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Do the british still do the silly accent thing when the cameras are off?
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Aug 23, 2021 23:56
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The first time I heard a kid with an American accent in real life, he was whining that it was his turrrn on the playground equipment. It took me a good few minutes before I realised he wasn't putting it on, and he really did speak like that.
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Aug 24, 2021 00:16
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Is there a free and relatively simple website service that can show videos on the page? It’s fine if it’s just a youtube or Vimeo box. I tried using Wordpress but it requires a 12 month subscription for showing video or getting an extension that will do the same.
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Aug 24, 2021 08:09
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Methanar posted:Do the british still do the silly accent thing when the cameras are off? Is... Is asking you about your red-text a stupid / small question?
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Aug 24, 2021 12:01
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Fruits of the sea posted:Is there a free and relatively simple website service that can show videos on the page? It’s fine if it’s just a youtube or Vimeo box. If you've got access to the HTML, you can just copy&paste it in there through an iframe. Youtube has a feature where if you click on "share" and them "embed", it will generate a code snippet that you can just plop into your site.  
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Aug 24, 2021 12:03
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Fruits of the sea posted:Is there a free and relatively simple website service that can show videos on the page? It’s fine if it’s just a youtube or Vimeo box. No it doesn't, I'm 100% sure you can just embed media using the regular boxes. I do it on my wordpress site all the time.
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Aug 24, 2021 12:06
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Fruits of the sea posted:Is there a free and relatively simple website service that can show videos on the page? It’s fine if it’s just a youtube or Vimeo box. Yes, you can embed youtube videos in your own website. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171780?hl=en Also, be careful you don't end up with a vid.me situation.
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Aug 24, 2021 12:07
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Thanks folks! It was pretty easy once I figured out how to just write an iframe embed in html instead of using the built-in Wordpress functions. It was a little obfuscated by the menu, I guess they want to sell subscriptions to newbies like me. Re. vid.me: video is from a private YouTube account and the website is only gonna be up for a month so chances of surprise porn are low 
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Aug 24, 2021 15:03
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Boba Pearl posted:Is... Is asking you about your red-text a stupid / small question? trigger warning dnd A bunch of racists were talking about how all catholics are evil and all white people in north america are complicit in the genocide of native americans and living on stolen land. All in response to like 7 churches, including one african and one eastern orthodox, had been burned down, plus plenty more non-arson vandalism, in the span of 5 days in canada after unmarked graves were found at old residential schools. I asked if Ukrainian and Polish immigrants and their descendents fleeing persecution in eastern europe in the lead up to WW1 also have white guilt in what happened to the native americans and deserve to have their churches burned down and vandalized. They mostly said yes, so I asked if the ottoman empire killing christians was good or bad.
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Aug 24, 2021 17:26
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For anyone reading that post and thinking to themselves "wait aren't the people complaining about anti-white racism usually white supremacists?", the answer is yes lol The dude is real mad that nobody likes the group that perpetrated a genocide in Canada within living memory and don't want to sweep it under the rug.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:51
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Hello all. Is anyone familiar with Padlets? I have been trying to post some stuff to one today but the the big pink "+" that lets you open an area to post to is missing. I've tried restarting the padlet and the laptop I've tried another laptop I've confirmed with my tutor I have all the access I need None of the other 20 people posting are having any issues.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:05
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Extra row of tits posted:Hello all. unlikely but are you running an adblocker / extension that alters elements like sometimes sites dont work unless i disable some things in privacy possum also possible that it might be throwing away cookies or something, or a perms issue on the backend or one of a hundred other things 
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Aug 25, 2021 03:20
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With a phone using Qi wireless charging, is there any harm just leaving it sat on a charger when I'm at my desk? Or does it need discharging sometimes for battery health? I ask because my Macbook, which stays plugged in, seems to consciously let itself discharge rather than stay at 100% 24/7.
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Aug 25, 2021 14:06
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Sitting at 0 or 100% charge all day isn't great for the batteries, which is why the MacBook and electric cars do this. If you're only planning on keeping the phone a few years it probably doesn't matter though.
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Aug 26, 2021 08:58
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X-posting this and maybe there is a physics for dumb people thread somewhere it would be better in? Basically, I'm trying to design a table and need to know how much downward force at one edge will make the table move noticeably. Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I haven't done any physics since high school AP physics uh....15 years ago?
