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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thread has been a hoot, but your comment properly sent me into fits of giggling. I can picture the nice old lady perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh God, is everyone looking at me weird when I drink soda wrong?

  If you’re not holding it in the crook of your elbow, lifting your arm, and pouring it onto your outstretched tongue, then at least one of us is doing it wrong, and I think it’s you, and everyone is silently judging you for your weird way of drinking. They don’t drink with their elbows probably because they don’t want to embarass you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you run a society?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting prompt. Critically it seems like you definitely aren’t omnipotent, so whilst you can try to influence and teach the new inhabitants, there’s nothing stopping them simply ignoring you and doing something else.

  Rather than some wanting to just not contribute, I’d be more concerned by a group deciding to focus their efforts on building weapons and simply taking what they want from others.

  Fully automated luxury gay space communism is certainly an ideal, but it is extremely vulnerable to hostile forces until it gets large enough and willing enough to excert eqivalent force in return. Hostile forces can be military, ideological, or resource limit based. Responding to all of those, is a massive challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ball for a ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew there was such a thing as slicing your shot in golf, I didn’t know it meant that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Steady on Satan, they’re only a credit card company! They’re bad, but not that bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than a platform, I’ve been wondering if you could rig it so opening the box opens some holes on the bottom, so they think they dodged the worst of it, pick it up to dispose of it and get a desk full from underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair observation, but I assume they’re trained to deal with suspicious packages safely, and that stuff will get transfered throughout the whole building and make everyone’s lives that bit more ‘special’. It’ll still hit the bottom line too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use a rock, use 10lb of glitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possession⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Possesive spirit, 5 minutes later: “Let me out! Let me go back to hell!”

  Me: “Nope, you pushed in, now you gotta drive.”

  Spirit: “Please? At least it’s warm there.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a truck-nut-ologist, so I don’t have much to go on, and it’s frustratingly difficult finding accurate dimensions for them online. I have found this delightfulawful pair (I had to look at them, so so do you).

  The entire structure is approximately 40cm tall, and I measure that as 660 pixels, it look like the main ‘bulk’ of it is in the lower 330 pixels, or 20cm, and about 375 pixels wide, or around 23cm. If we assume that section is half as thick as it is wide, and approximate it as a cuboid (I’ve rounded the numbers, and unrounded the shape), that gives a volume of 5290cm^3, which is disturbingly close to the value you calculated as necessary. Allowing for the top section, I think they might just do the job.

  Obviously those numbers are very approximate, but I’ve started at that model enough that it’ll haunt my dreams, and ‘Ten million aircraft carriers’ is an approximate enough description, that I think we can say it’s within reasonable tolerances of being accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are there bots that downvote every comment users have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, this is a really handy tool. Kniwing the information was being withheld ‘just because’ was really rankling me. Now, could you just add a quick feature to read their minds and tell me why they down voted me? ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article, that should be 10^17 kg/m^3, not 1017kg/m^3. No, I haven’t checked the conversion to aircraft carriers per trucknut, I’m going to take the original author’s word for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Raspberry PIs are great little machines, but they’re ARM based rather than x86, which can potentially limit your software choices. Once you’ve bought the PI, a decent PSU, some storage, and maybe a case the cost can also start to go up quite quickly. Another option you might want to look at is something like a refurbishd EliteDesk. You can get a decent spec for a similar price to a PI and those extras, it’s x86, they run quietly, and they’re upgradable if you need more horsepower in future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, that's no ordinary rabbit!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hind legs also have the joints in proportionally the wrong places compared to the skeleton. I reckon they gave it to the intern to reconstruct, and they just hastily banged it out last thing on a Friday afternoon after a liquid lunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not time for your point release yet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DUCK FOR COVER DUCK FOR COVER

  Quack! *BOOM*

  You can securely run IIS on Vista, you just have to unplug the network and power cables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High point of the meeting surely?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “So, these people are the ones keeping you from paying attention to me are they? I am not impressed.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One day, a woman had 100 children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get a full eye roll and groan for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rock smells bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pier reviewed sauce: Someone on the promenade thought the cafe’s ketchup was ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So 5 meter long sharks with 24 feet? That sounds terrifying. How far up the beach can they run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you’d get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.

  I’m not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you’ve been making extremely broad and general statements that don’t match reality in many places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tried THIS and it actually works all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to the book, there’s no need for them to eat it, you just have to give it to them, although I think they may have mixed up ‘fascinate’ and ‘confuse’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sussvival instinct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the summary. I don’t have time to go down a rabbit hole at the moment, so this was just enough to sate my curiosity until I do have time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Foil will do nothing against ultrasonic or any other acoustic weapon, but may, possibly, be of limited use against microwave weapons should they use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently Vexed Soul - having to deal with customers, especially ones like that! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is not to arrest most if the really high profile individuals who are critical of the state, but encourage rumours about why they’ve been spared to discredit them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, compilers have come a long way since then and there is vanishingly little you’d write in assembler now-a-days, and you’d probably drive yourself mad trying to do so on anything more complex than a microprocessor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Assembly language is not something you would ever really program a game in.

  Back then you wrote whatever you needed to be performant and/or that involved close access to the hardware in assembler. A game would definitely count. It’s kind of nice to do, in many ways it’s simpler than high level programming, you’ve just got a lot more to keep track of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m interested in what the sequel would be called, “Helldivers2 2: dive hellier”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It buys a reduction in unhappiness, which is a good first step to hapiness, but money can’t take you the next step of actually appreciating what you’ve got.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re going to struggle to find something that can carry 200lb and be collapsible. Most carts seem to either be for much less than that, or much more. I found several that looked a bit like what you may want by searching for ‘vendor cart’.

  You may well be better off building/comissioning something to your spec though as a lot of the bigger carts are designed to be food stalls when stationary, so they’re probably unnecesarily heavy. I think you’d be able to make something along the lines of what you wanted with parts from your local DIY store.