wearywanderer

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by wearywanderer 5y ago
A few thoughts: 1. The possibility of wormholes isn't new. 2. You still need to be thinner than spaghetti to go through what they're talking about. 3. They're stretching the words 'relatively easy' to ludicrous limi
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
FYI California today is significantly wetter than California was a thousand years ago. Paleoclimatological studies have revealed that the past 150 years in California were unusually wet; they find tree trunks at the bottom of lakes and ri
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
The owner has the 'clear right' to fire volunteers who were never paid and have already quit.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I'm afraid they may as well try to bail the Titanic. That ship has already sunk.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
You can pry my terracotta Elmer Fudd with lush green hair from my cold dead fingers.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> "Guy doesn't have a clue." -- guy is a pronoun (you can tell because "he" also works grammatically) You don't think that's merely people being lazy and leaving off a word that can be inferred (&#x27
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I've always felt that the best way to prove steaks is with forks.
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In my experience the "a/s/l" question has only ever come from people who wanted to have text sex with you, and outside of those sort of chatrooms was only ever said as an awkward joke.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
When somebody starts making sensational claims like "bringing power back to the people" it makes me think they are trying to distract me from something.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
By 'class', he means those who graduated the same year as him (which is often hundreds of people). Not the students crammed into a single classroom.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> Netflix - sure, probably ok, not harming humans Consider wiktionary's definitions of the word 'binge': > A short period of excessive consumption, especially of food, alcohol, narcotics, etc. > (by extension) A
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I just don't think this could work. If the money is good enough, I think hackers in blackholed countries would find ways to connect with the outside world, particularly if their government was inclined to help them do it.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Most privately owned tanks have demilitarized guns, though I think not all. But with the right paperwork in America, it should be legal to put working artillery in your legally owned tank. There is a fair bit of working artillery privatel
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Allowing executives to commit crimes because imprisoning them would deprive workers of an executive is just plain foolish.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> One thing often overlooked about the Hindenburg and its reputation as being a dangerous bomb with people hanging below it is that there were a substantial number of survivors -- out of 97 passengers/crew, 62 survived. Hindenburg
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
>The hamburger menus were done to save space and reduce clutter, not out of any desire to be a tablet app. "Save space"? That's a laugh. Reducing clutter is ill defined and probably subjective, but saving space? Savin
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
To be frank I find both Finder and Dolphin to be generally unsatisfactory. Finder is worse though, it's riddled with bugs and weird shit. I could never get Finder to show preview thumbnails of symlinks pointed to files on network m
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Companies particularly vulnerable to political attack end up making these sort of donations in an effort to protect themselves.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> [Gnome developers imitating/coping MacOS features] I've heard this a lot, but having used Gnome briefly and MacOS fairly extensively, I just don't see it. Also, have you seen KDE's Dolphin? If ever there was a F
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Might graphite do the trick? Or maybe boron nitride.
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Even if it were a trap, it would be a trap for a device, not a person. Like anti-drill pins in a lock, which can damage or destroy a drill bit. I think you could reasonably say anti-drill pins are traps for drill bits, and they're
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
I'd be lying if I said I never had similar thoughts, but consider this: maybe 1 time in a hundred that woman would have been the love of your life. Who knows?
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Traps that harm people are illegal. Traps that harm animals are legal under some circumstances (mousetraps are legal basically everywhere afaik.) But traps that harm devices rather than people or animals? Are you sure that is generally
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
Nor is color blindness exclusively a male phenomena; in Northern Europeans, 8% of males are colorblind while 0.5% of females are. Suppose a few more sexual dimorphic traits like this exist in the eyes; perhaps differences that have no pract
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by wearywanderer 5y ago
> If there is a difference between male/female retinas Is this even an "if"? It's well established that men are more likely to be colorblind, and it's likely many women are tetrachromats (most people are mere