MachineInterface

66240 pts · December 22, 2015


[depressingly nihilistic quote here]

Asian elephants are more closely related to woolly mammoths than to African elephants.

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And that's the reason free roaming animatronics have not become a thing in Disney parks. It's too much work with too many failure points. They often give it a few months run as a publicity stunt but it never sticks.

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Because it is in fact not just a tax fraud scheme. There is absolutely an aspect of cultural signaling to it, where rich people show that they are more sophisticated than the plebs by being able to appreciate difficult and unpopular art.

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I would simply install a normal door instead.

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Slaanesh approved

3 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And yet when women were first allowed into sports, there weren't separate categories… and women started to win. So segregation was introduced not so that helpless women had a chance at winning, but so that men with fragile ego were spared the humiliation of losing to a woman, while rules were tweaked *specifically* to make it harder for women to do as well as men in specific disciplines. This isn't "natural differences", this is intentional design and sabotage.

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Cats, like most animals, cannot feel a periodic rhythm; from that cat's perception every click is random.

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I'm still awed by how good this look. "Morphing" was a common CGI technique at that point in the early 90s, but the average morphing sequence did *not* look this good and seamless. This isn't just a computer mindlessly doing the work, this had to be very carefully planned, choreographed, edited, and every single frame touched by hand.

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Nah, there's been meta-studies on this, they haven't found anyone that would qualify as having an addictive relation to porn; what they found is people who had a lot of anxiety and cognitive dissonance about their normal consumption of porn because everything around them tells them it's bad and wrong and immoral.

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The yellow tint isn't the picture aging, it's just everything being stained by cigarette smoke.

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When Rome conquered Greece, Athens resisted, Sparta surrendered without a fight.

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I have heard about our Lord and Savior, Indie Video Games?

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Are they using Epic/Horus Heresy rules with 40k models or is this the full madness

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"A roomba made of flesh? What horrors have you wrought, father?"

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Here's the thing: half-time shows are *always* pre-recorded and lip-synced; the problem is not that Kid Rock did it, is that the execution was so sloppy that you could tell.

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I don't see instructions for operating a sniper riffle in this list.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A few actually *escaped*. The rest of the flock was just *following* those.

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Oppressive societies never oppress just one group, it's always a complex hierarchy. In Israel Palestinians are at the bottom, but Armenians and other non-Jewish groups are also oppressed. Among Jews, Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) are treated the worse because they're black, then Sephardi and Mizrahi because they "look like Arabs", with the white Ashkhenazi on top of the social hierarchy.

3 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Americans say they need guns to fight tyranny. The fact that Southern Baptist preachers, ICE agents and elected Republicans do not have to evade sniper fire 24/7 proves that this is a lie.

3 months ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Timing!

3 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Should have put J K Rowling and Keir Starmer in there as well.

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That's just the plan of Brandon Sanderson's actual house.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Polygraph doesn't mean shit, it's a pseudoscience - good thing there's actual incriminating evidence.

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All Beatles have repeatedly said in interview that Yoko had nothing to do with the break up, that the problems started before John and her started dating and had more to do with John and Paul's personalities clashing. The idea that it was on Yoko was a rumor started by a disgruntled collaborator of John and Yoko who was fired after he was caught stealing documents from Yoko after John's death so he could write a biography of John.

4 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

TIL

5 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Funny how pheromones apparently work across species separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Pigeon's like "hello giant scary monster, you smell like I must make a nest near you for some reason"

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Oxygen also becomes magnetizable if you cool it enough.

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The only way you're driving 45 minutes to get to France, with a Germany trip on the way back, is if you live in Luxembourg, go to a neighboring French border town, and stop in a neighboring German border down. Otherwise 45 minutes won't even get you out of traffic. Norh to south of France is a 12 hours drive. Europe is not that small.

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Too articulate, coherent and lucid for Trump.

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