ShaunaTheDead

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was a disc and the trees were able to be interacted with face to face so I think those are inexplicable except for "they're magic".

There's a wikipedia article with some depictions actually right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor#Creation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, you'd have to get up high at least.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Elves in LOTR have technically infinite vision because the world used to be flat and illuminated by two glowing trees that resided in Valinor. Because the world was flat, and Elves have essentially perfect vision at any distance, they could actually see things that were on the opposite side of the world.

After Morgoth (aka Melkor, aka the evil god that Sauron worships) and Ungoliant (the mother of Shelob, the spider that nearly kills Frodo) destroyed the trees then the world was made into a globe and Elves infinite vision ability, while still useful, wasn't quite as powerful as before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

While you're at it, switch over to DD/MM/YYYY for the date format. The only 2 configurations that make sense is that or YYYY/MM/DD. Either go general to specific or specific to general, MM/DD/YYYY makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would they be hostile to that idea? It allows you to run the VPN only on your browser instead of your entire system which is sometimes preferable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's quite good and also I like that they largely support Linux. They have phone apps, browser extensions, desktop apps, and even CLIs. They also have downloadable configurations for OpenVPN and WireGuard if you want to go that route. They've also got what I assume are fairly basic features of most VPNs like kill switching, private DNS servers, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually just learned this recently, but dinosaurs differ from reptiles in that dinosaurs have legs that are under their bodies whereas reptiles have legs that splay out to the side. So all mammals, and birds, with legs directly under their bodies are probably more closely related to dinosaurs then reptiles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think that's basically the same thing as Tampermonkey. There's also GreasyFork which hosts custom scripts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I haven't seen anyone mention these yet

LibRedirect - redirects common proprietary sites to a free and open source alternative Tampermonkey - allows you to find and install custom open source scripts that add functionality to websites

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Writers of children's names books are going to have a field day with the data from this study.

[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Quantum mechanics unveils the spaghetti code on which our universe runs

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Mind blown the first time I realized those weird bugs on the left are baby Ladybugs!

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