ScrollerBall
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- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 2 weeks ago:
You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on A secret is something you keep, whilst a surprise is something you give. 3 months ago:
I think you need to add in the concept of ‘confidental’ as well to this. Your address isn’t a secret, but you don’t tell somone on the internet, even a ‘friend’ on the internet where you live.
- Comment on The three musketeers never use muskets 5 months ago:
You got a link to your source on that?
Merriam-webster says mousquet came from the Old Italian moschetto meaning a small artillery piece. It’s also a term for a male sparrow hawk. Which there was a traditio of naming weapons after animals.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/musket
The Wikipedia page for musketeer says this:
The Musketeers of the Guard were a junior unit, initially of roughly company strength, of the military branch of the Royal Household. They were created in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry (the “carabiniers”, created by Louis’ father Henry IV) with muskets.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeer
So the term Musketeer comes from the fact that they are armed with muskets. I cant find anything about a mousquet being a place on the belt to hold stuff.
- Comment on Anyone? 7 months ago:
Melancholy is what Hamlet had, I think you mean Melania
- Comment on Elevated 8 months ago:
- Comment on That would be cool if movie theatres had VR headsets that I could wear and it would provide closed caption subtitles. 9 months ago:
It’s not VR, but there’s this: www.regmovies.com/sony-access-systems
- Comment on Fun Fact 9 months ago:
- Comment on Let's all make fun of this stupid astrapotherium. 11 months ago:
Heeeeeeey yoooooou guyyyyyyyyys!
- Comment on Worst amusement park ever. 1 year ago:
I beg to differ