Amusing/Entertaining/Interesting things you stumbled upon on the Internet

Kazu

Amazes me what some people can do with just their voice.

Seth

hahaha

Achimrst

Seth said:

hahaha

That looks so fake.

Seth

Achimrst said:

Seth said:

hahaha

That looks so fake.

But but...it's on the internet so it must be real. If we start questioning the internet, then we have to start questioning everything!!

Achimrst

Things totally happen this way.

Ruth

Where did the hair go!

Trilliana

If you look carefully, you can see a little slit at the top of the mask for hair. Ingenious.

Melodie

You almost see boobs. Except not.

I'm not even a man and that is just insulting.

Siduri

To be fair, I much prefer Sofia Vergara to that little brat.

Trey

Hey look.

Melodie

Feels. So much feels.  

Tahquil

God damn it, fuck nsfw warnings, we need feels warnings just some of us don't start sniffling in front if coworkers

Dracen

Fuck. That one hit home.

Kresslack

Reminds me of a saying, "Behind my smile is everything you'll never understand."

Trey

        Body is 5 characters too short my ass.

Skye

...Estach?

Kresslack

Nice try, thief.

Valdus

I just discovered this. It's AMAZING.

My new line for EVERYTHING is "Watch me woman!"

Arador

The little pirouette at the end as if to say "I shall sign my masterpiece"

Skye

ewwwwwww

Trey

Valdus said:

I just discovered this. It's AMAZING.

My new line for EVERYTHING is "Watch me woman!"

Watch out for my body rolls

Berenene

HIGH KICK. 

Teghaine

Eld said:

The answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is the same as the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature liter of water?", namely: "What's the temperature of the room, and at what pressure?" For a given temperature and pressure, the calculation isn't significantly harder in American units than metric, it just requires knowing the heat capacity of water in whatever energy unit you want to use (and realistically, that's a problem for "metric", too, since afaik, calories are rarely used as a unit of energy outside of nutrition, so you're going to have to look up the conversion to Joules or ergs anyway) and being able to do arithmetic with numbers that aren't powers of 10.

Also, the bit about a gram of hydrogen having a mole of atoms in it isn't an advantage of the metric system, that's just the definition of the mole, which doesn't have different imperial/US/whatever equivalents. And it's wrong, as the current definition of the mole is based on carbon-12, not hydrogen.

Aepas

https: //vimeo.com/113998423

NSFW! But still super interesting and well done, even if it's super bizarre and awesome with some pretty cool hidden meanings.
Edit: added a space to try and turn off the auto forum injection. Watch at your own risk!

Eld

Teghaine said:

Eld said:

The answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?" is the same as the answer to "How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature liter of water?", namely: "What's the temperature of the room, and at what pressure?" For a given temperature and pressure, the calculation isn't significantly harder in American units than metric, it just requires knowing the heat capacity of water in whatever energy unit you want to use (and realistically, that's a problem for "metric", too, since afaik, calories are rarely used as a unit of energy outside of nutrition, so you're going to have to look up the conversion to Joules or ergs anyway) and being able to do arithmetic with numbers that aren't powers of 10.

Also, the bit about a gram of hydrogen having a mole of atoms in it isn't an advantage of the metric system, that's just the definition of the mole, which doesn't have different imperial/US/whatever equivalents. And it's wrong, as the current definition of the mole is based on carbon-12, not hydrogen.

The metric system is also based on associations with physical objects, its units just aren't named after them. And if The Oatmeal is really that gungho about powers of ten, I'll be eagerly awaiting his abandonment of sexagesimal time units.
This has reminded me, though, that there's no nice one-word  name for  American version of the inch-pound system ("US customary units" is just so cumbersome). I think I'll start calling them Freedom Units.

Klendathu

Eld said:
The metric system is also based on associations with physical objects, its units just aren't named after them. And if The Oatmeal is really that gungho about powers of ten, I'll be eagerly awaiting his abandonment of sexagesimal time units.

This has reminded me, though, that there's no nice one-word  name for  American version of the inch-pound system ("US customary units" is just so cumbersome). I think I'll start calling them Freedom Units.

It was called the Imperial system before empire became a dirty word.

Eld

Klendathu said:

Eld said:
The metric system is also based on associations with physical objects, its units just aren't named after them. And if The Oatmeal is really that gungho about powers of ten, I'll be eagerly awaiting his abandonment of sexagesimal time units.

This has reminded me, though, that there's no nice one-word  name for  American version of the inch-pound system ("US customary units" is just so cumbersome). I think I'll start calling them Freedom Units.

It was called the Imperial system before empire became a dirty word.

The Imperial system is the version adopted in the British Empire in 1824, which was a revision of the earlier English system. The US version is based on that earlier system, and did not undergo the same revision, so while it uses most of the same names for units,  many of the definitions are different, such as a US pint being 16 fluid ounces to an imperial pint's 20 (and the fluid  ounce referenced for each being slightly different, to boot).

Arador

Making it even worse.

Kyttin

Achimrst said:

Seth said:

hahaha

That looks so fake.

No, it's real, saw one the other day and I handed it to my husband who tossed it back and me and said, "NEVER AGAIN."

Eld

Arador said:

Making it even worse.

Not worse, just different. The main advantages of the metric system are the use of decimal multiples of the base units to get larger and smaller derived units and the base units for length, area, volume, and mass being related. To the extent that Imperial and Freedom units are inferior in those aspects, they're pretty equally so.

And lest I be taken as arguing otherwise, I do agree that we ought to officially go metric, and should have long ago. I just don't think the alternative systems are nearly as bad as some people try to make them out to be.