chaogomu
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- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 1 week ago:
Ding dong ditching used to surge whenever that one episode of the Simpsons played.
Because kids will be kids.
The injuries and deaths seem more linked to adults losing their God damn minds watching Fox News
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
Sadly there were Nazis in the US government before and during WW2.
The Dullas brothers are the prime examples. They spearheaded operation paperclip, which rescued Nazi scientists and moved them to the US.
The Dullas brothers are the reason why the US loved arming South American dictators from the 50s onward.
They also pulled a Japanese war criminal out of prison and put him in power in post war Japan.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
Want higher birthrates? Just convince people that tomorrow will be better than today.
That’s how you see a spike in birth rates.
To maintain a steady birthrate, just convince potential parents that the world will not be any worse for their children than it is today.
See, easy.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
See my first sentence.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
If that embyo goop isn’t your property, it should be.
And if you’ve broken into the fertility clinic, that’s definitely a crime.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 3 weeks ago:
The gameplay loop was solid, but not completely original.
But the lore of the world was interesting and was dolled out fairly well. Neat little chunks of lore that felt like a reward when you get them.
Add in great art and music, and you have a game that you can build a fan base on.
Add in the free expansions and fan friendly developer, and you get a robust fan base.
Which leads to expectations for the sequel.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 3 weeks ago:
Depending on how far along the prep work on the gourd was, it may have decomposed.
- Comment on The march of time 3 weeks ago:
You can say that was mostly the Romans. If you needed a calendar fucked up, they were the ones to do it.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data 4 weeks ago:
I live dangerously with my fully up to date Arch box.
But I also have an LTS Ubuntu box that’s been humming away in the background for about the last five-ish years? Just a quiet little file server, doing its job and being ignored.
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 1 month ago:
That was the same timeframe where ol Vincent was testifying in front of Congress that wrestling was completely fake and didn’t need to be regulated like an actual sport, no need for drug testing or safety equipment because it’s all fake right?
And the Congress critters are it all up. Never acknowledging that while the ending is predetermined, the path to get there is still incredibly physically demanding and a mistake could result in actual injury or death.
- Comment on When everything is fake and we continue to believe it 1 month ago:
Being boring didn’t make them any less harmful to those not of the chosen few.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Almost any is fine, but if you want a distro optimized for gaming, Garuda has been treating me quite well.
- Comment on Pass me to your interior designer 2 months ago:
You still need screen to keep the bugs out. And the squirrels can fit through the holes and get at the screen.
So yeah, this design is kinda bad. At least in areas with squirrels.
- Comment on Self starter 2 months ago:
If by vibe for the rest of the time you mean constantly watch for various forms of life threatening danger. Then sure.
Still a better time than constantly watching out for Manager Mark.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 months ago:
It wasn’t too long ago that a USB mouse would store the divers on the mouse.
- Comment on To thy own self be true 2 months ago:
A rare food based example of Carcinisation
- Comment on Basically 2 months ago:
There were free black people in Washington’s day. But yes, the first several presidents were all slave owners.
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 3 months ago:
The Air Force may have split from the army in 47, but some traditions carried over.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 3 months ago:
Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.
Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.
Krillian was actually alive to see that death.
As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.
Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 3 months ago:
The fact the HBO is a brand dating back decades, and they abandoned it for a generic Max was the true stupidity.
- Comment on FANTER 4 months ago:
Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.
Tang would also like a word.
But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.
- Comment on FANTER 4 months ago:
Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.
Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)
The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn’t close it’s German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.
And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.
As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 months ago:
A lot of the “nonsensical” comes from translation issues.
You’re not a Hebrew farmer living in the middle east 2000 years ago, and the parable has been translated from ancient Hebrew to Greek, then to Latin, then finally into English.
The same goes for buddhist parables
I’ve read that some of these parables originally had clever word play.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 4 months ago:
Veritasium’s latest videos. Like the last 4 or 5.
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 5 months ago:
11 years ago… I wonder if he’ll revisit the topic with his current deep dives into relatively…
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 months ago:
Fission. As in uranium and Thorium.
We’ve had energy positive fission since the 1950s.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 months ago:
Interestingly, no. It’s not the same as if you ate a chunk of lead.
Lead binds to calcium channels, and then blocks them. This makes it a bit of a neurotoxin. It also accumulates in the bones.
Uranium on the other hand is one of the heavy metals that the body is good a filtering out of the blood. The body is not as good at expelling the uranium. It accumulates in the kidney. This can lead to kidney disease, and other related issues. And that’s just the chemical toxicity of Uranium. Add in the radioactive side of things, and you have a truly distinct form of metal poisoning.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 months ago:
We’re actually running into shortages of Plutonium 238. Which is seriously compromising deep space missions.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 months ago:
Except the Ironman style reactor is pure science fiction, whereas hydrogen fusion is real, but still has issues of energy capture, which several groups are working on.
There are two promising avenues, one is a direct physical capture, as in fusion is initiated with huge pistons that are physically moved by the fusion explosion,
And the other cool one is direct magnetic coupling.
I expect both to take off long before the tokamak style does.
But fission power is already here, and much easier to set up. Molten Salt Thorium is also promising. And once some corrosion issues are solved, could power the earth at current levels for the next thousand years.
All while producing an isotope of actinium that produces only alpha radiation. Which is super useful in killing cancer cells.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Well, security through obscurity never really did work