the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

YbBiPt is an intermetallic compound that has some interesting properties, chief among them being that it sounds like some kind of weird raspberry if you try to say the chemical formula as a word
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i wasn't expecting very many votes but only two feels a bit disappointing!
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stressed for no reason
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sorry this should probably have been CW'd

there was a lot of stress and not thinking straight
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i don't want to push our beliefs on people or say that people should always try to please us because that's not true but like

who is in the wrong here? or is anyone?
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it just feels like if people are made this profoundly uncomfortable by the mere sight of a thing it would be a good idea to not have the thing in a status message that cannot be hidden
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acquaintance of ours messaged us on discord and their status message is the fascist frog, they say they want to not let the fascists have it (and i believe them, they're super leftist) but it still sets off the fight-or-flight response really really strongly for us to the point that we had to take our anti-anxiety prn, and we really try to avoid having to do that
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aaa stress
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you need *very* thin and *very* long wire to make an effective filament. Tungsten is actually pretty damn conductive--nowhere near copper, but significantly more conductive than the brass used for switch contacts and connectors. The reason it's used in light bulbs is not because of its resistivity (otherwise we'd be using nichrome), but because it has an incredibly high melting point--very few things can get hotter than tungsten without melting
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most people know that the filament of an incandescent lightbulb is coiled, both for stability against thermal stress and to fit longer wire in a shorter length

but did you know that it's actually a coiled coil?
(image source: https://www.writework.com/essay/laboratory-investigation-into-resistance-filament-bulb)
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now please enjoy this picture of a probably very confused cat, from the wikipedia page on triboelectricity
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(we do have some pretty good theories though)
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everyone knows you can do it, who hasn't rubbed a balloon against their hair or something, and it was the earliest method known of generating electricity--it's how van de Graaf generators work

but no one's really figured out *how* it works
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fun fact: no one really knows why, exactly, rubbing two materials together can cause a buildup of electric charge
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demons run their grills on profane propane
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we're watching a playthrough of ace attorney and occasionally they bring in actual questions from past bar exams as a pre-stream thing and holy *fuck* those questions are wild
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i have no idea how that works and it's probably very imprecise
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today we learned that you can get butane-powered soldering irons with adjustable temperature
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