|
smackfu posted:What’s the point of body fat % on scales? It seems to just go up and down with my weight. Weight gain and/or loss can be fat or muscle (or bone I guess if you're old enough). The sensors on bathroom scales are notoriously inaccurate, but an accurate measure of body fat % will vary depending on which type of body tissue is being gained or lost.
|
#
?
May 1, 2021 15:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 20, 2024 02:44 |
|
|
smackfu posted:What’s the point of body fat % on scales? It seems to just go up and down with my weight. It's a gimmick to make the scales seem better than competitors so you buy them.
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2021 19:25
|
|
|
This question is very stupid: you know how four leaf clovers are lucky and for that reason very attractive to people? Why haven't some enterprising gardener or biologist bred a clover that always has four leaves and sold it to millions of garden owners and tourist attractions in Ireland? (If this is somehow a novel idea and you steal it and make bank, I want to be credited by my dumb forums name)
|
|
#
?
May 1, 2021 19:40
|
|
|
They have, it was a fad at one point (not in Ireland just in general). You can still buy the seeds online of course.
Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 20:18 on May 1, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 1, 2021 20:16
|
|
|
A four-leaf clover mutation can be indicative of exposure to certain chemicals or low levels of radiation. If you hand me a four leaf clover, I'm obligated to turn you into the CDC.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 02:14
|
|
|
E: figured it out
regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 02:26 on May 2, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 02:16
|
|
|
what’s that phrase that has the structure of like “winners know winners”? winners is definitely the wrong word but the structure is correct e: could be singular as well Vegetable fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 2, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 05:58
|
|
|
Vegetable posted:what’s that phrase that has the structure of like “winners know winners”? winners is definitely the wrong word but the structure is correct Real recognize real? El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 2, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 06:17
|
|
|
Game recognize game?
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 06:23
|
|
|
How am I contradicting myself in my climate thesis? Are these goons trolling me?quote:I know my words won't reach you goons, but i'll say 'em anyway: GlyphGryph posted:That's a hilariously dumb quote. It manages to contradict itself in the first three sentences. Impressive! Cpt_Obvious posted:Following this pattern, in 20 years we will be pouring more carbon into the atmosphere than we are today.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 07:52
|
|
|
"the rate of increase is decreasing" does not equal "emissions slowed down". That says they're still increasing, just not as fast as they were in the past. The top line is a decreasing rate of increase, but it's still going up. The second line is emissions slowing down.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 08:55
|
|
|
Memento posted:"the rate of increase is decreasing" does not equal "emissions slowed down". That says they're still increasing, just not as fast as they were in the past. Or basically 'slowing down buys more time for renewables market and clean policies to blossom, and for better tech to develop and start removing/reducing emissions as well.'
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 09:15
|
|
|
I don’t know the context, but I would expect that quote to get some flak for citing the Overton window. It’s often regarded as giving a free pass to politicians and corporations for bad policy.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 10:24
|
|
|
I thought it was a catchprase for 'breakthrough that shifts the norm towards something new', my mistake. By the by, I am very thankful that Biden's in charge of global climate policy instead of  now
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 10:40
|
|
|
Grouchio posted:I thought it was a catchprase for 'breakthrough that shifts the norm towards something new', my mistake. That’s about right, but it’s been used rhetorically to discount needed reforms in favor of less effective but more politically expedient policy. It all depends on the context and who is using it. Some fairly practical, middle of the road policies have been discounted (and some truly egregious actions under Trump’s presidency were normalized ) using the Overton window, so expect some suspicion when referring to it. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 11:17 on May 2, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 10:57
