thedarkfly

@thedarkfly@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fully agree. I’ve seen a lot of people going into engineering for prestige or “by default” because they weren’t bad at math. It always made me a little sad because I found a lot of the courses truly fascinating and eye-opening and I wanted to nerd out with my teammates!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I can understand that sitting on a desk all day, reading and taking exams is a pretty harrowing experience for most.

  It looks like it’s my personal tastes that allowed me to enjoy school. And I really did enjoy it! Hopefully other people find something to do that they love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder why they hated school. Maybe the problem was the school and not the topic? Otherwise I feel sad for them disliking the topic they chose as a career path :(

  I feel like there’s so much interesting stuff out there, there must be something useful that they find at least interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extended lungs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Metal vocalists hate love him!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨explosions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder who’s the artist behind the symbol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks the French are posers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Belgian, this is my position as well. Fries is part of the Belgian culinary culture, but it’s chauvinism to claim they were invented in Belgium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling in healthy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty nice, it’s basically additional leave days! I still prefer European style with unlimited sick leave, but you need a certificate from your physician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can pry these high voltage lines from my sizzling dead fingers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone know the artist?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need a comedy necromancy community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon compares himself to his brother⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, the nm were useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only it was like that⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked for others who, like me, are too European to understand the joke: 50°F is 10°C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ooooo lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually a very reasonable behavior if cars were normal predators: wait for the last moment before jumping out of the way so that the predator has to do a 180° and you’ve already left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need better hobbies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that was a Calvin and Hobbes joke, wasn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the secret: you pick it with a handkerchief on your finger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I added “some nebulae” to remove any misunderstanding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When we look at the sky, there is a line where there is way more stars than usual. This line goes all the way around the sky. This was called the milky way by the Greeks because it was like a road sparkled with milk drops. At some point, we deduced that we were in a group of stars arranged in a flat disk. Later, we realized that weird space clouds (nebulae) were much further away than we thought and were actually other huge groups of stars like our own that we named galaxies, still after milk.

  There are more details me course. Even along the line in the sky drawn by the milky way, there is one side where there is much more stars and dust than the other. We deduced that we were at the edge of the disk and the bright region was the center of our galaxy. Also, the amount of gas and dust that block certain types of light that teach us that our galaxy has arms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quatre-vingts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d actually be down for huitante, in ordre to keep the latin root like other numbers instead of the greek one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Part of a balanced diet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have the occasion, try a fresh olive picked from the three. You won’t regret it ;)