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Aug 26, 2021 18:32
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Two hundred and twenty pounds on the tabletop edge will pivot the thing on one edge of the base and lift the other.
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Aug 26, 2021 19:08
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I was having lunch with my mom, and she mentioned that she talked to someone from the power company, and he said constantly adjusting your AC leads to higher bills than just setting it and leaving it. So now she just leaves it on a constant temp (let's say 74) and leaves it there. I have had a smart thermostat for a few years now, and have it set to 72 starting at 1am, up to 74 at 9am, and 77 when I'm away at work. Which one of us is actually saving money?
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Aug 27, 2021 06:02
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I was having lunch with my mom, and she mentioned that she talked to someone from the power company, and he said constantly adjusting your AC leads to higher bills than just setting it and leaving it. So now she just leaves it on a constant temp (let's say 74) and leaves it there. I have had a smart thermostat for a few years now, and have it set to 72 starting at 1am, up to 74 at 9am, and 77 when I'm away at work. Only argument I could see in favor of a constant 74 is that the greater difference between two temperature differentials, the faster heat will leak from hot to cold. It would be extreme, but maybe the burden of maintaining 72 part time outweights any benefit of being at 77?
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Aug 27, 2021 06:23
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I was having lunch with my mom, and she mentioned that she talked to someone from the power company, and he said constantly adjusting your AC leads to higher bills than just setting it and leaving it. So now she just leaves it on a constant temp (let's say 74) and leaves it there. I have had a smart thermostat for a few years now, and have it set to 72 starting at 1am, up to 74 at 9am, and 77 when I'm away at work. Well it’s complicated. First, I’ll say that you’re definitely saving energy. The rate of heat* transfer is proportional to the square of the difference between interior and exterior temperatures. If you raise the interior temperature, the difference is lower, and heat transfer slows. Your air conditioner uses more or less the same amount of energy to move a certain amount of heat, so the less heat* that transfers into your house, the better. Your air conditioner doesn’t have to run as long or as frequently for as long as the thermostat setting remains high, and you save money throughout those hours. The caveat, and the power person’s point, is if you pay different electricity rates at different times of the day. If your home is decently insulated, you may be better off having it chilled in the afternoon versus having the air conditioner do an inordinate amount of cooling in the evening when you arrive home and rates are highest. The programmable thermostat is still an advantage in saving money, but you may want to do something counterintuitive like chill the house down to sixty‐nine starting at three P.M., raising the set point to seventy‐four at five o’clock (or whenever rates go up), and then bring it back down to what you prefer sleeping at once peak rates have passed. *Some physicists will object to the way I used “heat”, but come on, no one uses “heat” the way the textbooks say it’s supposed to be used. This nerd talks for way too long about how he cools his Texas home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f9GpMWdvWI Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Aug 27, 2021 |
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Aug 27, 2021 08:20
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I was having lunch with my mom, and she mentioned that she talked to someone from the power company, and he said constantly adjusting your AC leads to higher bills than just setting it and leaving it. So now she just leaves it on a constant temp (let's say 74) and leaves it there. I have had a smart thermostat for a few years now, and have it set to 72 starting at 1am, up to 74 at 9am, and 77 when I'm away at work. I’ve had an AC guy say the same thing. His reasoning being that once you cool back down to your living temperature you’ve lost the savings. But I imagine it has a whole lot to do with how well insulated your house is.
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Aug 27, 2021 12:51
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I'm a Technology Connections subscriber, so I'm familiar with that vid 😊 But yeah where I live we have constant electricity rates. I'd often wondered about the whole "well isn't it defeating the purpose cooling back down to a certain temp kinda thing. But my house is pretty well insulated. So I don't know.
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Aug 27, 2021 15:50
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I listen to a podcast on Spotify. Whenever the episode ends it replays the same episode. Is there any way I can set it to automatically play the next chronological episode?
