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https://twitter.com/takethatdarwin/status/1529504297406308353?s=21&t=6nVPb4UltrRfef7o6H4koQ Take That Darwin is a good follow for cooky creationist takes. He is merely the conduit of the idiocy, mind.
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This is how water towers work, and why you can assume if you see one built on a hill it's at or near the highest point locally! They use pumps to "charge" the "battery", then discharge it during times of high usage!
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This is beside the point, but a peeve of mine because I see weirdly many people use "women" as the singular. And this was the perfect example where it was "man" and "women". I never see a singular man referred to as "a men" but I often see "a women."
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May 25, 2022 18:39
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Is it better or worse than using "female" as a noun?
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May 25, 2022 18:42
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lobsterminator posted:This is beside the point, but a peeve of mine because I see weirdly many people use "women" as the singular. And this was the perfect example where it was "man" and "women". I never see a singular man referred to as "a men" but I often see "a women." I suspect that's just a misspelling, but it does stick out a lot. Now what's an actual crime, are people writing "should of" instead of "should have".
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May 25, 2022 19:08
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Yeah, I dunno about that concept. You've got miles of track and hundreds of cars too maintain, all making frequent trips to balance the power grid. Even as low maintenance as rail is, it seems like you'd quickly start having wear and breakdowns be a problem.
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May 25, 2022 19:09
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old bean factory posted:I suspect that's just a misspelling, but it does stick out a lot. I can never remember that so I just use "shoulda"
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May 25, 2022 19:16
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Kit Walker posted:Eh, as an immigrant I can’t really argue against it. Especially with older generations. My parents moved to the US specifically because they believed it was a ludicrously wealthy country and they also wanted to escape what they perceived to be encroaching fascism. My partner moved to the US because she wanted to find out herself if the rumors about the US she grew up with (as someone from South America) were true. Even now as I travel between countries in Europe and South America meeting old friends and their friends I can’t even begin to count how many of them want to move to the US because they genuinely believe they’ll have an easier time earning money and getting healthcare. The US is exceptionally good at making itself seem like the best place in the world to people abroad It also is a great place to live. It sucks if you’re born in a nicer country. It rules if you’re from say, Kazakhstan. As always, my wife’s Kazakh passport is up for grabs if anyone US american wants to swap nationalities to live in a sweet foreign country. Cops might only murder hundreds in one protests. CharlestheHammer posted:Actually I think you trying to use them as some sort of gotcha is way more dehumanizing and really gross but I think your to shameless to realize that Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 19:33 on May 25, 2022 |
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Skwirl posted:I can never remember that so I just use "shoulda" The rule is very simple: never write "should of", "could of" or "would of".
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May 25, 2022 19:41
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FFT posted:Also any useful battery for this would not be cheap. This is very true. I have an electric lawn mower with a lithium-ion battery that's about the size and weight of a large brick. It holds 200 Wh of juice, which is about two cents' worth of electricity from the grid, and is just enough to mow my medium-size suburban lawn. But it could only power an air conditioner (which we'll say draws exactly one kilowatt to keep the numbers nice and round) for all of twelve minutes. (Ignoring conversion losses, not even worrying about discharge rate, etc. We're in spherical frictionless cow territory.) This battery costs two hundred dollars, and is by far the most expensive part of the entire mower. So, keeping our numbers extremely round, building a theoretical air conditioner battery backup out of these would cost a thousand dollars for each hour of runtime capacity. I'm sure you could do a little better than that by using batteries that are actually designed for this application, but it's still going to be a serious chunk of change. And in fact I just went and found a Bluetti unit which would power our kilowatt air conditioner for about two hours, for (drumroll please): $1900 Big batteries remain very expensive. There's a reason electric cars still cost tens of thousands of dollars more than a comparable gasoline burner.
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May 25, 2022 19:43
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old bean factory posted:I suspect that's just a misspelling, but it does stick out a lot. it's not the worst thing. the meaning is still clear for all intensive purposes.
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May 25, 2022 19:45
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ultrafilter posted:The rule is very simple: never write "should of", "could of" or "would of". They should have course have told me this at school.
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May 25, 2022 19:46
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theironjef posted:iCP sagely asked how magnets work, not what magnets do. Most people know the latter, very few know the former. Rock on Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J. What people miss is that "how do magnets work?" is actually a really good question. How does magnetism work? It's pretty magical on it's face - one thing pulls or pushes another thing without touching. Pretty neat, right? It's the follow-up statement of "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist. Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed" that makes them look stupid as gently caress.
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May 25, 2022 19:49
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I know how magnets work but the process in which we dig them out of the ground and put them in batteries baffles me in the same way that a guy hooks up a cable and somehow now there is electricity.
