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- Comment on Refreshing 15 hours ago:
My physics professor bore witness to the prophecy, but I never believed I would live to see it.
- Comment on Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner 3 days ago:
Banned from Fortnite for sharing accounts to qualify for the tournament…
“I won’t ever cheat in Fortnite again.”
Seems like he didn’t get the message.
- Comment on The Oklahoma Coaches Hall of Fame has a pedophile that they refuse to remove 1 week ago:
They’re both built on the reputation of their leaders. Good coaches recruit good players, making them look like better coaches. Good preachers gather more followers which makes their bullshit more believable.
The great irony is that in both environments, the ego of the leader is almost certainly over-inflated, and the institution would be just hunky dory without them. Penn State found a new coaching staff. The Catholic Church will elect a new Pope.
The people doing the cover-up will justify the lies by telling themselves they are doing it for the greater good, but really they just want to protect themselves.
- Comment on True Romance 1 week ago:
Both are trying to stab the other. The one that gets stabbed gets pregnant.
Which is the winner and the loser depends on personal preference.
- Comment on Its so joever 1 week ago:
I was on Facebook where I saw a short video with a text to voice narrator describing a story from a news article that was written about a Reddit AITA post. The audio played over a video of several clips of different ragebait 5 minute craft videos.
I had to light a candle.
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 1 week ago:
I recently had some pez for the first time in like 20 years. The candy was better when I was a kid. I can still remember the grape and strawberry flavors, and the modern ones are shit.
- Comment on Gorillaz Live at Glastonbury - Clint Eastwood (With Snoop Dogg) 1 week ago:
He goes by Lapp Dogg now.
- Comment on ENHANCE 1 week ago:
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The short version is they have developed a soft robot that can contract to increase the focal point (aka “zoom”) on a lens, and they can control it with eye movements. An actual zoom contact is not available yet, and would probably require another decade of testing and prototyping before a consumer-grade model is available at a reasonable price point.
- Comment on Leaked footage of Henry Cavill's screentest for James Bond(Casino Royale) 2 weeks ago:
He’s reading a scene from GoldenEye, though.
- Comment on A bit rubbery... 2 weeks ago:
None of this is true. It’s a piece of ham that looks mildly like a vagina, and someone came up with a funny story.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on NPR, PBS to appear for hearing on media bias 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives demonstrated that you can ignore those requests.
- Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before? 2 weeks ago:
Printing machines use all sorts of organic chemicals for inks and lubricants. Does it smell like fresh asphalt and citrus? Like tar and rubber mixed with fragrance.
To answer your question, I describe the way smells taste. Sweet, sour, bitter, salty, spicy. If you want to be vague, say it smells like wine.
- Comment on Are there communities to post videos of police brutality / excessive use of force? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely. I kept up with the abuses in Philly, but the results were super depressing.
- Comment on Are there communities to post videos of police brutality / excessive use of force? 2 weeks ago:
Lol, I think I lasted less than a month, and accomplished nothing. I’ve had more productive bowel movements, but I appreciate the sentiment.
- Comment on Are there communities to post videos of police brutality / excessive use of force? 2 weeks ago:
Many years ago, I created a reddit sub for tracking instances of police brutality, naming the officers and following up on the lack of punishment. Within the first day, I was completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of offenses. I had a minor mental breakdown and had to abandon the effort.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that is came from soldiers returning from WWI who did not speak enough German to communicate, but were seeking the trains home.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t speak German, but I picked up a few phrases for work. They have a few idioms that I think of sometimes:
“Ich glaub, ich spinne” which means I think I’m crazy, but literally translates to “I think, I spider.” It’s a great visual metaphor, being overwhelmed by the threads going everywhere that you imagine you’re a spider spinning a web, and also you’ve entirely forgotten grammar.
“Bahnhof verstehen” or “Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof” means “I understand only the train station.” It’s something you say when you don’t understand anything, you’re completely lost, and you don’t give a shit becaue you just want to get the fuck home.
