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- Comment on To USB, or not to USB 15 hours ago:
At what point does it stop being archaeology and starts becoming computer science?
- Comment on Stay safe, everyone. 5 days ago:
Storm looks like a troll head peeking up
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 week ago:
You're half right. Wiki says it's been around since at least Victorian times, but the modern version revival happened as you say .
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 1 week ago:
Yeah midnight 00:00:00 represents that doomsday has happened. Even if 100,000 nuclear missiles were already in the air hurtling to their targets, that still technically wouldn't be 00:00:00
- Comment on Terraria - Terraria 1.4.5: Bigger & Boulder - Available Now! - Steam News 1 week ago:
Amusing subtitle
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 1 week ago:
This is the correct answer
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 week ago:
He must be fucking with you if he says the sun got replaced by an LED. Forget about the color stuff, ask him how the sun got replaced.
- Comment on Wasting your life because you just can't let it go 2 weeks ago:
I'm in this picture and i don't like it
- Comment on Menger cheese = string cheese 2 weeks ago:
This is a denominator numerator trick.
- Comment on My friends are by my side 3 weeks ago:
Many people don't get them till they start approaching middle age. Like everything else that relates to the body, enjoy the good quality vision while you can
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 3 weeks ago:
That has nothing to do with whether a site is an imageboard. Obviously there are a zillion differences between 4chan and Pinterest, but none that make Pinterest not an image board
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 3 weeks ago:
If it's such a clear disparity then explain to me how Pinterest isn't an imageboard?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I'm ok with there being some amount of wealth disparity, but nothing even close to like homeless vs. owns a yacht with a helipad. But before it's ok to have moderate wealth disparity we have to first meet the basic needs of all people including healthy and comfortable food, water, sanitation, housing, and healthcare.
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 3 weeks ago:
They are imageboards. Just because their layout is slicker than imageboards used to look like 25 years ago doesn't make them not imageboards
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/imageboard
- Comment on Anon uses 4chan 3 weeks ago:
It's not even remotely the biggest image board. The biggest image board is Instagram or Pinterest or some site like that.
- Comment on Evolution be like... 3 weeks ago:
Absolute win. Biggest animal in earth's history, top of the food chain with zero predators side from humans, travel over practically the entire globe.
- Comment on shoutout to finland 4 weeks ago:
Oh god i ate Super Flyers once and there was no english on the wrapper so naturally i was expecting it to be sweet before i bit into it - yuck!
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 4 weeks ago:
There are non-transportation uses for it. Namely for weapons.
- Comment on Chinese Maglev test vehicle sets world record, accelerating from 0 to 318 MPH in 2 seconds 4 weeks ago:
Yeah this link says most people can only take 4 to 6 g, but fighter pilots can take up to 9.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/whats-the-maximum-speed-a-human-can-withstand
- Comment on RIP and thanks for the meme 5 weeks ago:
That doesn't even really tell the true story. The fact is that the original version was an unremarkable piece that wasn't important or monetarily valuable, and it was in bad shape and rapidly deteriorating. If she did nothing then the piece would've been destroyed soon anyway.
Additionally, her restoration process was still unfinished when it got famous, and while it probably never would've looked great, it also might've looked better if she was able to complete the process
- Comment on I promise, no one can tell that you're high at work, trust me 1 month ago:
High or drunk - people can often tell.
Mushrooms - no one can tell unless you're tripping hard.
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 1 month ago:
What is b5
- Comment on OP has a realization 1 month ago:
Seriously, you think building a world-separating spacetime bubble that can instantly travel lightyears away is believable, but that programming it to stay on a smooth predictable course along an orbital path is NOT believable?
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 month ago:
I don't understand what you don't understand. It's in so many soups and recipes because people like it. Most people love chocolate, but there are a small number of people who hate it. Different people have different tastes. It could be genetic, it could be a bad association that built up in your formative years, or whatever.
- Comment on since we're cornposting, here's a picture of my roasted corn tea 1 month ago:
What's it taste like?
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 1 month ago:
Israel and Turkey won't be on the same side
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/rival-foe-why-turkey-now-views-israel-threat
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 1 month ago:
Eh, if you believe that god is omnipotent then it's not really hubristic to think that god can easily have a personal relationship with every living being, which includes you
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 1 month ago:
If someone scripted my life then he needs a massive kick in the nuts
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
That's fucking crazy wtf
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 month ago:
Wait, why is imgur blocked in the uk?