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The correct answer is Little Red Corvette.  christmas boots posted:it's not the worst thing. the meaning is still clear for all intensive purposes. Case and point!  Scratch Monkey posted:What people miss is that "how do magnets work?" is actually a really good question. How does magnetism work? It's pretty magical on it's face - one thing pulls or pushes another thing without touching. Pretty neat, right? It's the follow-up statement of "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist. Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed" that makes them look stupid as gently caress.  I still love the SNL spoof. "gently caress YOU BOOKS, WE DON'T NEED YOUR TRICKS!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alI12mhWZ2Q&t=43s
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old bean factory posted:I suspect that's just a misspelling, but it does stick out a lot. The really weird thing to me is that half of the people who try to correct this try to correct it to "should have" instead of "should've". Which makes no sense. If someone doesn't know how to write should've but you try to correct it to an uncontracted "should have", they'll just think "that's stupid, i say 'should of' all out loud all the time and so do other people i know, they're probably just doing dumb prescriptionist nitpicking". And then they'll rightfully ignore you because you tried to correct their spelling by replacing the phrase with a different word that's pronounced differently.
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Panfilo posted:https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1524080938073968641?t=ctPkU4afWA2P84CVKg5RCA&s=19 I don’t understand what point he is trying to make
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t understand what point he is trying to make He’s trying to say that abortion is making a choice about the baby’s body, not the mother’s body. Except he’s saying it in the dumbest way possible, and thinks he sounds smarter for it. It’s a dumb argument anyways, because abortion makes a choice for both bodies (mother and baby) but recognizes that while pregnant, the mother’s rights supersede that of the baby. And therefore, it’s ultimately the mother’s choice what to do with her body.
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Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Impressions (2022)Chris posted:Okay, I'll say it out loud. Now that a democrat is in the White House, nobody gives a darn about saving the planet at the moment. That's why the packaging problem vanished. Several people ask "Wtf are you talking about", and they respond: Chris posted:No, you're wrong. I realize nobody around here is going to think it's a smart thing to say. But I do realize the media sells different stories depending who is in the WH, and that irks me, DS. But your side hates fossil fuels so I'll blame your side for higher prices across the freaking board. Embrace it. And dine in for goodness sakes. Save the planet. CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t understand what point he is trying to make I think "If suicide = aborting yourself, then aborting anything else = murder"? Which is stupid, because I never hear anyone refer to it as "aborting yourself" unless they're making a dark joke. Read After Burning has a new favorite as of 20:51 on May 25, 2022 |
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Philippe posted:Is it better or worse than using "female" as a noun? Female can be a valid noun under certain conditions usually found in professional science writings about non-human living creatures.
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Read After Burning posted:The correct answer is Little Red Corvette. No, you buffoon. The objectively correct choice is Raspberry Beret. You fool. You child.
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I use “female” much more as a verb and adjective than a noun
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oldpainless posted:I use “female” much more as a verb and adjective than a noun As a verb? lol
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Bubblyblubber posted:No, you buffoon. The objectively correct choice is Raspberry Beret. You’re all wrong, the right answer is when he completely wrecked everyone else on stage covering While My Guitar Gently Weeps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
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Bubblyblubber posted:No, you buffoon. The objectively correct choice is Raspberry Beret. That's a funny way to spell Pussy Control. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoH7n2RDS_M
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Dewgy posted:You’re all wrong, the right answer is when he completely wrecked everyone else on stage covering While My Guitar Gently Weeps. And he also made a guitar disappear at the end.
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Dewgy posted:You’re all wrong, the right answer is when he completely wrecked everyone else on stage covering While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I love this particular cut of the video because the way the last shot of him is framed, you can't tell where his guitar went. It's such a powerful question that there's a Google autocomplete result for "Where did Prince's guitar go?" Personally, I'm not a huge fan of his music (enjoy it but couldn't name many songs) but I can't deny that he's probably the greatest guitarist who ever lived.
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May 25, 2022 21:12
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Read After Burning posted:Case and point! Commander and Chief! o7
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I femaled out earlier and ate a salad.
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I bought some new drapes, gonna female my bedroom this weekend.
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Fighting Trousers posted:That's a funny way to spell Pussy Control. In a similar vein thematically, if not musically, I'm quite fond of Erotic City: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoSK7vju_l8
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I don't like Prince
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I don't like Prince ugh, you're just like my mother
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christmas boots posted:ugh, you're just like my mother She's never satisfied?
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Prince songs are like what would happen if you were making a good song but your annoying little brother kept distracting you and fiddling around with the equipment
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I like what Prince produced and wrote that other artists used (hundreds of songs) more than I like his actual catalogue and I am fairly certain that is the intended show of appreciation when people talk about him.
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ultrafilter posted:The rule is very simple: never write "should of", "could of" or "would of". Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Or if I'm being formal, shudda, cudda, wudda.
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Read After Burning posted:The correct answer is Little Red Corvette. Shut up! Already. drat
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Prince talk makes me post my favorite Animaniacs gag of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY2kC5fZG64
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