TheTetrapod

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I want to know how polar bears figured out that they need an air hole in their dens. Is that passed down instinctually or demonstratively? Animals are so cool.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Rating inflation. If someone called you a 5 or 6 out of 10, you'd feel bad. 7/10 is the bottom of acceptability, just like 72° is room temperature.

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

Nobody at the grocery store I used to work at would wear the seatbelt. One time the district safety manager was touring and asked a manager (who didn't recognize her) about it and he got in so much trouble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, that one guy had a huge stick up his ass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hand wired 4 life! That way, if a key doesn't work, you can just add more solder until it does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Great reference. The Bobs haven't really achieved anything on this scale yet, though. The closest is the Skippies' Matryoshka Brain, but IIRC they're using a system of satellites around a brown dwarf star, which would be somewhat comparable in size to Jupiter. The Others' Dyson Sphere project is closer, but I don't think we really got a sense for how far along they were, and it looks like their home star is only a bit larger than Sol.

Sorry if that came across as nitpicky, I was just excited to see a Bobiverse reference in the wild.

Edit: Got the Others' star mixed up in my head, it looks like it's either a red dwarf or completely fictional.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (6 children)

People always argue that -num isn't a legitimate way for the name of an element to end, but I never see you guys talking about Platinium.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think you just restated their joke.

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

It's wild to me that kbin has users, for all the problems it seems to have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

A lot of people never go to the doctor outside of emergency/urgent care settings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't the UK's voting process basically identical to Canada's?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, I love Blinding Lights! 😭

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