TIL: Today I Learned
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I don't think your constant trolling is funny either, and yet here you are.
I don't think it is either, nor do I care to be accused as such.
I was extracting humor from a long, hot, frustrating shift.
Humor.
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I was extracting humor from a long, hot, frustrating shift.
Humor.
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I posted this in TIL because of the last commenter - I can see it being very helpful to kids to help them identify feelings much easier.
GasBandit
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She hasn't decided who she is yet.
They may merely be reinforcing gender stereotypes. Anger and fear are shown as masculine traits, joy, disgust and sadness are shown as feminine. The "balanced" adults in the story (parents, presumably) have masculinized or feminized all their traits, but they still retain some of their original feminine/masculine nature. Note also that they take on some of the physical affects of the people - glasses, mustache, clothing style - but the "female" traits never develop breasts. I'd put the mustache in the same category as glasses, rather than considering it a secondary sexual characteristic. Thus the traits have feminine/masculine aspects, but these are largely due to the biases of the viewer and culture - there's little evidence that they are actually male or female.
Sadness has a low voice, but we see "her" as female - partly intentional (voice casting) but mostly because she fits in our female category due simply to the way she acts and reacts.
If anything, I suspect they avoided making anything about the internal feelings/voices sexualized, and allow the viewer's own biases to assume what they want.
Sadness has a low voice, but we see "her" as female - partly intentional (voice casting) but mostly because she fits in our female category due simply to the way she acts and reacts.
If anything, I suspect they avoided making anything about the internal feelings/voices sexualized, and allow the viewer's own biases to assume what they want.
GasBandit
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TIL: "Vagina bones." Right above the top of the shorts.
I guess 'vagina bones' is a term that's been hanging around since 2011-2012. Of course we've got a running Urban Dictionary definition of it as well...
Via:Japanator
I guess 'vagina bones' is a term that's been hanging around since 2011-2012. Of course we've got a running Urban Dictionary definition of it as well...
“The crease present where the thigh meets the abdomen in physical fit females. Often enhanced by the pelvic bone.
‘That girl is wearing her pants so low that her vagina bones are showing.'”
‘That girl is wearing her pants so low that her vagina bones are showing.'”
Via:Japanator
I always thought it was "Are you reeling in the leaves. Stowin' away the tide."
TIL how to seduce any woman.
Apparently one of Germany's laws requires that renewable energy sources never be turned off or used at less than full capacity. So if the solar plant or wind plants are generating X megawatts, that power has to go to the grid.
Coal, gas, and similar power plants can't be turned on or off easily and quickly.
When you combine the legislation with the fact that power plants can't adapt quickly to the needs of the grid, you get price inversions. In other words there was a short period of time recently when the cost of power went negative on Germany's grid.
They were paying customers to use electricity.
Of course it's not so simple - this really means that other energy brokers were buying energy and shunting it to other grids, residents and small consumers never saw this cost reduction, but the energy market noticed and was happy to "buy" this power that they were being paid to consume.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q...le-electricity-on-may-8th-2016-that-their-pow
Weird consequences when the law meets technology and modern markets.
We export and import energy primarily via fuel sources, but my expectation is that more and more trade will be conducted via the grid as we move forward. Something that Enron would have appreciated if they weren't so busy screwing themselves that they failed.
Coal, gas, and similar power plants can't be turned on or off easily and quickly.
When you combine the legislation with the fact that power plants can't adapt quickly to the needs of the grid, you get price inversions. In other words there was a short period of time recently when the cost of power went negative on Germany's grid.
They were paying customers to use electricity.
Of course it's not so simple - this really means that other energy brokers were buying energy and shunting it to other grids, residents and small consumers never saw this cost reduction, but the energy market noticed and was happy to "buy" this power that they were being paid to consume.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/q...le-electricity-on-may-8th-2016-that-their-pow
Weird consequences when the law meets technology and modern markets.
We export and import energy primarily via fuel sources, but my expectation is that more and more trade will be conducted via the grid as we move forward. Something that Enron would have appreciated if they weren't so busy screwing themselves that they failed.
I expect the German power industry is pushing the development of batteries to avoid this situation. And if they are able to get them good enough to effectively store the excess energy for later use, then this weird situation will be an example of laws effectively manipulating the modern market to drive technological advancement.
TIL if the Gunpowder Plot had gone as intended, it would have been a very big boom indeed.
An hour of setup before the blast. But really, watch the whole thing. Richard Hammond presenting.
An hour of setup before the blast. But really, watch the whole thing. Richard Hammond presenting.
You guys ever use one of those instant drip coffee bags? Eg, this kind of thing.
Someone gave me a box of ten, so I brought them to work and made one today. Well, after pouring my hot water into the bag and making my cup of coffee, I figured, huh, I could just save this bag, and in the afternoon if I want a second cup of coffee I could just pour hot water into the same bag again.
Well, today I learned that in the space of just a few hours, the coffee grinds in the bag will partially dry out to form a largely impervious substance, which means your water will not flow through the bag with any sort of fluidity. Instead, it will accumulate in the bag while you stare at it forlornly, waiting for it to drain away so you can add more water. Also, it gives you a really weak cup of coffee.
So, yeah, TIL these things are strictly one-use only.
Someone gave me a box of ten, so I brought them to work and made one today. Well, after pouring my hot water into the bag and making my cup of coffee, I figured, huh, I could just save this bag, and in the afternoon if I want a second cup of coffee I could just pour hot water into the same bag again.
Well, today I learned that in the space of just a few hours, the coffee grinds in the bag will partially dry out to form a largely impervious substance, which means your water will not flow through the bag with any sort of fluidity. Instead, it will accumulate in the bag while you stare at it forlornly, waiting for it to drain away so you can add more water. Also, it gives you a really weak cup of coffee.
So, yeah, TIL these things are strictly one-use only.
To be fair, as i understood it, Enron was always a scam, and it's really hard to actually run a legit company when you have no experience at it.
Basically this. What Enron was doing was taking advantage of deregulation of utilities, and thus were able to price gouge their customers during the artificial energy shortage in California in 2000. Enron overbooked their requirements for energy transmission (the capacity of power lines) causing others to need to pay crisis rates, shut down pipelines in Texas to stop production of fuel, and shuffled paperwork to disguise the origin of generated energy since according to the modified regulations, energy produced out of state could charge a higher rate.
They also shuffled all their debts and liabilities onto offshore subsidiaries, so their own books looked clean, even while they were stiffing their investors left and right (Merrill Lynch, Arthur Andersen, etc).
Today I Learned that the freestyle rap battle was invented by the Norse people, a practice known as flyting (from flyta, meaning provocation). When flyting, two parties would exchange insults and provoke each other in verse. Such exchanges would become increasingly antagonistic, often including accusations of cowardice and sexual perversion. Even the gods would participate in Flyting - in the Lokasenna, Loki insults the other gods in the hall of Aegir, and in another poem Odin (disguised as a ferryman) engages in an insult contest with Thor.
Huh, I'm almost certain we've discussed it on here before, but searches are coming up empty.
No, we have. Just perhaps not by name? I remember talking about it, and the lotus flower breast picture hing, and so on.
ARGH G*D WHERE DID I LEAVE THE BRAIN BLEECHJust don't google "mango worms dog"
Maybe it got depublished?
I'm positive we've discussed it, too (specifically the botfly/lotus/breast pic), I just didn't know it had legitimately been categorized as a thing with a name and a "-phobia" suffix.
I wonder if this is part of why so many people consider Amigara Fault to be so unsettling.
--Patrick