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  • I mean the video is from before 2016 (as that's when Stephen left QI) and in the part where they're saying that, they're quoting something which was already a quote, and it begins with "many years ago..."

  • Probably correct, yeah, but also, the daily value here is daily intake value, not daily required amount for your body. At least I assume so.

  • I think the chain should be the length of half the width of your opponents shield, or thereabouts. That's just me guessing and I'm no nerd about medieval warfare.

    Flails are apparently kinda shit but prolly work against shields.

  • Yeah unfortunately for you I think the post is bullshit. People die on planes all the time. I mean, enough for airlines to have protocols for it.

    https://youtu.be/UOTD8jx26pg

    They used to just put people in first class seats with shades and a newspaper but apparently that was "insensitive".

  • Man, American drivers are incredibly shit.

  • This is a vegan thread but remember even non-vegans:

    nergy drinks contain high levels of Vitamin B12, often ranging from 100% up to over 8,000% of the Daily Value (DV). Common 8-12 oz cans typically provide between 6 mcg (250% DV) and 167 mcg (10,000% DV), while concentrated 2-oz shots, like 5-Hour Energy, can contain 500 mcg (8,333% DV) of cyanocobalamin.

    Sorry for the shitty copy paste

  • I hadn't either before driving a taxi. (pre-gps)

  • I ended up accidentally training a squirrel to be a burglar and finding squirrel droppings in your kitchen even when you left the kitchen window closed, well... it didn't bother me as much but it was an apartment building and he burgled others as well so had to put him in timeout once (large see-through moving box, breathing one, and water food and some pine branches to hide in) for a good few hours.

    Moved out rather soon after that, so idk if his lineage still knows the way.

    But the crows from the same area at least taught their young that me is friend. Me bring meatball. (I didn't move far, only a few hundred m so it wasn't as challenging for them to follow.)

  • You look up a street name. That entry tells you which street it begins from. If you don't know that, then you look up one further. And repeat until you get to such a main road you'd know it even after looking at a map.

    So basically you'd look up the street and then browse back and after you'd have a sort of gps like instructions. "main road until you see X street, then turn there, then drive until you see Y road" etc.

    I had several in the car I drove, for all the nearby cities/towns. Many in same covers. So it'd cover the main city and outlying towns. Never had to use a map. (Although again, I can if needed.)

  • Loads.

  • Actually a much better way was to use a street directory if you know your way around the town even a bit.

    Better even, and how we actually did it was giving instructions. "200m after the large tree by the field, drive on for about 400m, there's 2 junctions before and mines the third one."

    But I also know orienteering ofc as a Finn

  • Well last time I bought anything was in like 2011 and just knew they rocked the brands FDF uses as well. Jalas Phantom Drylock are the boots I talked about.

  • I mean theres no objectivity to the way we describe the universe anyway

    You're going all in the self-delusing. If there's no objectivity, then how come we can launch shit to other planets? Why does that tech work?

    A meter is more less a yard. Ever heard the term "yard-stick"? Ofc you have, and you know what it means, but you'll pretend not to.

    I'll tell you that I'm klorknon gribbits tall and that is not objective, because it's just some bullshit I just made up. Like the bullshit you keep making up to not have to learn the measuring system the entire rest of the world uses.

    Feets and pounds are nowadays objective, as they're based on metric standards, which have been strictly objectively defined, no matter what sophistry you want to wave around about how no measuring system is arbitrary since you don't understand it.

    A second is exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium-133 atom.

    And here's the dictionary definition for "objective".

    objective

    adjective

    : expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations

    Your "b-b-but it's a closer to human-scale scale actually much better cause cooking temps and 0 temps don't matter" is affected by your personal feelings that Fahrenheit is somehow "more human-scale", whatever the fuck that means.

  • They're not just their own brand. They sell various brands. A lot are Finnish though.

    I myself enjoyed the drylock version of the boots I had in the military. Unfortunately the drylock membrane made their care harder / more expensive and I was a lazy cunt and they got ruined much before they should've.

    Idk if Hedgren brand does clothing, they do backpacks at least, and idk about their quality nowadays, but the Hedgrem backpack my mom bought me in the early 90's is still serving me extremely well. It doesn't look outdated either, and I've not been careful with it in the slightest in the past 30 years or so.

  • That's the problem; you're not actually pitching anything. You're badly rationalising why your personal preference would be objectively better, and labeling it in a pseudointellectual bullshit that doesn't make any sense.

    Edit oh and don't get "heated" then..?

