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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 19 hours ago:
It’ll collapse under the weight of its own incompetent sooner or later.
- Comment on Would you? 1 day ago:
Anyone know what is trying to say?
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 1 day ago:
Don’t Star Link satellites come down on their own after a few years? There’s no way they have high enough orbits to cause any sort of Kessler syndrome effect for anything other than about 2 years max and even that’s doubtful. People really underestimate how truly massive LEO is, the satellites are not even particularly big ones. There’s just no way.
- Comment on Anon catches a glimpse of his own mortality 1 day ago:
Russia moving their nukes to Georgia is the most telling sign yet that they’re not serious. Our intercontinental ballistic missiles are marginally closer to you is not the brag they think it is. It means they’ve given up on military superiority and are now resulting to chest thumping in an attempt to intimidate, they wouldn’t do that if they still had a functional military.
So I’m reasonably confident that Poland is safe from Russian aggression.
I also can’t really see the US going to war in Greenland. It’s a wholly unpopular idea both with civilians but also with the US military who know that all it would result in is them losing a significant chunk of their forces to hypothermia since the US is very weak in cold weather combat. They already have a US air base in Greenland, controlling the rest of the country wouldn’t increase US national security and the only person who thinks it would is Trump.
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 2 days ago:
I’m definitely putting that on my dating profile. Sluter than a sheep
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It’s not the American spelling of labour it’s the incorrect spelling of the party name.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
These numbers are a bit daft to consider in isolation.
Badenoch is completely useless, and way to far the right of traditional conservative values. But she’s also not got a snowball’s chance in hell of ever becoming PM so people aren’t as bothered by her as they would be if she was actually in charge doing these things.
In much the same way that no one would really care about starmer if you wasn’t prime minister. The trouble is he is prime minister.
- Comment on Pizza styles 3 days ago:
It’s only Chicago style if it’s made in the Chicago region of France. Otherwise it’s just Domino’s.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 4 days ago:
I haven’t heard of anything on the list until we get to 8, and I only recognise the name I have no idea what the gameplay is like.
- Comment on Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 4 days ago:
I’ve heard of four of the games on the list and it’s the four you would think.
- Comment on Anon gets enemy zoned 5 days ago:
Well considering that Russia has basically lost a war to a largely civilian-based resistance, and the US seems insistent on sending all of their troops to rather pointlessly freeze to death in Greenland, I’m not particularly concerned about either country engaging in world domination.
- Comment on Anon gets enemy zoned 5 days ago:
Fortunately it’s entirely possible to be neither Russian nor American.
- Comment on No regerts 1 week ago:
Every story about a bakery I’ve ever heard is them doing stuff like this. I’m convinced it’s a global conspiracy. Forgot the Freemasons, it’s the intentional cabal of cake decorators I’m worried about.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
Well the back need some safe bets as a baseline.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 week ago:
I always pay my loans back on time and every now and then the bank rise my credit limit. I think it’s because I also have a bank account with them and they can see I have the money ready to go. I don’t make much money for them, but I do make a consistent amount and the banks like that too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Most Nazis can’t help but tell you about themselves. All you have to do is talk to them for 15 seconds.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 week ago:
I stopped after No Man’s Sky.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 1 week ago:
Do your evidence that this was a murder is limited only to something that even crystal healers would consider crack pot?
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this warning on a t-shirt. Not on the label of the t-shirt, the actual design of the t-shirt. Which presumably also constitutes a warning, I bet the lawyers love that one.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
According to a friend who’s a lawyer she once had to explain to someone that she can’t sue her landlord because she slipped on a wet floor, since it was her house and therefore her wet floor. The landlord merely owns the house, but didn’t make the floor wet.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
It’s like on medication when it says something along the lines of, do not take this medication if you are allergic to this medication or think you might be allergic to this medication.
Good now it’s your fault if you have an allergic reaction.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
It reminds me of the time at work that we got a piece of industrial equipment. The manual clearly had been translated from Chinese into English via a Tibetan monk who would never heard either language.
It said things like “ensure when on that the fingers are not found” and “if loud kick immediately and call for help from empowering”. The best bit was the warning at the top that said “DO NOT DANGEROUS”, which was very helpful.
For some reason it also had a biohazard label on the box. It was a laser engraver. Where’s the biohazard?
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 weeks ago:
It makes it sound like some cursed item. Get the SCP on this.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Who are you?
The man is 100% ego, so if you pretended to not know who he is, he’d probably struggle up and die.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 2 weeks ago:
Why even have a QA department if they just release the game anyway?
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 weeks ago:
You put garlic in an aquarium? Is this to stop the vampire fish
- Comment on The truth behind the UK's so-called 'millionaire exodus' 2 weeks ago:
No one ever claimed that the millionaires would leave. That was just something posted in the sun.
Every single time anybody evers talks about maybe getting rich people to pay their dues, some newspaper always comes out with the same line and it’s never been true and it’ll never be true. They don’t care about actually paying taxes because they don’t notice them, they just complain whenever anybody suggests that the number might go down a little faster, but ultimately they get distracted by something else eventually.
- Comment on Anon is on trial 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can get manslaughter for literally shooting someone.
- Comment on OP has a realization 2 weeks ago:
It’s not Newtonian physics, we know Newtonian physics is wrong and have done for about a century.
It’s Einstein physics and quantum mechanics that need to be unified. Of course the fact that they don’t agree probably indicates that one, or the other, or both is also wrong.
I suspect that the real answer probably has something to do with our misunderstanding in how coarse graining plays inro quantum mechanics, because it just seems sort of a cop out to say that changes smooth out over larger distances. It’s just putting an arbitrary boundary between the two realms. It’s a good explanation but it also doesn’t really make any sense because why would the universe care?
- Comment on OP has a realization 2 weeks ago:
Aliens are not the same things as ghosts. They’re not supernatural. They’re just people who evolved on a different planet to us it doesn’t require anything other than basic science.
To be clear I’m not saying that any have ever visited earth but you don’t need to lump them in with ghosts unicorns and magicians.