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- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 12 hours ago:
At the end of the day all governments are desperately afraid of making people angry (at them), from the healthiest democracy to the most totalitarian dictatorship
One would think so. But a quick glance at Russia, or even the current US one would show you otherwise.
Most governments don’t seem to pay a lot of attention to it. Democracies tend to be the most concerned ones, but it still varies a lot.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 14 hours ago:
China seems very stable to me. Their government is afraid of making people angry, and removing basic help like that is very likely to make people angry.
But also, it seems to me that the “generally” in “generally free” is doing some work. AFAIK, some care is free, some care isn’t. And the pretty good quality of life doesn’t seem to be universally distributed. Both of those seem to be improving quickly, but the “people are better than in the US” impression one may take from that comment seems to be a misrepresentation.
- Comment on Windows 😂 19 hours ago:
You just got OneDrive?
- Comment on Jair Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazilian Supreme Court 4 days ago:
He wasn’t condemned for treason. (I don’t think anybody ever was.) And yeah, that’s the one crime Brazil punishes with death.
He was condemned to 24 years in prison. That’s probably enough for him to never get out anyway.
- Comment on If spiderman shoots webs from his wrists would not the tension of shooting and swingiing up a skyscraper pretty much break his wrist? Also why SpiderMAN shouuldn''t it be SpiderTEEN? 4 days ago:
He’s supposed to be super-strong.
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 5 days ago:
I’m pretty sure none of those cakes are.
- Comment on What goes here? 1 week ago:
The circle in on the front, near the screen or on the back near the wall?
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 weeks ago:
Hey! Ranking the species by distance is really unfair!
- Comment on The Bog 2 weeks ago:
Even then, I can imagine that several people only discover that they aren’t in fact ok with dozens of large spiders climbing through their heads after it happens.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 2 weeks ago:
And they are way more compressed than on those images.
I now realized I never had a good idea of how sharks look like.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
Can your esthetics be reduced into a number so we can put it in a line?
Yeah, didn’t thing so…
Now, get some philosopher to understand that “meta-kpi” thing. Where does it end? Where does it start? And make them reduce both to a number so we can use their work.
- Comment on US revokes visa of Brazil justice minister in Bolsonaro row 2 weeks ago:
When you fight even Lewandowski expecting him to find you guilty, you have a problem…
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 2 weeks ago:
How many stones does a big rock weight?
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 3 weeks ago:
Make sure to get the same number of spots too.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 3 weeks ago:
People usually measure asteroids by mass (but then, those people are already abnormal, so who knows?), if so, it’s something around the size of a cow.
Or maybe they could use metric…
- Comment on Protons have mass 3 weeks ago:
They just don’t congregate.
Hum… wait… Something is wrong here.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 3 weeks ago:
Computers are probably better on this than humans by now.
- Comment on This is very funny to me. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a very beautiful moon. Too bad one needs a telescope to see it.
- Comment on xkcd #3131: Cesium 3 weeks ago:
What are you doing? If we can see the cat, we will know if it died.
- Comment on Clamdalf!! 4 weeks ago:
Either your comment is missing a comma, or I have to inform that I don’t plan to.
- Comment on It's on your blood! 4 weeks ago:
Nah, I’m betting on plain old lead.
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 4 weeks ago:
I asked the AI to be sure:
on won what letter does the “AI” start in “IPA”?
The “ai” sound in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) starts with the letter “a” in the combination “aɪ” which represents the diphthong sound like the “long i” in words such as “buy,” “aisle,” and “isle.” The IPA sequence “aɪ” begins with the letter “a” and is followed by the letter “ɪ” to form this diphthong sound. So, the “AI” sound in IPA starts on the letter “a.” This diphthong consists of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable, starting with an open front vowel [a] and gliding to a near-close near-front vowel [ɪ].
So, it’s confirmed. The “AI” is there where “IPA” has an “A” followed by an “I”.
- Comment on Byeeeeeee 4 weeks ago:
Nor can you throw a spaceship around on the Moon.
So maybe that cartoon isn’t about the Moon.
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 4 weeks ago:
In many places around the world, it would be outright boiling. But I imagine internal organs would need a larger temperature.
- Comment on Permian Park 4 weeks ago:
Also, is their diet varied enough that they would accept politicians instead?
- Comment on Le Penguini 5 weeks ago:
NZ penguins are almost certainly counted on the number over Australia.
The fact that each entire continent gets a single number is misleading… But then, that’s why we are here.
- Comment on xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From 5 weeks ago:
They [software engineers] had to be bad at their normal job.
So …
…
You didn’t notice it by now?
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- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 5 weeks ago:
Nah, I was a kid just trying to harass the insects, not trying to get rid of them.
They would fly off the skimmer anyway, and if your pool is the only water body around, they would be back in no time.
- Comment on Damn sure I tried. 5 weeks ago:
Have you tried throwing water on top of it?
One could imagine this would suffice, but no, it’s hydrophobic.
- Comment on Play dead 5 weeks ago:
For what color of bear you should impersonate an Interpol agent then?