Race and gender are both social constructs, but they aren’t analogous. Race is inherited in a way gender isn’t. You are the race you are because your parents are the races they are. But you aren’t a boy because your dad is a boy, and you aren’t a girl because your mom is a girl.

Because I am the turboest of nerds I have made this a spreadsheet as well. Can’t actually share it for privacy reasons, but it fits within a 4x5 set of cells if anyone wants to copy it. You don’t even need to know what the math is doing, just copy the green highlighted functions into the cells verbatim and it should work like a charm. Just remember you’re using radii, not diameters

I use calipers and math to figure out how much filament is left on a spool.

For example, think of the filament as one solid ring of plastic. My example spool is 60mm wide, the inner radius (of the filament, not the spool) is 28mm, and the outer radius is 40mm. Subtract the volume of the empty cylinder in the center from the solid cylinder of PLA, then multiply by 0.7 to account for packing density, and boom, you have a volume of filament that’s accurate to within a few percent. Convert that volume into cubic centimeters, multiply by 1.24, and you have a weight. This estimate gives my sample spool around 133 grams of filament.

For a quicker, less accurate method, think of the filament as a collection of individual circles wound around the spool. My example spool is 60mm wide, so that’s around 34 strands of filament, and the filament is stacked 12mm deep, so that’s around 6 strands of filament (it’s safest to round down). 34x6=204, so the filament is wound around the spool 204 times.

The average radius of one circle around the spool is probably 34mm (right in between the inner and outer diameters), so good ol 2πr gives us an average circumference of 213mm. 213mm×204 windings is around 43,500mm of filament, or 43 meters. Multiply by 3 grams (roughly the weight of 1 meter of filament). This estimate gives my sample spool around 129 grams of filament.

It sounds very involved, but once you get the hang of it it’s very intuitive. You just have to know that

• a circle’s circumference is 2π times the radius, or π times the diameter

• filament weighs about 3 grams per meter of length

Tangentially related, you can also combine a basic knowledge of math with a basic knowledge of spreadsheets to make people think you’re the second coming of Einstein

I shat this out in 5 minutes. All the white cells are user editable, and the blue cell calculates automatically. I could make it estimate annual gas costs by letting you adjust monthly mileage instead of speed and tweaking the math a bit. The average person would sooner close the application than try and make an interactive spreadsheet

Edit: I made the annual price one. You can either use monthly mileage for a good estimate, or distance to work for a very rough estimate (it multiplies the distance by 2x260 (2 to account for round trip, 260 because there are 52 weeks in a year and every week has 5 work days))

Of course it doesn’t account for non-work driving, but it also doesn’t account for holidays, so maybe it evens out

For my turbonerds out there, I’m not sharing the sheet itself because my name is on it, but here’s the behind-the-scenes

Could be photoshopped

Brits don’t eat as much as Americans do because all their food is shit

300 calorie main course

How’s life in 13th century Poland?

I’m not being pedantic at all. The entire premise of your question was them “wanting” to ruin their company. There’s no other way to interpret that

If you want to rephrase what you said to clear up the confusion, I’m all ears

But when did they say they wanted to do that? They just said they imagined it. I’ve imagined ways to screw over my workplace as well, it doesn’t mean I want to

When did they say they wanted to ruin their company?

Unfriendly reminder that one half of US adults read at a 6th grade level. When you think the average person is stupid, be aware of how incredibly stupid that is

Edit: don’t use this as an excuse to feel high and mighty, though. On average, you’re average, and you can’t know what level you read at without getting tested.

In America the choices are snow ruins your life, sun ruins your life, or the Great Plains (the Great Plains have both plus tornadoes)

Pigeons spend a long time in the nest, so if they survive long enough to leave, they’ll basically look like regular pigeons

At least, that’s what they want you to think

Kinda, not really. In the wild, pigeons build their nests on cliffs, so they really only need just enough nest to keep the eggs from rolling off. That’s why they make dopey lil stick piles instead of proper bowl-shaped nests

I’m not an ornithologist, so the following is my own uneducated hypothesis: pigeons haven’t adapted to live in cities, cities just mimic their natural habitats. They’ve survived this well because we’ve made great big terrariums for them

Help I can already hear it sped up and fed through a lo-fi filter

Yet more of my bones have been reduced to dust with the understanding that the average internet user is too young to have ever heard this song

What is it about theology that makes it worth less to analyze than something like fiction, or linguistics?

Trying to understand fictional media is a waste of time because it’s all made up.

Trying to understand linguistics is a waste of time because it’s all made up.

Trying to understand the economy is a waste of time because it’s all made up.

Hey wait this sounds like anti-intellectualism disguised as anti-theism

Why did you post a screenshot of every argument I’ve ever been on on this platform?

I’ll throw that stone for you

The British education system is almost as bad as the American education system. The biggest difference between our cultures is that a lot of Americans are willing to point out how incredibly racist our country is