marcos

@marcos@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War. War never changes.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Second World War was pretty much all done on drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You were not born when the decoupling began.

  As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.

  And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.

  But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fast as he can.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean they trying to end the world is distracting people from the time the cartoonish villains tried to take over the world?

  Yeah, it’s kind of a safe bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proper British Passive Aggressiveness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I mixed up the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community in one meme⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some snakes are known to be poisonous. Snakes are prey to several animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They won’t all close at the same time. They don’t operate under the same business conditions.

  They operate under very similar business conditions, and any small difference will dictate which one will close first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno what part the evolution deniers don’t believe in, but I imagine it’s more on the “combination of traits” one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people don’t believe in it. It’s easy to understand why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let Trump cook...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t take any kind of advice from Friedman…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Bozo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People usually align those things better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, right! As everybody knows, 2013 was years before the 1980s decade, and so this is the original source that inspired the movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, right. Not all of them or not all of the time. At least one of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐲 mg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is analysis of soft material around some fossils.

  We know that they didn’t all wear adorable hats mode from compostable materials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from Demolition Man. An 80s sci-fi/action movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riddle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean “nowadays”? Weren’t the ancient Egyptians all pokemon fans? What else did they play on their phones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LPT: If it tells you to “drop and run”, it’s because the owner is trying you from stealing it.

  But take a close look to be sure. Some less valuable sticks look very similar but lack the warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be all over the photo, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If America and Mexico did an all our "WAR" against the cartels look like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean if the US invaded Mexico?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depends what you're on.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are delicious. You are trying to eat the wrong part.

  (And don’t bother, you won’t be able to eat the poisonous part anyway.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody that believes the Moon landing was fake is a lost cause. Only flat Earth is a more ridiculous thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked him why, after going to all the trouble and expense of trying to convincingly fake the moon landings, would NASA install fans.

  Otherwise the flag would fall flat, duh.

  (\s for whoever thinks this isn’t absurd enough.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it keeps getting momentum⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US can always print more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s probably a mirror somewhere, with a person behind thinking “Please, let those be from the control group and not our students!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double standards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are quite common livestock all over the world.

  And exotic to Florida, so calling them “endangered” is completely meaningless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else having issues with YouTube right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it just started working again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I could do executive orders 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t send your worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is even more interesting is that the defeat has been vehemently declared before even the parties named their candidates.

  Now excuse me, because US politics are interesting and so, but I need to make popcorn to watch my country’s electoral court respond to the police about their involvement on what is looking like the largest corruption scheme in the country’s history (what’s a really high bar) while they manage what is looking to be the second most polarized election of the century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audio cable measurements are driving me crazy — why don’t they null?!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant line:

  US installations use +24 dBu for 0 dBFS

  That means the US definition you can’t hear anything below -24 dBFS. It’s the largest value there, it’s -18 for the EU.