Malgas

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Every model is wrong. Some are useful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since this is for the benefit of non Spanish speakers, I feel the need to point out that the word "abogato" is a portmanteau of "abogado" (lawyer) and "gato" (cat).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not even land borders. It's missing France-Brazil, UK-Spain, and France-Netherlands at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Watch [...] pretty grounded in Pratchett-ness

You're literally the only person I've heard say anything like that. Sir Terry's own daughter has disavowed it, saying that it "shares no DNA with my father's Watch."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus, the helium!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why did you think you've never seen a pig fly? It's because they harvest all the wings.

Same deal with buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

"Objects are made by men and used for many purposes. But we never…love…objects."

—James Franco

"There's nothing going on with the ottoman! That's a business relationship!"

—ibid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

The iron content in beaver teeth is concentrated at the front surface so that they are self-sharpening as they wear down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably what they were going for, but there are literally an infinite number of exotic arithmetic spaces you could ask this question in. For example, x=10 works in any ring with a modulus greater than 100 and less than 1000.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, faster-than-light travel is an older technology in Star Wars than agriculture is in the real world.

I'd expect a little thing like artificial gravity to be a solved problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"I once drove past some elephants in a Prius. How they got into a Prius I'll never know."

(Apologies to Groucho Marx.)

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