radio_free_asgarthr

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

"Look... if... the other team wants to win... they need to score more points... than the opposing team.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A real geologist should give a real answer, but more or less it is due to how the molten elements and molecules sorted out back when the earth was younger and hotter. It has a lot to do with relative densities, melting points and propensity to mix with other materials. Everything heavier than helium and trace amounts of lithium are "star dust", the geology of earth is how that coalesces together and then combines and separates out in geological processes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Showing support to a nation embargoed and impoverished by US aggression.

 

What gives?

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

Haven't been playing much recently, but Shattered Pixel Dungeon is my favorite Android game.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Pokemon Go to the ~~polls~~ beach

 

Should we build cat huts on the savannah?

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

Wait, are the Eastern Othodox the only consistent Christians? I have a lot I need to reconsider...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Capitalism specifically incentivizes seeking maximum profit, which also means increasing profit growth at all costs. Finance and speculation, inherent to capitalism, further pushes and necessitates further expansion to cover the average costs of the gambling and speculation. You have to remember recessions and depressions are not always contractions in the economy, they are usually just caused by less than "necessary" amounts of growth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Dude, WTF are you talking about? When I was a machinist it was so much easier to deal with metric. 1 inch ~ 25 mm, from there it is just way easier to deal with measurements such as 27.5 mm instead of 1 5/64 inches and all of these inverse powers of 2. I was always jealous of the French machinist I worked with talking about how the only units you should ever have to work with is meters and millimeters. If you are concerned about "Human Scale" then intuitively a meter and a yard are close enough for estimates and you don't have to deal with "wait, what is 5/8 + 3/16 + 1 7/64?"

 

I was giving myself communion, the last major act of Jesus before praying and being betrayed by Judas. I thought that on Good Friday this was a good symbolic parallel since I, as the One True Leftist of Hexbear, was betrayed by all you libs. But then I realized that giving myself communion and seeing a personal relationship to religion without a professional clergy meant I was a radical protestant. And we all know from Max Weber that Protestantism is responsible for capitalism. Meaning that me, the one true leftist, has already been reincorporated into capitalism.

Abba, father Marx, why have you forsaken me!!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not as confrontational, but had a similar experience with a collaborator. Due to the PIs' old habits, our collaboration meetings were telecons (telephone landlines, rather than zoom or other video conferencing). So at a conference, I see a poster from a member of the collaboration, having never seen the faces of many members, and go over to introduce myself. This other grad student was in poster presenter mode, so as I approach he immediately asks "So you are interested in [collaboration project], how much do you know about [project]" and I point to my name on the author's list and say "well, I am that guy".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

"When we said 'fight to the last Ukrainian', we meant to the last!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Don't listen to that Frank, it's a bunch of Optimate bullshit.

 

Anyone else notice X had a very sharp nose dive a few days ago? I recently logged onto an account I don't really use but had to comment on Lib and Fash posts occasionally. And ~3 days ago I gained a follower every hour (about 20 before this) and bots are liking every post and comment I ever made. The bots really took over a few days ago.

 

Where was Atlantis... Hmm, I wonder?

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