bethorien

bethorien


Just a random chick with too many problems and too few solutions

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bethorien · 2 years ago
*hugs the ew fren*
Ah that’s hot 3 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
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this is not true for F, F has a similar 0-100 but one that aligns nicely to human dealings with air temperature
which equates out to weather, which a very large amount of people actively check daily.
it makes a very nice easy to deal with set up where, going from 100 down, you hit the point "comfortable for most people at about 30 away from the top of the 0-100 and then get less and less "widely comfortable" until you hit the same distance from the top of the scale that comfortable is, but from the bottom of the scale with freezing weather outside being situated at about 30 degrees away from the low end of the scale making the whole thing a nice clean 0-100 sliding scale for weather with very easy to remember points that easily represent something that people actually will have some USE for.
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Ah that’s hot 3 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
there are multiple reasons why F is basically the only measurement system from imperial that's better than its metric equivalent
F is more precise, in general you'll have many spots of "equivalency" where, when using whole numbers like most people do, a change in F wont be shown as a change in C, C's gaps between whole numbers is larger and therefor less precise.
Another big point in favor of F is as follows
generally people herald C as being super amazing because it makes a nice easy 0-100 scale that humans can easily deal with for water temperature with 0 being freezing for water and 100 being boiling for water. This is never used by another outside of a children's science class. When freezing water people throw it in the freezer and wait and then later see if it froze, no measuring. To boil water people do the same with the stove, the nice clean easy for the human brain to deal with 0-100 has no purpose for 99% of the population in C.
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Gorillas dismantling poacher traps 18 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
also im realizing coming back to this comment section that they likely wouldnt just put it straight in their mouth, they'd taste it and, being basically a soap pod, they would probably not even do more than break it open, smell it, and lick it before they threw it out and labeled it as "not food"
on the topic of IQ tho
i would really like to see an experiment done where a group of primates, be it gorillas or chimps or whatever, are taught sign language as an entire group and then a generation later the children being taught the language both from their parents and humans which later is used to give them something akin to a formal human child's education. See how far their understanding can go. Do it a few times with the same group of primates generation after generation and see if you can eventually get a group of them that understand what we teach in highschool at the same level as your average human student
I like strawberry 8 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
im not sure what my fav is, havent tried a large variety of them but the blueberry ones and the strawberry ones are nice
I like strawberry 8 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
blasphemer!
Gorillas dismantling poacher traps 18 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
well, they would be in danger of eating tide pods but only the first gorilla to do it in each information sharing group, they dont have the benefit of knowing contextually what "Tide" is or what laundry is
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Centaur Recliners 4 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
horses sleep standing, laying down for a full sleep session could be lethal to them.
id assume their horse bits would be standing but the human bits would be laid up against a taller version of one of those things
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Kek 7 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
it would be more than eyelid shape, more like bone structure which we cant really fix tho it seems like, based on the artificial eyes thing, they seem to think their actual eyeballs are "wrong" which seems to be closer to dysmorphia rather than dysphoria, tho i wouldnt be suprisied if a professional headshrink was to say that the dysmorphia stemmed from the dysphoria being dealt with incorrectly and unhealthfully. From what ive read in the past about the topic, while surgery is a thing they do and is a thing generally accepted to be an actual solution to the problem, a big part of the treatment is also a lot of therapy related to exactly what this post is on about, letting the dysphoria dictate activity, rather than the activity being crafted to help deal with the dysphoria.
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Violence, speed, momentum 9 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
idk much about the topic but assuming that the stuff that trans people take during transition to get more of the hormone they need is a liquid, ive heard it or i guess more accurately read it referred to as "T shots, E shots" so i assume its a liquid in a needle, wouldnt THAT be "gender fluid" that's "changed" regularly?
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Swedish animal names translated literally 8 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
maybe its referencing the fact its vaguely "pinecone-y" and also draws blood?
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bethorien · 2 years ago
just to give some perspective on this from the "point of view" this post person is wrongly ascribing to my people
Im assuming she's on about the whole "well you cant celebrate the 4th of july because its celebrating natives being killed, oppressed, kidnapped, removed from our homelands, etc"
we celebrate the 4th of july too. Big gatherings of extended family are a fairly large "thing" in our culture to the point one of the most common kinds we do in my tribe has its own wikipedia page
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the 4th is a perfect excuse for that because its a widely observed holiday and a lot of places are closed on the 5th too giving a really good excuse for having the gathering last into the dark hours and still drive home afterwards since many dont have to worry about getting up the next day.
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side note: It's gotta be divine humor that this person's post about white people being racist actively implying that a minority racial group observing a cultural event are ignorant children.
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bethorien · 2 years ago
"without zero hesitation"
the way this is worded accidentally makes her statement basically
