What red flag could be a green flag in the right context?

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MTK@lemmy.world · 132 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Everything!

Say "I love you babe!"

  • Long term relationship - green
  • First date - red

Say "I'll beat you!"

  • Racing a kid - green
  • When stoping in the middle of the woods with your date - red

Let a fart rip

  • With a friend when the room is silent - green
  • On your date when she rims you - red

I can go on

yanyuan@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y
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EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y

Please do

coaxil@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I dunno that last one could both be green flags!

MTK@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

SeabassDan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

No kink shaming on that last one

CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 2y

"I'll beat you" Had me rolling

starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

Pleasen't don't

CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 81 pts · 2y (5 replies)

A literal flag colored red, if you or the flag is moving towards the other so fast as to blueshift it to green.

neumast@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Sooooo, wavelengths (λ) become longer when something moves away (redshift) and become shorter when something moves towards you (blueshift).

For a red flag (λ0=610nm) to become a green flag (λ1=549nm), it has to move towards you quite fast. But how fast is 'quite fast'?

Using the formula

flag_velocity / speed of light (c) = difference in wavelengths / starting wavelength

we get

flag_velocity = (610-549) / 610 * c = 61 / 610 * c = 1/10 * c

This means: the flag has to move with about c/10 = 30 000 000 m/s = 108 000 000 km/h = 67 108 100 mph. Yeah, that's quite fast.

(Disclaimer:

  1. use info on own risk

  2. values for λ were chosen in a way to make calculations easy. There is no info on what shade of red or green the flag is. The final result will be about the same.

  3. With speeds at around 10% of c, I should use the formula considering the relativistic doppler effect... However, i wont. Thanks.)

olafurp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So you're saying I should date her right?

EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

uhhh maybe, idk

Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y

Well, they certainly did the math

emberwit@feddit.de · 1 pts · 2y
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shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 63 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Red flag: My friend once saw what looked like people setting a RadioShack ablaze and stealing all the expensive electronics and making off with them all.

Green flag context: It was actually a faulty electronic that caused the fire, and the "thieves" were Good Samaritans saving everything from getting burned.

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Hope they got all of the free battery of the month cards!

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)

What are those?

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

You could get a card that entitled you to a free battery every month.

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Oh. I'm not sure. That's the least they could've done though, considering someone posted a video of them saving the electronics and ruined their reputation. Made worse because they were loyal AA immigrant employees in a community that was growing unfonder of the immigration and the perception of what they were doing caused things to skyrocket.

Thisfox@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Was there a reason they didn't try to put out the fire or call the firestation? Triple-O or whatever is never far away.

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

The idea of anyone helping was a business liability concern, but the insistent bystanders wanted to balance that out with anything they thought they "could" do. Both the firestation and the police (because they had nothing else to do in their tiny area) were called but took a while because Winter was in its cusp at the time.

Ironically it was the fact the police understood the bystanders' intentions that made citizens (who thought it was a burglary) accuse everyone in charge of being overly sympathetic to what they thought was immigration-spawned crime. Police even made a public statement about the bystanders' intentions, but the citizens didn't believe the police on that.

Ajen@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Witnessing a crime is a red flag?

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

The crime itself is the red flag, or would've been if it was truly a crime.

raubarno@lemmy.ml · 46 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If a person with protanopia/deuteranopia looks at a red flag, one sees green-ish flag.

VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 3 pts · 2y

Hi, protan here, you are not a correct. I am red-blind and it's more like reds are extremely muted, with weaker reds looking kinda grey.

Yellows turn into greens, though, for perhaps predictable reasons.

venoft@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Red flags: wants constant attention, nags constantly for me to make her dinner, sometimes physically hurts me.

Green flag: when it's my cat.

GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y

Or a toddler/infant.

muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Of ur moving fast enough the doppler effect.

M137@lemm.ee · -11 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Did you consciously try to make yourself look as dumb as possible?

Silentiea@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (6 replies)

They're just not moving fast enough, or possibly in the right direction.

neumast@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Sooooo, wavelengths (λ) become longer when something moves away (redshift) and become shorter when something moves towards you (blueshift).

For a red flag (λ0=610nm) to become a green flag (λ1=549nm), it has to move towards you quite fast. But how fast is 'quite fast'?

Using the formula

flag_velocity / speed of light (c) = difference in wavelengths / starting wavelength

we get

flag_velocity = (610-549) / 610 * c = 61 / 610 * c = 1/10 * c

This means: the flag has to move with about c/10 = 30 000 000 m/s = 108 000 000 km/h = 67 108 100 mph. Yeah, that's quite fast.

