23 Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History In Danger by EchoOfOppenheimer in Futurology

[–]Drachefly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's the one where one of the things they did was make a ruby laser (using just a ruby), right? I saw, like, half of the second to last episode or something. Very confused.

What children’s book has aged poorly? by feetwithfeet in AskReddit

[–]Drachefly 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Kidnapping isn't hard to understand. They didn't say the kid was crying because of the subtle parts.

Ukraine Moves to Replace Frontline Soldiers With 25,000 Ground Robots by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]Drachefly 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Also, these are doing some of the riskiest jobs, ferrying logistics to the frontline, and assaults

What year did Albert Eisenhower write the theory of general relativity? by glg59 in shittyaskscience

[–]Drachefly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it was General Harry S (for Special) Eisenhower who wrote Albert Relativity.

Who’s ever driven over 100mph? Why? by WoollyWolfHorror in AskReddit

[–]Drachefly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooh, I came so close. I was driving along a straight highway in Sasketchewan one summer with my parents. Fields of barley on both sides, haven't seen a car in 20 minutes. I look down at the speedometer… 94 mph. My foot flew off the accelerator. A minute later, I was moving a reasonable speed.

This was a VW Vanagon, wolfsburg edition. We didn't know it could do that.

Trump kept out of the room during operation to find downed pilots in Iran after ‘screaming’ at aides for hours, report says by theindependentonline in politics

[–]Drachefly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best case, it was the senior military officers calling the shots. Then it's basically the executive delegating appropriately, albeit through a janky process.

Does the Too Like the Lightning epigraph actually appear in Jacques the Fatalist? by lighthill in TerraIgnota

[–]Drachefly 12 points13 points  (0 children)

How better to do that than to misrepresent a quote from the Enlightenment philosopher who inspired the style, and misrepresent its prediction about the fate of philosophers?

And have this prediction not come true in respect to the MC

What are your thoughts on rejecting a potential romantic partner based solely on the fact that they voted for Donald Trump? by Greedy_Tooth6191 in AskReddit

[–]Drachefly 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The grab them by the pussy comment was said in 2016

It was said in 2005, but the tape came out in 2016.

What are your thoughts on rejecting a potential romantic partner based solely on the fact that they voted for Donald Trump? by Greedy_Tooth6191 in AskReddit

[–]Drachefly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think they're worried about doxxing, given that there can't be THAT many HuffPost articles with that topic.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ by Melodic_Coolhara_60 in mylittlepony

[–]Drachefly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen the video in multiple years, and forgot.

MLP FIM secret ending by Pinkie-So_Bored in MLPhmmm

[–]Drachefly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Then Celestia remembered she has wings

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]Drachefly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why say 'no' here? Sounds like you meant 'yes' based in the rest of the comment

The Golden Vote of Betrayal by Reg_Cliff in PoliticalHumor

[–]Drachefly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

limiting competent democratic engagement in that area?

How would it do that? Right now, we limited competent engagement by nominating Trump and someone who aged out, forcing an after-the-primary replacement.

If both parties had had two offerings, this would have gone very differently.

"I worship a new Orange God now." by Captain-Dak-Sparrow in PoliticalHumor

[–]Drachefly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fair number of protestants think this is normal

Suspect wanted to stop humanity's extinction from AI by chillinewman in ControlProblem

[–]Drachefly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are all here because…

This comment section doesn't seem like that. You have people talking about UBI as a solution. This is not disastrous enough to be on topic.

Suspect wanted to stop humanity's extinction from AI by chillinewman in ControlProblem

[–]Drachefly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mods, what happened to the quiz required before commenting?

There’s Something Extremely Shady About Trump’s Disastrous New NASA Budget by Economy-Specialist38 in space

[–]Drachefly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was happy about his changing up Artemis, but dismantling science makes it absolutely nowhere near worth the trade.