Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 14 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Primates make tools to help eating ants, among other things. It's a bit of an unusual snack, but people eat ants too. We are anteaters? How much of your diet needs to be ants before you're considered an anteater?

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 12 hours ago

Not to be confused with disco snails.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 21 points 19 hours ago (46 children)

Have you never actually seen a crosswalk before? Because I'm having trouble figuring out which part of these rainbow flag colored crosswalks makes them look any less like a crosswalk or makes them less visible or recognizable in any way. Literally the only other pavement marking that comes anywhere near looking like or being placed in the same way on a road is a stop bar. And guess what, car drivers routinely mistake the plain crosswalks for stop bars, thereby blocking the crosswalk. Making the claim that painting a pedestrian crosswalk in bright colors somehow makes them less visible or recognizable has got to be the dumbest argument I've heard this week.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 points 20 hours ago

I'm in awe of a stomach so delicate it can be turned by an animated stick figure physics diagram.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Somebodies lying (or at least being deceptive). I checked the link. There's no mention of 20 countries anywhere. Nobody said 20 countries here either. Setting that pedantry aside. In fact, even if it were used by significantly fewer than twenty countries, the ones that without a doubt do use them are spread around the globe. Thus, they are used globally.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A fucking Members Only pizza.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

1979: Ridley Scott directs "Alien".

1981: James Cameron works as a production designer on a Roger Corman "cash-in" of Alien called "Galaxy of Terror". It's mostly awful (mostly due to the giant maggot rape scene), but some of the production design is WAY better than anything in this movie has any right to be.

1986: James Cameron directs "Aliens".

I'm using the release years here as opposed to production for simplicity, but Aliens is really just a cash-in of a cash-in of Alien.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It'll destroy all your painstakingly crafted and curated ID3 tags much faster than Picard. I'm not salty or anything. Anyway, the lesson for me was that music is simply too complicated from a library perspective to trust to highly-automated tools like beets. Picard kind of encourages you to go directory by directory and release by release, and that is a good thing. These days so are does most of the library stuff for newly added things, but I usually end up fixing it all basic to my standard with Picard later.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was a scene in Braveheart we had to skip when we watched it in middle school. I'm sure many convinced their families to rent Braveheart from Blockbuster for "homework" later. At this point, I don't even remember what the scene was. Maybe there was a penis? Probably it was just butts or boobs. The corpses and violence were of little concern.

There was that one time we watched a particular version of Romeo and Juliet and the teacher was delightfully inept at skipping scenes. That girl was barely older than most of us.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Conservatives really like the recycling myth because it puts the onus of waste on the individual consumer instead of the corporations actually producing the waste.

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