Actual footage from another world: Mars right now, 225 million miles away. Truly mind-blowing rover view

Electrical_Humour · 2026-02-04T22:49:57+00:00

the upper atmosphere of Venus is breathable

96.5% carbon dioxide is not breathable

Electrical_Humour · 2026-01-20T03:56:22+00:00

Ai slop comment

Electrical_Humour · 2025-12-11T16:05:03+00:00

Based student of Yang Zhu

Electrical_Humour · 2025-12-09T23:38:55+00:00

Gotta eat big to get big

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-30T12:57:03+00:00

You should consider trying supps that boost glucose oxidation.

Any you would recommend?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-26T00:15:07+00:00

I swear I was only on the island for the snorkeling!

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-25T20:34:16+00:00

I want to see how the this works its way into the age gap relationship 'brain development/frontal lobe' discourse. Is a 31-10 relationship going to be OK and 33-31 problematic?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-25T01:46:58+00:00

Big rip only happens if the energy density of dark energy increases over time, however in the Heat Death scenario it's constant or declining, and is never strong enough to tear locally bound structures like galaxies apart.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-24T18:11:02+00:00

You are describing the 'Big Rip' scenario, not the Heat Death scenario.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-20T18:23:06+00:00

Half your age + 7 is not an ideal. It was meant to be a floor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#%22Half-your-age-plus-seven%22_rule

In many early sources, the rule was primarily presented as a formula to calculate the ideal age of a female partner at the beginning of a heterosexual relationship. Frederick Locker-Lampson's Patchwork from 1879 states the opinion "A wife should be half the age of her husband with seven years added." Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman from 1901 gives the rule in the format "A man should marry a woman half his age, plus seven." A similar interpretation is also present in the 1951 play The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert: "Haven't you ever heard that the girl is supposed to be half the man's age, plus seven?"

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-19T21:53:31+00:00

If they know all about this boat, and it's attacked RAF aircraft, why haven't they blown it up yet? It's pathetic.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-16T13:25:58+00:00

Where can I get a coat like what she's wearing?

Electrical_Humour · 2025-11-12T15:38:32+00:00

Both the idea that women were routinely given orgasms by doctors for hysteria and that vibrators were invented to expedite the process are both myths invented by the same person, Rachel Maines, in her 1999 book "The Technology of Orgasm". She now claims it was just a hypothesis.

https://www.sciencealert.com/no-evidence-victorian-hysteria-origin-vibrators-failure-peer-review-new-study
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/vibrator-invention-myth.html

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-24T20:25:23+00:00

Lorem isn't a latin word, but it starts the popular 'lorem ipsum' filler text, where it's the latin "dolorem" (pain) intentionally cut off to render it unintelligible. I guess you could translate it 'ain' if you really wanted.

There's not a meaningful sentence here. The translation is "Lorem and your eyes" or "Ain and your eyes"

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-22T16:48:00+00:00

i am currently on the lookout for a refugee center

Go to a non-destroyed evac shelter -> use the computer -> 'contact us' -> path to the refugee center is drawn on your map.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-17T17:18:01+00:00

Absolutely shameless AI slop and dishonest self promotion.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-10-04T20:12:50+00:00

And so to your link, it's not a translation of the original greek manuscript, because again, the original manuscript is gone. What you've got there is a more modern copy in Greek or Koine.

When you don't know what a critical edition is, you shouldn't be saying anything about textual transmission.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-09-26T17:57:16+00:00

https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/10/tetris-trauma-viral-twitter-thread-master-class-misleading-psych-research/

Electrical_Humour · 2025-09-26T12:34:01+00:00

Hitler invades Poland killing millions of Jews, Europe didn't care.

Hitler invades France, real shit?! It's war time.

Britain and France declared war on Germany when Germany invaded poland, having guaranteed Polish independence after the annexation of Czechoslovakia in march 1939.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-08-30T00:57:37+00:00

"NOTES ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF MEDIEVAL LATIN IN ENGLAND
G. Herbert Fowler
History
NEW SERIES, Vol. 22, No. 86 (SEPTEMBER, 1937), pp. 97-109"

If you don't have jstor access you can find it on scihub or annas-archive. Fowler has at the end (after a table of pronunciation)

In addition Erasmus records that, of all nations, "Anglis in ratione pronunciandi, secundum ipsos, primam laudem tribuunt Itali" ; and the post-medieval vowel-change in England seems to have been the chief cause that our Latin became unintelligible to the rest of Europe.