|
|
|
I have a question about a slur: when did slurs relating to transgender people enter the popular consciousness as words they shouldn't use? I've been watching Project Runway season 4 (from 2007) and they've used one slur repeatedly and it's like...when did that become known? It's also frustrating because one of the people using the slur is a drag queen and you would think they'd know better! e: If this question doesn't fit here, please tell me where else to take it.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 14:23
|
|
|
It's very common for groups to take slurs aimed at them and use them and reclaim them. I guess when it comes to drag queens reclaiming slurs used against trans people there's some tension there but in that case it's more a question of "who is part of the in group that gets to reclaim the slur" rather than "don't they know that's a bad word??" ETA: okay yeah I reread your post and realised I'd misread project runway as rupaul's drag race somehow, that's poo poo if straight cis people are using it.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 14:42
|
|
|
Organza Quiz posted:It's very common for groups to take slurs aimed at them and use them and reclaim them. I guess when it comes to drag queens reclaiming slurs used against trans people there's some tension there but in that case it's more a question of "who is part of the in group that gets to reclaim the slur" rather than "don't they know that's a bad word??" I've been told that the word in question is a straight slur, am I misinformed? The slur in question: tranny
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 15:02
|
|
|
Didn’t go over great back then either. Here’s a 2008 article: https://gawker.com/394260/christian-siriano-needs-to-cool-it-with-the-trannie
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 15:57
|
|
|
StrixNebulosa posted:I've been told that the word in question is a straight slur, am I misinformed? The slur in question: tranny I'm actually curious about the same thing. I recently noticed the same sort of overt transgender slurs in some How I Met Your Mother episodes from about the same era playing in the background, pretty sure there was no reclaiming happening there. This was a show that played on broadcast television in its time so it must have been broadly acceptable at some point.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 15:59
|
|
|
StrixNebulosa posted:I've been told that the word in question is a straight slur, am I misinformed? The slur in question: tranny That's a slur, yeah. But it's like in the last 20 years or so that trans people have been widely* accepted as not just weird weird pervs basically. There's also transvestites/crossdressers, who actually are "perverts" in the traditional sense of being sexually aroused by dressing up, which is close to, but not exactly the same as drag queens, which is less directly sexual and a lot more about community. Using slurs about "perverts" has always been pretty acceptable, and since you can always claim that the slur actually refers to transvestites and not trans people, if the two are not just conflated. But yeah, trans issues have made a lot of gain within the last like 20 years. Still a long way to go. *Yeah, not that widely I know.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:03
|
|
|
making GBS threads on trans people used to be acceptable in the same way that making GBS threads on gay people used to be acceptable. The USA and our subsequent entertainment industry was built on a base of white christian supremacy and general bigotry for anything outside of that.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:04
|
|
|
Is it common in the UK (or in any other country, I guess) to use "digs" as a direct synonym for rent costs? I've heard "digs" as slang for a home before, but I just read a Reddit post that uses "digs" like fifty times in the context of "I pay cheap digs, about £200pm" and "she raised my digs to £300pm" and "with my digs and car insurance, I don't have much left at the end of the month." Just never heard it in that context and wondered if it would be totally normal elsewhere. Edit: re: the above, I recently rewatched HIMYM from the beginning and was shocked how many jokes there were about transgenderism that would never fly today. They especially really liked jokes where a man was horrified to find out that his female date was biologically male. Propaniac fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 2, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:04
|
|
|
Remember admiral Akbar memes from the early 2000s? Most of them were the same school of "oh no, a penis [was here previously]!".
