What sort of content do you make?

Wikipedia does a better job than me.

I wonder how quickly the US would lose the technical know-how to maintain nuclear missiles in that scenario.

Remember that time the Dutch killed and ate their prime minister? Yup.

At one point I had a change jar. At the end of my day all my pocket change went in the jar and I forgot about it. This had multiple benefits: any purchase I made during the day took at least five bucks out of my pocket (no $1 or $2 notes in my country), so I had to think about it carefully. I always had money in the house, but in a form that made it inconvenient to spend. And after a couple years of ignoring the jar, I had about $200 that was outside my normal budget. I could spend it how I wanted! If I felt like buying a couple hundred bucks worth of jellybeans, I could do it without guilt.

Now I’m no longer single. My wife steals my change to buy leftover fabric swatches at car boot sales. That makes it harder but man, I deserve a Lego pirate ship.

Urban gardening seems like a winner. Even if it’s just for something like fresh kitchen herbs.

Can’t remember the last time I was in a fight with equal odds.

I roll with advantage to disbelieve.

I’ve never been shooed away from understanding real science. Who’s doing the shooing?

He is considered as worst president in 21 century

I roll to disbelieve.

Armchair activism. The least you could do – literally.

I don’t think pineapple belongs on hamburgers either. It tastes okay, but there’s so much extra liquid that it’s like holding a bun full of soup.

Yeah, okay, true, but – it’s like all the malice and narcissism of the whole group are concentrated in a very small number of individuals. Like Canada with their geese.

Lemmy is full of dorks, and I love that. Among its other flaws, Reddit could be mean-spirited at times. I haven’t seen the same willingness to ignore ordinary human decency in favour of karma-farming here.

I left Reddit in disgust during the API situation. All the cool kids were coming here, so I did too.

I don’t think they’re worse overall, but I do think they’re more visible when they’re being silly and thoughtless.

A teenager near me got convicted of burglary a few years back because he filmed himself doing it, to show his friends. A young 20-something had his license taken away because he filmed himself driving at 160 KPH.

Richard Pearse, New Zealand aviation pioneer. He was a farmer by trade, and had a reputation for making crooked furrows because he would read technical books while he plowed. He worked on powered flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers and actually achieved his first powered take-off before they did. It wouldn’t be fair to call it a success - his plane was built with no tail section, making it difficult to control in the air. The test flight ended by crashing into a thornbush hedge and Pearse received minor injuries.

Did you close the shower door on your dick again?

Pre- hair plugs:

Every argument I’ve seen against the cool science fiction future boils down to “we couldn’t do it this financial quarter, so it’ll never be possible at all”.