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Tar_alcaran ,

An aircraft carrier only has a draft of some 12 meters. Godzilla is over 100m. Much of the North Sea is only like 40m deep, with shallows much less than that.

Tar_alcaran ,

Fun fact: almost no country has legal requirements to operate a forklift. But almost every country requires your employer to “properly instruct” you in the use of heavy machinery, and for reasons of legal ass covering, they all use external certification.

But there is basically nothing preventing you from some private recreational forklift operating

Tar_alcaran ,

Ahhh, a true classic!

Tar_alcaran ,

Especially in Australia, where there’s an insane amount of empty nothing to place wind turbines. Northern Australia gets twice as much solar irradiation as western Europe, it’s absolutely ideal for (rooftop) solar.

Economies of scale and “high density” power generation make sense for some places, but even a place with the population density of the Netherlands can cram in enough wind turbines to get a significant fraction of renewable energy. It should be a total no-brainer for Australia.

Tar_alcaran ,

getting paid for freelance work that is available in Europe

Banktransfers are free…

Tar_alcaran ,

Price Crypto at the one-year simple moving average, and the volatility stops.

What? No it doesn’t, you’re just shifting the volatility from your pricing to your consumption.

Tar_alcaran ,

Depends on the country and the context. For private people in the Netherlands, it’s free. On my business account I pay something like 12 cents, plus 2 bucks per batch (which is why most companies only do payments every so often)…

Tar_alcaran ,

And the 19th, and a large part of the 20th too

Tar_alcaran ,

So, you’re saying they’re sexist and racist, and we should all be enraged and immediately donate to our favourite bigots?

Tar_alcaran ,

Sometimes when you bet, you lose. And it’s better to cash out when you do.

Tar_alcaran ,

Yes.

Also, they’re very obviously, as you have just pointed out, not just a gaming company.

Tar_alcaran ,

Well, they’re funding a fusion reactor. I think that’s very solidly outside of making videogames.

Tar_alcaran ,

No, but Chinese companies very much are

Tar_alcaran ,

If you’re trying to make the argument that google isn’t just a search engine, then I fully agree.

Tar_alcaran ,

I’m 95% sure this single rock on a giant featureless plain only exists in the output of some AI.

Nobody would carve a massive overhang like that, and then make the sides natural-looking

Tar_alcaran ,

One of those “let’s murder the natives” wars they had?

Tar_alcaran ,

If you need to make your own replies, it’s obviously a pretty crappy film

Tar_alcaran ,

Well, horse urine was used frequently to accelerate the aging of roof repairs, since you don’t want one brown plate in your lovely green roof.

The rest is fucking nonsense.

Tar_alcaran ,

Also, I’m willing to buy that skin might be preserved somehow, but not the soft tissues underneath it. Not s perfectly preserved whole thing including the fucking cuticles.

Tar_alcaran ,

Thanks Obama

Tar_alcaran ,

Dutch “rood” is pronounced like English “road”.

Dutch “moed” is pronounced like English “mood”.

Tar_alcaran ,

You monster, what about curryketchup? (I think that’s the English word for it?)

Tar_alcaran ,

Why make it hard on yourself when idiots self-select into an easy target audience?

Tar_alcaran ,

It’s almost too much of a coincidence

Tar_alcaran ,

Roughly the odds of flipping heads 17 times in a row

Tar_alcaran ,

I’ve heard someone with a similar job reply with “does your computer cost more than a house? No? Then I can’t help you”

Tar_alcaran ,

But other than the intended results, it’s been basically useless!

Tbf, there are quite a few big experiments that have been done and will be done with the LHC, not just the Higgs boson search.

Tar_alcaran ,

Fully Automatic Trans Mission?

Tar_alcaran ,

This sequel to Dr Strangelove isn’t nearly as cool

Tar_alcaran ,

Welcome to the new Industrial Revolution, where one person can do the work of many. Sure, mass produced goodscontent aren’t as good as handmade artisanal products writing, but there’s a huge market for it.

What does the world think of India?

I am an Indian and I have noticed that Indians are way too proud of their country for some reason and at the same time lack any civic sense towards it, they are extremely loud and extremely proud. We feel like the world revolves around India and our culture is superior to that of others. Also, a considerable chunk of the...

Tar_alcaran ,

We were saved by Russia’s intel.

No, you were saved by a Soviet intervention, led at that time by a Ukrainian man, by ships mostly made by Ukrainians.

