick pan - bam, stray Perflourochemicals, as tiny little solid microplastic flecks. And everything points to them not being inert to human health.



  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPLASTICMAXXING
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    Another link talking about the case. It was confirmed that the chemical at high concentration in the water was PFOA, which is the percursor to Teflon, and which was leaking from the factory site. It has the same effects as other perfluorinated carbines (PFCs). It is also the exact chemical group that we’ve been testing peoples’ blood for, PFOA and other PFCs. It’s the group of chemicals we’ve found strong links to various types of cancers. Research communicates that it is not inert in the body as a microplastic.

    It is 100% the reason those cows withered and died like they did. it directly lines up with everything else we know about PFOA. The concentrations were higher than anywhere else, which explains why the cows died so rapidly. The only reason we don’t have complete confirmation is from DuPont meddling to try and downplay this, the same way they meddled by witholding their research on the health risks of PFCs, and the same way they stayed silent and didn’t act when the alarm was sounded by that Parkersburg farmer.


    • Star Fox 64, for sure
    • Half Life was a very big deal for me. Couldn’t finish it when I was 8 because it was too scary, and it felt absolutely amazing coming back at 15 and blowing through it.
    • Turok 2 seeds of evil. Didn’t play it outside of using the cheats. It was basically a gore Sim for me.
    • LoZ series was a very big deal.
    • Much later, Armored Core 4 and 4A would make me obsessed with good mech gameplay.

    Man, it’s hard stratifying games you care about, especially when you have a massive log of them that all impacted you in one way or another. There were a bunch of free Linux games that I have very fond memories of too, like Nexuiz, OpenArena, Abuse, etc. Also a bunch of weird niche games and demos, like One Must Fall and Food Fight and Fur Fighters. It’s an impossible task, honestly.



  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.orgtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    Nah, I imagine they’re talking about a situation where you’ve been put under but you’re still conscious and can’t move. No local anaesthesia. You’re being cut open and you can feel every bit of it. Not like a dentist’s visit.



  • Not sure why we’re throwing the Casio F-91W under the bus for this joke - the thing runs for years on one battery and only shifts off true time at like 1 second per year. They’re more accurate than alot of Casio’s more luxurious models even.

    My microwave deserves the slander, though. Mechanical watches too, though they’re still nice to use. Speaking of which, I need to buy a sundial so I can keep my watch accurate after the US and its power grid collapses. Time keeping’s such a hassle sometmes.



  • This has been covered over and over. The bottom line is usually that devs view Linux as too varied a market for native support. There is always at least a claim that Linux bug reports far outpace windows and mac reports per-capita, and it does not sound unrealistic overall as a reality.

    Proton also runs games well quite often. I would imagine that proton’s presence is in fact even more incentive to not support native Linux systems, since you aren’t really losing that userbase so long as the game still runs on proton.