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- Comment on laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas 5 days ago:
I’d rather eat Detroit pizza than anything served in Germany.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen a native 5:4 CRT. I imagine it’s a lot harder to make a different aspect ratio with CRTs, since LCDs are essentially cut out of a sheet, while CRTs are molded glass.
With LCDs, though, 1280x1024 was a fairly common native resolution. If you were getting an LCD above 1024x768 that wasn’t a widescreen, it was almost certainly 1280x1024.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
1280x1024 is a pretty common size for old LCDs.
- Comment on I despise laundry. How can I make my life contain less of it? 1 week ago:
Find a partner who doesn’t mind doing laundry.
- Comment on Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech? 2 weeks ago:
I’m doing stupid bullshit with $4 microcontrollers instead of doing stupid bullshit with bigger machines.
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
That’s a solid start, but what’s your threshold for an isthmus? Does Panama count, or is there only one American continent? Same question for the Sinai.
And if they don’t count, Australia’s inclusion seems a bit arbitrary, given the massive size difference between it and the next-largest landmass (the Americas are nearly 6x the size).
- Comment on 10 reasons why we should move Israel to Utah 2 weeks ago:
Elohim is the name of the Mormon God, although his name is not to be uttered (oops!). The Jewish God bears the same name, amongst various other names, depending on which Rabbi’s argument is presented.
If I recall correctly, the Jewish god’s name will change to Elohim once the Messiah arrives. Mormons believe that the Messiah already arrived in Missouri, so they call him Elohim, but to Jews he’s still Yahweh.
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
So islands belong to the nearest large landmass? I guess you could do that, but then where’s the threshold? Obviously, Africeurasia has to be a continent if you want there to be any continents, and America probably is too, but then is Australia a continent that includes NZ and some other islands, or is it part of Africeurasia? How about Greenland? Are the Diomede Islands really on two different continents? Indonesia would be too, if you count Australia as a continent.
I’ll give you that that’s geologically consistent while being culturally independent, but it’s pretty inconvenient.
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
I’d appreciate if you could answer the question. Do you perhaps have another geologic feature to propose? If you want to use large landmasses, then islands don’t belong to any continents at all. If you don’t set a minimum size, then there are far too many continents to remember. So what is it?
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
Approximately, yes. Russia also spans both, with the smaller European section being much more populated.
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
The Southern boundary is the Mediterranean.
- Comment on This makes so much more sense 2 weeks ago:
So you think that Hokkaido is in North America and Somalia isn’t in Africa?
- Comment on Why are you wearing his tee-shirt 3 weeks ago:
I’ll see that and raise you someone who doesn’t have a ton of videos titled “you won’t BELIEVE how awful this communist group was!”: youtu.be/sB5-yxDrDQk
- Comment on Why are you wearing his tee-shirt 3 weeks ago:
No, he left (and abdicated all of his own titles and citizenship) to go fight against imperialism in the Congo.
- Comment on Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US 3 weeks ago:
I think that was a total, not just his base salary, but I didn’t look into it too carefully.
- Comment on Neoliberal is the new woke 3 weeks ago:
Does McCarthy calling everyone he didn’t like a communist or socialist mean that communism and socialism don’t exist?
- Comment on Fox News stars attend China’s State Dinner despite ranting about communism in the US 3 weeks ago:
They’re paid very handsomely not to. Watters is estimated to make $5 million a year.
- Comment on Who 4 weeks ago:
And if the roads are 400% driveable, you stick to them!
- Comment on Anon is a dungeon master 4 weeks ago:
Just because neoliberals tolerate gay people doesn’t mean that gay rights are inherently neoliberal. Democracy, maybe, but we don’t know if they were doing elections with unlimited campaign spending by property owners or if they were voting in workers’ councils. Classical Athens, the United States, the PRC, the DPRK, and the Republic of Ireland all have/had democracies in some sense, but they vary massively in implementation, and anyone who calls all of those neoliberal is either very confused or not being sincere.
Furthermore, trying to change the world is central to nearly any RPG. A crusade to obtain human rights doesn’t prohibit whimsy or enjoyment, but when you do the fantasy equivalent of traveling to modern Gaza to organize a festival, you shouldn’t be terribly surprised when you get a bad ending regardless of whether you accomplish your goal.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
He had a whole goddamn sentencing hearing where they sentenced him to nothing. Explicitly.
- Comment on Disgusted 1 month ago:
Russia is a member of the UN.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 1 month ago:
I assume cops are guilty until proven innocent.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 1 month ago:
Well, lack of jurisdiction doesn’t make bullets or gravity less effective. A NY cop in LA is still perfectly capable of murder.
- Comment on Are US cops (or sheriffs) able to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction? 1 month ago:
Just claim the man was trans and you’d probably get away with it 💀
- Comment on Pie in the face. 1 month ago:
Fucking Andy Ngo and his milkshake whining. “It had concrete in it!” No it didn’t, what would that even do? It was liquid. You’re just a baby.
- Comment on THCposting 1 month ago:
Or just die of smoke inhalation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Flock, and no, you’d never get a court to rule in your favor. The only way for the situation you describe to happen is if every court between you and the SCotUS ruled in your favor.
- Comment on It's about logic and not "feelings" 1 month ago:
What do I have? A best friend and a girl! I’m hoping she’s a girlfriend and not a daughter, because I can’t afford the latter.
- Comment on Can't believe its been 2 weeks 1 month ago:
We’re on the same page. I even mentioned the Nazis in my comment!
- Comment on Can't believe its been 2 weeks 1 month ago:
Two hundred million? They managed to double their kill count since 2000? Impressive, especially considering the lack of invading Nazis to mow down en masse for easy numbers.