Balthazar
@Balthazar@lemmy.world
- Comment on I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king. 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how jealous the US and the UK are of each other’s system.
- Comment on !taneggs@lemmy.ca Declares National Pika Day; immediately escalates to Global Pika Day! 2 weeks ago:
Pictured: pika chew.
- Comment on Should I DIY this? (Electrical) 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t 100% know exactly what you’re doing and 240 volts is involved, you shouldn’t do it.
120 volts will give you a nice little shock, but 240 volts will kill you.
- Comment on Indiana Jones was named after the state Indiana, which was named after American Indians, which were named after India, which was named after the Indus River, which was named for the word for river... 3 weeks ago:
“The dog?! You were named after the dog?!”
- Comment on Why America Sucks at Everything 1 month ago:
They are what John Bunyan called, “Christians in silver slippers”. Happy to have all the advantages of being recognized as good religious people when it’s available, but just as happy to toss it all when the tide turns and Christianity is unfashionable or they can get something better.
- Comment on Why America Sucks at Everything 1 month ago:
And this is why family values and Christianity have disappeared in the US. It’s not some liberal plot. It’s not immigration. We ourselves have sold them so we can worship the dollar unimpeded by morality.
- Comment on What does it take to finish the Hunt 1000 bikepacking adventure? 1 month ago:
I’ll cheer you on from the sidelines.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 1 month ago:
Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I’m not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.
- Comment on The majority of drowning victims in Australia are men. There are strategies to keep everyone safe 2 months ago:
Fosters: it’s Australian for “pissweak beer we serve to Yanks”.
- Comment on Merry Xmas 2 months ago:
Cheers, from the snow!
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 3 months ago:
Party on, Wayne.
- Comment on Know DEEZ NUTS 3 months ago:
Donald Trump Traitorus maxima
- Comment on The Magic Words 3 months ago:
And “we need to fix this” usually means “someone else needs to fix this”.
- Comment on The Magic Words 3 months ago:
When scientists want to publish their results, the paper first goes to one or more referees (usually anonymous), who advise the editor about the quality of the paper. It is common for referees to ask why the original author(s) did not consider a particular question as part of their work. The reply in the cartoon is commonly used by the author to defuse that question, essentially saying we didn’t consider that question because it’s too much work, and just publish what I’ve done already, dammit.
- Comment on People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Phonebooks 5 months ago:
And didn’t you have to pay to not be listed?
- Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional? 5 months ago:
Good to finally see the important words, “conservation of angular momentum”.
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 5 months ago:
If he indeed turned water into wine and made all things, why would he need to recurse as if he can’t get it right the first time?
- Comment on Platypuses 5 months ago:
Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.
- Comment on Birds and the bees 5 months ago:
Didn’t pay for the DLC.
- Comment on When creating a story, how many black characters can I create without them calling the story woke? 7 months ago:
Without being in-your-face woke: as many as are appropriate to the context.
Without “them” calling the story woke: none.
- Comment on Iocane 8 months ago:
It comes from Australia.
- Comment on ach, aye 10 months ago:
How’d they get away with those keywords?
- Comment on Where do milsim video games occurs nowadays ? 1 year ago:
I grew up on Jet Fighter 2, so I’m also curious about modern versions.
- Comment on xkcd #2878: Supernova 1 year ago:
Pretty sure the curve should turn up on the right side at some point.
- Comment on Amazon's Union-busting training video 1 year ago:
If you refer to hints of union activity as “warning signs”, then you’re anti-union.
- Comment on This Asteroid Mining Startup Is Ready To Launch The First-Ever Commercial Deep Space Mission 1 year ago:
Assuming all goes perfectly, the company will have a survey of an asteroid with a commercial worth of several million dollars or more. Surely there’s no way they will share that openly with the scientific community, for fear of corporate competition, which is a terrible shame.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
Isn’t a pączki a kind of donut?
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 1 year ago:
$83 a tin. What makes it worth that?
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 1 year ago:
I don’t think it matters which color samples you get. Everyone has to be able to reproduce everyone else’s colors. The only differences might be that if you use a different company’s color samples, then it takes them a little bit more work to do the color match, rather than simply giving them their company’s name for a color; and you may get a guarantee on the color if you use their own colors.