I might be off on those translations or the subtext, but that’s how I understood it.
- Comment on mrw someone tries to proselytize Christianity to me [Day 64] 2 weeks ago:
He wants you to hate people and give me money.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s probably true for some men, and people tend to assume that other people think like they do. So I would guess the brother is telling on himself a bit there. But also, what kind of relationship is that? Who would want to live like that? Good relationships are built on trust and communication. If you need to play games to keep someone’s eye from wandering, that’s not a relationship at all.
- Comment on Can we stop asking people who are on the brink of death and suffering greatly to sacrifice themselves for a bunch of able bodied people who refuse to stand up and sacrifice themselves for us? 3 weeks ago:
I fully believe someone said this to OP. But it says something about the people OP hangs around with.
- Comment on I don't see the problem. It's A tree. It's not THE tree. 3 weeks ago:
It looks to me like google translate text over an image of a French book. The text is garbled, but it’s close enough and the words are accurately translated.
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 4 weeks ago:
Which avatar is the most detailed and accurate?
Mine - most likely to be left behind chained up in a basement.
Theirs - most likely to be left behind at a cocktail party.
The maid’s - most likely to be left behind in a threesome.
- Comment on Seems like excellent advice 4 weeks ago:
Oh god, it took me a while to figure out what “Brazilian” meant in this context, but when I did, everything clicked.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 4 weeks ago:
But I heard that in some procedures in America you have to say what your ethnicity is?
Not sure what you mean by “procedures,” but no. It’s explicitly forbidden for anyone to discriminate against you based on your race or ethnicity. You won’t be asked if you are black or white or anything else. People might be curious where you are from, especially if you have a strong accent, but you’re free to tell them to fuck off (especially if they are being racist.)
We even heard things like that in some places they divide people by “skin color” and base different cultures on that (we noticed that people from America even speak and behave differently based on whether they identify as “black” or “white”) and even have schools for primarily people with dark skin or so.
We have laws preventing creating neighborhoods or schools that exclude specific races, but there are regional schools in communities that are primarily one race or another. Generations of racial segregation, redlining, blockbusting, and gerrymandering have created persisitent segregation that survives decades after those practices were outlawed.
So no, you’re not misinformed. Historical segregation was real and still affects communities today, but there are no laws enforcing racial segregation. We do have a lot of bigots, as evidenced by the literal Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration today, so you should be careful in places like rural Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Utah, and South Carolina. But if you’re visiting a major city, or any famous tourist attractions, you’ll probably not experience any overt racism beyond a Trump bumper sticker.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I also have nightmares about the apocalypse. Ever since I had kids, I would have dreams about inescapable volcanoes or tidal waves and just feel completely hopeless. I don’t need to watch movies about it. See also: 2012, The Walking Dead, The Road, A Quiet Place, the Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, The Mist, etc.
- Comment on No trousers Day today in London 5 weeks ago:
Seems like they should have scheduled it for a summer day.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 5 weeks ago:
I can’t bring myself to watch it. I saw a trailer, and my blood started to boil.
- Comment on Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case 5 weeks ago:
He can be impeached for this. It makes sense for federal prosecutors to avoid prosecuting someone that can theoretically pardon themselves, but the President is not a King. Impeach him on day 1. Call or write your congressional representatives. Tell your Senator and your House Rep that you believe in America and the rule of law. Immunity from prosecution is not immunity from impeachment.
- Comment on ‘Masters of the Universe’ Live-Action Movie Starring Nicholas Galitzine Begins Filming in London 5 weeks ago:
I’d love it if they would do more Halloween specials, like a live action Marvel Zombies, or a Legion of Monsters one-off.
- Comment on ‘Masters of the Universe’ Live-Action Movie Starring Nicholas Galitzine Begins Filming in London 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t know about the cult, but that seems on-brand.