sanguinepar
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- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 4 days ago:
Ha, I missed that! 😁
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 5 days ago:
I actually kind of like this as a concept for showing the world!
- Comment on does this actually imply alcoholism or just snark? 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s more snark than implied alcoholism.
It certainly could be said in cases where the vicar is known/suspected to have a drinking problem, but it could just as easily be said, with no prior basis in fact, as a dig at someone, meant either nastily or humourously.
The fact that it’s a well-known phrase (including the “again” part) makes it all the more likely that it might be used even in cases where there’s no intended implication of a genuine drinking issue.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s where I discovered them too! Fabulous soundtrack to a fabulous film, I really should watch it again soon.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 week ago:
It’s not the same, but for upbeat choir stuff you might check out The Polyphonic Spree. I only really know this tune of theirs, but it might be worth a listen 👍
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 week ago:
First they came for the telephone sanitisers…
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 week ago:
But realistically civil war would break out because people would just refuse to leave. 40% of the US population is non-white, there is no way you are getting 130 million people to just leave the country peacefully.
Especially not when at least some of the white population would be on their side against those in favour of deportation. There’d be massive non compliance.
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
But he doesn’t let it weigh him down.
- Comment on YSK that "AI" in itself is highly unspecific term 2 weeks ago:
But they are intelligent - just not in the way people tend to think.
Doesn’t that just degenerate into a debate over semantics though? Ie what is "intelligence.
Not having a go, this is a good thread, and useful I think 👍
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly - chills up the spine moments!
By the way your link didn’t work, but this one might: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_(music)?wprov=sf…
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 2 weeks ago:
But we don’t love patterns
I would disagree with that somewhat - I think we do love patterns, but the more complex and intricate the better.
Which is why music appeals so much - it’s chock full of patterns overlaying each other, echoing and counterpointing each other, contrasting each other in ways that are both conflicting and harmonious. Good music is like seeing the rhythms of the world all around you.
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t watch every video of hers, but Abigail Devoe’s channel is fun. She looks at the history and making of classic albums, one a week. It’s usually pretty interesting stuff and her enthusiasm is infectious
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 4 weeks ago:
Not Billy Joel.
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 5 weeks ago:
People snuck into a military airbase and spray painted an RAF plane the other day and got away with it.
They didn’t get away with it (not yet anyway) - six people have been arrested:
BBC News Two more arrests after break-in at RAF base www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrln22e3w2o
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 5 weeks ago:
Ugh. Glad to see you found the answer in the end though 😁👍
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 5 weeks ago:
You could maybe try clearing the cache of the clock app? Long shot, but you never know.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 5 weeks ago:
Windows sucks more at every new release.
10 was better than 8 IMO
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 1 month ago:
I’m Mullen over whether to take part in this punathon.
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 1 month ago:
Douglas Adams considered much the same idea…
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.
…and…
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 1 month ago:
Only if you can at the same time consider that getting a prize should be a universal law.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 month ago:
Seems very unlikely to me that there’s any real relationship between financial wellbeing and the capacity for empathy. There are wonderful people and shitty people and everything in between, at all levels of society IMO. Better to judge individuals on their actions, than classes on their general characteristics.
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😁
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It’s bigger than pocket sized, but if you search for Mini PC, there’s a fair few. They’re about 10-12cm square and about 5 or 6 cm tall, so easily fit in a bag.
Although you’ll still need a screen, mouse, keyboard, etc of course.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 1 month ago:
I’m choosing to see the green as a puddle instead 😁
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