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- Comment on Vade Retro Satana 4 days ago:
Aha! But what if downloading the train was perfectly legal and manufacturers told you it was not?
- Comment on Vade Retro Satana 4 days ago:
Well, ok. But you wouldn’t download a car, right?
- Comment on Vade Retro Satana 4 days ago:
Oh, that would have required work and creativity on my part.
- Comment on Vade Retro Satana 5 days ago:
I don’t even remember where I took the image.
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- Comment on Bird Calls 1 week ago:
Ahh. Lovecraftian horror.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Yes. When I first saw it, I thought it was soppy, depressing and weird. Now I’m just wowed by the accurate portrayal of human nature.
When someone says that plants are people, they will be respected as spiritual or written off as a weirdo. Saying that animals are people make for some really contentious debates. But saying that people are people is something wars are fought over. We’ll get there once androids are enough like us.
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
In Icelandic ð cannot be used at the start of a word
Didn’t know that. I think it was fine in Old English.
Yeah, phonetically they are different. I think they are using them correctly.
- Comment on OKBuddyGalaxyBrain 1 week ago:
ðe … þinking
You are distinguishing eth and thorn and using them correctly? I am impressed; also a bit weirded out, but really impressed.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
You could have taken a screenshot from Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
It’s funny how much that movie got right. I don’t think it was meant to be predictive. Many Lemmy users will probably think it is the greatest comedy ever made.
- Comment on I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. 3 weeks ago:
There is no real math on that graph. It’s just what anyone learns in a good education. Well, that and probability theory, combinatorics, and statistics.
I’d really expect more from a math student.
- Comment on Tastes bubbly 3 weeks ago:
Nice try. But all Cartesian Theaters use DCI-P3.
- Comment on Tastes bubbly 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure I never drank shampoo and yet I feel I know what it tastes like. Odd.
- Comment on Name him. 3 weeks ago:
When asked about his name, he said : “YARGHARGAHYARGHARGGGLLLHHHH”. It may have continued, but his lungs had deflated at that point.
- Comment on i love orchids 4 weeks ago:
C’mon. Look at her. Who wouldn’t want to be sucked dry by her?
Actually… Do they do that? Or is that just spiders?
Anyway, I’m sure that their lovemaking involves giving head.
- Comment on i love orchids 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know much about mimicry, but I’m pretty sure the point of praying barbie’s outfit is, that butterflies and bees also love her.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 4 weeks ago:
Spilled the secret on the flight to Avignon. Today’s Snowdens have it easier. They spill less unpleasant secrets, too.
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 4 weeks ago:
Ahh. But have you evolved your tailbone into a pilot light?
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 4 weeks ago:
“Help him, help him,” Dobbs was sobbing. “Help him, help him.”
“Help who? Help who?” Yossarian called back. “Help who?”
“The bombardier, the bombardier,” Dobbs cried. “He doesn’t answer. Help the bombardier, help the bombardier.”
“I’m the bombardier,” Yossarian cried back at him. “I’m the bombardier. I’m all right. I’m all right.”
“Then help him, help him,” Dobbs wept. “Help him, help him.”
- Comment on crunchi 4 weeks ago:
Well, is it crunchy? Such a disappointment when they don’t crunch after all.
- Comment on Finally a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem. 4 weeks ago:
This must be the true reason the whole city got razed.
Allegedly, the Russians wanted to negotiate about Kaliningrad in 1990 but Germany was more horrified than interested. Straightforward decision at the time. No one wanted a reprieve of the whole Polish Corridor thing, especially without even Germans living there. Rather a mistake in hindsight.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the problem isn’t getting Americans to use metric. It’s getting them to stop using everything else.
For some reason, English derived cultures have this incredibly conservative streak. Like the language lugs around letters that no one has pronounced in centuries. Maybe it comes from stare decisis. You start doing this differently, and it’s all Mad Max from there.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 4 weeks ago:
Oh right. It’s Thursday. Hail Thor! Hail the Protector of Mankind!
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
A GPU?
- Comment on Happy 30th Anniversary! 1 month ago:
Hmm. There’s only 1 thing I know about top gear. That presenter guy, the old one, what’s his name? His father-in-law was awarded a Victoria’s Cross for actions during the Battle of Arnhem; the famous a bridge too far. 7 VCs were awarded in that battle, but he was the only one who made it out alive.
I wonder if that ever became awkward. Like guy comes home and says:
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I did this super dangerous stunt for TV today!
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Oh, you did something dangerous, son? Do tell.
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- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
- Comment on Contributions 1 month ago:
smh
That guy should be happy that no AI will ever be trained on their work. It’s ok to contribute to progress, but only if it’s progress the cool kids approve of. Know your place, nerds.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 month ago:
The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 month ago:
Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.
“Toast of shame” - Mladic and Karreman drinking together
Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 1 month ago:
I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.
