atro_city

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

rule34 and you can see Elsa's futa persona

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Can people really see the difference? I'd love to see a test between screens at different refresh rates, resolutions, and FPS, and how well people can discern between them. I have a feeling most wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 12 hours ago

Do you have a permit for that personal nuclear powerplant, sir?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 12 hours ago
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Are these toilets at a spa?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 22 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

How is it still allowed to operate in Russia? I thought there were sanctions. Is this company above the law or something?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 15 hours ago

Indeed. It does cement my point further of just what a jumble of languages English is.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

20 years? Not 25? I thought 2060 was when things would really crumble due to climate change is we continued business as usual (which is what we're doing).

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

What is "English" though? The English language is mish-mash or Norse, French, Latin, Greek, Danish, Spanish, and their old versions. It's why it's so difficult to get pronunciation right.

Look at the etymology of the majority of English words and it'll be "middle english from anglo-french" or "old english from ancient greek" or something.

Some languages have diverged very little from their origins like Icelandic which allows reading 12th century texts without much difficulty, while others are barely distinguishable from their origins due to loans words, forced changes due to e.g royalty, invasion, and so on.

I'm sure a linguist could dive way more into depth, but "not English words" is the equivalent of "not a true Scotsman".

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 16 hours ago

Of course not. There are two people in Germany called Ursula and Holger and they both live in one apartment with a balcony facing northwest and a "balkonkraftwerk" on it.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have the same feelings for people who blame immigrants for all their problems.

  • Boss earns 10x+ your salary? It's those bloody immigrants' fault for coming and increasing competition!
  • Union tries to form and there's no solidarity amongst workers? You bet those immigrants are to blame!
  • Not enough staff for sanitation, education, and healthcare so the government flies in workers from abroad? My oh my are those immigrants to blame for accepting jobs given to them.
  • People flee from the countries our elite bombs, exploits, and corrupts? Blame them for fleeing and coming here, not the elite!
  • Billionaires don't pay taxes and lobby the fuck out of politicians to get hand outs? Look at those immigrants and poor people getting hand outs! Gotta get them out of the country!

So who do these low and middle class people vote for? Politicians who continuously fuck over the middle and lower class. Do they organize themselves to demand higher wages, better living standards, more investment in public infrastructure? No, they demand "smaller government", less affordable healthcare, bigger paychecks for their bosses so that it "trickles down", they follow online propaganda that blames others and convinces them that other middle class and poor people are against them, they buy goods from monopolies and even proudly promote these monopolies, they idolize the rich and elite who don't give a fuck about them, and of course they blame those who are struggling or even those who immigrate to provide much needed services.

Racists, xenophobes, and right-wingers in general are just as snow-flakey as the "woke mob". They exacerbate the problems they have then blame whichever scapegoat they can find that can't punch back. They're just weak and don't want to fight a strong, rich, well-connected opponent - they want to let out their frustrations against a weaker opponent: they're bullies.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io -3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Will install a form of energy collection that can't power their entire house for a single day, but will protest against wind turbines that can power multiple houses for days. That's Germany for ya!

 

The eyes have it: Men do see things differently to women

The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.

 

No more men's and women's league, no more "gender eligibility" requirements, a common dresscode, same standards and rules for all.

Edit: since it looks like people missing the word let: the suggestion isn't to force desegregation. It's to allow it or even make it the default. Someone else made a good suggestion: segregate by attributes specific to the sport. In boxing it's weight class, in basketball it could be height, in biking it could even be doped and non doped. Sex and gender need not be the very first thing to segregate by.

 

From credit card and payday loan commercials telling us to get into it, to people joking about the amount of debt they're in and also telling you to get into it, debt is a real thing that supposedly nobody should care about. Am I wrong here? Is it just normal to be in debt or should we try to fight this?
#debt #money #finance #jokes

 

After a short discussion on another topic, I was wondering about this.

 

The Canadian Shield (French: Bouclier canadien [buklje kanadjɛ̃]), also called the Laurentian Shield or the Laurentian Plateau, is a geologic shield, a large area of exposed Precambrian igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent. Glaciation has left the area with only a thin layer of soil, through which exposures of igneous bedrock resulting from its long volcanic history are frequently visible. As a deep, common, joined bedrock region in eastern and central Canada, the shield stretches north from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean, covering over half of Canada and most of Greenland; it also extends south into the northern reaches of the continental United States. Geographical extent The Canadian Shield is a physiographic division comprising...

 

I just heard of a Non Educated Delinquent (NED) but that's Scottish

 

When I saw MKBHD on threads available through flipboard, the thought crossed my mind. Wouldn't it be a game changer for the biggest websites to suddenly try to coax users and content creators with "one account to rule them all" solution?

 

Staff at the DWP reportedly objected to the clothes of Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a trans woman who co-chairs the LGBT+ Civil Service Network

 

It's due to his low testosterone levels

 

It didn't have government secrets the Russians wanted to have

 

This is not a rumor that has been going around

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