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:16
|
|
|
Propaniac posted:Edit: re: the above, I recently rewatched HIMYM from the beginning and was shocked how many jokes there were about transgenderism that would never fly today. They especially really liked jokes where a man was horrified to find out that his female date was biologically male.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:20
|
|
|
Propaniac posted:Is it common in the UK (or in any other country, I guess) to use "digs" as a direct synonym for rent costs? I've heard "digs" as slang for a home before, but I just read a Reddit post that uses "digs" like fifty times in the context of "I pay cheap digs, about £200pm" and "she raised my digs to £300pm" and "with my digs and car insurance, I don't have much left at the end of the month." Just never heard it in that context and wondered if it would be totally normal elsewhere. Cost? No, that person is being a weirdo or just using a euphemism . Your digs are where you live.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 16:39
|
|
|
smackfu posted:Didn’t go over great back then either. Here’s a 2008 article: https://gawker.com/394260/christian-siriano-needs-to-cool-it-with-the-trannie I'm having extremely mixed feelings over using the slur in the headline of the article but I appreciate what they're going for. BonHair posted:That's a slur, yeah. But it's like in the last 20 years or so that trans people have been widely* accepted as not just weird weird pervs basically. There's also transvestites/crossdressers, who actually are "perverts" in the traditional sense of being sexually aroused by dressing up, which is close to, but not exactly the same as drag queens, which is less directly sexual and a lot more about community. Using slurs about "perverts" has always been pretty acceptable, and since you can always claim that the slur actually refers to transvestites and not trans people, if the two are not just conflated. Yeah. Yeah. I'm proud of where we are now and yet, oh god. I recently ran into someone who was all "you can't be bi if you're monogamous" and excuse me, what.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 18:34
|
|
|
Grouchio posted:Got it. I just remembered the addendum: "They are slowing, and will hopefully continue to slow down. To a crawl. And thats when the earth peaks emissions. And as renewables dominate new industry, and carbon capture tech takes off, that peak will begin to decline. And decline. Away from the worst scenarios. Towards a future." The permafrost loop has already started. The methane we're probably going to see in the next couple decades could easily wipe out humanity even if we dropped emissions to zero tomorrow. You're better off just never thinking about climate change at this point if you can help it. Having Biden in the white house is almost the same thing as Trump as far as impact on climate change goes.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 18:51
|
|
|
StrixNebulosa posted:I'm having extremely mixed feelings over using the slur in the headline of the article but I appreciate what they're going for. I try to compare it to liking blondes and brunettes. People usually accept that you can still be into blondes while being (monogamously, faithfully) married to a brunette. And they can't really point to the real difference between that and being married to a man and still being into women, although some will it course insist it's still there.
|
|
#
?
May 2, 2021 18:51
|
|
|
StrixNebulosa posted:I'm having extremely mixed feelings over using the slur in the headline of the article but I appreciate what they're going for. A coworker of mine just a few days ago asked if I was in an open relationship. It was funny, we laughed, and I asked why she would think so, and she said, "Well, you're bi, so I figured..." I'm also not bi, but whatever. She thinks I am. It's complicated.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2021 07:32
|
|
|
Bi person monogamously married here. I’m actively not sleeping with 5+ billion people, instead of half of that number, big deal. (Obviously would not be sleeping with any of the minor children regardless of gender.)
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2021 18:18
|
|
|
hello i am also a bisexual who has been in a committed monogamous relationship for the last 17 years of my life your sexuality does not (have to) depend in any way on who you sleep or do not sleep with. there are literally millions of straight, gay, and bi people who've never had sex with anyone at all! as other posters allude to, being bisexual while married is literally no different than being married while attracted to more than one (1) human being but its amazing how many people can't seem to wrap their head around that Earwicker fucked around with this message at 18:50 on May 4, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 4, 2021 18:45
|
|
|
A tree was cut down in the local park, and one of the logs has what looks like little metal studs embedded in the wood. Does anyone know WTF it is, or why? This is in Ontario if that makes a difference, and I don't know why the tree was removed.
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2021 20:37
|
|
|
ive seen trees with little pins like that with little notes attached pointing out which year it was when that tree ring formed, usually in state parks in california where there are huge rear end trees that were born hundreds of years ago. so maybe someone was going to start a project like that and then gave up halfway? or maybe they are just going to get the little notes right now
|
|
#
?
