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wolframhydroxide

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  • I have tried to tell you, the only reason I keep down voting your comments is that you're using the thorn to represent the voiced dental fricative, which should rightly be rendered as an 'eth': ð

    I would personally stop downvoting you if you just made it correct. Ðen, at least, you would be presenting legible þoughts. It hurts my brain, which has spent so many hours reading the þorn used correctly in actual manuscripts, to see it so þoroughly tortured in words like "ðen", "ðan", or "ðough", all of which contain the voiced dental fricative in modern English. It similarly hurts when you use it in "ðe", because nobody has said "the" with a voiceless fricative in 500 years.

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  • As I keep trying to tell everyone, this is not how you actually use a thorn.

    The thorn is voiceless, and EVERY SINGLE CASE here in the TLC is voiced (as in the 'th' in 'the'). As such, they should ACTUALLY be using the letter 'eth': ð

    This represents the voiced dental fricative.

    If you are going to make some ridiculous philological point, you should at least be correct about it, especially when you're coming at it from a sense of traditionalist purity.

    Æfter all, ðe æctual ƿay to ƿrite þings using old englisc spelling rules is nearly incomprehensible to ðe modern reader, hƿat ƿiþ all ðe changes æfter 1066. It just makes you seem ecgy and ƿyrd

    (Note that I'm actually being fairly lax with the previous paragraph to make it slightly more comprehensible)

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  • Let the record reflect that that is NOT how it's used. The thorn is voiceless, and EVERY SINGLE CASE here in the TLC (and your own comment) is voiced (as in the 'th' in 'then'). As such, they should ACTUALLY be using the letter 'eth': ð

    This represents the voiced dental fricative.

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  • Let the record reflect that that is NOT how it's used. The thorn is voiceless, and EVERY SINGLE CASE here in the TLC is voiced (as in the 'the' in 'the'). As such, they should ACTUALLY be using the letter 'eth': ð

    This represents the voiced dental fricative.

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  • Honestly, if they used the thorn correctly, I wouldn't have a problem, but they consistently use it for voiced dental fricatives, when the voiced version of thorn is the 'eth': ð. (Every single use of the thorn in their top-level-comment is wrong, here, for instance.)

    Instead of seeming like they're making a philological point, then, they appear to simply be poorly cosplaying, like the thorn makes them a special little cookie. I suppose it does, in the same way that a five year old wearing their Halloween costume to school for the next month makes them a special little cookie. Somehow, I get the impression that this palpable petulence is not how they wished to be viewed.

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  • Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds broadcast

  • After mistaken deportation, US asks judge to let it send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

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  • Just when you think that this, the worst timeline, had found the human limitation of "stupid", it seeks to hurl feces into your eye in ever-more-inane and obscene manners, like a caged ape with no outlet for its struggles.

    Is this why everything went south after Harambe died? He found heaven vacant, the throne abdicated and the world forsaken, and thus took that high most seat and wept, having no greater spaces to conquer, and so began to hurl reality itself like shit through the bars of heaven?

  • Trump threatens to ‘dock’ already unpaid air traffic controllers who call out sick: ‘I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU’

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  • 🦭💨

  • xkcd #3163: Repair Video

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  • Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • I think they meant "isn't it also much better at blowing up when you want it to?"

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  • So, did a bit of research and, when you get to the scale of "a laser that can destroy objects", it turns out that the reflectance of natural materials is just utterly insufficient. Consider the following: suppose that a mirror finish reflects 90% of the light from a laser in the range you're looking at (a fair assumption, from what I've read). Now, let's do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: we'll use a 30 kW laser, which is apparently standard for current destructive laser weapons. Let's further assume that the laser light is spread over a surface area of 0.04 m2 (because a spot 20 cm on a side seems to me a fairly high estimate for the spread on a precision laser, even on a moving target, if it's motion-tracked, I should think). Let us be generous and assume that this reflective paint coating is 0.5mm (0.0005m) thick. Given the paint's approximate specific heat of 2.302 J/gK (polyethylene) and density of 1400000 g/m3 (PVC), and let's also assume the breakdown temp of the reflectance is near the boiling point of PVA (spray paint), which is 112C.

    So, the mass of paint absorbing the energy is 0.040.00051400000=28 g.

    To heat the entirety of these 28 g of this material by about 90C (from 22 to 112), completely destroying the protective layer, we would need 2.3022890 = 5801J

    Now we know that we have 300000.9= 3000J/s, so it would take about 2 seconds of lancing to completely destroy the protection. Given that it already takes 2-5 seconds to destroy things with the laser, and it doesn't actually have to destroy the entire area for the reflectance to deteriorate and let the laser through, this would only be adding another second of work. I think that, no matter what you do, the laser's gonna win.

    I can give sources for any of these estimates.

    You know the actual reason why these things aren't on every military vessel? The lasers stop working if there's fog, dust or rain

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  • Honestly, I memorised the bands once in orgo, and never looked at them again, so you're more likely to know than I.

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  • I think that wouldn't necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There's only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

  • Kia Is Giving Away 'Nostalgic' Motor Oil and Gasoline-Scented Car Freshener to EV Buyers

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  • I would think that a Kia-branded version of gasoline fumes would fail to sufficiently cause cancer when huffed, or be disappointingly unlikely to cause death by spontaneous combustion.

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  • I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all "archosaurs". In a similar way to how Australopithecus, Humans and Chimpanzees are all "hominids".

  • Analysis: Trump’s response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters’ point

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  • He is a king, a burger berder king

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  • Anakin, his power since doubled

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  • I have always read that meme as basically being the original "Wanda, declaring her vengeance. Thanos, professing ignorance"

    The cat looks like "who are you, and why is it interrupting my dinner?"

  • 'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho

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  • How are any of then surprised? Trump is the most easily bribeable man to ever be president.

    FTFY

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  • They do, but in order for them to regurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).