Yes. It’s not necessarily the size that makes the noise, but rather the rpm required of the smaller fans to move an equivalent amount of air. I have a fan in my phone, for instance. It is so small that it spins at 23,000 rpm to make just a small amount of air movement I can barely feel, but easily hear. My ceiling fan can’t be heard at all but still moves WAY more air while spinning at a couple hundred rpm. The air turbulence from blade speed is most of what you hear from a fan.

It’s just some standard fluid dynamics. It uses “Bernoulli’s Principle” and the “Coanda Effect”.

You can look up those, or probably look up those along with “dyson bladeless fan” to find a more direct explanation. The gist of it is that the ring of moving air causes a pressure drop inside and behind the opening that causes the air from further behind the ring to rush into the low pressure area and get pulled along through it.

A much higher percentage of extra air will get pulled “down range” from a Dyson style fan. It’s just that the air speed and total volume of those dysons are too low and they’d be noisy as hell to overcome it. But as a ratio of forced air to air that moves along, it’s a much better amount than a traditional fan.

The air thing is real physics. It does “work”. It just isn’t very useful in this application.

It’s also just Dyson’s completely overpriced bullshit. It makes weak air flow and has no real benefit for use as a fan.

Project Farm has tested them a couple different times. They’re expensive aesthetic toys.

*Edit: While I’m on a bit of a Dyson rant; I’d just like to also say that I HATE their hand dryers that some places bathrooms use.

And Nintendo didn’t pay the higher rate. They passed the costs over to the consumer. Nintendo got exactly what they paid for.

Sure would be nice to have a bunch of sub $20,000 evs right now… Maybe some CATL batteries… Or a $15,000 Toyota truck.

I was there by 5th grade and read grade 5 in first grade. I never read a ton, but I gave cred to my grandma, who would read me “the pokey little puppy” when I was 2 and 3 and 4 years old like every night I was there (a lot).

I had the book memorized and was able to follow along to all the words without knowing how to actually read or anything about sounds. Apparently that was a big leg up in learning to read.

I find out about people who’ve died by this, more than probably any other way.

There’s still plenty of velocity to kill and it still hits harder than a .22 out of a rifle.

They aren’t even super terrible to to shoot as far as kick back and such, but I’d still call them pieces of shit. The rounds will sometimes tumble through the air, they’re inaccurate, and since they only hold one round, they’re kind of useless for something other than having around as a curiosity.

I’ve seen a few different models of these pocket sized single shot rifle round lobbers. They work. They’re deadly. They’re just kind of dumb.

So is an AC unit.

What a highlight reel. I hope Ben defeats the magic underwear.

I’ve seen it both ways. Original products usually don’t last very long without being copied and slightly different.

I’ve never seen 3x, but I’ve gotten the 4x before. It wasn’t much hotter than the 2x, really.

Actually; even using your own Cambridge dictionary definition and examples you linked, it fully shows that I’m correct. Like, just look at the example you provided that talks about a cheap knock off of lord of the rings, for example.

If you aren’t able to understand that, then I guess you’re just a bit too dumb to comprehend.

Yeah. They buy cheaper stuff, and charge more for it. I can’t stand the taste of their trash burrito shells they went to. Then, they charge twice as much for just a bean burrito and give you half the filling, even though it’s just super cheap refried beans.

The products all do look the same. They’re just missing a specific logo or specific pattern. If you invented the ice cream cone, and then I made an ice cream cone that looked the same, only it had little triangle patterns instead of square patterns, it’s still a knock off.

It’s like how Oreos were blatant knock offs of Hydrox cookies. But the emblem in the middle of the cookie was different. Still a knock off.

It’s not your fault. The taco bell one really tucked me off, though. The first summer it was out was a limited time thing. It was actually a bit spicy. A lot more spicy than anything else a fast food chain had.

But then when they brought it back permanently it wasn’t half as spicy as it was. Taco Bell has like 5 fucking bland ass sauces now, and three of them taste about the same. What’s the damned point? FU taco bell. You could have left me with at least one option besides all your ketchup with tobacco sauce mixed in. No wonder I’ve only been there like 4 times in the last year.

I totally have some! But man, it’s kind of pricey for what it is. Not saying I don’t spend more on most of the hot sauces I buy, but still.

They’re usually knock offs. They aren’t trying to present themselves as an item made by Versace or whatever, but they knock off someone else’s idea or product.

That’s still a knock off by most any definition.