  • closer with human-scale temps

    So you just never cook anything? Because if you cook, your scale is longer. You have to heat your oven to 350+ degrees, whereas I'm just putting it to 180. So the scale is actually "aligned closer with human-scale temps" whatever your brainfart can be interpreted to mean.

    we spend 90% of our lives wandering around in a fairly narrow range of temperatures

    You do. You. Just like you think your brainfart is in anyway an improvement instead of just silly rambling without any sense whatsoever.

    I have never once cared about the actual temperature of that reaction

    Because you don't live in Peru or the bottom of the sea, so you don't have to, because you know it's always pretty much exactly 100 for you.

    A person with a stroke could've written your comment and it would be none the better.

    Not one of your arguments holds any water; Centrigrade is a smaller scale, and a more logical one. Standing naked outside, most people would have a fairly good guess on when it's near or below 0c. Or as English actually says "freezing." You couldn't even tell 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Literally most people in the world have never even experienced such a temperature. I have. I've also experienced -40 (where they meet.)

    How many days a year do you spend in 0f?

    Because in my country being below zero is more common than not. Both C and F, moreso C though, as "it's closer to a human scale".

    So F is wider, cooking temps are double that of anything in double digits, no-one can even tell where 0f is and 100f is very much not close to the warmest things we handle in our daily lives.

    0-100c is quite simple. Over or under, don't touch with bare skin. (For non cooks stay below 60c though or you'll burn yourself)

    But I don't need to argue. The works decided long ago.

  • And I bet that room has its own thermostat, fuel, and doesn't reach that temperature without human input.

    I don't manage to see your point. If the point is "you can't live in places which are hotter the average body temp", then should I point you towards Australasia? Also, in my last apartment, I didn't have a sauna, but I did have a kitchen that was constantly above 40 and topped out my 52c meter in my kitchen.

    considered on a common use scale?

    Only an American things measuring things in average horse blood temperature vs when water boils at sealevel is a "common use scale".

    A "common" use scale for you less metrically abled; "fucking freezing", "freezing", "cold", "cool", "okay", "a bit warm" "too hot" "fucking scorching".

    The hottest recorded temperature on earth is 56°C

    You mean the hottest ambient temperature measured not from direct sunlight. Yeah, maybe. Still a bit more than our body temp, no?

    water's boiling point can vary wildly on Earth.

    Yeah, but 100c doesn't. It's always the temperature at which pure water boils at sea level.

    If I forget to check the altitude I could mistakenly think my boiling teapot is at 100°C instead of 68°C.

    Sure yeah, you sound like a guy who might have a problem like that. Luckily for you, kettles don't actually have thermostats set to 100c. They shut off when the water is boiling, despite the temperature. So people like you have been accounted for, rest assured. Nor will you be needing to make any thermometers either.

    quirks of your appliances

    So you microwave shit and then think temp doesn't matter? I don't really "appliances". Is a grater an appliance? A manual one? Knives a few pans, ingredients. Thermometer. Perhaps if you've actually been doing a dish for 20 years perfectly you can forget about but it but it's an absolute must for most kitchen professionals; good measuring instruments. A scale and a thermometer, mainly. Don't really need anything else. Don't even need that to cook, obviously. But because of the "quirks of your appliance", you probe your meat, to meet the right temp. Damn I made myself hungry. Well I got some moose in the freezer.

    That's why many recipes give hints on target texture or look (crispy, soft, golden brown...). But yes if you want a very specific

    What's way more important in cooking is actually the measuring than thinking you can just throw it together and wait until it turns whatever the description wants. If you want it good, you'll measure it to the gram and use the correct temp. Which is a bit above our body temp again, but guess "cooking" isn't included in "common use scale"?

  • Humans are endothermic, which means being somewhere hotter than us is Not Good™️.

    Endothermic refers to the ability of the organism to regulate it's temperature, not just the ability to generate heat, but also to cool itself down. We humans are so good at it, that we can literally just jog prey down in hot environments and pretty much all animals will overheat before we do.

    Hell, in my apartment there's a room especially for making it very hot and humid. Even above 100c, and I still don't boil. Weird, huh?

    cooking temps generally don't require much prevision

    Alright. Sure. Yeah. Why not. /s

  • Most people don't know that the archetypical USB port is called USB-A, and most people don't even interact with USB-B at all

    Perhaps most people on the street. I would wager the average citizens understanding of, idk, Star Trek, Linux and also USB-ports is a smidgeon lower than the average Lemmings understanding of them, on average.