RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens 2 hours ago:
What next, “combine harvesters have worse impact on climate than slavery”?
- Comment on what in the 1 day ago:
Reactionaries, in the original sense of wanting to restore feudalism. That lion is from the Shah of Iran’s flag.
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 1 day ago:
Maybe the humiliation George Galloway gave them when they let him answer still haunts them.
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 2 days ago:
Don’t tell him, Pike!
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 2 days ago:
I almost feel sorry for him at this point.
Almost.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 days ago:
I had to double check that Tomonobu wasn’t responsible for steel battalion. (A game that deleted your save if you didn’t press the eject button in time)
- Comment on Beware Beans! 3 days ago:
No longer asking if he can haz
- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 4 days ago:
I forgot I have bypass paywalls clean installed, someone else already posted an archive link, but I recommend the extension to anyone not already using it gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234
- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 4 days ago:
The slang term for pedophile is only used in the UK, hence the Americans keep doing this.
- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 4 days ago:
This is at least the second time American crypto bros have used that word to name something and regretted it lmao.
There was an American crypto company that called themselves nonce finance ft.com/…/43b00d73-8a76-494a-8b5f-87dcab406ea5
- Comment on Haggis (Haggai when in a group) 5 days ago:
Is that a highland or lowland haggis?
- Comment on Badge of Honor 5 days ago:
Even I’m on there lmao.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 5 days ago:
I knew about the instance blocklist, but there was a user one aswell?
- Comment on How Come Latin Didn't Spread in the Middle East as Much as it did in Europe? 5 days ago:
So Latin spread pretty well across Europe, being the basis of almost every language there
I’m assuming you’re referring to the Latin alphabet? Because the entire Germanic language family was not based on Latin.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 1 week ago:
Depending on his weight that could be quite a high dose of ivermectin (the normal dose is 0.2mg/kg) but that seems like an extreme reaction.
I see three possibilities:
- He’s very light weight and sensitive to the drug
- He’s having an allergic reaction
- He actually did have a parasite infection and he’s having a Mazzotti reaction.
- Comment on In what medium be it print music movies or other was the first villain monologue delivered? What was it about? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t there several in the old testament?
- Comment on Right-wing blogger questioned under anti-terror laws at Edinburgh Airport 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry but, whatever you think of him, these powers are clearly being abused.
- Comment on 504 errors 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, it seems a faster in general now too.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 4 weeks ago:
Being a tomboy is more socially accepted than being a sissy.
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- Comment on How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension 4 weeks ago:
Farage begins his argument with a truth, which is that white working-class boys are failing in Britain’s schools.
Farage won’t fix it, all he cares about is scoring cheap political points. The problem is nobody else will even pretend to care about it, especially not on the left.
- Comment on UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time 4 weeks ago:
Not really true if you read the article
Note that the analysis is based on figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). Figures published by the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) are based on a slightly different categorisation for hybrid cars.
All hybrids run entirely on petrol or diesel fuel, while also carrying a small battery and an electric motor. ACEA counts these cars separately to petrol and diesel models.
In contrast, the SMMT counts what it calls “mild” hybrids as petrol cars, while listing “full” hybrids – such as Toyota’s Prius – in a separate category.
The ACEA data shows that hybrids are the most popular type of car in the UK, as illustrated in the figure below, but also shows that their sales are relatively stagnant.
Hybrids, with the exception of PHEV, are still petrol cars IMO.
- Comment on From Harvard graduate to the Unabomber 5 weeks ago:
He was an MK ultra victim.
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 5 weeks ago:
Should’ve made them out of tannerite
- Comment on What's up with children's books? 5 weeks ago:
*dogtor
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Spoilers 5 weeks ago:
Did he wear a costume?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you, I try my best.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
I think he’s a monster, in the classical sense, that is.
The Latin monstrum, had a broader meaning, encompassing any kind of warning from he gods (demonstrate has the same root). Rulers then, just as now, weren’t very observant of subtle hints, so back then this often took the form of godzilla wrecking shit.
Take the story of Laomedon, the Trojan king. After having some very nice city walls built for him, he neglected the small matter of actually paying his workers. Unfortunately for him said workers happened to be gods, who have slightly more bargaining power than your average worker, with the eventual industrial action including a cetus, a kind of sea monster, sent by Poseidon.
Rather annoyed at having his shit wrecked by a sea monster, Laomedon enlisted Heracles to kill it. Which, of course, being a hero, Heracles did very heroically. Now Laomedon, being a complete fucking moron, failed to learn absolutely anything from this, and decided it was a good idea stiff Heracles out of payment for this task.
In response, Heracles raised an army, besieged Troy, and killed Laomedon and his sons. This bought the matter to a close.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 5 weeks ago:
“leadership” is often a euphemism for nepotism.
