Warl0k3
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- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 3 hours ago:
US history curriculum really doesn’t spend much time talking about wars (most of it is spend talking about exceedingly boring stuff, first nations cultures and sociopolitical movements like the civil rights and the vietnam protest movement and cold war and such), but we for sure learn about Yorktown & at least some about Gen. Lafayette.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 4 hours ago:
They folded like oragami in WWII mostly, and the french have a reputation for cultural pomposity that dates back centuries so people give them shit for it. I don’t know of more than a handful of people who mean anything by it, and the french/american cultural exchange is one of the most vibrant in the western world. Excepting politically right now (given the current trump BS), we’ve gotten along extremely well as nations for a long damn time and americans tend to tease their friends.
I’ve never heard the french complain about it - I have heard the french clap back with some equally devastating mockery of their own.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
It’s a great game imho, but I was gifted my copy - in no world is a game worth €80, it’s completely divorced from reality. Fucking tragic the publisher just killed it on delivery.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
I know you’re accusing me of taking this too seriously, but I fat-fingered the downvote button and a few minutes later you go thru and downvote everything I’ve said? I don’t even know how you’d notice that since it was only for a moment, but jeeze that’s worryingly petty.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
Yeah, exactly.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
I think you’re dismissing my well founded concern over the eager acceptance of misinformation because you don’t want to see it as a problem.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
A sound is audible, yeah. I can’t believe I’m using this argument but anyone in that room full of people could have farted, and it feels like the people really championing this have never watched another one of his pressers - he ends them like this all the time, the body language of the people behind him is always weird (they’re big enough freaks that they’re willing to be filmed standing behind trump).
If you want to believe trump shit his pants sure, you can do that - but the willingness of people to latch onto this and insist that it’s true (in the face of so many reasons to be skeptical), even presenting red-string-on-board evidence like in that youtube screenshot, should worry you. If you’re willing to accept this with no evidence, what else are you accepting with a similar degree of scrutiny just because it’s something you want to be true?
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
Those seem like… real stretches. When she “Gestures it’s a code 2” she scratches her nose, and the staff hot mic is extremely indistinct, to the point that even listening for “I really can’t do this again” I can only barely hear it. Even the initial “shart” noise is an incredibly minor sound in a room with a whole lot of extremely minor sounds.
I hate when people leap to support this kind of rumor, because it’s just such a waste of time - there’s never going to be any proof, everyone is just putting string on a corkboard and insisting it makes sense.
There’s so so many exhaustively well documented things to hold against trump, why in this case do we need to literally make shit up to feel superior to him? Isn’t the part where we’re not corrupt genocidal narcissistic homophobic hypocritical monsters enough?
- Comment on The sheeet of power 1 week ago:
There was a weird noise in a recent press rvent at the oval office and then reporters were ushered outside - rumors are that the reporters said it smelled like he shit himself, but I haven’t seen any primary source claiming it. Seems most likely that this is a rumor and something else was going on, though it would be amusing if it were true.
- Comment on Sexting 1 week ago:
- Comment on I will not stand for this information warfare any longer! 2 weeks ago:
Chemical analysis takes a while even with a cooperative law enforcement system - unless he fesses up or it was something really obvious I doubt at this point that anyone knows what was in the syringe.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I should have been more clear - it’s of course a factor to some degree, but I’d be extremely interested to see a study or similar on the impact income is having on alcohol consumption right now.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how much of it is concerns about health or social responsibility and how much is just it’s too goddamned expensive to be able to afford it these days.
- Comment on Real and True 2 weeks ago:
if you have two nicee wide monitors that’s a pretty good way to do it, gives you the benefits of a 2x2 setup but without the bezel breaking up your code halfway through.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 2 weeks ago:
Canada (9.98M sqkm) is only slightly larger than the US (9.83M sqkm), so they’re really close in size.
- Comment on Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. | A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. 3 weeks ago:
(To save anyone else checking, Larson is still very much alive)
- Comment on Good luck 4 weeks ago:
Are there nonabrasive dishwasher detergents?
- Comment on Good luck 4 weeks ago:
Generally the reason not to put knives in the dishwasher is because the mild abrasives used in some detergents, and more importantly the agitation which bonks them around, can both dull the edge (and damage the coating on the racks that prevents your dishwasher from rusting, if you have one that isn’t full plastic).
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 weeks ago:
Reversible by the parent, I admit that was pretty unclear. Cartlidge damage like that will eventually close in many cases, but it can take years if it’s been left long enough. However the good news is that the surgery to correct it is incredibly minimal, so if you’re ever looking for that…!
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 4 weeks ago:
An ear piercing is fully reversible, though.
- Comment on On Venus. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, even in my so-shitty-sometimes-cows-wandered-in highschool we learned about this (and a whole lot more about Russian-american cooperation post space race.)
- Comment on On Venus. 4 weeks ago:
I honestly cannot tell if this is satire, but if it is A+ job
- Comment on On Venus. 4 weeks ago:
Shame it’s on apple, but neat! Thanks for telling me.
- Comment on On Venus. 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re referencing :(
- Comment on On Venus. 4 weeks ago:
Both the US and Russia have spent my entire life cooperating on the most ambitious space endeavor the planet has (the ISS), why are we trying to create some kind of ideological wedge between the two countries? Don’t we have enough of those?
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah. “American Cheese” (and other processed cheese) does technically have to be made from mostly cheese, which is a concerningly low bar for “cheese based consumable products” to fail to meet.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
Not sure I understand, I’m sorry.
- Comment on Wunscherfüllung 5 weeks ago:
It super does though the specific characteristics vary depending on wheee it was extracted (iirc crude from the canadian oil sands is borderline explosive)
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
Ah, I was specifically talking about the meats - I did forget there were all the other traditional accouterments to American barbecue.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
We did slip up a tiny bit by literally calling it “American cheese”. Slight strategic error on that one.
