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But it is not this day 1 comments
aphelion · 1 year ago
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The Domestication of Animals, 13 comments
aphelion · 1 year ago
Two to the left here, or swap the horse and the hare. Or don't, I'll eat the horse to get to the hare if I must.
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Absolut Legend 4 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
As a wise man once said:
"God himself could come down from heaven and tell me it's pronounced "jif" and I'd just say "sure thing, whatever you say Jod " and then walk backwards into hell."
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I guess you're free to go 7 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
So what should you say?
Cat vs Cheese Slice 9 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Telepurte?
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Leaving the circle to instantly become a Blood Mage #JustDragonAgeThings 3 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
The Maker smiles upon us.
Dank Andraste memes among us.
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War crimes *ticks list* 6 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
GENEVA CONVENTION 100% GLITCHLESS ALL ACHIEVEMENTS WORLD RECORD
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Mildly NSFW meme 2 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Wasn't that literally a joke in Parks and Rec?
Union of Soviet Starving Republicans 8 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
I wonder what came first; the association between red and gold, and hunger, or the prominent use of those colors in food advertising.
This could be tested by running the "which colors are associated with hunger" test on a population who has never been introduced to any marketing that uses those colors, but finding those kinds of people must be pretty difficult at this point.
When Mr steal-yo-gf is hustling your girl 7 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
5 hours to travel the distance.
5 months to retrofit the train to successfully travel 360 km on a *road*.
5 years to fix the potholes it causes in the road after it's passed.
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Australian army in the European theater of WWII 12 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
It's a slow as balls, basically invulnerable, 152 mm howitzer, running on treads and dreams.
It was designed to be a a strategic bunker buster, traveling along with a pack of faster KV-1s, but in practice its tectonic speed led to it being quickly decommissioned as the Germans just kept incidentally outmaneuvering them and either capturing them, or destroying them with point blank (in some cases literally) artillery fire.

For the record, at the time, 152mm barrels were normally only seen on naval ships and the occasional "fuck-everything-WAY-over-there" artillery piece.

They have a range of other issues, such as their gun being so heavy it could only actually be rotated while the entire tank was on level ground because the rotor couldn't actually LIFT it up its own bearing, but despite that there's an entire generation of people who crap themselves when they see its iconic profile after being conditioned to fear it from way too many war thunder tank battles.
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Australian army in the European theater of WWII 12 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Do you think that was intended or...
The turret's still turning! Run!
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Food, how do they work? 9 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Technically, it's a quiche, since most don't have edible floors.
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Warcraft 3 deforged :( 1 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
My poor, top range, pc, sobbing trying to run TESIV Oblivion and its 110GB of mods.
Brace yourselves 3 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
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Photoshop's been the new god around 10 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
And before that, corsets and bustles.
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Wait, women can be aggressive too? 4 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Far from a full list, but (according to wikipedia), 1 war was started during Thatcher's term in office (the Falklands War), and a LOT of wars were started during Queen Victoria's term in office (I counted 46, and I have no idea what most of them are).
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Men invented wrestling to normalise hugs 6 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Isn't one of the selling points of most navies and some armies "travel the world and experience other cultures"? I swear I've seen that used unironically in ads and by recruiters.
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When your boss is an entitled a-hole 16 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
I would assume UPH is measured against the employee average, not by the items themselves. With every employee doing the same job, the time per item, while highly variable, would average out to a certain average that can be used to determine how someone is performing relative to their peers.
Less about figuring out who's slacking off, and more about finding the weakest link. Of course, this leads to a work environment where employees are competing to increase their number to ensure they stay ahead of the curve, lest they be found the weakest link. When an employer does nothing to discourage this (most *encourage* it, perhaps by offering bonuses to the highest performing, to discourage people from only doing what they need to to not be at the bottom), it's a pretty textbook horrible work environment.
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Ladies don't start fights, but they can finish em 7 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Sustenance, so many gods, and ego would like a word.
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Kind of adorbs 4 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Creator is Murrz on Webtoon, or @murrzstudio on instagram.
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Kittens are for petting 8 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Another important point is breeding and evolution. People have been breeding livestock to be cheap and easy to raise and breed, docile, bountiful to harvest, and broadly tasty to eat for millenia. Other animals, such as dogs, cats, and horses, are simply not as worthwhile to keep as food sources, and in many cases just don't taste as good, largely by virtue of not being bread for it.
As for why one and not the other from the start, dogs, cats, and horses came wild, difficult to tame, even harder to pen creatures, while most livestock were pretty docile to begin with. Not to mention dogs and cats are carnivores, meaning you would have to put meat in to get meat out, which is far less than ideal when you're a stone age farmer looking for quantity.
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I’m a pos 2 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
yeah
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This may be useful 2 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Sometimes works. Also sometimes works on ad blocker blockers, and rarely even on paywalls. Sometimes.
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Need stronger herbs. 4 comments
aphelion · 2 years ago
Reminds me of an old image that used to make the rounds:
"Want you house to smell great? Put two caps of vanilla extract in a cup, place it in the oven at 300 for an hour and your house will smell like heaven."
"I did this once and I though it said two CUPS of vanilla extract and my whole house smelled like the pillsburry dough boys butt hole for a month."
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