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ColeSloth

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  • I wonder if there were any repeat suitors...

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  • It doesn't matter. We're talking about the possibility of a woman existing that had 100 different men who thought they could defeat her in a wrestling match, wagering up a thousand horses each. A challenge that spanned over years. As her reputation if defeating all these dudes would spread and be known, after the first ten or twenty guys were defeated, the only challengers (if they were actually intending to win) would have been almost nothing but large and strong guys experienced in wrestling.

    There just isn't any way that would happen.

  • I wonder if there were any repeat suitors...

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  • Or maybe she was butt ass ugly but everyone liked keeping their heads rather than insult a princess.

  • I wonder if there were any repeat suitors...

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  • No woman known for being beautiful is nearly as strong as a strong man. Wrestling is very much a skill, but there's a reason there's so many weight classes. I wrestled for several years. Strength can overcome skill.

  • I wonder if there were any repeat suitors...

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  • "she" didn't capture men on the battlefield. She led an army. Big difference.

  • I wonder if there were any repeat suitors...

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  • This story always seemed so outlandish to me, that I'm still convinced it isn't actually the entire story. Like; the men were losing on purpose for some sort of political favor of sorts.

    *Edit: So I've done some sleuthing. The story is BS. The only original source of the wrestling for horses came from Marco Polo, and he made up\exagerated all sorts of stuff. She was known as a wrestler, but nothing of defeating 100 men undefeated. Also, the 100 men part was just made up at some point even later, as Marco Polo never gave mention of a number of men she'd wrestled. Only that she had a herd of 10,000 horses won from wrestling. I couldn't find a source for when the 100 men part got added on.

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • It really fucks with me when I plug in my steam deck to the TV and use my PS5 controller to play.

  • BYD officially unveils the 3000-horsepower Yangwang U9 Xtreme

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  • He left out an important data point with all of his math. One he doesn't have any data on. He failed to account for down force created by the vehicle. He completely ignored it. Downforce completely changes breakaway speeds on the tires.

    As to why it gets slower times than a thousand hp car on the track, it's simple. The car weighs MUCH more. Like 2,000 pounds more. That makes braking and turning and acceleration slower (but there's plenty of power to overcome the acceleration) and like what he did touch on, the battery isn't large enough to go "all out" on this track without running out of juice.

    If the byd car could use magic to make it weigh as little as the zr1 and not be battery capacity limited, it would wipe the floor with the zr1.

    So yes, 3,000hp and all wheel drive is a benefit. It just can't overcome the weight difference through all the turns and deceleration on the track.

  • Zohran spanked Trump today. Look how smitten he is...

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  • *socialism.

    Also, it's been no secret that if you compliment Trump he'll be ready to garble your balls. He's a simple old man.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Nice. This is my great uncles straight razor. He came from Germany and had a barbershop in the 1940's around Kansas City, so it's around 80 years old.

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • I'd rather not ruin a hobby by making it a job.

  • Fact check: Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools?

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  • Newsweek is seriously trying to take a dry and completely humorless approach on this "story"

    :-\

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Well we're all curious now....

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • That's a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there's 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.

    The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don't want to.

  • Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point

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  • My home gaming PC is a ryzen 1500x and an Nvidia 1060 GPU. Old as hell but still runs most games.

    Most people on steam probably have a rig with 4+ year old hardware, and after seeing what my little steam deck oled can do, id say the steam machine will be able to out perform any 4+ year old windows system when it comes to gaming.

  • Military service will reportedly no longer classify 'divisive' swastika as 'hate' symbol

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  • Until I see it from an alternate source, I'm calling bullshit on this one. It sounds like bullshit.

  • Spill

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  • Like ... With yeast, or the dark arts?

  • Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs

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  • Epic is in no position or standing to compete against valve. To be a monopoly, you have to actually own an overwhelming portion of the market you're in.

  • Slotkin, Kelly lead Democrats in military, intelligence appeal: ‘You can refuse illegal orders’

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  • How that going to work out? You refuse and then the military is the ones that decide if you were given an illegal order, or you were insubordinate?

  • CF doing the world a solid...

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  • I remember watching this, and then Duckman when I was a kid. Simpler times.

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Nap time for Ryo-Ohki (it's usually nap time)

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    desktop user password issues. can't do squat in desktop.

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Nice sunset while camping

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    I sent ten different puns into a pun contest in hopes of having a winner.

  • Thunder App @lemmy.world
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    gboard keyboard in thunder pops up every time.