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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If animals could speak English in what foreign accent do you think that a certain species would certainly have ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think cats would have outrageously fake french accents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like they’re unironically wholesale swallowing cultural domination.

  Did you somehow get the idea that northern hemisphere countries own Christmas traditions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who live in southern hemisphere countries: do your mall Santas dress for freezing cold weather?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a mall Santa. He was inside, in the air conditioning, so I think he was okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are computer chips designed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After this exercise I’m left wondering how are new chips designed nowadays considering that there are billions and billions of microscopic transistors in a modern chip?

  You have to use one, to design one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the I’m-pointing-at-you-with-a-pen-but-I-forgot-my-pen gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. Why else go to space?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Imagine a hydra with an infinite number of heads. Some of the heads are arguing, some have got their necks knotted, and some are french-kissing. One of them is wearing a pirate hat.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I block people who are dishonest or abrasive. I’m here for entertainment, not for any higher purpose. I’m not obligating to give those people any attention and I have nothing to gain by it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone from a rich family chooses not to date a poor or middle-class people thats not "wrong"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What made you decide to share your lightning bolt of inspiration with us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooling stuff does not require any energy!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s often good to have a conversation on the topic as well as the basic info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need that kind of disrespect from software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, why not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you’re pointing out that the thing which was never intended to be internally consistent… isn’t internally consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you shouldn’t apply real-world logic to superhero stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An uncle, a child, a best friend, a parent, a teammate getting killed is not tragic

  That’s a unique take, to say the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either way, you’ve changed how I feel about eating gingerbread men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, most asteroids are agglomerations - loose rock and dust held together by gravity. Unless the aliens are supporting every part of it, on the inside as well, it’s going to rain gravel on New York. If it’s solid enough and low enough, maybe it would be worth mining?

  Gravity would be slightly weaker under it, because of its own gravity, but I think the difference would be small enough that you’d need measuring equipment to see it. No moon hopping.

  Weather would be different. I think there’d be more rain on the windward side, because some water-laden air would have to drop its load in order to rise over it. You’d get wind vortices on the other side of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Make him write in pen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be the rapture you want to see in the no. Don’t do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s suppose some fun-loving aliens lower that rock slow enough that touchdown isn’t some cataclysmic event. We now have an asteroid 60 Km across at its widest point sitting on the Earth’s surface. That surface will immediately start to experience the pressure you’d find 60 Km deep in the Earth. There are places on Earth where the solid crust extends lower than that, there are others where that’s inside the mantle.

  The weight might crush the crustal plate into the mantle, in which case the effect will be very much like a supervolcano going off. Smoke, toxic gas, exploding rocks tossed hundreds of kilometres. It’ll last decades or possibly centuries. Chances are, you’ve enjoyed your last hot fudge sundae.

  But maybe the crust is strong enough to support the weight - until a few hours pass and it starts to melt from pressure and heat. As it melts it compresses, sending stress through neighbouring seismic fault lines and causing earthquakes, regular-size volcanic eruptions and tsunamis across a vast area. It may not be enough to destroy the environment, but it’ll be serious enough make everyone forget about global warming as an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  religious zealots will start to think they weren’t good enough

  Self-doubt requires a capacity for self-reflection, though. None of the zealots I know have it, even to a small degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you use non violent communication at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. We do hasty, vague and passive-aggressive communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did this happen in any of the Addams Family Live action movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a scene like that where they were waiting for baby Pubert to wake up, but not Fester.

  “He has my father’s eyes.”

  “Gomez, take those out of his mouth.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The romans, technically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a good argument against the intelligent design theory, isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those symptoms you’ve described? It’s your immune system doing that to you. On purpose, not a mistake. Nose is stuffed because you’re producing extra mucous to flush infection out of your airways. Dry throat because the tissues are inflamed to directly kill viruses using the body’s transport system. Yeah, it’s bad for you - but it’s worse for the little invaders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could, but if you were a good person, you wouldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If reincarnation exists, you could do the same thing the next life and have no memories of it. Think of all the bad things that happened to you, it can happen OVER AND OVER AGAIN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, maybe. But I’d also get to watch Firefly again for the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a disturbing thing to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, neither do I. When I was growing up the country only had two channels. The dull BBC-content-that-enriches-minds channel and the everything else channel.