You’re goddamn right.
I read “tooth-removing drug” and was kinda surprised by the enthusiasm in this thread.
*Puts on tinfoil hat.*
Obligatory HHGTTG quote:
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.
How high are you rn? Also, who the fuck’s Mr Rodgers (sic)?
“And wow! Hey! What’s this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like … ow … ound … round … ground! That’s it! That’s a good name – ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”
Oh dog, they meant Fathrenheits! I was thinking 10 degrees Celsius hotter, which sounded even more insane (that’s 18°F if my math is correct).
Message to dear Americans: If you insists on using your freedom units, can you at least mark them properly? We have no way of knowing where you are from.
I know what a serif is. And I’m specifically not talking about that. I’m talking about this:
This is why I prefer sans-serif fonts that have lower case l’s with a little bend on the bottom. For example the new default font in Office (Aptos) does exactly that.
My understanding is that’s exactly the point. To make clocks on the Moon be synchronized with UTC and not drift over time. You can only do that by making the clocks physically tick at different rate. This is because of relativity - time itself on the Moon passes at slightly different rate than on Earth, so if your clock is precise enough, you need to compensate for it. Just like GPS satellites need to compensate for being in slightly lower gravity and going fast relative to stationary clocks on Earth’s surface. This isn’t any kind of illusion, this is how the universe really works. If you’ve seen the movie Interstellar, it’s basically the same effect they experienced on the planet orbiting a black hole, just a much less extreme case.
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I mean, that idea isn’t mine, nor new: https://youtu.be/dechvhb0Meo?t=87
If they start building vertical cinemas, that’s when we lose.
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Yeah, that’s no moon.
As a list with links to IMDB, sorted by date:
I.S.S. (US 19 January, UK TBA)
Distant (19 January)
Roswell Delirium (March)
Dune: Part Two (1 March)
Mickey 17 (29 March)
Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (19 April)
Breathe (May)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (24 May)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (24 May)
A Quiet Place: Day One (28 June)
Alien: Romulus (16 August)
Arcadian (TBA)
The Electric State (TBA)
Spaceman (TBA)
What? They are doing /r/place now? Is that some last ditch effort to make peace with the userbase or even to lure back those who left, lol?
Anyway, I admit I had a quick glance at the canvas, saw the huge text /U/SPEZ IST EIN HURENSOHN, chuckled and left.
So who are the good guys, mind you telling? As far as I’m aware, currently it’s a choice between Chromium based browsers and Firefox and its forks. So really just 2 options in the grand scheme of things.