I love seeing these. They are also really funny; there is some kind of comedic brilliance to Squidward delivering these messages

Air within the can rapidly cools and becomes a low pressure. The higher pressure atmosphere outside the can compresses it.

Earth’s atmosphere is pretty heavy.

It’s compression, not decompression.

The type of gun can matter, for example an autoloading rifle is not quite as powerful as a bolt action rifle because it uses some of the energy to cycle the bolt and load the next bullet. The shooter allegedly used a bolt action rifle, though, which should basically be “the most powerful” type of rifle.

Sometimes bullets do really weird things, so I’m not saying it isn’t what happened, but it was a 30-06 rifle round which really should have done signficantly more damage from that range, so it is strange at the least.

Why are you just posting AI generated output

The botulism bacteria is anaerobic. It is not active the same way in the presence of oxygen. So when you open the bag and remove the fish, you are introducing oxygen.

Group of neighbirhood children lighting stuff on fire with a magnifying glass in the parking lot all panicked and tried to hide what they were doing as I walked to my car. 👴 Guess I’m too old for classic summer fun.

I use KDE because it’s good and because GNOME is bad.

Um… yes. Matrix multiplication is deterministic, there’s nothing non-deterministic about an LLM, unless you artificially add randomness to them, like randomly selecting 1 of the top N ranked tokens.

Setting the temperature parameter to 0.00 makes an LLM deterministic.

Hmmm you’d think one would not use claude to do writing in the first place if one was bothered by “perversions of writing”, and this whole argument is just in bad faith

“Personal hygiene soaps” are superfatted, including the soap that I make. The ingredients are not different, only the ratio of ingredients. The recipe contains extra fat, more than the amount of fat needed to chemically react with the lye. So when all of the lye is used up by the chemical reaction, some amount of fat is left over unreacted in the soap. This extra fat is moisturizer for skin and replaces the natural oils on skin that soap strips away, so the soap is not drying.

My soap is usually minimally superfatted, so it is balanced more towards cleansing than moisturizing but still contains extra fat to ensure it is not harmful on skin. If you want a soap that is very gentle on skin, you would include even more fat.

Lye chemically reacts with fat and is chemically changed into soap. There is no lye present in soap, unless you made it wrong. Lye is used to make soap but soap does not contain lye.

Hard soap as in bar soap, it is a solid. As opposed to liquid soap. All soap is made with lye, including liquid soap.

It is hard solid/bar soap and safe to use on skin. Mostly personal hygiene but can be used for anything where soap is appropriate. Could grate it into shavings to use as laundry detetgent.

EDIT: clarified an answer after a misunderstood definition of “hard” soap

Yep

The lye reacts with the fat to chemically change into soap. The ratio of fat to lye in the recipe should ensure that all of the lye chemically reacts, leaving none left in the final product.

And this is what soap actually does:

One end of the soap molecule loves water, the other end hates water. Tons of the soap molecules end up sticking to dirts and oils, completely surrounding them and pulling them away into the water.

Soap making involves very little time investment. There is a long drying time (weeks to months) but you can spend that time on other things 🙂

I make my own soap from 3 ingredients: lard that I process from bacon grease, lye, and water. It is extremely cheap and easy to make, and cleans really effectively. And no, the soap does not smell like bacon at all, it just smells like soap.

Jar*