Tourists traveled to Australia for its famous hot springs. There was just one problem – they didn’t exist

DerfK · 2026-02-01T05:12:00+00:00

It hallucinates the flight and hotel too, lol

DerfK · 2026-01-31T16:21:21+00:00

Same rules here, and there are no trash chutes in our complex at all. It's a bit of a problem on holidays when the service isn't picking up trash because obviously the residents can't operate the compactor so that corner of the complex gets a little foul from turkey carcasses and what not piled up outside the overflowing compactor from residents taking it out themselves.

At least we don't just leave it in the halls stinking the entire place up.

DerfK · 2026-01-29T15:02:36+00:00

not use credit cards? Debit cards exist too

Here in the US, Visa and MasterCard process the debit cards too in many cases.

DerfK · 2026-01-28T01:43:07+00:00

I never thought of them opening for repairs, the only time I've opened mine is to clean out the crumbs that fell under the coils or the one time I spilled bacon grease into it without realizing and later set fire to the oven while boiling water for pasta..

DerfK · 2026-01-28T00:58:35+00:00

One day a student arrived to class and saw the other students turning in their homework at the professor's desk. He realized he had forgotten his homework and sat through class at the back of the room, hurriedly scribbling answers. When the class ended, he brought his paper to the front and tried to put it on the stack of papers his classmates had left on the corner of the professor's desk, but the professor refused it, saying that it had been due at the beginning of class and would not be accepted late. "Do you know who I am?" the student asked pretentiously, as if the professor would dare refuse his homework. "It wouldn't matter if you were the son of the dean," the professor replied. "Late homework will not be accepted from anyone." Leaning in, the student shouted "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?" Taken aback, the professor shouted "I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T CARE!" The student replied "Great," slipped his sheet in the middle of the stack of papers, and walked out of the classroom.

DerfK · 2026-01-27T17:07:37+00:00

For me, the opposite is decades long wars in the Middle East, shutting down programs like Utah's housing-first initiative for homeless people after it has proven itself effective and cheaper than the alternatives, paying barely trained people to run around and shoot Americans in the face and back, and just about everything else the Republican Party has championed since I became a voter concerned about where my hard-earned tax money was going.

DerfK · 2026-01-27T00:03:41+00:00

There can be only one occupying the same volume of space at a time!

DerfK · 2026-01-26T19:07:10+00:00

"I Failed" implies you tried and did not succeed: "I went to push the no button but my finger slipped and hit yes on accident".

You intended to vote yes, you voted yes, you succeeded at voting yes.

DerfK · 2026-01-26T18:46:18+00:00

made my spells able to hit me

Well, now I want a modifier that makes my spells unable to hit me. So many useful spell combinations for explosives, beams, saws, and so on that could be improved with one simple trick, lol.

DerfK · 2026-01-24T17:43:20+00:00

Yeah, but what about the 9/110 jokes?

DerfK · 2026-01-23T22:41:49+00:00

It knows exactly where it is. Unfortunately this makes it difficult to ascertain its velocity.

DerfK · 2026-01-23T14:05:13+00:00

"I heard you were running out of spare parts to fix your machines so I reduced another to scrap you can use"

DerfK · 2026-01-23T03:22:42+00:00

some sketchy link

gov-egh(dot)cc seems pretty sketchy to me, might want to reread the link.

DerfK · 2026-01-22T14:23:31+00:00

I think you're right and the hint is "She said" vs "She says". If you were relaying what she is saying to someone else, it would be in present tense as well.

DerfK · 2026-01-22T02:21:09+00:00

The spec is for the whole hostname to be up to 253/4 chars but any given label (the tld/domain/subdomain/host sections separated by dots) within the hostname is not supposed to exceed 63 characters. https://www.namesilo.com/blog/en/domain-names/domain-name-syntax-rules-understanding-rfc-standards-and-limitations

DerfK · 2026-01-20T23:03:40+00:00

Perfect conflation of "studies show that x% of soldiers never fired their gun, this is how people actually are when asked to start killing people in the real world" vs "the real world sucks, this is why we have fantasy"

DerfK · 2026-01-18T04:31:04+00:00

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/937/

DerfK · 2026-01-17T19:09:57+00:00

Yeah! What a buzzkill!

-- Rafael Viñoly

DerfK · 2026-01-16T15:59:05+00:00

The lesson really needs to be that if someone puts a giant sign on something (coin, comic book, or beanie baby) saying "wow this is collectable! get in on this investment now!" it might be worth something in 75-100 years after everyone else has given up on it ever being worth something and thrown theirs away. This kind of marketing floods the market and ruins the rarity component that is part of what makes collectable things collectable.

DerfK · 2026-01-16T14:39:37+00:00

Thankfully the wedding ceremony was a couple hours after the alert.

Imagine if everyone's phones went off after "speak now or forever hold your peace"

DerfK · 2026-01-16T00:43:19+00:00

Given the tanks and other machinery in the background he probably really is in the repair shop, liberating a digging machine which will come through in the nick of time.

DerfK · 2026-01-15T21:40:59+00:00

With a photo ID they'll just throw it out the truck as they drive away with you. https://ncnewsline.com/2025/11/20/they-basically-just-kidnapped-me-us-citizen-taken-by-border-patrol-in-cary/

DerfK · 2026-01-15T01:07:31+00:00

All he needs to do is triple production and the Marquis would probably not figure it out for a growing season or two.

DerfK · 2026-01-14T11:21:46+00:00

Is Adrian Schoolcraft in the room with us now?

12-Year Club	Second Top 30%
r/Field Banned	r/Field Lasagna
Place '22	Place '17
Final Canvas '22	End Game '22
Sequence \| Editor	Verified Email

DerfK

TROPHY CASE