Iron_Lynx

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Next step: roll this out over the internet.

Actually, scratch that, that would make some teenage-run Discord servers become online Fight Clubs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The big one they point to is that it's a step between regular trams and a bus. And quite importantly: even this very basic construction still allows for a more permanent transit solution than a bus. And there is some science pointing to a trend that a lot of people who would not ride busses would ride trams. And with this tech being cheaper than a tram - heck, it's built in much the same way as very early horse-drawn trams - it'll allow building rail transport on a tight budget.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

In the defence of some of us, like myself for instance, I live in a country where we can do literally jack shit to affect American political bullcrap, because it's nowhere near America. I'm pretty sure Europeans are excused from having to stay up to date every moment, unless we can force the rest of the world to be continuously in the loop about... idk, whatever crap Geert Wilders is up to right now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

If I were in a dramatic mood, I would look at the guy, my fork still in my mouth, put up one finger while putting my fork away, theatrically and exaggeratedly chew my food before swallowing it, equally exaggeratedly, before answering: "You could hardly have picked a worse time to ask that."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

Or if you're like me and see a thread, be all like "Oh, that could be interesting, I'll check that later," and put your phone away for a few hours, and then, when you finally get to check the thread again, and refresh it just to be up to date, you see it's been permanently deleted...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

In Character: I mean, isn't your armour basically PPE against injury induced by foreign actors? 😜

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Throwing weapons only, and they're all reskinned to turds. You never die, but you win if you get hit the least at the end of the timer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah. At that point it only looks stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is literally the second item on my front page of subscribed communities. Did I just hit the dopamine jackpot? 😃

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This. Oh no, the ice cream tub has a lock on it? Guess I'll make another opening *grabs a kitchen knife*

Same for this. Oh no, she won't consent? Then we're doing it raw!

^(kids, this is a terrible excuse to fuck over your future. Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.)^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

As far as I know, UK English also uses the spelling Battery.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

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Update: The physics department has recruited an astronomer who studies meteor fireballs.

Explain: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3061:_Water_Balloons

 

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I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.

Explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude

 

Because they use a honey comb.

 

TRANSCRIPT:

Me: Is this birdcage made out of nickel?
Pet Store: Aluminum I think
Me: So there's no nickel in this cage?
Pet Store: Don't you dare!
Me: It's a nickleless cage
Pet Store: GET OUT!

[pictured is a long-haired Nicholas Cage, looking fabulous in the sun and wind. To his left, it's captioned with the text "Worth it"]

 

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

If I click the chain icon on a comment with MMB on the website (Lemmy.world, BE: 0.18.3, accessed via Firefox), it opens to a blank tab. If I do so with LMB, it works just fine.

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