1000 centimeters sounds ridiculous
Guess I could have said 1 decameter
1 decimeter is a 1/3 of a foot. Assumed a flamethrower shoots >30ft. 30×3=90. ~100 decimeters.
You could change it to 10 meters easily if you prefer it that way. A third of a foot or 9/10 of a yard. I find it easier to compare it to a third of a foot.
Like I’m 6ft tall. I’m 18 decimeters, or 1.8 meters. Otherwise, I would have said 2 yards or 2 meters.
distance in a controlled, directed manner.
Interesting take.
You’re thinking of a flamethrower as it has to be a weapon and trying to fit the definition around that.
If I had a device that throws flames, let’s say 100 decimeters. Is it a flamethrower? Am I really controlling the flames at the farthest distance? I would say no because the objective of the device is to throw the flame as far as possible. Compared to a torch that could burn a bullseye at 100 decimeters, flamethrower would just burn the whole target.
A flamethrower is a ranged incendiary device.
What do you consider a flamethrower?
How far is ranged?
Construction uses what I would call torches, not flamethrowers
There is very few cases where you want to “throw” flames. It’s inefficient. Keeping the flame and the material close is preferred.
Giant pile of tar you want to set on fire as fast as possible? I guess a flamethrower is effective. Burning brush, anything where you’re catching something on fire so it spreads.
They use “flamethrowers” on bitumen roofs. But the idea behind the tool is to not throw the flames as far as possible.
I’d define flamethrower as “An incendiary device that disperses uncontrollable flames at a distance”
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What happens if you turn your kitchen sink on? Your drain shouldn’t have a problem draining the amount of water.
Now take a large 5 gallon bucket of water. Dump the whole thing in your sink.
Not only is the amount of water too much for the drain but the volume of water makes it hard for the drain to even function properly.
How long is there going to be water filling in the sink? Eventually, it will all find its way out, but that takes time
Crazy thing is he has to give a 70.23% discount for people to even think about buying a pillow
50 dollars for the world’s best pillow is a steal
Something you use every night that can actually help with sleep and health. You shouldn’t be skimping on your pillow.
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Intent
Was the picture taken for sexual intent?
Security camera taking a video of a topless 15 year old intent was not produce a pornographic image.
You as the security guard saving the picture of later…your intent is to make it sexual.
Now if you saved the picture because you needed to figure out which store the topless 15 year old was by. Your intent is to not make it sexual so that would be fine.
Oh I have lol
It’s funny that evolution would help solve some ark mysteries.
Like how did Noah fit one of every animal on the ark?
Well there weren’t that many different types of animals when Noah existed and the ones he saved evolved to get all the animals we know today.
Dinosaurs would have been extinct for millions of years, even in the time of Noah. It makes sense that he wouldn’t put them on the Ark.
Hey! USA Avocado industry would be thriving if Mexico wasn’t shipping all theirs in without a tariff.
But a sable genius once said. “What we have is a thing called the gasoline. We have gasoline. We have so much gasoline, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have gasoline. So why are we making a product that they dominate? They’re going to dominate.”
This was in reply to the question “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?”.
I think you can apply the same logic here. “What we have is a thing called the corn. We have corn. We have so much corn, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have corn. So why are we making a product [avocados] that they dominate? They’re [Mexico] going to dominate.”
Depends on context.
This is the same idea as answering the phone with “Talk to me” which is generally from a pompous arrogant character.
Like “I’m here, what do you have to say?”
Why didn’t they make it like a vertical mouse? Having your arm bones twisted the entire time is not good and one of the leading causes of carpel tunnel.
Yep
If another country can ship corn to US and sell for slightly cheaper than US produced corn. US corn farmers suffer.
“Free Market” says that US consumers benefit from the inexpensive corn.
But what is good for the consumer isn’t necessarily the best for the corn farmers.
What’s sad is Trump wasn’t talking about corn. He was talking about John Queer tractor equipment. If farmers could get inexpensive electric farming equipment from another country, US farming equipment manufacturers lose money. Who’s against right to repair? What company has spoken up the most against it?
Electric farming equipment. You mean like on a farm where they could drive for miles and miles harvesting and still end up fairly close to your starting point? Probably could do charging station check points and rotate multiple machines.
Absolutely crazy
Noise reduction in buildings have come a long way. Anyone living in an old apartment is going to find it more noisy.
but it’s hard to then build the services that this many people need
The idea is that there are the same amount of people on the island.
Island 1 might need 2 small schools to serve the top and bottom of island.
Island 2 could put one large school in walking distance of living building.
One large school is much cheaper than multiple smaller ones.
Same with things like fire stations. You only need one around the living building on island 2. One station on island 1 might not be in range of all the homes.
You are not thinking about the large picture.
Renting a tiller and throwing down some clover seeds is cheap compared to a lifetime of lawn people.
Just like with your first comment. Yes things break and are expensive, but you’re not throwing ~1500 a month out the window renting.
You can donate blood in 20 minutes. It takes an hour plus to donate plasma
Am I going to sit in a chair for an hour plus without any compensation? Maybe once or twice here and there. But you can donate plasma at least twice a week.
It requires two donations for a single unit. If you donate once and don’t donate the second, then your first donation is unusable. You have to get them to donate twice.
When I was donating plasma, it paid about $75 for each donation. 50 first, 100 for second. The money is pretty good. $300 a month is a lot for a lot of people.
If you didn’t compensate people for plasma donations, a lot wouldn’t do it. They currently need more people to donate.
Plasma “donation” is a good thing.
Decimeters are great. You should try to use them more.
Something that is like 2.5 ft. I can easily convert to 7.5 decimeters. Then .75 meters. There is no way i could convert 2.5 ft to meters without some serious thinking, and paper would help.
Precise has nothing to do with what units you use. Mm is not more precise than Cm
36.982 mm is 3.6982 cm. They are both as precise as each other.
Humans are much better at knowing an inch or a foot in distance than a yard or a meter.
If I said, draw a line that is 4in or 1 decimeter. You would be closer than trying to draw a meter line.
I work in building in the US. I know an inch and a foot like the back of my hand. I never deal with yards. For yards, I’d just think of it in feet and ×3. Just like I’d do with decimeters.
I know the metric system, but my default unit is US Customary.
If I had to look at a room, I could tell you instantly if it was either 25 or 30 ft. If you asked for meters I couldn’t just say “I know exactly how long a meter is (without thinking about it being basically a yard), that wall is closer to 7 meters than 9 meters”
I’d have to constantly work with meters to do that. Which I don’t.
I’m not against things being gradually changed to metric. A lot of things are in metric. Like a 2L bottle of soda. If you put a pitcher of water in front of me and asked how many liters. I’d have to think of the 2L bottle. Just like if you asked for gallons, I’d think of a milk jug. Now I have a good grip on what 5 gallons is because that’s the standard construction bucket, but 5L is 2.5 2L sodas.
I wouldn’t be nearly as precise if I used metric without decimeters. Inches and Feet are the measurements I use the majority of the time. Even a 100ft wall is a 100ft wall. It’s never referred to as a 33.33 yard wall. Using a metric unit closest to inches and feet is beneficial for me.