goblin week posted:

The SI unit of elastance is the reciprocal farad (F). The term daraf is sometimes used for this unit, but it is not approved by SI and its use is discouraged. The term is formed by writing farad backwards, in much the same way as the unit mho (unit of conductance, also not approved by SI) is formed by writing ohm backwards.

Krankenstyle posted:

lol i got this one randomly

Carbon dioxide posted:

Manky Tungeon posted:

Krankenstyle posted:

why are they in front of an open fridge?

fishmech posted:

to stay cool

Soricidus posted:

Such practices have been strongly criticized by classical homeopaths as unfounded, speculative, and verging upon magic and superstition.[87][88]

Suspicious posted:

water is magical but not in that way

Sagebrush posted:

everyone keeps mocking homeopathy without even knowing know how the protocol works ffs. it's not just dilution.

you take the active ingredient like strychnine or bee venom, make a solution in alcohol, dilute it 10:1 or 100:1 with water, and succuss it (bang the bottle on the table) several times. the impact causes the water molecules to align with the molecules of the active ingredient, retaining an imprint of the ingredient's energy signature. each time you repeat this process, further water molecules align with the ingredient even more strongly, increasing the overall potency.

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Sagebrush posted:

everyone keeps mocking homeopathy without even knowing know how the protocol works ffs. it's not just dilution.

you take the active ingredient like strychnine or bee venom, make a solution in alcohol, dilute it 10:1 or 100:1 with water, and succuss it (bang the bottle on the table) several times. the impact causes the water molecules to align with the molecules of the active ingredient, retaining an imprint of the ingredient's energy signature. each time you repeat this process, further water molecules align with the ingredient even more strongly, increasing the overall potency.

god

Sagebrush posted:

everyone keeps mocking homeopathy without even knowing know how the protocol works ffs. it's not just dilution.

you take the active ingredient like strychnine or bee venom, make a solution in alcohol, dilute it 10:1 or 100:1 with water, and succuss it (bang the bottle on the table) several times. the impact causes the water molecules to align with the molecules of the active ingredient, retaining an imprint of the ingredient's energy signature. each time you repeat this process, further water molecules align with the ingredient even more strongly, increasing the overall potency.

god

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

lol someone is mad at niven


Pierson's Puppeteers are described by Niven as having two forelegs and a single hindleg ending in hoofed feet, and two snake-like heads instead of a humanoid upper body. They would not be able to carry something as simple as a rock and see where they are going. The heads are small, containing a forked tongue, rubbery lips rimmed with finger-like knobs, and a single eye per head. The Puppeteer brain is housed not in the heads, but in the "thoracic" cavity well protected beneath the mane-covered hump from which the heads emerge. They are described by their creator as using the "mouths" to manipulate objects, as a humanoid uses hands. This is unlikely to be possible, as they would not be able to hold something with the two mouth hands and look at it at the same time. The concept of them being toolmakers is deeply flawed, lacking any critical thought. They would be less functional than a one armed man. Their necks as described would have no strength as there is no leverage. There is also no way they could walk other than like a one legged man on crutches. Niven often makes references to wearing gloves while talking, pressure suits, drinking carrot juice from a glass, reading, using tools as though they have arms and hands. None of this is possible.

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These don't typically cause me stress. If anything on WP causes me stress, it's vandals (well, and edit conflicts, and server problems).

I try to mediate conflicts, to come up with a mutually agreeable solution. Some individuals are resistant to that, and become more and more agitated; for such cases, if they don't storm off in a huff, and instead choose to wreak havoc, the regrettable solution is to issue a temporary block. That's a last resort, of course, following a proper RfC.

If something on WP annoys me, I get up, walk around, read a novel, eat an apple, call my girlfriend, play with the neighbor's dog... if it's something that requires my attention, I take the time to construct a proper response.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/wiki_tmnt/status/1140480825705693184

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

here is a powerfully cursed wikipedia page

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Bungie's Frank O'Connor has described the Chief as "so quiet and so invisible, literally, that the player gets to pretend they're the Chief. The player gets to inhabit those shoes [and] apply their own personality."[12] Bungie concept artist Eddie Smith described Master Chief as "pretty much the consummate professional. He does his job, walks off, doesn't even get the girl, he's that cool he doesn't need her."[13]


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