Tar_alcaran ,

In 1971? I’m pretty sure it was the Soviet Union buddy, and Leonid Brezhnev was from Kamianske, Ukraine. As was a majority of Soviet cold war equipment.

I know that doesn’t fit your political preferences and deep seated need to excuse genocide, but facts don’t care about your feelings.

Tar_alcaran ,

You are the people comfortable about genocide of Russians and Ukrainians so you could continue to live a more lavish lifestyle in West.

I am very much not comfortable with the fact that Russia is mass deporting Ukrainians and taking their children.

India and China have similar stances on matters, as does Russia, to the point India and China are the only countries in the world to sign a pact of not using nukes first. Why do western nations never sign that pact? 1945 Japan vibes?

Not only has Russia not signed it, Russia is actively using chemical weapons right now, despite numerous treaties about it.

Russia also signed a treaty to leave Ukraine alone if it gave up it’s nuclear weapons, and look how they are respecting it.

Brezhnev was a leader in Russia, not Ukraine. His place of birth does not matter.

Oh boy. You really really need a course in history if you think all the parts were treated the same. It mattered a LOT.

How manipulative do you have to be to claim Soviet Union and Russia (core of USSR) are not the same,

Despite Russia’s best efforts, and post cold-war propaganda, they really aren’t. I think the continued fall from Soviet superpower into Russianpetro-olicharchy should be a big hint.

But, as with most people like you, it’s protection all the way down

Tar_alcaran ,

“AI” is the new “blockchain”. It’s a solution looking for a solid problem to tackle, with some niche applications

Tar_alcaran ,

We have flying cars. They’re called helicopters, and they suck for most activities

Tar_alcaran ,

Or most comment moderation policies

Tar_alcaran ,

I’ve had an economics teacher in the Netherlands who had interest tables and wanted us to them too. For those before calculators, those are tables that list the years on the left, and the interest on top, and then the multiplier in the table.

So, 10 years at 6.5% = 1.877

Tar_alcaran ,

Absolutely. But I learned in 2005, and the electric calculator had replaced the sliderule a couple of decades earlier.

But this is something they were great at, but usually not with the same accuracy. It’s hard to get more than 3 decimal places out of one, and tables are great for that, you can fill whole books with them.

Tar_alcaran ,

Yeah but it never gets all that cold in switzerland, right?

Tar_alcaran ,

Tall mountains aren’t exactly known for the high temperatures. But in between them, the weather can be really nice.

Tar_alcaran ,

It’s more than that. Conspiracy thinking like this is about feeling powerful and in control.

If all the bad stuff that happens to you is because of a shadowy cabal out to get you, it puts you in the middle of something huge, and you can even do something about it! If you just live in a vast uncaring universe where you can’t do anything and bad stuff just happens sometimes, that’s not comforting at all!

Tar_alcaran ,

One jack can hit pretty hard if you’re on a shitload of medication

Tar_alcaran ,

Massive flooding of whole cities is simply not an insurable thing. Not even with all the reinsurers in the world can you pay out a city of millions. Most sane countries don’t even try.

I live about 5m under sea level. Should de dikes breach and my polder flood (and I don’t die horribly), the insurance company pays fuck all. The Dutch state has a giant mountain of cash sitting by for cases like that.

Of course, handing DeSantis a giant pile of emergency cash would just mean it instantly gets turned into bribes, so that wouldn’t work for Florida.

Tar_alcaran ,

Quick, but them a pony!

Tar_alcaran ,

Well, it’s Modi, so I’m pretty sure the answer is “Corruption, massive and blatant corruption, with a sprinkle of incompetence”

Tar_alcaran ,

Ah yes, Russia fucking sucks, therefore Russia is better.

Meanwhile, in the real world, people have good food, education and healthcare make for much more capable soldiers on the modern battlefield.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

About #4, it wasn’t so much “lost” as “thrown out because it didn’t really matter and tape is expensive”. But it was refound in the late 00s.

Also, the pineal gland was named that way because, and this will shock nobody, it’s shaped like a pinecone. This question is about as smart as asking why the middle finger is in the middle

Tar_alcaran ,

Yeah, shit like that really pisses me off.

“How were they able to make such straight lines without a laser!”

The same way we did it in 1860, with either a rope, or by looking along two points and lining up a third. But someone none of the wackos ever question how we built railroads and canals perfectly straight over dozens of kilometers, but when someone lines up a couple of stones, it’s suddenly magic.

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