Little_mouse

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[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

He's over in French Guiana.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 119 points 1 month ago (10 children)

If you drink something that is about the same ionic concentration as your blood, you can absorb a lot of it safely.

If you drink something much much saltier than your blood it will pull water out of your blood cells.

If you drink something with very few ions it will hydrate your blood cells, but drinking too much can burst your blood cells as they try to absorb to much.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The meter is defined by the distance light travels in a specific fraction of a second. It may have been initially defined by a rough estimate but it (and all metric measurements) are now fixed to universal constants.

Also the foot is currently defined exclusively as 0.3048 meters, so you are already using metric.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

It's less "defending copy-write laws" and more "pointing out that the already unfair laws are being applied disproportionately".

Copy-write laws are still laughably bad, but now they only apply to us.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wikipedia seems to corroborate the entry.

In an entry for the second month, sixth day of the same year (March 11, 889) titled For the Love of a Cat, Uda gives a detailed and humorous description of the physical characteristics of his cat and goes on to ascribe her a yin and yang spirituality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpy%C5%8D_Gyoki

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago

"Ahh yes, this will hide the cigarette stains."

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True. You can shoot lasers and such through a lot of things, but I am trying to describe a phenomenon in relatively simple language without getting too bogged down in the technical details. The question was about flowing liquids, so I assumed it was understood that that was what I was talking about.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 67 points 4 months ago (16 children)

Sound is transferred through a medium literally as a wave. When you get right down to the core of it, the wave requires movement within the medium to transmit.

So it might help to conceptualize it not as "Liquid cannot move faster than the speed of sound in it's medium" but more like "The speed of sound in a liquid medium is defined by the speed at which energy can propagate in that system, which includes motion."

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 months ago

My problem is I LOVE cars. I didn’t realize this was c/fuckcars when I posted. Woops.

Honestly, you are still in the right community.

Making sure that there are plenty of public transit options, and making it so that a car is not the only possible form of transportation helps get people who don't want to be a part of traffic out of traffic.

People who love to drive should really be the ones most loudly pushing for the end of car-dependency.

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there a specific element or specific songs that seem to stick better than others? Or are you just looking for general electronic trip hop artists?

Sneaker Pimps might fit the bill?

[–] Little_mouse@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 months ago (6 children)

In Japan they have rail lines that seamlessly integrate with the metro system of large cities.

And even if cars for rural users is necessary, their driving experience will be much smoother if all the other people have good access to transit.

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