I like the story of mid-1800s crowds shouting “viva L’Italia!” and half the crowd wondering “who is Talia? Garibaldi’s wife?”

prisons used to have treadmills to power machines. six hours a day, with rest breaks.

when there’s an engine to replace that, of course they’d explain it in terms of how many men it could replace permanently.

saying “but look at how much power Usain Bolt can produce for a few seconds” is not relevant.

the hp unit is reasonable based on whole-day power from typical farm horses.

I’m Spanish and I don’t fight bulls. I’m from Poland. Also you shouldn’t call Europeans Spanish, it’s considered offensive. And maybe stop saying Europeans eat pasta, we don’t eat pasta.

if you don’t think (at least) Thomas, Alito, Barrett, and Kavanuagh are outright malevolent self-serving sociopathic evil - you haven’t been paying any attention.

it’s bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony’s headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.

nor decoding 264 :(

a rather annoying regression from the 4 to the 5, especially when the 5 now supports more MIPI cameras where live encoding is crucial.

at least on a 4, this command will misleadingly return “disabled” even though your programs are able to use hwdec, because the h.265 decoder isn’t part of the Pi 4’s GPU, it’s elsewhere.

This one probably was a Ukrainian (pre-war stock) S-200 SAM - it was wayyy beyond Patriot range this time.

So now you’re saying politicians should only be prosecuted by members of their own party. Go to a doctor, tell them your brain fell out, ask for help.

Pretending that civilian ships don’t have people on board is a… weird tactic.

One example that happens quite often is “look, Uyghurs are in forced labour camps in China”, and the genetic fallacy response is “nooo that was reported by the New York Times which is an organ of western imperialism so it’s all bullshit you’re a westoid goon”

Freezing temperatures being obvious with a minus number is an advantage, not a problem, IMO. Easy to see from the bigger negative number when water will freeze more quickly, when snow is more likely to lie on the ground, etc.

americans really just have to remember a long list of random numbers like how many ounces a full pint is supposed to be, huh.

i’m imagining a whole day of school like, “when people say nickel, they mean 5 cents, a dime is 10 cents, 12 inches is a foot, 3 feet is a yard, water freezes at 32F and boils at 212F…” and the children just crying into their notebooks by the time they get to miles and tons and acres.

Only five bodies were recovered, which is about normal for the crew of the plane. There is no evidence of any prisoners. None of the photos or videos from the crash site show a large number of bodies. Russia lied, as usual.

being “science” doesn’t make make it harmless.

good meteorology supports military operations.

if it hurts russia’s accuracy in predicting weather, it helps Ukraine’s chance for surviving this war.

nobody says this particular action was a top priority, but every little resistance against the russian genocide helps.

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A lot of words to to express “I’m an American who doesn’t even have a passport.”

Can’t even imagine a walkable city, and talking about it like it’s a far-off sci-fi concept, rather than a lot of peoples’ actual everyday life. Yikes.

dude, you are a rabid nationalist, and it’s affecting your perception of reality.

you’re posting the same comment again and again, which doesn’t even support your case, and totally missing the points that everyone else is talking about.

go for a long walk in fresh air, and maybe consider that your hurt feelings about what flags fly where don’t outweigh the virtually unanimous decision of the people who have actually lived on the islands for generations.

didn’t know the album cover was from a pulsar. I’d heard a story it was some kind of ECG trace of a heart attack / someone dying.

So… do they need external cracks?