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Aug 27, 2021 17:00
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Does the name "Bubba" have a racial connotation in the US, like for black people? I had a teacher basically make a prison rape joke about going to jail and having your cellmate "Bubba" be your best friend and I was wondering if she was being racist as hell. The only Bubba I know is the black character from Forest Gump.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:27
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It's more specifically southern than black, it's meant to indicate a large stupid man.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:29
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everything is probably racist if you ask the wrong enough person
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Aug 27, 2021 18:30
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Yeah I've always heard it used as a large stupid southern man, and I've mostly seen Bubba depictions that are white fwiw Prison rape jokes are awful though and first name stereotypes aren't great either
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Aug 27, 2021 18:32
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Does the name "Bubba" have a racial connotation in the US, like for black people? I had a teacher basically make a prison rape joke about going to jail and having your cellmate "Bubba" be your best friend and I was wondering if she was being racist as hell. The only Bubba I know is the black character from Forest Gump. It's more like big, dumb redneck 
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Aug 27, 2021 18:33
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Does the name "Bubba" have a racial connotation in the US, like for black people? I had a teacher basically make a prison rape joke about going to jail and having your cellmate "Bubba" be your best friend and I was wondering if she was being racist as hell. The only Bubba I know is the black character from Forest Gump. Yeah when I hear Bubba I think of a fat dumb white guy.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:37
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Thirteen Orphans posted:I listen to a podcast on Spotify. Whenever the episode ends it replays the same episode. Is there any way I can set it to automatically play the next chronological episode? Spotify is just a lovely podcast app. Highly recommend a dedicated app. I can vouch for Podcast Addict on Android devices.
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Aug 27, 2021 18:41
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Are there generally issues with Lenovo adapters? Mines seems so sensitive that it will disconnect and not charged even while being plugged in.
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Aug 27, 2021 20:42
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regulargonzalez posted:Spotify is just a lovely podcast app. Highly recommend a dedicated app. I can vouch for Podcast Addict on Android devices. Nuts, I have an iPhone. Anyone know an iOS app that can auto play episodes chronologically? Last time I checked the included app would only auto play newest episode, which makes zero sense.
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Aug 27, 2021 21:03
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edit: nvm
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Aug 27, 2021 21:42
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Are there any grocery delivery services (to the home or curbside) that will use reusable bags?
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Aug 27, 2021 22:47
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Thirteen Orphans posted:Nuts, I have an iPhone. Anyone know an iOS app that can auto play episodes chronologically? Last time I checked the included app would only auto play newest episode, which makes zero sense. I use overcast and from testing just now it looks like it started playing the next episode in line after finishing the one before it.
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Aug 28, 2021 01:04
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Badger of Basra posted:I use overcast and from testing just now it looks like it started playing the next episode in line after finishing the one before it. Thanks so much! This one worked.
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Aug 28, 2021 01:46
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Binoculars have two sets of lenses, but can our brains process the image for depth when things are distant, is there a point where you'd be better off with a telescope that has two eyepieces? Are telescopes with two eyepieces a thing?
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Aug 29, 2021 03:11
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Crankit posted:Binoculars have two sets of lenses, but can our brains process the image for depth when things are distant, is there a point where you'd be better off with a telescope that has two eyepieces? Are telescopes with two eyepieces a thing? You don’t get depth perception, but you can get more detail and more apparent brightness with two eyes than with one. With telescopes, there are two ways to get an image to two eyes. You can split the image from one telescope with mirrors in a “binoviewer”, or you can have two identical telescopes rigidly connected and perfectly aligned. They both work. Binoviewers are generally the way to go with small objects viewed at high magnification (like the planets). Twin telescopes can give superior low-magnification views of things like star fields and some galaxies and nebulæ.
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Aug 29, 2021 03:27
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So there's a lot I'm sure I'm missing context wise, but why is the Darién gap hard to bridge? I can only seem to find concerns stated as 'environmental', which I can believe, but doesn't exactly go indepth. As well, why did that stop builders? I'm sure other parts of the Pan-American highway bridge environmentally sensitive areas, was it just that the gap is hard enough that by the time technology came around people actually cared about destroying habitats?
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Carillon posted:So there's a lot I'm sure I'm missing context wise, but why is the Darién gap hard to bridge? I can only seem to find concerns stated as 'environmental', which I can believe, but doesn't exactly go indepth. As well, why did that stop builders? I'm sure other parts of the Pan-American highway bridge environmentally sensitive areas, was it just that the gap is hard enough that by the time technology came around people actually cared about destroying habitats? The wiki's summary seems reasonable? quote:Because of swamps, marshes, and rivers, construction would be very expensive. It was at the end of the line for both Panama and Colombia so each was only so interested in bridging the gap...
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