darklamer
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- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 6 days ago:
That’s what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was actually shortly before that.
While I too remember the Challenger explosion, that memory is much less clear in my mind and I wouldn’t have been able to tell that it happened before.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
Either you’re a guerilla cigarette advertisement or you’ve gone off the deep end.
There’s also the third possibility of making a joke …
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 1 week ago:
The assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 week ago:
Is that a pack of Marlboro cigarettes? Every real European knows that a proper coffee & cigarettes breakfast requires Gauloises.
- Comment on For Halloween I made gagh. 1 week ago:
Much like when we ask if bloodwine is made with actual blood.
Hungarian bikavér is not actually made with blood, despite the name (but it’s very tasty).
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 4 weeks ago:
Greetings from Switzerland! First of all, I’d like to complain that the Swiss flag in the image is incorrect, the correct Swiss flag is a perfect square. Then I can attest that the diagram almost certainly shows the effect of causation.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Well, sure, but Freedman only joined several years and editions after my copy of the book was printed so I only learned about him today and in my mind the book is still just University Physics by Young, sorry about that.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Originally from here: web.archive.org/web/…/1222026507616489472
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Have you read University Physics by Young?
- Comment on here there be lions 2 months ago:
What the fuck is bad::s supposed to mean!?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 months ago:
Knives.
- Comment on Y tho 2 months ago:
The magnet dislikes you personally, that’s why.
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
Never wear a hat you haven’t grown yourself.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 months ago:
That seems like a very safe bet:
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”
- Comment on What to watch next after ST: Voyager? 2 months ago:
Enterprise has by far the best production design in all of Star Trek, the starship feels real. Don’t miss that.
(Unfortunately most of the scripts are seriously bad, but don’t let that make you skip the show altogether.)
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 3 months ago:
When we’ve achieved Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 3 months ago:
Or does it need to be intended for 7-10 year olds.
I don’t know if there’s actually any publishing industry or library defintion of the word, but as I know it, it clearly indicates a book intended for children who are still learning to read.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 3 months ago:
what the fuck is a “chapter book”?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_book
It’s a kind of book for children who are learning to read, which unlike a picture book (or, to some extent, a comic book) consists primarily of text that the reader must read in order to get the story.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
That all depends on what you actually mean by “no other proximate reason”.
I think we all agree that the police should take immediate action if someone is driving the wrong direction against traffic, even if they’re doing nothing else wrong and are driving the posted speed limit, to take an absolutely obvious example.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
The argument can literally be made that you’re driving dangerously no matter how fast you go.
Well, that’s certainly true also in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with, as it should be, common sense, really.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
Where I live there are only upper speed limits on most roads except highways. On other roads you can drive as slowly as you want,
Are you sure that you really don’t have any traffic rules against causing a hazard or impeding traffic flow by being too slow? That seems both unusual and unsafe to me.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 3 months ago:
There are speed limits in both directions, in every jurisdiction I’m familiar with it’s illegal to drive both too fast and too slow, to exceed the posted speed limit or to drive so slowly that it impedes other traffic.
- Comment on Arts & STEM 4 months ago:
I think the best tell that this is AI generated is the — character. There’s not even a key on the keyboard for that.
Then you must have a really crappy keyboard.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 months ago:
Treating brainfreeze by inserting a copper wire through the eye socket and then heating it on a candle was first proposed in a letter to the Royal Society in 1842.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 6 months ago:
That sounds like sex and war to me.
- Comment on succession 6 months ago:
This is just an example of course.
Of course, but it does annoy me when something so specific is mentioned, instead of simply writing “hardwood trees” (or whatever information it was that the reader was supposed to infer from that example).
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 6 months ago:
You’re
a man(?)an officer of taste.Thank you! (No need to complicate things. ;-)
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 6 months ago:
Kira Nerys
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 6 months ago:
size in centimeters
Measuring like that would be even easier in the US, where the answer would always be simply “one foot”.
- Comment on succession 6 months ago:
There’s no way you’re going to get Hickory growing naturally in your garden, unless your garden is in some very specific parts of the world.