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by xattt 2y ago
There was an eminent Russian voiceover artist (goblin?) that translated pirated Western movies with his own interpretation. His translations were nowhere near what the movie was about, but they were hilarious and fit the plot perfectly.
692.
by xattt 2y ago
Why would a TV need to unmute itself after 5 seconds?
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by xattt 2y ago
Same way that people refer to a house under mortgage as “their” home. Edit: How about a rental in a building with ads in the elevators?
694.
by xattt 2y ago
So by pixel math alone, a 4K TV of equivalent size gets you 8x TV these days. :P
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by xattt 2y ago
> I would take a hacked up disposable camera Memories unlocked of extracting the flash unit from disposable cameras to flash on demand.
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by xattt 2y ago
Tangential, but it would make sense that areas with more variable terrain (i.e. BC) would likely see more or more severe injuries than flat areas (i.e. Saskatchewan).
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by xattt 2y ago
How would an aircraft be able to reliably “stream in” maps while in flight? That argument makes no sense, other than a red herring saying “durr, glass cockpit bad”.
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by xattt 2y ago
After ex-utero pregnancy is achieved, the next step would be some form of recombinant human analogue breast milk synthesis. Beyond that, breast milk tailored to mom-babe pairs. Yes, formula exists and has created billions of healthy childre
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by xattt 2y ago
> vamp Thanks for teaching me a new term!
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by xattt 2y ago
All broadcast studios are equipped with master clocks that show seconds to deal with this ambiguity. You can look at your own watch and anticipate when program transitions in radio or TV are supposed to take place (usually the minute and 30
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by xattt 2y ago
Poll is about an individual, not direction of the country.
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by xattt 2y ago
There’s some impetus to stay on to bring some stability when Trump comes into office. A Shock Doctrine approach (new leader at the same time as the US gets one) is going to create an environment where a number of regressive policies will ge
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by xattt 2y ago
Now make this feasible for family with kids. Most children won’t eat beans and rice for a long time without lifelong trauma that yields strong reactions at mealtimes in adulthood.
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by xattt 2y ago
My Scarborough elementary school in the early/mid 1990s must have been an exception. Each classroom had a IIe, some with green screens and some with colour monitors. All outfitted with a well-rounded collection of educational game 5 1&
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by xattt 2y ago
> One minor complication with this retrofit is that the clutch was also operated hydraulically with brake fluid from the same reservoir, so we had to add an small extra tank (the iBooster master cylinder tank doesn’t have a port for this
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by xattt 2y ago
The lesson I get from this is that people were less attached to their last names, and called themselves whatever they wanted.
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by xattt 2y ago
Good advice for all product reviews and most articles too.
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by xattt 2y ago
This is such a butterfly effect/singularity situation that it becomes layers-upon-layers deep as you start unpacking it.
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by xattt 2y ago
> the US would be in a much better place This would have been the case with Gore (2000) and Clinton (2016) too.
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by xattt 2y ago
Bunny people were part of the MMX and PII marketing.
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by xattt 2y ago
This is the third serious airline incident in 72 hours.
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Passengers say plane filled with smoke after fiery landing in Halifax(cbc.ca)
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by xattt 2y ago
I would posit there’s an overlap between those who drink cola daily and limited access to healthcare.
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by xattt 2y ago
Some irony if internal calculations of financial damage estimates were under or over-estimated because they were done on a defective chip.
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by xattt 2y ago
How much of that was soda, and how much was it access to preventative care?
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by xattt 2y ago
Too far gone …
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by xattt 2y ago
This discussion is complicated by the loose (ha!) definition of tea bags. There’s about a million different tea bags. Some use denser paper, some are thin. Some are stapled, some are pressed. Some are stringed and some are not. Some are sin
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by xattt 2y ago
Painting the printer in Vantablack is also an acceptable answer.
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by xattt 2y ago
> … these people won't ever get cancer … Prostate cancer is surprisingly prevalent but (commonly) slow-proliferating, and is often “beaten to the punch” by other causes of mortality.
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by xattt 2y ago
One time, I set a self-checkout machine to French to immerse myself in French training in Canada. This happened to set the payment terminal to French as well, which must have set a bit in the on-card chip. Now, all my pay-at-the-pump inter

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