teslekova
@teslekova@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Immaculate 3 days ago:
Many US states and cities elect their chief prosecutor (DA) and sometimes even judges.
- Comment on Immaculate 3 days ago:
In the US they are, yeah.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [55:50] 3 days ago:
Imagine a flywheel system on a train. The beautiful sound as it spins up while coming in to a station…
- Comment on Good n dumb 1 week ago:
No worries then.
- Comment on Good n dumb 1 week ago:
The joke would work fine as Post Traumatic Dumb Shit, I think. I bet there’s other better ways to construct it too, if you don’t think that scans.
That’s if you don’t want to be buried in ableism accusations when you use it, which are, imo, getting in the way of this fine little meme.
It loses the association with “unfortunate things that happen in your head” problems, but Downs and PTSD are different categories of things anyway. Inherited vs inflicted, permanent vs temporary, etc. Doesn’t quite work.
People these days are too knowledgeable not to have that part screw with their ability to laugh at the joke, even if they understand it’s not malicious at all.
- Comment on Good n dumb 1 week ago:
Huh. I did not know that Downs isn’t necessarily associated with an intellectual deficit. That is useful information, thanks mate. I can see how it’d be damn frustrating seeing that as a default belief in society.
- Comment on Potata Salad 2 weeks ago:
TOMATA
- Comment on Potata Salad 2 weeks ago:
I HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT MAKE POTATO SALAD FOR FOUR YEARS
- Comment on Not a good sign 2 weeks ago:
Very good point. It is a noble hole.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
Know your meme hot dog guy
- Comment on Not a good sign 2 weeks ago:
Butt holes have a positive function, I do not agree with being that kind to our centuries.
- Comment on Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop. 2 weeks ago:
Why didn’t you buy one with a lower height but the same load capacity? Safer and makes loading stuff easier.
Us Australians look at weird American raised utes and scratch our heads in puzzlement. You’ve got a higher driver position, granted, but it’s also a higher centre of gravity, it’s harder to park in garages and underground car parks, it’s harder to see pedestrians, it’s harder to load stuff into the tray, etc.
You clearly aren’t just driving it to look pretty, like many people that we both probably get annoyed by. What’s the story?
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Ah, nice. It’s a long time since I tried playing a shooter on a console. It’s good to know they’ve addressed the mushiness of the aiming.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 2 weeks ago:
Ooo. You can use the tilt to aim? That sounds amazing.
- Comment on Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1? 2 weeks ago:
I have seen lots of small kids do the movements in different ways, even before they would plausibly have seen the stereotypical dance in media. There is definitely a biological component to it; bending slightly and moving does seem to strengthen the muscles that hold in the pee.
I agree that more research is required. Perhaps the Ignobel Prize could commission some research, since they will probably be awarding the people who do it anyway.
An official IgNobel grants scheme, btw, seems like it might attract a lot of crowdfunding from interested shitposters from all over the internet. I’d definitely throw in a hundo every year.
- Comment on Man on a mission 3 weeks ago:
Some yums deserve a good yucking now and then.
- Comment on Man on a mission 3 weeks ago:
I am impressed at the level of trashiness in every word.
- Comment on Think Bold 3 weeks ago:
MTG?
- Comment on fur sure 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t it supposed to be Barenstein?
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 3 weeks ago:
No no no. They dive, so as to hit the water with the least surface area.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but entertaining, so we’ll allow it.
- Comment on Borger for scale 4 weeks ago:
Fallout 3 was massively popular for its time. I think the burgers are going for quality though, not numbers.
- Comment on 😎😎😎 4 weeks ago:
They gotta keep it illegal or it doesn’t excite them enough.
- Comment on This keeps me up at night 4 weeks ago:
I spend hours every night frustrated by the problem. Perhaps being so associated with Murphy’s Law doomed it from the beginning? But then again, perhaps that doom itself can be harnessed?
Perhaps, indeed, we must use a constant stream of cats and bread, letting enough buttery catastrophes happen to sate the fickle spirit, while still maintaining positive energy production.
- Comment on This keeps me up at night 4 weeks ago:
Cat maintenance is a well-understood field.
- Comment on This keeps me up at night 4 weeks ago:
Apart from the problems pointed out by my esteemed colleagues in the comments elsewhere, I am sorry to say that this project, upon which our country has spent so many dollars, is fundamentally flawed. I know that this will be a major disappointment, but we are scientists! We must face the truth!
The entire principle that causes a piece of bread to fall butter side down depends on, as we know, the fundamental law of inconvenience. Butter, touching the floor and getting icky dust and germs on it, is rendered useless, and taints the very bread upon which it is installed. Furthermore, one must clean up the butter from the ground.
Such concentrated inconvenience, combined with Murphy’s law, ensures that the buttery bread will indeed fall down and touch that floor.
Touch, gentlemen! For it to be inconvenient, it must make contact with the floor! But if we, in our ambition and satisfied self-regard, ensure that the bread is securely strapped to the back of one of our many, many brave feline test subjects, then the bread can never touch the floor!
Inconvenience then has no mechanism of action, and Murphy smiles upon us no more! This project’s delays, long thought to be merely an issue of getting the balance right, of baking the perfect slice of bread, of securing sufficient butter, of scaling up using cheetahs, etc… They are all explained by the tragic and incontrovertible truth that we have been wasting our time on a doomed errand that could never work, even in principle! We must shut down, and stop wasting our time on this foolishness!
I personally have already applied, and been accepted, at the Corpse-Spinning Turbine Project, where I can only hope there is no similar fundamental misunderstanding. I suggest you all do the same.
- Comment on aaand it's closed again 4 weeks ago:
Goddamn right, you’ve blown up 400 schools, you deserve recognition. I’m Australian and we are getting recognised for being massively pissweak, there’s no reason to deny anyone their deserved blame.
- Comment on aaand it's closed again 4 weeks ago:
That was a bipartisan effort and you know it.
Shoutout to Mulligrubs btw. Bona fide classic nightmare fuel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You can totally use chicken in tacos. I suspect that’s what has happened here. The Prez has realised he’s gonna lose money as the Gulf states start withdrawing funding, so he’s decided it’s softshell time.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Damnable Pizza merchant! The customer is always right!