MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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- Comment on Went to r/conservative to see how they're doing 3 months ago:
Looks like ![walkaway] (https://i.imgur.com/qhJSBYn.jpeg) has given up the pretense of being moderates displeased with the Democratic Party.
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I believe the rule limits the actual container size if it contains liquid. Even if you have a nearly empty water bottle or are nursing the last dregs of a full size tube of toothpaste, it gets dumped or thrown out. So technically, if any water has melted at all, it counts.
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Don’t get me started on titanium! 🙄
- Comment on Noise 3 months ago:
That explains why my fuzzy terrorist always wants to bite them.
- Comment on I love going shopping and getting my favorite snacksss 🥰🍬🤤 3 months ago:
Where’s the crayons?
- Comment on jd vance 3 months ago:
Maybe it’s Art Van
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 3 months ago:
Whoops. Good catch! so about 4-30 times the size of the Death Star. That would mean the gravity of the Death Star is at most 1/24th that of earth’s if it were solid rock, and my math is correct. That’s at the surface, though. As you go inside, gravity will decrease until you reach the center where there will be no gravity at all because all the mass of the space station is pulling you away from the center equally. (assuming a uniform mass distribution).
g ≈ M/r^2
V ≈ r^3.
uniform density: ρ for simplicity’s sake
M = ρV
—> g ≈ ρr where r is the distance from the center of the death star, but no further than the surface - Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 3 months ago:
The gravity is negligible. The official sizes of the Death Stars have been 120 - 900 km in diameter according to rebel scale. For comparison Earths moon is ≈35000 km in diameter and it’s gravity is 1/6 of earth’s. On top of that, the Death Stars are mostly hallow, being a metal framework, instead of solid rock.
- Comment on Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself 3 months ago:
So you’re saying that the in-office mandate only applies to employees that can’t afford to move away from the office.
- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 months ago:
Second point: the English language is heavily influenced by several historical processes
WARNING: I am not a linguist or historian and the following is greatly simplified, potentially to the point of falsity-
The invasions of Germanic tribes: Angles & Saxons most notably, settled in what we now call England (Angle Land) and pushed the Celtic tribes west and north. Leaving mostly Germanic speaking peoples in the south and East.
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The Vikings raids: another wave of Germanic speaking peoples raided and eventually settled in parts of the island, while no less violent than the earlier invasions, it did result in more intermingling of the local Germanic and the Norse Germanic languages than the previous Germanic/Celtic languages did.
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The Norman Conquest: This invasion was more of a top-down invasion, where a French speaking monarchy replaced the English speaking monarchy. For a time French became the language of esteem, and state business was conducted in French, while outside the aristocracy, the common folk would use common English in their day-to-day. This is why a lot of modern legal and technical words have roots through French, like litigate, defendant, and plaintiff. Rude words (vulgar is Latin for “common”) often have Germanic roots. See: penis/vagina/intercourse vs. dick/cunt/fuck
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Colonization and globalization: English speakers went out and invaded a lot of places. In addition to extracting resources, wealth, and slaves from those places, they took a lot of words too, and just kinda squished them into the language where they could fit. Colonizers also forced English upon the invaded territories much like the Norman’s forced French upon England. Now you have many more English speakers in the world who are also have fusing their own languages into local dialects of English and English words into their native languages. All this gets mixed up into an era of global trade, travel and communication, and Some words just get caught up in the global zeitgeist and make their way into common English usage.
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Also, the Church and Romans are mixed up in there somewhere, but I don’t know how.
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- Comment on Why English language is sometimes "lazy", sometimes not 4 months ago:
Language is always evolving. A lot of “special” words are just lazy words that have fallen out of regular use over time, or have be pulled out of time and place to evoke the seeming of being old and authoritative. Sometimes "special” words or phrases are just memes used out of context, and sometimes the context is no longer relevant or it is forgotten. We have a “special” word for phases like that: Idioms. The rule for idioms is “Idioms mean what they mean”
- Comment on Would it be possible to run two OSs simultaneously by hibernating one of the OSs? 4 months ago:
Yes it is possible, I’ve done it before by accident. The problem I ran into is I was using a shared partition for data storage. At the time, if you didn’t properly shut down Windows it would not unmount the disks, and I couldn’t access them from Linux. I’m sure there was probably a way around that, but not without making the hibernated Windows angry.
- Comment on Yes 4 months ago:
Until milkshakes get involved.
- Comment on Incomplete copulation 5 months ago:
Failure to Netflix and chill.
- Comment on Pathetic. 5 months ago:
Virgin giant:
- Bumps head on the stupidest things
- Whines about air travel
- Can’t handle an unfinished basement
- Has to buy special clothes
- Cries when he has to pick something off the ground
- “Do you play basketball?”
- Blocks people’s view.
Chad shortie:
- Can wear top hat anywhere they want.
- Walks under any obstacle with ease.
- Knows how to hem trousers.
- Can see into the fridge without crouching.
- Lovingly compared to the heroes of the shire.
- Low center of gravity.
- Can be taller by standing on literally anything.
- sneaky as heck
- Comment on At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. 5 months ago:
Judicial experts said in interviews that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito’s impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot.
Jokes on you, experts! The Supreme Court didn’t have ethics rules back in 2021. Checkmate!
- Comment on Monopoly 6 months ago:
And you can buy houses
- Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut 6 months ago:
Staring Ana Gasteyer
- Comment on So which is it? 6 months ago:
To be fair, it is a knock off of Righteous Roughage & Virtuous Vegetables
- Comment on They lied to us 6 months ago:
A vanilla soy latte is not a 3 bean soup! There is only one bean actually in the soup. Unless you are scraping the vanilla pod into it and sprinkling grounds on top, the other two “beans” are merely extracts.
It is a vegan bisque.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 7 months ago:
Nothing they will just sell their goods to those who can afford them. If individuals can’t afford an appliance, they will sell them to a landlord, a laundromat, a restaurant, another corporation, or rent them directly.
once poor people have no more money to use.
Unless you are referring to chattel slavery, or some barter system where people pay directly with goods or services, this is an impossibility. The poor will always be able to earn some meager amount of money (even if it’s company scrip), they just won’t be able to earn enough to escape poverty and debt. That’s what makes money valuable, that it can be exchanged for goods or labor.
