Peter

I am Peter. I can (so far) program anything. I have a more-me page at http://peterlavalle.github.io/

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[i-am-a-lesbigwen]

does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?

[nyxwoven]

i can't post pictures in replies so here u go

[i-am-a-lesbigwen]

thats the one! thank you!

[ziggy-scardust]

I think of shrimp guy often and I hope he and his shrimp are doing great and if I ever meet him I would love to ask about them

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

The US tortured a chinese scientist to death and the media calls it "hostile questioning"

[kropotkindersurprise]

His name is Danhao Wang and he was murdered on March 19, 2026.

“On March 19, at approximately 11:00 p.m., officers from the University of Michigan Police Department responded to a report of a subject who fell inside the George G. Brown Building,” the statement read. “A faculty research assistant was found after falling from an upper level and was later pronounced deceased.”

Lin Jian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the U-M researcher died by suicide after U.S. law enforcement interrogated him, urging the U.S. to conduct a full investigation. 

Wang worked in the lab of Zetian Mi, an electrical and computer engineering professor. Engineering Dean Karen Thole wrote in an email Friday that Wang played a major role in research breakthroughs at the University of Michigan, and the community is mourning his death.  “Dr. Wang was a promising and brilliant young mind, whose research into wide bandgap III-nitride semiconductor materials and devices published in Nature stands as a landmark, uncovering for the first time the switching and charge compensation mechanisms of emerging ferroelectric nitrides,” Thole wrote. “His loss is felt deeply not only by those who knew him here at the University, but also everyone who understands his potential to have contributed to breakthroughs in science that would have positively impacted people around the world.”

UMich investigating researcher’s death after alleged questioning

DPSS is investigating the March 20 death of Danhao Wang, an assistant research scientist in the College of Engineering.

[viking369]

"Suicide by throwing himself down the stairs." Cops love that one.

[wikipeter]

Dogs/cats/birds learning habits that would have a human lobotomised has to be one of my favourite internet stories.

[wikipeter]

Free soup

[coolthingoftheday]

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.

albino plants are basically vampires.

[heywetotheotherworld]

For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.

Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.

They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!

[carnivalseb]

this is super cool! I had no idea

[monticellomarshmallow]

This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

[weaselle]

we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…

so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt

[baybelletrist]

The world is so much more beautiful, fascinating, and complex than we know.

[guiltfactory]

[baddywronglegs]

Nature doing what humans will not again

[shoehedd]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

[voidsentprinces]

[wikipete]

I hate it but I know that's because I imagined the box art. Now time for the other three 😁

...damn...looks horrible in the pictures ...

[wikipeter]

I touched up the banner pole 😶

[melodiousvoid]

For anyone who doesn’t know, we grew up living off of Brian Jacque’s Redwall series, which we remember most prominently for 1) its depictions of hope in impossible circumstances, and 2) its vivid and enviable descriptions of the food served at feasts. Well, today, 10-15 years after consuming this entire saga, guess what I found at the library.

It has recipes for everything I ever wanted. Strawberry fizz, Blackberry and Apple Cake, classic Redwall scones. And as if that’s not enough, a note from the author himself:

With all the love in my heart,

[wikipeter]

I've got this cookbook ... I should have brought it with me for the holiday

[wasteland-heresy]

How much do space marines actually need to eat?

Preface with: this is really really rough estimation nutritionists don't @ me I mostly know about cows and dogs. Also I did the rounding however it felt right in the moment.

We will be assuming a weight of 500kg (~1000lbs), although I personally think this is unrealistically high for the average Astartes, its a reasonable estimate based on what GW has given us.

Resting energy requirements for a mammal = 70 x (500kg)^ 0.75 = 7401 Calories (Yes that’s the simplified equation don’t @ me)

But that's only resting! We need to multiply that by a factor related to how much exercise we expect.

The 3rd edition codex indicates Imperial Astartes are training in an at least somewhat physical capacity for at least 11hrs daily. Lets say they spend 10% of that time doing high intensity activities (ex: running flat out, very intense calisthenics), 50% doing moderate intensity activity (ex. Jogging, heavy lifting, sparring) and the other 40% doing light or low intensity activities (ex. Shooting, navigating uneven terrain, moderate lifting.)

So that's 1.1 hrs high intensity exercise at a factor of 10x resting, 5.5hrs moderate at a factor of 5x resting, and 4.4 hrs of light work at a factor 3.5x resting. And 13 hours left in the day which I’ll give an average of 1.5x resting since they’re still pretty active the rest of the day.

Cool I love math, I hope you know I am doing this instead of studying.

Anyway: (13hrs/24hrs) x 7401 Calories x 1.5 = 6,013 Calories (4.4/24) x 7401 x 3.5 = 4749 Calories (5.5/24) x 7401 x 5 = 8480 Calories (1.1/24) x 7401 x 10 = 3392 calories

For a grand total of: 22,634 Calories per day! (To maintain weight!)

This is actually not as crazy as I could have gone you might be able to as much as double that depending on activity.

So how much food is that? Now I ran into the problem that most complete nutrition products for humans are shakes which is not an efficient way to get Calories. So I did some more math for you. Based on an enteral nutrition formula which is roughly 2000 Calories per 310 grams of dry matter, so that's only 3508 grams to reach our Calorie requirement- less than 2kgs!

So if you mix that 50/50 with water for a horrible paste your 500kg space marine could be eating 7kgs (15.4lbs) of nutrient paste per day quite happily. If we do some very very rough approximations and say 1000g about 1L of paste then that's 2.3L/meal or around twice the stomach capacity of an adult baseline human!

[wikipeter]

I dread to think of the poops

[wikipete]

Wasn't expecting to crank out the #DeathWatcth mini of the month in one #miniPainting sitting but there we go! (Might take better photos tomorrow)

The most interesting part was doing the under-shading quickly with a makeup sponge - I'm in love with the approach. The worst was the damn Xpress Hospital black - need to see if I can work out why it and Violet Gloom are so eager to grist up!

[hereticusmaximus]

Dahyak Grekh from Blackstone Fortress

[februarytrash]

[holymolyyikes]

'people can't be a burden on the state because the state exists for the people' philosophytube stays goated and what a way with words too

[papayajuan2019]

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

[sniperserpent]

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

[bonsaisboneyard]

If you are truly interested in becoming a scientific glassblower, Salem Community College in New Jersey has a 2 year associates degree program for it, and if you actually complete it, you’re practically guaranteed a job in the field if you want one.

Scientific Glass Technology | Salem Community College

The program is amazing. I spent a year in that program before getting into an MFA program. If you really want to learn how to flamework glass, there is no better place to do so IMO.

A weird quirk about that program is that it also attracts a number of pipe makers (at least when I went there in the mid 2010s).

10/10 would definitely recommend.

[flange5]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

NGL, one of the biggest things I've learned for my day job is that jobs you knew must exist but never thought about are often taught through technical colleges. If you ever stumble across something and think 'I could do that', look it up! There may be a program out there you can take!