niktemadur

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Then there is also all those mediocre non-voters who empowered by default the motivated-by-hysteria, toxic dregs of society, up and down Main St. and deep within their communities and suburbs.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

This, like so many other cruel unnecessary things, could have been easily avoided.
"But... but... muh puriteh! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe"
vOtE fOr A wOmAn? mE?!! wHeN PIGS FLY!!!

The mental gymnastics so many non-voters use to convince themselves that their lazy mediocrity is not a HUGE part of the problem. They exert a hundred times the energy to stab themselves in the chest with a rusty knife, and as gangrene sets in, they fancy themselves as hero martyrs, because they so bravely did nothing of value to stop this. Useless deadweight flakes that they are.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

2 - 6 - 3 - 4 - 1 - 8 - 5.
The wedges you can keep.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Did you just decohere Yoshio Nishina?!!
Go to your room, before you collapse any more wave functions.
And no Green Tea Kit Kats for you tonight.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Japan has been in the thick of quantum physics research since very near the beginning. Look up the name "Yoshio Nishina".

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Hard men create strong times.
Strong times create hard soft.
Hard soft creates confused hard men.
Confused hard soft create man times.
Hard men create harder men.
Men create man hard soft times for men
who are not soft but actually quite hard.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

"An empire will rise"
"An empire will fall"
"War will break out in the Middle East"
"The Boston Red Sox will win a World Series"

OMG, was this man a wizard or what?!!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

What time is it?
It's Beer O'clock!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Wainscoting. Sounds like... a little Dorset village. Wainscoting.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh, we've been getting some lovely heirloom tomatoes in a few stores my town since a couple of years ago.

Or how about this with cherry tomatoes:

  1. Cut in half a couple dozen, place them in a tray with high walls.
  2. Sprinkle with olive oil, salt (I use Lawry's Seasoned) and crack some pepper on top.
  3. Heat them in a toaster oven until they start to caramelize.
  4. Put a couple of large handfuls of baby spinach with sliced red onion, pour more olive oil, toss and put back into toaster oven.
  5. Toss with pincers every couple of minutes until the spinach becomes dehydrated and concentrated.
  6. Stuff into a sandwich like a grilled cheese, or a quesadilla.
 

Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

 

If the answer is YES, a related follow-up question: if each visible color of the spectrum were to measure a centimeter in width, how far would I have to move the sensor from the red to detect the change from infrared to microwave, then to radio?

In the knowledge that Sir William Herschel discovered infrared by repeating Newton's experiment, but with a thermometer to measure the temperature of each component of the spectrum, and after placing the thermometer a bit to the side of the red light, in darkness, noticed quite by accident that the device would still register heat, therefore an invisible yet very real component of light was there, warming the thermometer.

 

Now I'm just being the curious layman here, but a Google/YouTube search proved fruitless.

 

It's one of those pet peeves that rub me the wrong way, and they all seem to do it, whether it's anywhere around The Ringer network, or the Earwolf network, or the Blank Check podcast to name a few, they always say "Ray" instead of "Ralph".

The man's real full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, quite a fancy mouthful, but not even a hint of "Ray" or "Raymond" in there. Did everyone in the podcasting world decide to pronounce his name wrong on purpose?

 

Me first: in the early 80s, I remember the Vons supermarket chain had their own brand of sour cream dip for potato chips, one flavor that people I know loved was fresh pismo clam, it still had chunks of clam meat in there. One day it got yanked from the shelves and I've never seen it again.

More recently, about a decade ago, Trader Joe's carried cheddar-and-horseradish potato chips, then one day they were gone.

I would love... LOVE... to dip those horseradish chips into that clam dip... sigh.

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