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  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzSpread that lightbulb
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    22 days ago

    Well, almost. They use the moon for navigation like we used to use stars on the open sea for navigation.

    Light bulbs mess this up because suddenly after a bit of travel the “moon” is in a wildly different place than before, tripping them up because they can’t process why that happened.



  • We don’t really need any of those mnemonics because it’s a perfect system

    More seriously there is the “King Henry Died, Drinking Chocolate Milk” for the Kilo (1000) Hecto (100) Deca (10), Deci (0.1) Centi (0.01) Milli (0.001), but that doesn’t really help with measuring on the spot, aside from being able to get the prefix right.

    There’s an average step being 1 meter, but thats less useful for people with shorter legs unless they want to join the ministry of silly walks.

    One that I use often is converting meters per second to kilometers per hour. Because 1 meter per second is 3600 meters per hour or 3.6 kilometers per hour, you can actually skip the multiply by 3600 and then divide by 1000 and just multiply by 3.6.

    But aside from time conversions, there isn’t really anything else that can help because it’s just moving the decimal.

    Slightly related, you can tell how far away lightning is by listening for the thunder and counting the seconds. Sound travels at 346 m/s so every 3 seconds is roughly 1 kilometer away. But I suppose you can do the same for miles and count to 5.




  • I don’t say no, I say yes and put my discomfort for anything aside, other people’s wants are more important than my feeling

    I don’t know why no one is mentioning this, but your feelings are valid and important. Assuming you extend this to people you’ve just met, eventually someone will either take advantage of this or think you like them because you don’t say no, even when uncomfortable.

    Don’t do that to yourself. Whatever you did (as a kid), you don’t deserve that.


  • Partner is also suffering from depression so every freaking time I begged to please turn the tv off, it’s just ended in a 30 minute therapy session at home on how I can improve myself.

    Eh, what? What does being depressed have to do with you asking to turn off the TV? I feel like they are using this against you, but there’s not a lot of info to go by.

    Perhaps a solution would be to get them headphones, too.