ZDL

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm assessing whether your "guess" is wild SF-inspired imagination or grounded in anything, you know, actually factual.

You've answered.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

Sportsmanlike behaviour in the modern age?

That IS weird! 🤣

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

This is "Single-Bamboo Drifting" (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago

Judging by later messages, this is a True Believer. Which when translated to English is "idiot".

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You seem both nice and very bright.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network -1 points 1 day ago

there are a bunch of orb-like UFOs exploring our sensitive areas

I think you will find that traditionally they do anal probes for this.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Seems like military drone tests in my opinion.

Have any actual expertise to back that opinion up?

(Hint: probably not.)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 days ago

What was supposed to be a simple task (modifying some code from an MCU to another MCU in the same family) is turning into a nightmare as it turns out that the "same family" can be radically different with this vendor's products.

So ... "fun". In both the ironic and not-ironic sense.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago

One of my absolute favourites of all time for street food is 肉夹馍. Had it this Tuesday on the way home from work. A very close second is 煎饼. Last time I had that, though, was over a month ago.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

Yes. That's exactly what I said.

🙄

I guess this is what happens when people grow up with video games instead of people.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 week ago

I honestly can't stand eating packaged dried so-called "ramen" made the way the instructions say. I can only bear eating them ... like crackers. So I'm with you on that.

My own weird thing?

I like eating plain steamed buns ("mantou") by using a dip made of peanut oil, a few drops of sesame oil, and some decent rice vinegar.

 

They are, after all, what they are.

 

Oopsie.

 

Because proper tea is theft!

 

It's time for the EU to grow up and give the USA its walking papers. I mean it's not as if the USA has been even remotely helpful as NATO countries face their greatest threat since the Soviet Union.

Throughout all of its history the USA has been an unreliable ally. Whoever banks on US support loses in the long term as the fickle US electorate changes flips its lid every 4-8 years and drastically rewrites the script as to who is a friend and who is an enemy.

And the script for the next four years says autocrats and other such assholes are the friends, and they're willing to throw the previous friends' bodies under the bus to prop up a failing business enterprise run by a crony.

 

Then it struck me.

 

Jesuszilla.

 

I saw it in the zoo a few years back.

 

Somehow it missed the massive forest fire this summer that destroyed much of the park and the town ... until it was reminded.

Remind me why anybody takes this tech seriously?

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