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- Comment on xkcd #3220: Rotational Gravity 1 week ago:
What you’ll find is that rug will suddenly be pulled from under you and you’ll realize the assumption you made was erroneous.
Joke’s on you if I’m too dense for you to pull the rug out from under me.
But seriously, saying “cruise line” did not do enough to contradict the SF frame for me. Should have been something like “passenger ferry boat company”, out something.
- Comment on xkcd #3220: Rotational Gravity 1 week ago:
Once “artificial gravity” was mentioned, I immediately placed this scene in a science fiction setting and I couldn’t see what the joke was. The joke was that it’s not a science fiction setting. It needs more clues to clarify that swap.
- Comment on Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s guaranteed!
Oh, you said “not”…
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 1 week ago:
TIL it was a initially freedom slogan from the Palestinians that was mocked and turned into an apartheid slogan by Israeli far-right politicians. So it’s complicated now and depends on context.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 3 weeks ago:
I think you want a donkey.
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 5 weeks ago:
I think the wariness regarding faes, dwarves, goblins, trolls was more about culling the genetical outliers and uncanny foreigners from around your village. It’s just that AIs are now the uncanny foreigners surrounding our village…
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 5 weeks ago:
Fair point…
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 5 weeks ago:
You also can’t “squeeze into” a bus, ship or train, but you can into a car. It’s a matter of scale.
- Comment on Currency 1 month ago:
You don’t have to like them. You just need to believe that there is someone that believes there’s someone that likes them. Simple.
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- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 months ago:
Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 3 months ago:
Unpopular opinion, but the judge was right. There would be zero benefit to society to reward this absolute cybersquatter. There’s an almost zero benefit to reward a corporation. Both bad, but the corporation should get it in this case.
- Comment on Why did the proposed *Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance* project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it? 3 months ago:
Yes, and the highest point in this route was 230m above sea level, requiring 22.8x the uphill ‘push’ that atmosphere could provide.
But even if the highest point was below 10m and friction was not an issue, you would need hundreds of kilometers of perfectly airtight ‘vacuumed’ pipes. If air leaks into the pipes somewhere along their length, the flow stops.
- Comment on Ganoderma oregonense (Oregon Reishi) in lil decorative pots 3 months ago:
Their growth would probably look amazing in a timelapse!
- Comment on Downdetector is down 3 months ago:
He meant “lost it” as in outran a pursuer? (I thought lost it as in “the thing is broken” at first).
- Comment on YSK: A single piece of paper towel can double the life of your leafy greens in the fridge. 4 months ago:
Yup, that should also keep the greens safe a while longer!
Oh, paper towels, what can’t you do?
- Comment on YSK: A single piece of paper towel can double the life of your leafy greens in the fridge. 4 months ago:
I did a Google search and the recommendation is to put the paper towel over the mouth of the recipient the greens are in, or just shoved in the bag with them if that’s where they are.
OP seems to be mass-copying LPTs from someredditwhere or something.
- Comment on YSK: How to perfectly seal a bag of chips (or anything similar) without any clips or ties. 4 months ago:
This is the best description. Your gif embedded for visibility: Image
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 4 months ago:
I see… TIL, thanks.
- Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs 4 months ago:
You mean because Twitter is an SMS-based messaging app?.. The character limits are arbitrary, not a technical limitation. Which is why they doubled them at one point, I believe.
The limits were meant to act as a micro-blogging enforcement measure, for micro attention spans.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 4 months ago:
Sorcery…
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 5 months ago:
I don’t think it’s propaganda. The music and the ads too are just trying to do a “fellow kids” move, and that’s what they’re seeing. Because that’s what we’ve become.
It’s like seeing a mirror and getting spooked by how disheveled the person in it looks.
- Comment on advertisement 5 months ago:
Water does clump up overnight in some places, but you’d need to set the WD-40 on fire for it to make a difference.
- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 months ago:
The common ancestor that links whales and deer existed millions of years ago and exhibited features shared by both groups. This ancestor likely possessed basic artiodactyl characteristics, such as an even number of toes on each foot and a certain bone structure within the ear. Over time, as these creatures diverged to inhabit distinct environments, their physical traits adapted accordingly. Despite these differences, the underlying genetic similarities persist, revealing their deep-rooted connection.
- Comment on at least no more trolley problems 6 months ago:
This is not like a falling kid problem…
If he had more than 0.5 seconds to move the kid he could have done so without severely hurting him. On the other hand, if he had less than 0.5 seconds he’s now killed everyone on the train.
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 6 months ago:
I… I don’t understand what the joke is here. Not even the explainxkcd mentions any kind of humor outside of the alt text. What am I missing?
- Comment on Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report 6 months ago:
#americastworldproblems
- Comment on I have never seen the 😗 emoji used, but I have seen a TON of :3 7 months ago:
And 😙 is more like: Image
- Comment on pragnent 7 months ago:
- Comment on WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions 7 months ago:
“Who’s signal is this?”
“Oh, it’s that guy with the metal strips. His address is on a post-it note somewhere around here.”
