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  • Paul Allen's happy trail

  • I don't think you understand. Axe is the lesser evil with certain 14-18 year old boys. The alternative is heinous body odor. Showers are an "also ran".

  • No, trains are stupid. We need cars. Well, we need trucks. And we could get a lot more efficiency if we added more trailers to the trucks and made them bigger so we'd need fewer drivers;. And dedicated lanes for the trucks! And since we're giving them their own lane, we could optimize it by changing the material on the wheels and the road to resist rolling friction, maybe steel on steel? And since truckers tend to doze off, we could make grooves in the road so they stay on course...

    Goddamn it!

  • "All corners of the globe" and "pre-date the ice age", obviously, but what's number three?

  • We had one, in no time it was popping up in every one of our pots.

    As to growing in cracks, Saxifragales, the order to which Kalanchoe belongs, literally means "rock breaker". It's an incredibly morphologically diverse and interesting order.

  • Is it correct? Doesn't it derive from "psych out"?

  • I'm in the Savage camp. Get the cheapest tool first, use it until it's insufficient. By that time, you should have figured out which features you actually need, which you don't, and what a good tool looks like.

    I'm not always certain which tools will get significant usage (some, yes, but not all). If I bought the "good" tool every time, I'd have thousands of dollars sunk into tools I rarely use.

    If you have a determined field, yeah sure, spend the money up front. But if you're a dabbler, you spend less overall cheaping out on entry models.

  • Real mathematics barely deals with numbers anyway

  • All the odd cubes (5x5, 7x7, etc) aren't really much more difficult than 3x3. You can learn basically one or two extra algorithms to reduce it to effectively a 3x3 (e.g. for a 5x5 consolidate 3x3 centers and 1x3 edges, then solve exactly like a 3x3). And honestly the consolidation steps are pretty easy to figure out without actual algorithms for the most part.

    I never really messed with even cubes (4x4, 6x6, etc) but I'd imagine they scale the same.

  • Easily thousands of times. I learned back in high school, on a forum that went on to be a very fondly remembered element of my teenage years.

    It's really not that hard if you can memorize a few algorithms. I learned a very basic set of general algorithms, like half a dozen. Not very efficient, but easy to learn and I can still solve one in about a minute.

    If you want to get into proper speed cubing you can learn dozens, or even hundreds, of increasingly specific algorithms. This, combined with a high quality cube and finger tricks, can get you closer to 10 seconds.

    But if you just want to be able to solve one, you can learn in an afternoon.

  • I mean I'm not saying it's the right choice, but -gestures broadly at everything-

  • If people can't tell that he doesn't give a flying fuck about anything except pushing people around, doesn't matter who or about what, they're fucking idiots.

    I've been spending more time on Facebook, to get sort of a bead on the general consensus. Even accounting for bots, there are a lot of fucking idiots in this country.

  • Let me introduce you to doubles luge

  • I do have a math brain, which is why I can get by on vibes.

  • Not as gross as "child porn", or "kiddie porn", I feel gross just typing that out. CSAM just feels more clinical, more detached, like a term a defense attorney would insist upon to avoid biasing the jury.

  • "Oh hey, I'm no longer legally dependent on my parents, nice."

  • Great

  • Rush Job - Sheena Ringo

    Swamp - Mid-Air Thief, but the whole album Gongjoong Doduk is pretty good.

    Dixie - Harmonium

    Le tombeau est vide - Chromb!

    For fun:

    El Corazón - Hard n Phirm

    Honorable mention that might not technically count:

    Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano

  • Not gonna yuck anyone's yum, but I've tried the tunnel and still prefer the hole.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    We need a tag like /s but for non-rhetorical questions

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    Decent 3d scanners under $1000

  • Ask Lemmy @sh.itjust.works

    Have you ever actually had an "and then everyone clapped" moment?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world

    I actually kinda like when curse words are censored

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world

    Making the most of a totally dead cabinet corner?

  • Buy it for Life @slrpnk.net

    Induction range in the $1,500 ballpark without a bunch of nonsense

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world

    Not sure if this breaks rule #3

  • DIY @slrpnk.net

    Breezeway Greenhouse Help?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

    This moon decoration my wife got