The More You Know ★
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- Akagiyama0
- Signs your getting oldContinuity
- kind of creepyutopian
- Hope it wasn’t a shotgun wedding_niko
- ^ flol ouch, nikoContinuity
- Tony Hawk's son looks older than Tony Hawk?NBQ00
- utopian0
Chinese sellers make up over 63% of all third-party sellers on Amazon.
- and the rest import from china and take a cut of the profitkingsteven
- skinny_puppy2
- All that effort to light a cigarette.
Well, I suppose in the absence of a stove burner, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.Continuity - you could just put the gas on the cigarette...sarahfailin
- All that effort to light a cigarette.
- Gnash1
had no idea that peat was a fuel source
- Thanks for this. Never actually seen the process. This is where smokiness in whisky comes from.skinny_puppy
- ^ interestingGnash
- During the malting process, barley is germinated. This converts the carbs in barley into sugar, which can later be used to make alcohol. But the sugar must notskinny_puppy
- be used up by the seedlings. So they are heated up to stop the germination. On the islands (like Islay) there's not a lot of wood, so peat is used to heat theskinny_puppy
- barley. Peat burning produces a lot of smoke. This smoke infuses with the barley and carries over into the whisky. That's why "Peat Monster", etc.skinny_puppy
- I always thought it came from the charred barrels or something, but apparently not.skinny_puppy
- Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.skinny_puppy
- lol. Good to know :)Gnash
- imbecile2
Kung Fu (or Gong Fu) is a term that, in the West, has often been used broadly to refer to Chinese martial arts. However, its original meaning in Chinese isn't limited to martial arts. "Kung Fu" can be translated as "skill achieved through hard work" or "mastery of a skill over time." This means that a master chef or a masterful painter can also have "kung fu" in their respective disciplines.
- Gardener11
- oldy but goodieYakuZoku
- I'll keep a "watch out" for your salary.utopian
- perfect zippo sizeGnash
- i think it used to be for pocket watch?
but i just use it for coins. which is pretty much my salary ಥ_ಥpango - People who wear jeans don't use pocket watchesdrgs
- Skeletool fits perfectlyBabySnakes
- who else wants the 5th pocket repeated to the left side for a 6th pocket? *raises handimbecile
- I keep another, smaller pair of pants in minescarabin
- drgs. its the old design carried over. like floppy disk save icon.pango
- Stash pocket.garbage
- it's for altoids right?Squiddy
- It's a watch pocket. Back in the 1800s, cowboys used to wear their watches on chains and kept them in their waistcosts. To keep them from getting broken, Levisneverscared
- evis introduced this small pocket where they could keep their watch.neverscared
- innovation never sleeps... except when its time for maintenanceneverscared
- https://www.youtube.…https://www.levistra…imbecile
- @scarabin Pantsception?Akagiyama
- https://imgflip.com/…Krassy
- https://nimbusimport…Krassy
- etherum?neverscared
- Since I quit smoking I use it for my EarPods nowGnash
- hans_glib7
- https://i.pinimg.com…imbecile
- as much as I am 100% digital, i will always find vinyl utterly fascinating for just how physical a medium it is. ^that gif is like nails down a blackboard to meNairn
- ^^ That is deeply satisfyingContinuity
- What really draws me to vinyl is the expense and the inconvenience.jagara
- "it just sounds different"doesnotexist
- To be fair, I believe it does ;)jagara
- it is different. at its essence, the sound wave is literally a different shape.imbecile
- I treated my vinyl properly in the 20th century.CyBrainX
- _niko1
from the war thread, Leading cause of death worldwide
https://ourworldindata.org/image…
https://ourworldindata.org/cause…
And yet we tend to focus an irrational amount on war and homicide.
- I think we got better in avoiding wars.sted
- and yet? I see “us” focusing on all of these areas not just war irrationallymonospaced
- This assumes that death is the metric that people care about the most, and not other things like injustice, greed or geopolitical power.slappy
- No.palimpsest
- Well, I mean, everyone has to die of something eventually.
