No Stupid Questions

This magazine is not the place to ask question about kbin. Use /m/kbinmeta instead.

…and some nefarious person starts tinkering with your car, how will your car react? And will it instantly notify you?

I know we would never say things like “Everyone else are walking around,”...

I noticed a weird phenomenon in my Gmail inbox, I had an advertisement email from Mercedes-Benz of Albuquerque which is understandable because I’ve been there before. I did not click on the email or open it because it’s an ad and I don’t care,...

Fucked up my knee really bad yesterday, have been bedridden since noon yesterday, was planning on getting a doctor’s note today because both my work and my school are extremely physically demanding and if my knee doesn’t work, I am down for the count. But I can’t even fucking walk now and I don’t have anyone to take me...

It doesn't seem to have any correlation with the concentration of the urine, as even really dark stuff is usually froth-free.

I’m just thinking if the energy use that data centres and streaming platforms require, and the climate crisis. Would one be significantly better than the other in terms of energy use?

The obvious is Endgame when Iron Man had the stones....

shouldnt reailt pet foods be tailored to those species tastes? or is it just gettin some strange?

this is not actually something I'm planning on doing, I'm just curious....

I know they came out the same day but it’s hard to see a reference to one without the other.

can our brains actually learn to comprehend, to envision dimensions beyond the perceptible three? how could you describe higher dimensional shapes in a way that would allow someone to visualise them?

So no question I’ve been enjoying lemmy, I love the freedom it offers and I love the seemingly simple and elegant framework it runs on however after having ditched Reddit for the hopes of a similar or improved content experience I have to say it is quite a bit smaller and therefore barren at times which is both a good and bad...

Wanting to relocate some wild frogs/toads, they seem to like a certain flower bed because the "night light" on the house brings the bugs. My thought is if I make another area enticing, they will go there.

I see this technique everywhere, but I guess I haven't found the right terms to search for what it's called or why it's so ubiquitous in certain types of video....

I do know what a tankie is, and why one would be against them, but I have never encountered so many people using the word. It's all over the place here. Why?

Occasionally, I will see a video posted of an instructor throwing a baby into water and watching them flounder about until they right themselves and float. The comments are a mix of "that's terrible, what is the instructor doing?" and "you guys are clueless, this is how they train the babies."...

I have never understood the concept of Twitter and such, is it basically like Live Journal with a text limit ? How do the interactions even work ? Just people saying something unprompted and then people just talk?

I'm not talking about objective things like grammar, vocabulary, or structuring. I'm mostly talking about more subjective things like theme and mood. I get for younger students, since they need to learn to analyze and interpret literature. But for higher level students this might become more or a problem, especially when reading...

This is something I first noticed about a year ago, give or take. Like, I'll say "the sky is purple" and someone will respond with "it's blue?" Why do people do that?...

I have to send my (Nintendo Switch) Joy Cons in for repair. They gave me a prepaid UPS Ground shipping label but I was on my own for packing materials....

When you look at a cartoon illustration of a sandwich, you will usually an olive or other similar topping on top of the sandwich. Have you actually put olives on top of your sandwiches? If so, why?

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So you know when it's quiet and your neighbor is playing loud music, but you can only hear the bass? Why is it like that?

I've never really understood how that works. Chemistry wasn't my best subject in high school, and it's been over a decade since then for me.