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

LOL, my faith snapped the better part of a decade ago.

At this point, I've realized that they're deliberately exploiting the charitable attitudes of people like you in order to troll us.

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

Guliani turned into Ghouliani only because of greed and dementia.

This incorrectly implies he wasn't already a ghoul even back when he had all his faculties.

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

The folks responsible for the sexy costumes, Roddenberry and Theiss, died in 1991 and 1992, respectively.

See also: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory

The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.

This basic theory underwrites Stripperiffic clothing, Impossibly Cool Clothes, and pretty much anything else you stick characters into: what makes clothing sexy is the potential for a catastrophic Wardrobe Malfunction. The Trope Namer is William Ware Theiss, costume designer on Star Trek: The Original Series, who first codified the concept.

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Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's the thing that annoys me most about Duolingo: if they're going to show you ads, the least they could do is show you ones in the language you're trying to learn instead of your native one.

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

I don't care what the excuses are; they aren't valid.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it's a fucking absurd outrage that it's anything less than 100.0%.

Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“what is the difference between these two pieces of material” (one was aluminum, the other stainless)

Did they expect you to identify which metals they were, or just that they were different metals?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The "Christmas Season" is Fall, not Winter*. The only reason the holiday isn't literally over when the Winter season starts is that the Christians got their calendar screwed up and hold the holiday on a fixed date instead of on the solstice where it belongs.

(*Or "Spring, not Summer" for upside-down people, I suppose.)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I wish there were a selfhosted alternative that would sync with banks like mint.com does, but I haven't found one yet.

I've also dabbled a little trying to make one, but it seems like banks don't really want you to use their API unless you're Intuit.

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

That reminds me that I haven't gotten around to insuring my e-bike (or checking that my home insurance would cover it) or registering its serial number yet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Wanting shit to be properly categorized isn't oppression. Your take is flat-out idiotic.

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

Trump is a truer conservative than any Republican before him.

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