I guess the 'focus' is people who die necessarily.webazoot - People who die necessarily?palimpsest
- I guess eveyone does really. But yes, that was a typo!webazoot
- imbecile2
re: https://qbn.com/reply/4103219/
Let's say we have a circle with a radius r centered at the origin. The equation of the circle is
from which we get
The area of the circle is
Thus, one third of the area is
To find the x-value where we place the first vertical line (starting from the center of the circle and moving outward), we want to find x such that the area from the y-axis to x is one third of the circle's area.Using the formula for the area of a segment:
We set this equal to
From this equation, we can solve for x to determine the point at which to place the first vertical line to trisect the circle by area. The second vertical line would be its reflection across the y-axis since the circle is symmetric.This is a transcendental equation. A closed-form solution in terms of elementary functions is not possible, so a numerical method like the Newton-Raphson method is typically used to approximate x.
- no-one cares.face_melter
- hey everyone, face_melter is still an assholeimbecile
- i care because you dodoesnotexist
- Lollll facefuturefood
- they definitely care https://qbn.com/repl…imbecile
- Ramanisky24
- that is some great ux_niko
- It’s from a recent updateimbecile
- A great way to hide all of the useless bloatware that no one uses or wants.utopian
- I thought the screen was cracked lolAkagiyama
- Tried this, they stack, but then the break apart when you move you finger. Shouldn't they combine into a folder or something?jagara
- Morning_star2
Like Flamingos, Salmon is pink due to the tiny shrimp they eat. It does this so that it can pass on the pigment to it's eggs which it lays in shallow rivers. The pink pigment acts as a sun screen for the eggs as they are particularly prone to sun damage without it.
Flamigos on the other hand are just being theatrical with their pinkness.
- Some birds just like to look fabulous https://www.audubon.…scarabin
- Bluejam2
"In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself. Humans are represented by a mass of 70 kg and a radius of 50 cm (we assume sphericity), while whales are represented by a mass of 105 kg and a radius of 7 m."
- Krassy5
The letters CH stand for the Latin name for Switzerland – Confoederatio Helvetica. These words are therefore an abbreviation for Switzerland. The main reason for this is that using the Latin words avoids favoring any one of the four Swiss national languages.
- News to me: the name "Helvetica" means “Swiss” in LatinKrassy
- It stays.palimpsest
- neverscared1
- This just confirms how gullible and stupid that his MAGA base is. They believe anything that he says.utopian
- Nairn5
I've finally found evidence that I'm not a total moron. At least, ..ok, notsomuch. Anyway,
I've always said "tret" instead of "treated" and was called out upon it in my twenties and totally blue-screened, realising that I had no idea why i said it that way.
> Tret
> (Northern England, Bristol, colloquial) simple past and past participle of treat, i.e. treated.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t…
Fuck you, Rich.
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
Not sure where it came fromGnash - Ooh, i like that too! Why not?Nairn
- Similarly, I've heard people use ‘et’ as the past tense of ‘eat’.Continuity
- Yeah, I grew up in Northern England and although I've lived away from there for over 20 years, I still say 'tret' and 'et'Wolfboy
- Here's a short play:
"Aye lad, your mother tret me well... are you alright?"
"No, I et some bad chicken"
annnd scene.Wolfboy - Yeah RICH, SUCK IT!stoplying
- like "he pleaded guilty" like nah it's "he PLED guilty"doesnotexist
- Pled, is a word thoughGnash
- My cousins would say ‘bet’ as the past tense of ‘beat’ — “I bet him up”
- Akagiyama2
- I don't think that's 1969, I'm pretty sure they built that viewing deck in the 80s or 90s_niko
- well I stand corrected, it was built in the 60's but extensively renovated in the 2000s_niko
- so, waterfalls, huh? cooldoesnotexist
- Just don't go chasing them.Akagiyama