May 4, 2021 21:10
|
|
|
Help me out guys, some of my technical knowledge is outdated. I'm moving soon, and I'm letting my brother take the PS4 because I don't game on it much. However, it was how I watched Netflix and streaming services on my TV. What sort of device do I need to be a netflix/hulu/etc box that will plug into my TV(HDMI preferably)? I know Roku/Firestick does something like that, but just from looking at them, it almost seems like it's a thing you use to stream from your PC to TV? I don't want to have to use my PC, I just want something I can hook to my TV that will pick up wifi and play my streaming services on it's own like my PS4 did. I know a lot of cheap dvd players or whatever do that, but the only one I had experience with was really lovely. So what do I need to buy? I'm fine with the firestick or roku thing as long as I can operate it as described.
Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 02:55 on May 5, 2021 |
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 02:51
|
|
|
Drunk Driver Dad posted:Help me out guys, some of my technical knowledge is outdated. I'm moving soon, and I'm letting my brother take the PS4 because I don't game on it much. However, it was how I watched Netflix and streaming services on my TV. What sort of device do I need to be a netflix/hulu/etc box that will plug into my TV(HDMI preferably)? I know Roku/Firestick does something like that, but just from looking at them, it almost seems like it's a thing you use to stream from your PC to TV? I don't want to have to use my PC, I just want something I can hook to my TV that will pick up wifi and play my streaming services on it's own like my PS4 did. I know a lot of cheap dvd players or whatever do that, but the only one I had experience with was really lovely. So what do I need to buy? I'm fine with the firestick or roku thing as long as I can operate it as described. Firestick works fine, no need to connect to a PC.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 03:00
|
|
|
Roku or firestick will be fine. You install apps on them, some of those apps are like netflix and you just stream directly from netflix over your internet connection. Other apps are for streaming from your PC or whatever (like from a plex server).
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 03:15
|
|
|
AlbieQuirky posted:Bi person monogamously married here. I’m actively not sleeping with 5+ billion people, instead of half of that number, big deal. (Obviously would not be sleeping with any of the minor children regardless of gender.) Earwicker posted:as other posters allude to, being bisexual while married is literally no different than being married while attracted to more than one (1) human being but its amazing how many people can't seem to wrap their head around that Yeah, I had never really thought about it before (I was probably 19 and this was mid 90s) I read Barrayar, by Lois McMaster Bujold, but it seemed a reasonable approach: quote:“One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. Somewhat undercut by the retcon 20 years later that he had some sort of three-way relationship with his wife and one of his male aides, but c'est la vie.
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 04:37
|
|
|
Is half-and-half just half cream and half milk? I can't get it here ( ) and I want to make White Russians. If I mix, say, 2/3 cream with 18% fat content and 1/3 milk with 4% fat content to achieve the ~13% fat content that half-and-half has, will that have the same consistency?
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 04:44
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 20, 2024 02:44 |
|
|
Question the first: Is there any handy program, free to moderately priced (let's say, up to $150), that will take a video file (an MP4 or maybe ProRes or whatever) and spit out MPEG DASH files ready for streaming, at several resolutions and bit rates? I know it can be done manually from the command line with FFmpeg and MP4Box, but that's time consuming and quite frankly mind numbing. If I had a program that could just do it for me, it would be worth its weight in gold. If it can batch process, platinum. Question the second: I'm a amateur photographer (very amateur). Film photographer that is -- I simply could never get into digital. I typically process the film myself but I've run into a bit of a road block. I'm not keen on prints, I shoot reversal (slide) film. When reversing black and white film, you need a bleach bath between the first and second development stages. I have always, for the last twenty-five years, used concentrated sulfuric acid for the bleaching agent. Back in the day, I just went to the local camera store and bought it by the gallon. That place has been gone a decade or more. I can find nowhere that carries 100% sulfuric acid now, not even after filling out a DEA form. I could use battery acid, it's the same stuff, but it's only about 30% the strength of concentrated acid and it would throw off all my timing -- I'd have to learn again how long to leave the film soaking and that would be troublesome, as it's all really down to rote memory at this point. Does anyone know of a seller?
|
|
#
?
May 5, 2021 04:45
|
|