"if you hesitate to celebrate the 4th of July full blown you X"
also
"a hillbilly redneck" is an oxymoron
a hillbilly is a rural county person who lives, you guessed it, in the hills isolated from the rest of the world, the kinda place where your closest neighbors a drive away.
a reckneck is a rural country person who lives either in a small town community or very close to a small town community. To be a hillbilly redneck you would have to live both in the backhills of the country isolated from other people and also either in a town with or very close to other people.
not to mention that "redneck" as a term has an entire culture around it and "hillbilly" as a term has a different entire culture around it.
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Thebes was especially great on this 3 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
To expand on this and what purplepumpkin said above
technically there isnt an age of consent in the US, the federal government doesnt touch it, federally there is no such thing as an age of consent, however ever state has their own age of consent the same way that japan has every region giving their own age of consent. It's just that the US doesnt have a federally required minimum that the states cant go under.
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Stay frosty 5 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
Rankine, where kelvin is Celsius but it starts at absolute zero, is fahrenheit but starts at absolute zero.
The main thing that separates Kelvin and Rankine is that Rankine is more "precise" which is to say, using Celsius and Fahrenheit as examples
22 Celsius is 71 Fahrenheit. 23 Celsius is 73 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit is more precise in that the space between 2 adjacent whole numbers in it is a smaller temperature change than than the space between 2 adjacent whole numbers in Celsius. The same is true of the difference between Rankine and Kelvin.
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"and I wanna be your big boy" 3 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
just a bit of advice when it comes to fuck ups like this, dont try to play it off. People tend to be understanding about nerves, especially being nervous about stuff like this. If this dude had just been honest and said something like "im sorry, im really nervous and your name has a couple letters in common with it, i meant to say your name"
she probably would have understood.
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Noah? Get the boat!!!!! 2 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
At least it wasn’t kept long enough to form a strong bond and have it’s little heart broken, maybe it’s lucky enough to just see it as having been a nice little holiday rather than a failed escape attempt or an abandonment
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The s-word? On your Chinese Diseny server? It's more likely than you think 8 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
while it will likely cause some kids to search up "boba's ship" instead of "slave 1," i have my doubts about it helping the issue at all
it will very likely lower the total amount of kids at risk of having a porn link shown in their search for specifically this lego item, however it will likely HEAVILY increase the chances that a kid that IS as risk of seeing a porn link in their search DOES get a porn link in their searches. That to my eye isnt fixing the issue, its making a the issue into a slightly different arguably equivalent issue
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The s-word? On your Chinese Diseny server? It's more likely than you think 8 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
while their heart is likely in the right place, this seems like a not very well thought through plan.
If the reason they changed the lego slave 1 ship's set name away from that name is because kids were getting porn results in their google searches,
there are really 2 ways they could have done this
1. remove slave 1 from the title and such and have it strictly be "boba's ship"
2. remove slave 1 from just the title and product name but have slave 1 in the backend for google search results
logically both of these options make it more likely that a child gets porn sites in their first page of results as in the case of
1. the lego links are just fully gone, thinning the total amount of "reputable" links (which would include porn sites that dont have a bad rap with google,) thus making it far more likely a child sees a porn link since thats already a know issue
2. the lego links are prioritized lower than porn since lego has "slave" in backend tags but the porn will probably have titled
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Gaming companies be scamming us 6 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
With physical copies retailers buy the disks and resell them. With digital copies the digital storefront doesn’t buy copies and resell them, they let the dev/publisher list the item and take a cut of every sale. Different beasts.
Physical copies tend to net the retailer about 25% profit.
For the first 10 million dollars in sales steam takes 30% of the profits and then drops it to 25% after that.
Even if we assume they make more profit off of digital goods than physical, they can’t have it sold for different base prices like that. Doing so would piss off the retailers. They’d see it as them being cheated, they buy a bunch of discs and then the company that sold them the discs goes and gives their customers a cheaper alternative to get the same content? They’d stop buying from them, or at minimum buy less and advertise other people’s products more, or in the case of more partnership style deals they might sue
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How cute 5 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
yeaaaaaa, i never really got the breeding stuff myself.
i had to google how many egg groups there are, before doing that my knowledge of how breeding works in pokemon could be summed up as like
"a more obsessed friend once talked about egg groups and breeding only works within an egg group like 10-15 years ago and vaguely recall that there were a lot of things he said you needed to account for to get a good pokemon out of the egg"
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To all of our 2021 Graduates 1 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
so the way to avoid death is to stop playing by their rules?
How cute 5 comments
bethorien · 2 years ago
pokemon breeding is a lootttttttttt more complicated than it needs to be.
there are 15 egg groups and everything within its own egg group can breed with anything else in its own egg group, then a lot lot lot lot of complicated rules and variables to keep track of that affect the end result.
All that to say, the "child" versions of the pokemon can breed with other pokemon in their own evolutionary line and other "similar-ish" pokemon
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