Tar_alcaran

@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least 11 killed in crowd crush outside cricket stadium in India⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Having the largest population in the world, and zero skill at crowd management is a terrible combination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phrase the Prophets!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this just clip around the upper ear, or does it require a pierced hole?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure it's just a coincidence that everything that can be wielded against them either just isn't implemented (good mod tooling) or doesn't work properly (user/instance blocking)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can. If you go to the website, you can go to your profile, settings, blocks and there should be a “block instance” menu there.

  Thats the default, your instance might have modified it.

  Not that it doesn’t block all users from an instance, only all the communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The city is so lively⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But hating on cars as a blanket statement is stupid lol

  Well, I see you haven’t spent a single minute browsing that community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bee Aware!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting stung by seven million bees seems like a great way to leave tight and plump corpse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The moon and earth are “on” a shared center of gravity. It just so happens to be inside to earth, so meh, we win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I define my reference frame any way I want? Because if so, yes. And also no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying that people jumping ARE on earth? Because I disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fresh⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Getting rid of a suddenly huge influx of water is literally what toilets are made to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA PENGUIN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1m90ish is 7cm taller than the average Dutch male.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still think he's a beaut.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at its sad little long snoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨glupi jebeni bot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, nothing about the blatant hallucinations to even basic questions, the dashes are the major problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little miracles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The very idea of a “nazi punk” is honestly mindboggling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan introduces rules to put outlandish baby names to bed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be SO much worse in Kanji. Kanji isn’t like english, where you can usually figure out how a word sounds by how it’s written. There are at least a couple, but sometimes a dozen different ways to pronounce a single character, and there are sounds that have frequent use but don’t have a Kanji character (usually if they’re loan words or foreign names).

  Imagine always having to write out your name in Katakana, like you’re a foreigner in your own country because your parents chose a name so stupid, it’s literally impossible to pronounce. Not “Oh, Traghedei is a weird way to spell it” but “Does this say WalkBrick or TableTree? What do you mean it says Sparkle, no it fucking doesn’t!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning here is a terrible idea.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave one a bow and arrow set. It was very fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning here is a terrible idea.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn? No.

  Play? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨venomous⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the little guys.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehhh, I recently posted elsewhere: about 80 species of mosquito carry dangerous (for human) diseases. The other 3400 are harmless if very mildly annoying. And all of those species share a niche with their harmless genera mates.

  It’s really really hard to kill just one species though, especially if they DO share an ecological niche with the species you don’t want to kill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan shows off futuristic 'railgun' at defence expo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they have negligible kinetic energy and zero penetration, relying on surface heating to cause damage.

  Once you’re talking hundreds of kilowatts of average power (usually pulsed in much shorter increments) you’re not really talking about “surface heating” but more about “metal instantly vaporizes” if you focus that beam on target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan shows off futuristic 'railgun' at defence expo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are bullets and bullets. A 35mm flakpanzer round is very much not the same cost as a 9mm bullet from a random handgun.

  Similarly, there are lasers and lasers. A 30kW laser like being tested in 2015 is nowhere near the 300 kW monsters like HELCAP meant for missile defence.

  To compare, 300kW laser delivers 300.000 joules on target every second. Now, granted, that “target” might be a circle bigger than your actual target, but then, bullets can also miss. A 20mm solid bullet from a Phalanx CIWS delivers some 60.000 joules on target per hit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lemming anatomy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “socialism with lemming characteristics”

  I know lemmings don’t actually run off of cliffs en masse, but this still feels less than flattering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who will win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some 30 species of mosquitos that can transmit Malaria. There are about 3470 species of mosquitoes that don’t.

  So, if you get rid of those 30, some of the other will probably be a decent food source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Papal Optics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That old timey optics bench gear is HUGE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who will win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.

  Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darktide is a banger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dislike that the missions are all randomized now, instead of in ordered chains like Vermintide 2. I REALLY dislike that modifiers are now random too, and that maps occasionally happen in the dark or have mods that just make them unfun (really, 7000 hounds?).

  Just let me pick what I want to do, damnit. Stop making me wait for new missions that I don’t hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oof⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

  Holidays meant “you don’t have to work for the lord who owns your land”, but since they were subsistence farmers in the middle ages, that meant they still had to tend the animals and do the work on their own plots. They were absolutely still working during their “holidays”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US set to lose $12.5 bn in foreign tourism in 2025: industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I screw up my visa to El Salvador, they send me home. If I screw up my visa to the US, they send me to El Salvador…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got this rough theory that we can get decently historic pieces from around 50 AD (but only in central italy, nowhere else), around 1200, 1800 and then from 1900 to now. Everything else is even more of crapshoot.

  Anything between Commodus and Charlemange is especially cursed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do historical reenactment, so I have a hobby that involves researching the age of a certain embroidery stitch, for example.

  I’ve learned to just switch off that part of my brain for games and movies, or I’d cry a lot more. I just project them to an alternate reality where they totally had nylon in 1200.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: there's a petition in europe to ban conversion therapy with a deadline in a few days.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Signed, and why the hell isn’t this already a law?