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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzAnt smell
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    heavy perfume …

    “I don’t care what you smell”

    This is one reason I stopped eating lunch with other people. Some people use so much of Deodorant (oh the irony in the name) that the volatile compounds get adsorbed onto the surface of fluids in the mouth and then get tasted and also go into the stomach. All I’d say is - They taste bad.

    I don’t think those chemicals are supposed to be edible.


  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzAnt smell
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    and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom

    Depending upon the formula of Lysol, that’s actually worse than not doing anything.
    We’ve got a brand called Lyzol and that seems to be the same formula as Lysol, before it got regulated in the US. If this were to be sprayed, I’d consider the area poisoned.

    Lyzol

    This contains some chemical that lingers even if you wash the floor with water afterwards and slowly produces volatile compounds, and stays for > a week. This gives me (and a few other people on quora) a headache. Again, from reports on quora, the smelly substance also tends to jump onto one’s hand, on touching the surface, making it disastrous for cooking.
    Nowadays, I use Dettol disinfectant liquid, which stops smelling after about 1/2 hour of wind.



  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLPT Do it.
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    I was on Word, then LibreOffice Writer.
    Now thinking of making it a markdown source, with CSS styling to get an HTML based PDF. This way, the same source can be used on a webpage with different generation code.

    This seems to me, to be simpler than LATEX, but still good enough for a resume.




  • You could also cut down ppl, if they weren’t interdependent and interacting with each other enough to realise fast enough and start retaliating.
    One of the big factors making humans (and animals in general) have power over the trees is, that we are faster, both at action and adaptation, thanks to our superior mechanisms of Central Nervous System and Muscular systems.

    But at the same time, any single human would be much more dependent upon trees in general, as compared to how much a single tree would be, upon us, or other animals. Since the seed stage of the plant is sturdy enough to let it choose its starting point, all it really needs is for the place it chose to remain within a reasonable range of the germination conditions (soil, water, air, insolation quality etc.) and it will be just fine.








  • patents don’t mean shit tho

    It’d be safe to say that there’s a much higher probability of this kind of a patent being implemented than something that takes real problem solving and engineering to implement. This one is clearly made with to increase revenue and will most probably be pursued by them as much as possible. I can even see them getting royalties for this stuff, from other Smart TV companies.

    Things that may hinder this:

    • PR
    • Laws

    Really just make forced arbitration illegal and these things will reduce significantly.



  • OooOo!
    That’s some high number of dwnv0t3s!
    I wouldn’t have realised unless you had replied here.

    Nice, but it’s also good that everyone is at least free to downvote and see the number of downvotes, unlike YouTube.


    All over history, there has been this trend of people misusing technology and then blaming the technology instead of those that misuse it. This trend is detrimental to the technological progress of a civilisation and is one of the driving forces, causing the cycle that our civilisation is stuck in (of losing all tech and history every once a while and then having to start over from the dark ages).
    Technology, gives someone the ability to do something, but it is their will that makes them want to do so. If the “something” is considered “bad” for society, then instead of taking away the ability, we need to insist on getting the person to understand, why and how, said “something” is a problem for the society.

    Until this problem is fixed, we are going to be stuck at the barrier and the next levels of civilisation shall stay a part of Fiction.