manny_stillwagon

@manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally found where they store all the excess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming from an astronomy background, I can tell you that abso-fucking-lutely no one is going to use zettameters instead of kiloparsecs. If I tried to use that in a paper or talk people would think I was insane, and then demand I convert it to kPc.

  And they would be right to do so since kPc is an immediately understandable distance (to astronomers). One parsec is roughly the distance between stars. So one kiloparsec tells me something is about 1000 star-distances across. Easy. I have no idea what a zettameter is. I like consistent rules as much as the next guy, but sometimes you have to make accommodations for things that are actually useful instead of the “strictly correct” option that is useful to no one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to use Power BI for my job and it does automatically saves until it’s been open too long and then it stops automatically saving and also won’t let you manually save. Then you have to do a Save As for some reason, close every open PBI file, and reopen them, which takes approximately 3-5 business days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the book it is explained that since (in universe) her vision is based on movement, she roars to scare prey into fleeing so that she can see them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a stillsuit, why would you get OUT to pee?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mmmm proper mammilian⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy can’t lizardpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees don't have lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, one of the animals they’ve cloned are these giant dragonflies. Its only one line in the book (Tim, one if the kids, sees one fly by and recalls reading about them) but it caught my attention as just straight impossible. I remember thinking, “Unless you’re somehow controlling the oxygen level of the air around this entire island, there’s no way that bug can’t breathe.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be me American college kid by himself in Italy for a week Staying at hotel with Italian hottie at the front desk Hell yeah, love this country Eating all the pizza cause that’s Italian food, right? The pizzas are so goddamn thin Like eating a sheet of paper Eat an entire pizza and still hungry This goes on for like three days Tired of being hungry New pizza place, order three entire pizzas “They’ll just think I’m picking up for my friends” Get my pizzas, hell yes Walk back to hotel Walk past the front desk carrying three pizzas Front desk hottie knows I’m there alone Cover blown Go up to my room and eat all three pizzas in shame Finally fucking full

  Worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was just existing, bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sorry, I’m under a pretty strict NDA and I’m not allowed to discuss it.”