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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woah, there's a cool little spider on my wall. I wonder what it's called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Did somebody let an ornithologist into the entomology enclosure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For dramatization, when some event is so stupidly, unexpectedly bizarre that you have to check your figurative notes to make sure you’re not just remembering a fever dream. Example:

  America is rolling back renewable energy development to promote the use of beautiful, clean… (checks notes…) coal, of all fucking things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are two different measurements.

  He’s six foot.

  And he’s three inches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just go through Sloan? Seems so much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the matter of guns not being tossed around like candy at a Willy Wonka publicity tour in most of Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remembered a different source. The one I linked uses a different definition for “mass shooting”: it counts events where at least four victims are dead or wounded, and includes cases of domestic violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a statistic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2022 or 2023 there was one mass shooting for every day of the year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a history buff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We fought for our rights! Our rights to be racist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would question their omniscience if they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Praying every day to gods I don’t even believe in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨community work is revolutionary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because one hog ain’t enough, and two’s too low, it is I, Thirty-To-Fifty-Hogg!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the article fails to link it (and also reads like slop), here is the actual publication: …europa.eu/…/8af13e88-6540-436c-b137-9853e7fe866a…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Browder’s acting was fine. It’s the character I didn’t like. A third “charismatic, witty, sarcastic leader” archetype was just too much after O’Neill and Sheppard. His tragic background also feels tacked-on, rushed, and inconsequential, and doesn’t have the same impact as Cold Lazarus.

  Claudia Black, I actually like, mainly because of her stellar performance in the Uncharted games. Vala showed promise early on as a sort of opportunist anti-hero who may help or hinder SG-1 depending on the circumstances, but her inclusion in the SGC’s personnel was too much, let alone putting her in SG-1. Teal’c proved his loyalty and reliability, Vala did the opposite.

  On the whole, the SGC had turned into a parody of itself. Beau Bridges was fine, but I couldn’t take him seriously as a general. Dr. Lee, an obvious comic relief character, did not help. Without Hammond’s straight man to counter the shenanigans, I just couldn’t take it seriously anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stargate SG-1, Anubis. A very evil, evil-looking evil guy who is evil and did a bamboozle once. That’s all the character depth he has.

  Also Cam Mitchell, who is just a non-brand replacement for O’Neill (no offense to the actor).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had the same mechanical pencil for ten years. It’s comfortable, reliable, easy to reload, but if I had to choose one for the rest of my life, I’d still go with the traditional wood/graphite pencil. It’s cheap, it’s everywhere, it’s durable, and not a great loss if you lose it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong updated Steam page with 2025 copyrights and cloud gaming jnfo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tomorrow for sure!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how time works.

  • 1995 was ten years ago.
  • 1997 was three years ago.
  • Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
  • 2010 was 10 years ago.
  • 2016 was two years ago.
  • 2018 was two years ago.
  • 2019 was one year ago.
  • 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
  • 2021-2022 didn’t happen.
  • 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
  • 2024 still hasn’t ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
  • 2025 takes place in the 1960s, rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty good, and somehow getting better with time.

  The game’s main premium currency is platinum. There’s no way to get it through in-game activities. You can buy it directly, it is included in most cash-only purchases, or you can trade it freely with other players. Most of the trading is organized on the third-party market board warframe.market, and the in-game trading chat… exists, I guess.

  Most of the game’s items (weapons, warframes, companions, upgrades) can be farmed through regular gameplay from random drops, from specific missions or boss fights, crafted from gathered resources, or bought using in-game currencies. You can buy most of them for platinum, but don’t have to. The only payment-exclusive items are cosmetics (skins, helmets, color palettes), but not all of them, and inventory slots. There are also many late-game items that are impossible to buy and have to be earned. Some items are also sold in discounted packs. As of the latest major update (released literally a few hours ago), you get an additional discount for items of a pack that you already own.

  The worst limiting factor for a new player is warframe and weapon slots. Your account can only hold a limited number of certain items, and slots are almost exclusively purchased with platinum (a small number can be earned through Nightwave, a free battle pass-like system). A new account starts with 50 non-tradable platinum – my recommendation is to buy 2 weapon slot packs (12p for two slots, 24p total) and a warframe slot (20p for one).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had Friday evening sessions that were ended by the morning sun. I wasn’t kidding about the crack simile. Time is just a suggestion when you have an assembly line to complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you’re anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven’t bought the DLC is because I know it’ll consume a month of my free time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has no social skills⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Graveyard shifts get weird, okay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poooweeeer!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wonder how many people think the cooling towers are “chimneys” blowing “smoke”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Untraceable airplanes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ADS-B can be disabled (not unexected for military aircraft) or made private at the request of governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You wrote an SQL statement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please answer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This bacterium gives me the sniffles. This other bacterium liquefies and eats my muscles. But if I don’t have enough of this other bacterium in me, I get violent explosive shits??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if all undersea cables got severed worldwide simultaneously?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The largest providers use CDNs to serve content, which are designed to be redundant and resilient. Cloudflare alone has 335 datacenters on all inhabited continents. Services that don’t need to talk to a single centralised server would be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Оф корс ит из сэтайрь. Ай’м виллинг ту бет мост Американс вид шит брикс иф дей хед ту лёрн а секнд алфабет.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The owner of an account can set individual posts or their entire account to be visible only to signed-in sessions. I see it used by certain artists that moved from twitter, and consider it an overall good feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Games actually provide lots of debugging information, but not in an easily accessible manner. It is usually printed to stdout or stderr, which is to say, to a terminal output, and you’ll only see it if the game executable is launched from a terminal or the outputs are redirected to a file.