ornery_chemist

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

That's some expensive cereal...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (3 children)

7 is closer to 10 than 6 so we consider that 7 is really just a 10 with a size-3 hole in it and we fill that hole with 3 from the 6 giving a 10 with 3 left over which make 13.

Also not an ADHD thing.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So could we produce a surface tension-free water?

Homie dats a gas. Or supercritical fluid, which actually is indeed used for "washing" (SC CO2 is used to decaffeinate coffee). However, like others said, surface tension /= cleaning ability. Part of what soap does is increase the effective solubility of things that are not normally soluble.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So you're saying that you don't like trying to relight the thermal oxidizer for the formaldehyde stream that went out due to spillover from another process, with an emergency flare? Got it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I mean, sure, things like that are super dangerous, but at least they're obviously, flashily dangerous and for that reason have a lot more attention paid to them. The real nasties are arguably the ones that aren't so flashy but are much more common amd don't have immediate effects. Formaldehyde and benzene will give you cancer, and acrylate monomers will make it so you one day wake up allergic to the modern world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

wół go pyta:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nonono, you don't understand, flame wars build character! 'Twere the early aughts that made me the healthy and well adjusted person I am today!

Or at least, that's what I'd say if what actually happened wasn't that I became a jaded bastard and if I didn't think it was just some ploy to drive engagement to let OP feel popular for a moment... in the best case scenario

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't worry, I was being 100% facetious! After all, γ is generally believed to have been a hard /g/ in Ancient Greek, which is the version of Greek that "graphic" is based on and is CLEARLY the wrong way to say gif :D

Kinda sorta un-jerking (but not really) for a moment, I don't think that I'd include the rhotic in your hypothetical pronunciation in NASA and thus would say /neæ.sə/ over /neɚ.sə/. I also don't palatalize the U in SCUBA (/sku:.bə/, not /sk^(j)u:bə/), but I suspect that's just a dialectical difference.

Edit: I just saw your NZ lemmy instance name and now I understand the vowel choices. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Well, you see, the g in gif stands for "graphics" which is ultimately from Greek "γραφικός," and because this is the 21st century, γ in front of a close front vowel is pronounced as neither /g/ nor /d͡ʒ/ but rather /ʝ/, which is pronounced a bit like English's y, so in its purest rendition gif is really pronounced "yiff", which doubles as homage to the online communities that OP frequents.