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OptimusPhillip

@ OptimusPhillip @lemmy.world

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  • What makes a content creator an influencer??

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  • Wikipedia lists influencer as a synonym for internet celebrity, so I guess just when they become famous.

    Unless you take the title literally, then it's whenever they become influential over a statistically significant portion of the population.

  • Can acidic and carbonated drinks corrode aluminium bottles?

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  • Aluminum soda cans have plastic linings, because the acids can dissolve the aluminum. What that means for your drinking bottle, I don't know.

  • Why can't we decrease our eye's FPS to get better night vision?

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  • This is why pirates were wearing eye patches, to be able to enter the hull of the ship and see immediately without lighting up a candle. Fire is not a good idea inside a wooden ship filled with black powder.

    This is one theory for why pirates wore eyepatches. We haven't found any historical evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, we have at least a few documented cases of pirates wearing eyepatches for protecting a damaged eye.

  • What's something that's not common knowledge but you think everyone should know?

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  • This is not true. There are a litany of laws that capturing a wild duck from a public park would be a violation of, so don't do it.

  • Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

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  • I pirate content that is not in print within my region. Fan subs of Japanese TV shows, emulated games for discontinued consoles, things like that.

  • Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?

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  • As an American who has gotten very used to metric units in studying engineering, the general rule I picked up is that you typically only change units every three orders of magnitude. So 8 decameters would typically be expressed as 80 meters, maybe 0.08 kilometers. Decameters and hectometers are a thing, but they're not common units. Even centimeters don't see much use compared to millimeters.

  • People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good.

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  • Yeah, dude is asking the wrong question.

  • ‘Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Sequel First-Look Images Revealed (Exclusive)

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  • What rock have you been living under? I could not escape this movie when the discourse was at its peak. I can absolutely believe it was one of the most talked about movies.

  • Why don’t we use radiators as heat sinks in the summer and pump cold water through them?

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  • Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you'd be better off getting a heat pump. It's the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I've been told.

  • Should there be a UK Minister for Men?

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  • As an American whose only knowledge of UK government comes from sporadic episodes of Politics Unboringed, my first thought would be to replace the Minister for Women with a Minister for Gender Equality. They would have all the powers and responsibilities of the Minister for Women, and also gain any powers and responsibilities that a hypothetical Minister for Men would need.

    • If there is a need for a Minister for Men, then that need is met by the Minister for Gender Equality
    • If there is no need for a Minister for Men, then the only thing that changes is that the Minister for Women has a new, less controversial title

    Sounds like a win-win to me, but again, I'm a dumb Yank lol

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  • But they didn't decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.

  • What was the worst bastardization of a classic book into a movie?

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  • Then Sea of Monsters ended up being worse somehow.

  • How did we come to say something courteous to someone after they’ve sneezed

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  • Because the onus is on the farter to say something courteous. Because we, for some reason, decided that a involuntary, natural bodily function is rude.

  • David Attenborough to present third and final series of Planet Earth

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  • Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised to be reminded he was still alive. I keep forgetting it was his brother that died, and not him.

  • What's your favorite fan-theory for a Movie or TV show you've watched?

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  • That seems to be the official line from the Russos and/or Kevin Feige, yes. Take that however you will.

  • What's your favorite fan-theory for a Movie or TV show you've watched?

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  • That would actually be comic accurate, too (to some degree). At one point, Aunt May reveals on her deathbed that she secretly knew Peter was Spider-Man for a long time, and wanted him to know that she was proud of him before she died.

    They retconned this, of course, bringing Aunt May back to life with no memory of Peter's identity. Then eventually did more stories about Aunt May learning Peter's identity, dying, then coming back to life... man, keeping up with comic book lore sucks.

  • What's your favorite fan-theory for a Movie or TV show you've watched?

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  • Cool idea. Unfortunately, I don't see how that would work, since Endgame uses branching-paths time travel instead of closed-loop.

  • Does anyone else act more 'human' when solving captchas?

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  • Stop, you'll give the bots ideas!

    In all seriousness, I never fake anything. If I see a bicycle, I click it. Plus, I never need to fake my pauses, since the ones I get are actually bitch hard lol

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    Can cockroaches live in your penis

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  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    OptimusPhillip @lemmy.world

    Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed?