YetAnotherNerd

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[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

Wouldn’t’ve - “wouldn’t of”

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 60 points 11 hours ago

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 44 points 5 days ago

Totally not a sign of corruption. Totally.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago

Oh gods yes. His shadow looms large over the mythos. Thankfully there’s been stuff like Winter Tide, but we also don’t have HPL doing interviews for the papers or on TV - we can reckon with who he was. She keeps making it more problematic.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Got all excited when I saw HP, but it’s Potter, not Lovecraft. More power to ’em, but I wish it were not in that notable transphobe’s world. Thinking of all the other sci-fi that goes from fantasy to modern to sci-fi … Zahn’s Spinneret, Stross’ “Merchant Princes TNG”, etc.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, was thinking more the “2 cars” vs 1. And $70/month to have backup transport may be worth it if it’s paid off. But yes, the EV would be cheaper to run.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 days ago (10 children)

The gas is almost the cheapest thing. Insurance, maintenance, tires, etc

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

He doesn’t care. It’s an easy way to appease his base. “Lefty lefty left”

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

It’s fair. Whiff of AI summarization, gives some idea of what’s been proposed over the century and that most is crank. Mentions the asymmetric propulsion that I thought NASA had briefly funded. Talks a lot how awesome it would be IF…

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie torched FBI Director Kash Patel over the weekend”.

Massie is everything but the last 2 paragraphs.

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

They’ve been doing it since the Olympics (if not earlier), the female boxer who looked insufficiently female

[–] YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“ [Blimps] and [airships] can carry the weight, but they bring a laundry list of complications. They’re too slow, need an expensive hangar to shield them from bad weather, require helium—which is currently scarce—and struggle to land when it’s windy. “And by the way, wind farms tend to be windy,” he says.”

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