Source: My ass 8 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
90% of the reason they don't want you to use Wikipedia as a source is so you actually study the subject of the paper rather than just reading one brief article on the subject. The other %10 is the lack of reliability. It is a good place to look for sources though.
Know this side of India too 5 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Didn't this crocodile die from overeating? The villagers fed it so much it literally died trying to eat it all.
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Quicksand, lava-floors, vampires, alien invasions. The usual suspects 8 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
It's all fun and games until you learn there is no statistical difference for sunk/disappeared ships or planes in the triangle verses out of it when you take into account the amount of travel that passes through it. I still love the stories people come up about it and all the movies and shows that use it as a trope.
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BrøNdby Haveby, Denmark 6 comments
Future is now, boomer 5 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
It's my understanding that this is because there are too few workers to replace them in many of the farming and animal husbandry industries. Young people simply aren't working those type of jobs leaving businesses with no choice but to continue with their rapidly aging work force.
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My dad said he patched the hole in the barstool so well, "you can't even see 3 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Pretty sure there's a big hole right there. Big spot of nothing? Wouldn't be sitting on that stool if it were me.
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Get that shit out of my face 2 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Well yes, but no. A football is only 11 inches long so it's not a foot. And as has been explained every 8 months or so by various members it's call football because everything back when it was created was called football. Then the British called the type of football they liked soccer to help differentiate between games. Then they didn't like it that the stupid Americans used their name so reverted back to calling it football. Meanwhile we stupid Americans just kept on using the term soccer so people knew and kept calling football, football because that's what everyone knew it by anyway.
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How to start your civilisation 7 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Thats kinda the point. It's supposed to help you if some apocalyptic event occurred and you needed to restart civilization. So that would mean no electricity, no gas, no clean water, etc... Nothing in that monument is useful. At a stretch, the time and calendar portion could be handy. What it does not tell you is how get any of those things back. The whole thing is just the "Live, Laugh, Love" apocalypse version.
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Charlie Kirk you ignorant sl*t 25 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Wow my comment spawned a long chain. @guest_ my response was not in any way taking in the tax brackets. I responded to it by taking it at face value. It didn't matter who was right because I really don't care all that much. It's highly unlikely it would get passed even if he gets elected. The guy answered True for the first two but merely went into an explanation for the rest. Now if he'd have said False, then explained that the proposed %52 is for.... that would have been completely reasonable. Is it too much to ask for some continuity in his answers?
Charlie Kirk you ignorant sl*t 25 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I like how he just neatly avoided the %52 tax thing. If the tax rate for the brackets doesn't change then the guy is right. If it goes to the %52 for everyone above $29k then he's drastically wrong and the original guy is right.
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Which Stephen King prison flick do you prefer? 6 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Didn't care much for either of them tbh. I'll stick to more entertaining movies like It.
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Measuring Like a Canadian 8 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I think that's really a North America thing. It's used pretty much universally no matter where you travel.
Seems about right 4 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I feel like cats is misplaced. Once they've grown they pretty much take care of themselves. All you need to do is put food out and clean up the occasional mess. Hamsters take more effort.
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I cried while I was making this 6 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Artax's demise in the Swamp of Despair. Absolutely heart wrenching as a kid.
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How to start your civilisation 7 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Here we go again. It seems like every few months this gets posted. This monument is absolutely useless for the reconstruction of any society. It's got broad platitudes about how a society should conduct itself. Absolutely nothing on it is going to help you put food on the table or teach you how to not die.
This is what it says:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
Useless.
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This is what it says:
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
Useless.
Consumption 3 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I always get annoyed when I see these speeds because most places haven't even got real 4g yet they've started pushing 5g advertisements. In fact the current infrastructure in the US can't even handle the top speed of 4g let alone 5g. And given that 5g works in a completely different manner with drastically reduced distances it's going to be years before most major cites have and that's not even talking about small cities and rural areas. He's a brief but good article on 5g: howtogeek . com/340002/what-is-5g-and-how-fast-will-it-be/
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Good ol days 5 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Mine was a gnome and he used to jump from the top of mailboxes to the next or street signs if there wasn't a close enough mailbox. Gnome was similar to the the gnomes in The World of David the Gnome.
The longest month ever experienced 7 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I don't know for the shortest month of the year Feb. seemed to go on forever.
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Chemicals in the Water 10 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
I get the joke but is that actually possible? I thought frogs just up and changed sex if there were only males or only females.
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You did good, Oppy 6 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Spirit and Opportunity are twin rovers, each a six-wheeled, solar-powered robot standing 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) high, 2.3 meters (7.5 ft) wide, and 1.6 meters (5.2 ft) long and weighing 180 kilograms (400 lb). It's not close.
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True story. Pm me for business opportunity 7 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
See if this was 5 years ago on this site I'd have taken it at face value for the joke and been done. But now? There's too much stuff posted that is never intended to be fun. I guess it's made me too cynical where this site is concerned.
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True story. Pm me for business opportunity 7 comments
lucky11
· 4 years ago
Rental implies that it's supposed to be returned after use. Are people supposed to return the ashes of the wood? Or are they not supposed to burn it, only keep it for looks then return it?
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