"I like to close the bathroom door when I'm taking a shower. Doesn't mean I'm doing anything immoral in there. I'm just entitled to privacy."

They can extrapolate from there if they've got two brain cells to rub together.

Yeah, never seen poor grammar or spelling in content written by Americans before 🙄

The way I recall it being taught was that "elastic deformation" was deformation that didn't compromise the integrity of the original shape of the object (typically a rigid body in most of my textbook's examples, which could be where our understandings are deviating).

One example my professor used to illustrate the concept in-person was with a paper clip. Bending one end the paper clip ever so slightly (such that it springs back into its original shape when you let go) was "elastic deformation" of the material. Bending the end of the paper clip enough such that it can't return to its original shape afterward was "plastic deformation".

It's been a long time since I took material science, but if memory serves, the terms "plastic deformation" and "elastic deformation" are applicable to any number of materials. Metal alloys have a range of "elastic deformation" as well as "plastic deformation". Plastics and elastics also have those ranges. It's unintuitive in everyday parlance, but it wouldn't be inaccurate in the mechanical sense to say "this plastic is elastic" because plastics do have ranges where their deformations are defined as elastic.

Curating one's feeds does not inherently lead to ignorance.

I've been aggressively filtering my newsfeed for years now and I didn't suddenly forget about all the corruption and injustice. I just have no need for those headlines to overwhelmingly dominate my day-to-day ingestion of news. "Corrupt Oligarch Continues Campaign Against Human Rights" isn't news to me; it's the status quo. I don't need a dozen headlines to remind me the sky is blue every day.

homework was a chain around our necks with unspeakable consequences had it remained incomplete

I had the opposite experience. I worked hard to always finish my homework, but many of my classmates completely blew off both homework and classwork and still "passed". I knew kids who had all F's but would get their grades suddenly changed at the last minute to a C- because if the school failed too many kids they would lose federal funding.

Felt like the value of my high school diploma plummeted considerably when I realized just how many of my graduating class were completely checked out for the entire curriculum. I dunno how different it is now; I graduated nearly two decades ago.

Gimp is really just a rare/archaic ableist slur anyway - like to refer to someone with a limp or otherwise a leg/lack of a leg that impedes their gait. I’ve never heard it used in my life.

I've only heard it used that way once in my life. When I was in high school (about 20 years ago), I hurt my leg while playing basketball and was on crutches for a few weeks. This one kid in one of my classes constantly referred to me as "gimp" throughout my recovery.

In addition to Fedidb, there's also Fediverse Observer's statistics page: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

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I can't agree with the description "PizzaCake for men". I read PizzaCake as well and the similarities to Penny Arcade are surface level at best. The comics about parenting are similar insofar as many comics about parenting are relaying an experience that many people can relate to, but outside of that, I would say Penny Arcade's comedic range is far broader than PizzaCake's. And I don't mean that as an insult to PizzaCake; PizzaCake just tends to focus primarily on parenting and politics while Penny Arcade covers a much wider berth of topics (in addition to just having many comics be glorified shitposts carried by erudite prose).

Frankly, my biggest criticism of PizzaCake is that when they do choose to make political comics, they're typically really unfunny. They're just blunt statements about Republicans being stupid/evil/hypocrites/etc with no real setup or punchline. I enjoy bashing conservatives as much as the next guy, but I can't consider PizzaCake's political comics to be funny or insightful. They're mostly just variations on this: