TotallyHuman

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[–] TotallyHuman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the human body rapidly discharge into air or something?

[–] TotallyHuman 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, so you're insulated from ground. The generator charges you up. You are at the same charge as the generator. You let go of the generator. Why is there a potential difference?

[–] TotallyHuman 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thing that confuses me is that when you let go, you should have the same charge as the generator. No charge difference, no arc. Unless I'm wrong about something, which I probably am (hence my confusion).

[–] TotallyHuman 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Why wouldn't the electrons go to ground through your body while you're touching it?

[–] TotallyHuman 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's actually counterproductive! People who want to screen stuff about abuse from their internet experience can set up filters. Those filters are broken when you censor the relevant words!

[–] TotallyHuman 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting. Unlike most measures, bike lanes are also a positive on their own, climate change or not. I assume this analysis doesn't include negative-cost solutions like carbon pricing.

[–] TotallyHuman 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not how exploitation works, not really. The rich will exploit as much as they can. Prices are already set to maximize profit. The rich can't pass higher prices along, because if they could charge more, they already would. Cutting taxes on big companies doesn't create jobs or lower prices -- and raising taxes won't destroy jobs or raise prices.

[–] TotallyHuman 1 points 1 year ago

They're condemning microtransaction-based models, so it might not be bad... but I'll believe it when I see it.

[–] TotallyHuman 5 points 1 year ago

The teacher was selling prints of the art for hundreds of dollars. The article doesn't say how much profit they made, but it could be substantial. There's also the privacy violation, and split amongst ten kids it's $160,000 per victim. Don't get me wrong, that's not nothing, but it seems reasonable for such a wilful and knowing violation of copyright, rights to one's image, and privacy rights. (Assuming all alleged facts are true.)

[–] TotallyHuman 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New York, New York?

[–] TotallyHuman 12 points 1 year ago

That seems to be Tynan's MO. I like it. No hype, no teasers, just quietly works until he has something worth selling.

[–] TotallyHuman 2 points 1 year ago

Typically it does flow better, but I have a little mental stumble every time someone uses "woman" or "women" as an adjective. I know why they're doing it and I can't really fault them, it just... feels off.

 

Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don't know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

 

Since the latest season hasn't concluded yet, let's only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.

 

I'm not great at physics and have no knowledge of aeronautics, so this whole chain of reasoning might be wrong.

A plane stays in the air because air is moving over the wings, which generates lift. However, that air is moving because the engine is moving the plane forward. There is no other source of energy. Therefore, some of the engine's energy is going into keeping the plane in the air, and some is going into accelerating it forwards, or keeping it at the same speed (fighting air resistance).

Therefore, if the plane points straight up, the engine should be able to support it hovering in the air. If it didn't have enough power to fight gravity when pointing straight up, it wouldn't have enough power to fight gravity when moving horizontally, either.

(Okay, some older engines only worked in certain orientations, but I don't think that's a problem for jet aircraft, or any aircraft built after WWII.)

So why can only certain planes fly vertically?

 

Let's make a list of magic items that are flavourful and interesting! I'll start us off.

  1. A fine tablecloth which, when placed on a table, conjures food, plates, and cutlery. The food is different every time, but always delicious and high-quality, conferring a minor rest/morale bonus. The table is always impeccably set. The food and everything else disappears if anyone at the table commits a breach of etiquette, no matter how minor. The tablecloth then has a cooldown period before it can be used again. (Depending on how clever your players are and how much you like watching them suffer, the tablecloth might have the relevant rule embroidered on it until the next time it's used.)
  2. A pair of bracelets which, when worn, make all non-magical animals friendly. They don't allow for communication or taming -- "friendly" does not mean "subordinate", and the animals are still animal-level intelligent. The bracelets also make nearby animals friendly to each other: if you're petting a rabbit, a wolf will just nuzzle up next to it.
  3. A laser gun that does no damage, but which causes its target to believe that whichever limb it hit was destroyed or severed.
  4. A tamper-evident magical lock: fairly easy to pick, but the person attuned to it (or anyone who knows the activation phrase) can tell when it was last opened by touching it.
  5. A clockwork bird that will fly in a path the user sets when activating it, but has no collision avoidance capability.
  6. A fortune-telling implement (marked bones, crystal ball, etc) which doesn't provide any sort of divination ability, but makes other people believe the predictions the user makes with it.
  7. An enchanted flare-gun that will draw a line in the sky between the user and the closest sapient creature that isn't within five meters.
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