spittingimage
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- Comment on Why do Kiwis love Museli? What is the history? 2 days ago:
Lots of textures in every bite.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 1 week ago:
New Zealand here. Yes, public libraries have the many volumes of the legal code in the reference section.
- Comment on Could gunpowder be chemically addictive for humans ? 1 week ago:
And in the early days they obtained the potassium nitrate by boiling shit. Might be the opposite of addictive.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
I don’t hate it, but my personal experience has been that it’s not reliable enough to depend on.
- Comment on If WW3 breaks out, who is going to be on which side? 2 weeks ago:
I’m from New Zealand. We’ve traditionally been a US ally but the situation being what it is at the moment, I think there’s a good chance we’d try to stay neutral.
- Comment on How will the Military be after this mess with Trump? 3 weeks ago:
They might not want to do it, they might feel there are better things to fight for, they may have heavy regret signing and volunteering for the military knowing who the president is. But they do it anyways.
Do you maybe mean the opposite of respect? Because that seems more logical.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I believe Thiel’s name is one of the ones found in the Epstein emails.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
One thing I’ve noticed is that boomers think that if you disagree with them, it means you must be younger than them and therefore wrong.
If you’re older than a boomer, your arguments tend to consist of. “Speak up! Why can’t you speak up? No, I don’t need a hearing aid. I need you to speak up!”
- Comment on If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ? 1 month ago:
I think cats would have outrageously fake french accents.
- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 1 month ago:
Like they’re unironically wholesale swallowing cultural domination.
Did you somehow get the idea that northern hemisphere countries own Christmas traditions?
- Comment on People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen a mall Santa. He was inside, in the air conditioning, so I think he was okay.
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 1 month ago:
After this exercise I’m left wondering how are new chips designed nowadays considering that there are billions and billions of microscopic transistors in a modern chip?
You have to use one, to design one.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
It’s the I’m-pointing-at-you-with-a-pen-but-I-forgot-my-pen gesture.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 2 months ago:
Duh. Why else go to space?
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 2 months ago:
“Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Either way, you’ve changed how I feel about eating gingerbread men.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 2 months ago:
Well, most asteroids are agglomerations - loose rock and dust held together by gravity. Unless the aliens are supporting every part of it, on the inside as well, it’s going to rain gravel on New York. If it’s solid enough and low enough, maybe it would be worth mining?
Gravity would be slightly weaker under it, because of its own gravity, but I think the difference would be small enough that you’d need measuring equipment to see it. No moon hopping.
Weather would be different. I think there’d be more rain on the windward side, because some water-laden air would have to drop its load in order to rise over it. You’d get wind vortices on the other side of it.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 2 months ago:
Make him write in pen?
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 2 months ago:
Let’s suppose some fun-loving aliens lower that rock slow enough that touchdown isn’t some cataclysmic event. We now have an asteroid 60 Km across at its widest point sitting on the Earth’s surface. That surface will immediately start to experience the pressure you’d find 60 Km deep in the Earth. There are places on Earth where the solid crust extends lower than that, there are others where that’s inside the mantle.
The weight might crush the crustal plate into the mantle, in which case the effect will be very much like a supervolcano going off. Smoke, toxic gas, exploding rocks tossed hundreds of kilometres. It’ll last decades or possibly centuries. Chances are, you’ve enjoyed your last hot fudge sundae.
But maybe the crust is strong enough to support the weight - until a few hours pass and it starts to melt from pressure and heat. As it melts it compresses, sending stress through neighbouring seismic fault lines and causing earthquakes, regular-size volcanic eruptions and tsunamis across a vast area. It may not be enough to destroy the environment, but it’ll be serious enough make everyone forget about global warming as an issue.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 2 months ago:
No. We do hasty, vague and passive-aggressive communication.
- Comment on Did this happen in any of the Addams Family Live action movies? 2 months ago:
I remember a scene like that where they were waiting for baby Pubert to wake up, but not Fester.
“He has my father’s eyes.”
“Gomez, take those out of his mouth.”
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 months ago:
It’s a good argument against the intelligent design theory, isn’t it?
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 months ago:
Those symptoms you’ve described? It’s your immune system doing that to you. On purpose, not a mistake. Nose is stuffed because you’re producing extra mucous to flush infection out of your airways. Dry throat because the tissues are inflamed to directly kill viruses using the body’s transport system. Yeah, it’s bad for you - but it’s worse for the little invaders.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 3 months ago:
That’s a disturbing thing to read.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I really can’t see any benefits to the kid in saddling him with a name like that.
- Comment on Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering? 3 months ago:
You don’t have to feel bad for people who’ve wronged you. I’d say your only obligation is to uphold your values so you won’t regret your behaviour later on.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 4 months ago:
Does anyone actually believe that suffering gives life meaning? I’m sceptical.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 4 months ago:
Only when I’m out on the moors with the gents, hunting our servants for sport. Gad, there’s one now!
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 5 months ago:
The president I’m thinking of gets applause when he signs his name to something because people are so relieved he remembers how.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
You’ll absolutely be judged.