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[Kagus]

Holy cow, that's awesome!

[pisskop]

I changed my text notification tone to the tone that plays when you get DoWed in EUIV.

I've been jumping all day.  It's kind of great.

[Rolan7]

Mine was the MGS guard-alert ping for a couple years.  I should replace my stock text message notification with something positive or soothing, these days - maybe a level-up or victory ditty from something, but brief of course.

More importantly, the virus has brutally forced the FDA to approve drugs that target generic corona viruses, which it has specifically stonewalled in the past. (Demanding specific diagnoses, specific efficacy testing, et al.)

Merck recently released a drug called molnupiravir that wrecks rna virus replication (as in, generic rna viruses as a broad class) , specifically due to covid.  It increased chances of surviving severe covid 50% in their human trial.

Should it ever become OTC, the common cold is done for.

Also yes this sounds really cool 
Somewhat relevant XKCD though not actually the same thing:
https://xkcd.com/2523/

[scriver]

But what will a generic antiviral do to meme culture

[Kagus]

Just had to do a little area-to-volume calculations and decided I'd ask Google for some help. That led me to this very helpful site "SensorsONE.com", which is apparently the website of a company that sells all sorts of sensor and measurement tools. Awesome! So they probably know their stuff!


Calculating...
5 meter height, times
5 meter length, times
5 meter depth, equals

125,000 litres.

...uh. Lemme try this with some different measurements.

Calculating...
5 foot height, times
5 foot length, times
5 foot depth, equals

125 cubic feet.


...

Okay, so, maybe don't buy SensorONE brand volumetric measurement products!

[McTraveller]

Just had to do a little area-to-volume calculations and decided I'd ask Google for some help. That led me to this very helpful site "SensorsONE.com", which is apparently the website of a company that sells all sorts of sensor and measurement tools. Awesome! So they probably know their stuff!

Spoiler: the math stuff (click to show/hide)

Calculating...
5 meter height, times
5 meter length, times
5 meter depth, equals

125,000 litres.

...uh. Lemme try this with some different measurements.

Calculating...
5 foot height, times
5 foot length, times
5 foot depth, equals

125 cubic feet.

...

Okay, so, maybe don't buy SensorONE brand volumetric measurement products!

I'm not sure I understand the problem here.

Spoiler: to clarify (click to show/hide)

5 meters x 5 meters x 5 meters is 125 cubic meters.  There are 1000 liters per cubic meter, so saying this is 125,000 liters is correct.

5 feet x 5 feet x 5 feet is indeed 125 cubic feet. You could convert into something like cubic yards or cubic inches which are not used as often. Maybe they could convert into gallons, but then you need to specify US or UK.  It's also not even; a US gallon is a "convenient" 231 cubic inches for example.

[Kagus]

Yeah, no, turns out that was absolutely a me problem. My head thought "Wait, a 1x1x1 cube is 1 m³, so a 2x2x2 cube is obviously 2 m³!"

In my defense, I've been kinda zonked out the past couple days and brain hasn't been braining very well. Apologies all around

[LordBaal]

The imperial system is so fuck up and weird....

[dragdeler]

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[McTraveller]

Y'allz political landscape lacks diversity.

I think it's probably more the case it is so diverse, it just looks like a uniform sludge. Like when you melt a box of crayons, you end up with a uniform brown color.  How apropos. 

[scriver]

Yeah maybe it's less a lack of diversity and more an issue if size and expression. The US is so large that it follows from that a disability to express diverse political opinion on a meaningful level.

And when viewed from the outside the problem then seems like there is no diversity.

And that's putting aside the fallacious thinking of "we have diversity because this one person I interact with irl is complex. They, of whom I don't interact with anyone at all, are all the same".

[Loud Whispers]

I think it's probably more the case it is so diverse, it just looks like a uniform sludge. Like when you melt a box of crayons, you end up with a uniform brown color.  How apropos. 

Could be worse. You could have a system like the UK where you have a plurality of parties whose candidates all come from two Universities; you can be red, blue, yellow or green, as long as it's Oxford or Cambridge

[LordBaal]

Could be even worse, like a single party here, with a fake oposition party made only to mantain the looks of democracy.

[dragdeler]

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[Funk]

WTF, Ninjas vs US army special forces.