[-] Coskii 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'll take a stab at it.

There are no known owl species that naturally grow up to 16 pounds. The rest of the numbers are just as meaningless.

If you wanted to check what it would take for a random owl species to migrate across the ocean from europe to north america, that's something we can kind of check.

After a bit of lookup, it seems that the burrowing owl needs about 50-75 calories a day at rest to live, flight multiplies those calories by a factor of roughly 9.2 times. (I'mma round up to 10 because fuck it.) So 500-750 a day of pure flight at a speed of somewhere between 2 and 33 mph. I'm going to settle at 20 because I like easy numbers and I feel like it's not too crazy fast. So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles. Iceland and Scotland are 500 miles away. Assuming any of these assumptions are at all fair, it seems like an owl hellbent on crossing the ocean could manage to do it with laser guidance in less than two days without access to ground based food.

[-] Coskii 27 points 2 months ago

I for one would really like for us to move to an open source algorithm based redistricting as seen in this video:

https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44

[-] Coskii 24 points 11 months ago

This has explained the logic gates to me in a way I'd never understood before.. And for that I'm glad.

[-] Coskii 24 points 1 year ago

I can only hope this 'case' is quashed so hard into the stone age it comes from that it weakens copyrights worldwide.

[-] Coskii 26 points 1 year ago

You have to pay for animated pfps?

I have more points than I'll ever use and that was just from patient gamering. If this isn't about the points system, I'm clearly out of the loop.

[-] Coskii 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So this is why I had a DIY hair growth 'recipe' in my feed. Just rub sugar on your head! It's so simple!

It's nice to see the study that actually led to that mess.

[-] Coskii 24 points 2 years ago

Cool, now make them use bytes as the system of measurement and we'll be on to something.

[-] Coskii 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah yes, an anti-person. Anyone who comes in contact with it will be zeroed out of existence.

[-] Coskii 25 points 2 years ago

People who wake up between those hours for work:

Damn, I didn't want to think capitalism was a higher power.

[-] Coskii 23 points 2 years ago

It's not really a 'carpenter' thing, but a decent pair of channel locks are great for many things.

Toothpicks are also something most people don't think about, but they can be wonderfully useful for when you have unscrewed pretty much anything as a filler to make sure the screws grab.

I'll edit if I think of other unconventional items that are good to have on hand.

[-] Coskii 23 points 2 years ago

Pretty much always DIY, only asking for help when I'm doing something that will take an important piece of the house out of commission for longer than a day. (like when replacing kitchen cabinets) definitely want that done within a day.

[-] Coskii 26 points 2 years ago

There are two main reasons you wouldn't return carts to a cart return location:

  1. Fuck them people

  2. My time is worth more than this

At the very least the person is inconsiderate, and worst a complete psychopath. Both are not great signs, and all the ones between are also not positive aspects.

You'd think something that small wouldn't be much of an indication on a person's overall nature, but it's nearly always the little things that add up to the whole thing.

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