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- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 1 day ago:
Na The Shire is in Matamata
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Add new receptors to be able to feel wetness.
This is it cold or wet thing we have going on is just crappy design. - Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
Cows farm out their photosynthesis to things that have far more surface area than they do.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 weeks ago:
Ministry of truth
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 weeks ago:
In NZ we get them in 6’s, 8’s, 10’s, the classic 12, a 15 box and a 30 crate.
- Comment on I'll consider it if I get a break from those currently receiving my deposits 3 weeks ago:
Sorry I already got the snip.
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 3 weeks ago:
Starship troopers.
I saw it when it came out. I was young and the action was awesome.
Watching at an adult… The fascist themes are so obvious, I wonder how young me missed them.
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 3 weeks ago:
No it’s the whole movie.
It is the story of an oppressed people, in their desperation they follow a con artist who is only out for himself.
Their uprising and short lived victory, is marked by incompetence and grift.
After being in power for a while, the old regime returns. They kill the leader and ruthlessly crush the now demoralised people.
In the end the old monarchy rules again, the oppressed people are scattered, this culture and way of life vilified, even moreso than in the past.
- Comment on Which movies are much darker when you rewatch them as an adult? 3 weeks ago:
The lion king.
- Comment on Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research 4 weeks ago:
I see “smart home” tech the same way.
- Comment on Water addiction 5 weeks ago:
As hydroperoxyl is quite reactive, it acts as a “cleanser” of the atmosphere by degrading certain organic pollutants.
- Comment on Anon gets corrected 5 weeks ago:
Cunt is singular, he should have used “cunts”.
- Comment on Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately 1 month ago:
Well it can’t be worse than ours…so you have that going for you.
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 2 months ago:
Maybe, but brussel sprouts still taste like shit.
Broccoli is and always has been really good, if cooked correctly.
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 2 months ago:
270bar pneumatics… Fuck that
- Comment on About to turn the car to a flying car 2 months ago:
I work with industrial hydraulics, the forces involved in big gear are truly insane.
Working pressures is around 270bar…on ~1.4m^2 of cylinders. Millions of kg of force.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 2 months ago:
My partner took an “anonymous” survey at work once.
When the results came out, it categorised the results. Site, m/f/o, role.
Turns out that there was only one female engineer at her site… So everybody knew she was annoyed about some specific things.
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 2 months ago:
A 1.8%pa degradation over 10 years would be, 83.39%.
Linearising it to make it “more intuitive” I guess.
But 2%pa degradation gets you very close to the 18% over 10 years figure.
- Comment on Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer 2 months ago:
Yes because fair skin implied that you were rich or upper class. White/pale skin = not working the fields or as a maid cleaning and getting dirty.
That notion got turned on its head relatively recently, when in the 1920 Coco Chanel got a sun tan whilst in the French Rivera. Being tanned no longer meant that you were “low class”.
A lot of old fairy tails are about paths to becoming rich. When Snow White was written it had little to do with race, if anything, and everything to do with classism. There was virtually no social mobility, if you were born poor you stayed poor! These are not aspirational stories designed to motivate you to better yourself, they are there to remind you of your place in the world.
- Comment on They nailed it 2 months ago:
Now I feel inadequate, I have only been online since 87.
I also hadn’t seen this.
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
All I read was “natural hangi pit”
We have those all around where I live.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 2 months ago:
It is a combination of this and the power of propaganda.
When you can control the information that people consume, you can have a huge influence over what they think.
If you can influence the thoughts of a big portion of the populous, you can create control structures. You use these control structures to move people into their emotional decision making more often. The more often you can keep people in their emotional decision mode, the easier you can control what they do.
The thing is, the easiest way to keep people in their emotional thought mode, is to pull the fear and anger levers. Keep people afraid and angry, and you can steer society.The other problem with this is, the people who see through this kind of thing are not the majority.
The people who can see through the techniques, are not always the traditionally “smart”; but higher intelligence is certainly an advantage. - Comment on If Open Source is so great... 2 months ago:
To quote a non-computer savvy friend from a few years ago. When he was talking to someone else, I just over heard the conversation.
Na, I use VLC player. It always works, it will play a slice of cucumber.
- Comment on Examination you say? What kind? 2 months ago:
Well it is nice to have a sign to tell me where to go. Weird that it is in the OB ward though.
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 2 months ago:
So this is why FOSS software is often faster, no traffic jams.
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 2 months ago:
IMO Krita is better than GIMP for the quick simple edits.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 2 months ago:
Drag has a point, I bet gun control laws would follow quickly.
(said from the safety of New Zealand)
- Comment on It was rigged? 2 months ago:
It can happen, but statistically adult man vs adult woman is not a fair fight.
I knew a guy at university; started going out with this smoking hot girl. She was a regional champ in jujitsu; it didn’t last long, turns out she was a violent piece of shit. Beat him up twice, he left after the second one. She had major anger management issues.
But you turn that story around a little, similar situation, girl has same anger management issues, but without the training etc, she is unlikely to be a threat to any adult guy.
- Comment on fuckery 3 months ago:
Just because you are all out of fucks, doesn’t really have anything to do with the finite/infinite nature of all fucks.
- Comment on fuckery 3 months ago:
(thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today