[-] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago

equivilating

I think the word you’re looking for is “equating.”

“Equivilating” is not a word.

“Equivocating” is, but it means to deceive without lying by creatively telling the truth, to seem you’re saying one thing while really saying something else. This is an art form if you play a lawful good face character and your DM says you aren’t allowed to lie.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

The word “xylophone” comes from the Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) meaning “wood” and φωνή (phōnḗ) meaning “sound” or “voice.”

So this instrument with metal bars that you hit with a hammer to produce sound is called a…?

That’s right! A “glockenspiel!”

(I stole this from someone else on the internet.)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

GIFs are huge files for the information they contain. MP4 or WebP are good options, but I don’t know if Lemmy supports them the way they do GIFs.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

GNU Terry Pratchett

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I truly wish McLaren weren't complete morons in going about this season.

Well good news then. Because they aren’t.

No one expected Norris to do this well this season. No one expected McLaren to be favored to win the WCC. McLaren is exceeding expectations. That’s not the behavior of complete morons.

Sticking to your team ethos of not having a #1 driver and potentially missing out on a WDC no one thought you were going to get anyway isn’t being complete morons.

Edit: That said, I would very much like to see the team form up behind Lando for the rest of the season simply because of where we are.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I get that they weren't technically movie stars but it would be so cool to see the real James Hunt and Niki Lauda playing themselves in Rush

I watched that movie before I was really into F1. Daniel Brühl did such a good job as Lauda that the first time I saw Lauda in an interview I was shocked. And Chris Hemsworth did so good as James Hunt that when listening to a recording of Hunt commenting I knew it was Hunt without having to be told.

Those actors did a PHENOMENAL job in that movie. And damn is it a good movie.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Remember how bad it looked?

Technology improves. It won’t always look that bad.

Remember how disrespectful it was?

As I recall his family was on board with the choice. It didn’t seem disrespectful to me, I was excited to see the character Tarkin show up when I hadn’t expected him to.

Maybe we shouldn't do it again.

Ah yes, as the old adage says, “If at first you don’t succeed, never try again.”

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

DO YOU LIKE MY ROSES? I DON’T THINK ANYONE ELSE MAKES THEM AS BLACK AS I DO.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I’ve said it before, this is the best season of F1 since 2012.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

backlit Kindles

As I understand it, Kindles aren’t backlit but rather frontlit (or sidelit) with a layer designed to diffuse the light across the page evenly. The claim is that the lack of direct lighting helps in the fight against eye strain as well.

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This is ostensibly the new logo and name for AlphaTauri. Kinda wish they’d just go back to Toro Rosso. Or Minardi.

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