ninja
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- Comment on 👁 👁 2 days ago:
In the polar regions there are extended periods of wintertime where the sun does not rise.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 2 weeks ago:
Poisons are ingested where as venoms are injected.
If you bite (or drink, etc.) it it’s poison. If it bites (or stings, etc.) you it’s venom.
- Comment on Is there anyway to have your subscribed communities on the side so I do not have to type them in the search bar? 2 months ago:
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the Alexandrite interface and it has what you’re looking for in a collapsible menu.
- Comment on The starting salary for a new American Airlines flight attendant is low enough to qualify for food stamps in some states 4 months ago:
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…" “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?” “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.” “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.” “I did,” said Ford. “It is.” “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?” “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.” “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?” “Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.” “But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?” “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?” “What?” “I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?” “I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.” Ford shrugged again. “Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.” “But that’s terrible,” said Arthur. “Listen, bud,” said Ford, "if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say ‘That’s terrible’ I wouldn’t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.” ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Comment on What year is it? 4 months ago:
I wasn’t aware that every year had a wikipedia page…but I tried some others and it kinda seems like it does.
- Comment on happy world bee day 4 months ago:
The text in OP’s post is the copied transcript of the letter (including the random number 2 used for citation). It contains no commas and uses an ampersand.
Maybe he wasn’t a fan of any commas.
- Comment on Monopoly 4 months ago:
It’s clearly labeled as your salary.
- Comment on speedometers 5 months ago:
The jiggly argument is about not all parts moving at once or in one direction. If you jiggled to the right by taking one 18 inch step to the right, sticking your left arm straight left, waiving your right arm in a complete circle, holding your left foot 3 inches off the ground, and squatting down 10 inches how far have “you” moved?
- Comment on Try me bitch 5 months ago:
Genie goes into the booklet and comes back out carrying a large pile of small 2d letters and drops them at your feet.
I don’t know why you needed a blank booklet so badly, but all the instructional text was carried out of it.
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 5 months ago:
I need a diagram about how to read that chart.
- Comment on ‘Masters of the Air’ looks to the sky to close Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ WW2 trilogy 7 months ago:
The Pacific. It was meh.