(Disclaimer:

  1. use info on own risk

  2. values for λ were chosen in a way to make calculations easy. There is no info on what shade of red or green the flag is. The final result will be about the same.

  3. With speeds at around 10% of c, I should use the formula considering the relativistic doppler effect... However, i wont. Thanks.)

Silentiea@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

Well, instead of moving the flag, we could collapse the space in between us rapidly. Would that be easier? I think I have some dark energy around here somewhere...

dgriffith@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

pssst hey you missed the conversion from seconds to hours, your answers are in kilometres/miles per second and need to be another 3600 times larger.

neumast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Are you sure about that? From m/s to km/h you multiply by 3600 (for the time) and divide by 1000 (for the distance) which leads to a factor of 3.6.

Personally i always remember 25 m/s = 90 km/h = 56 mph because of the somewhat round numbers.

muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They did the math

Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y

They did the monster math

muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Just checked ur comment history and i think ur a little insecure about ur intelegence. Dont worry ill let u have the last word.

CodingAndCoffee@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y

Lying and pretending to know something who's actually a complete stranger to them

When the stranger is a drunk woman in distress clearly trying to get away from a predator.

Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y

If you’re colorblind.

MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y

Color blindness test

Donebrach@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

If your partner is indiscriminately murdering vaguely shady people with a bow and arrow it will probably be fine, cause he’ll reset the universe and become god (or something?) just be sure to weep about being betrayed at least once every seas—er… year.

vis4valentine@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

JoJo?

Donebrach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

ArRow

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
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SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Partners who want to do everything for you.

They're very giving, and will do you so many favors, and cater to your whims. Favorite ice cream? Let me go buy it for you! Need something from the store? I'll go get it! Need a ride? Got you covered!

Once they have you "locked down" (married, pregnant, in a long-term lease, dependant on them for transport, etc.) they can do a 180 and suddenly "you owe them". No more favors. Only guilt. They'll isolate you and make every negative emotion they feel be "your fault."

They want you to become dependant on them so they can use and manipulate you.

Be so very careful with overly kind/giving people. Never let yourself be 100% dependant on someone else. Ever. No matter how nice they are to you.

Donebrach@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I think you misread the question.

SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Oh, I totally did. Whoops. I'm tired. Keepin' it up.

senicar@social.cyb3r.dog · 13 pts · 2y

It was a good answer anyway

Wage_slave@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y

Multiple Personalities.

When you say you wanna see other people, they already are other people!

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (8 replies)

Piss-play fetish if you swim around the Great Barrier Reef a lot.

mysticallego@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (7 replies)

I'm sorry, what?

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (6 replies)

GBR has crazy jellyfish. Otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DswPLKfi00A

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Jellyfish stings shouldn't be peed on, it doesn't help and it can make the sting worse.

Someone really wanted to pee on someone else, and we're all suffering for their naivety.

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yeah, the comedic utility is inverse to actual.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

You don't think it be like that, but it do

nitefox@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Why is there a laugh for literally everything they say?

ChrisLicht@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Yeah, it’s really stark looking back at it.

Friends was a relatively well-written show, with strong comedic actors. It didn’t need this level of aggressive laugh-tracking.

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PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y

Eating in an extremely unhealthy way if you're an actor and it's necessary to gain weight for a movie, or it's for an official science experiment.

Rocky60@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sometimes a bad credit rating is a good thing

Coconut1233@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

How?

mifan@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 2y

Zhongshan Island

mo_lave@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The 2021 Belgian Grand Prix

vis4valentine@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Context?

mo_lave@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y

The race was planned to run for 44 laps, but ended during the third lap due to wet conditions. Laps one and two took place behind the safety car before a red flag stopped the race on lap three. The sporting regulations required the results be taken from the end of lap one, with half points given to drivers who finished in the top 10 positions as less than 75% of the originally scheduled race distance had been completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Belgian_Grand_Prix

PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Hating the democratic party of the United States. Without any other context you would assume they are a republican. But once they start critiquing marx and explaning how Trotsky's permanent revolution is the only viable path forward you know they are good people.

Alternatively, if someone supports the dems no matter what, that is a red flag that should never be overlooked especially when they start rationalizing their perverted beliefs by name-dropping minorities out of the blue.

AnneBoleynTudor@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y

What

VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You're not incorrect but this isn't the place lmao

PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 2y

I'm from lemmy.marxistleninist It's always the correct place to dump on the Liberals.