OptimusPhillip

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[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia lists influencer as a synonym for internet celebrity, so I guess just when they become famous.

Unless you take the title literally, then it's whenever they become influential over a statistically significant portion of the population.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aluminum soda cans have plastic linings, because the acids can dissolve the aluminum. What that means for your drinking bottle, I don't know.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As an American who has gotten very used to metric units in studying engineering, the general rule I picked up is that you typically only change units every three orders of magnitude. So 8 decameters would typically be expressed as 80 meters, maybe 0.08 kilometers. Decameters and hectometers are a thing, but they're not common units. Even centimeters don't see much use compared to millimeters.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What rock have you been living under? I could not escape this movie when the discourse was at its peak. I can absolutely believe it was one of the most talked about movies.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you'd be better off getting a heat pump. It's the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I've been told.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But they didn't decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the onus is on the farter to say something courteous. Because we, for some reason, decided that a involuntary, natural bodily function is rude.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised to be reminded he was still alive. I keep forgetting it was his brother that died, and not him.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, this is a myth someone made up to scare people. There have been no recorded cases of cockroaches living in a human penis.

https://merlinenvironmental.co.uk/blog/pests/cockroaches/can-cockroaches-live-inside-your-penis/

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd heard of it, but only ever as a joke. Sometimes, someone online will see a purple rhino and make a Death to Smoochy joke.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Because the Republican Party aims to represent the minority of Americans who do oppose abortion access. That's the job of a political party, to represent a voting interest. If every political party aimed to represent the voting interests of the majority, they would become irrelevant.

[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Daryl Davis has managed to persuade several KKK members to leave the Klan by being a friend to them. So it has happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

 

I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn't do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn't exist? I think it's super convenient, especially if you're subscribed to a ton of channels and don't want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.

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