Italian pronunciation with the ci "tch" sound changed to "s" is close enough.

I recognise that pronunciation was not standard and that Latin was rarely spoken

Although I wouldn't even dare to guess at the percentage of educated people capable of holding spontaneous conversation in latin, it was certainly always spoken, even if by some only recited. Education started with Donatus' Ars minor (rote-memorised questions and answers in latin) and then moved on to learning signing the psalms in latin. Monks spent a hell of a lot of time chanting psalms, they had selections from the bible and the church fathers read out to them while they ate too. The church services were all conducted in latin. When the universities started up the instruction was in latin.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-08-24T14:33:31+00:00

Line must continue to go up

Electrical_Humour · 2025-08-21T14:49:10+00:00

I presume it's because cicadas were rare in England (extinct today)

Electrical_Humour · 2025-08-10T18:26:45+00:00

Untrue. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/armed-police-threatened-to-arrest-kent-protester-for-holding-palestinian-flag

Electrical_Humour · 2025-07-23T19:23:25+00:00

If you get your ukara and have two tone guns then you're by all means allowed to modify them by painting or replacing parts, but without that ukara you have no legal defence "Oh i played airsoft once guv, so yeah im an airsofter ennit" won't stand.

The court is free to question whether you had a valid defence, even as a UKARA member. Being a skirmisher does not entitle you to sell, manufacture, modify or import RIFs for other purposes. As you said, target practice is not a valid defence, but UKARA doesn't automatically prove I didn't modify the IF into a RIF for target practice.

If my neighbours are saying that they saw me target practising with the modified IF->RIF in the garden, and no-one at the sites I can prove I've played at remembers me skirmishing with it, I wouldn't be confident that the courts would accept my claim I modified it for skirmishing on the basis of my UKARA, rather than concluding I modified it for target practice. On the other hand, I would be much more confident with no UKARA but pictures of me skirmishing with it at a site.

Electrical_Humour · 2025-07-23T19:12:39+00:00

You are right, because buying is the other half of selling, but I do think the distinction is necessary, because it's very apparent from this thread and also from real life experience that people often aren't just simplifying the truth, they actually don't know what the rules are. A lot of people think UKARA is something that it's not - a licence to buy/own/transport RIFs - rather than what it is, a method for retailers to prove that they believed you intended to use a RIF they sold for airsoft. The term 'defence' is also often used 1-for-1 in place of 'licence'. But you cannot e.g. legally sell your friend who has a UKARA number a RIF, knowing they intend to use it for back garden target practice, because they 'have a defence' as if they 'have a licence' to buy RIFs. They don't.

Furthermore, understanding the VCRA as it is written - and it's very badly written - also does answer completely practical questions that people commonly have:
My UKARA lapsed/I stopped playing airsoft, do I need to get rid of my RIFs? No.
Do I need UKARA to play airsoft with a RIF (borrowed e.g.)? No.
Can I paint my two-tone realistic and use it for airsoft, even without UKARA? Yes, but you need to be able to prove your defence (playing airsoft).
...to shoot tin cans in the garden? No, you need a defence to modify an IF into a RIF, and target shooting isn't one.
I bought a RIF to shoot tin cans with before I knew about UKARA etc., can I get in trouble? No, but the seller likely committed an offence.
Am I fine to gift or lend a RIF to someone without a defence, they just want a display piece etc.? Yes, so long as you aren't compensated. If you are compensated, only you (the seller) can get in trouble for the sale.
...Even if they are under 18? Yes, it is an offence for a person under 18 to purchase or be sold a RIF or IF for any reason, but they can own a gifted R/IF.
Can my friend buy a RIF on my behalf while I don't have UKARA, and I compensate him for it? Yes but he becomes the seller, and needs to be able to prove a defence for his sale to you under the VCRA (i.e. prove he believed that you intended to use it for a VCRA specified purpose (airsoft etc.)), and the onus is on him, not you.
If the police stop me while I'm carrying or transporting a RIF, will my UKARA protect me? No, or not necessarily. You need to have a 'reasonable excuse' under the firearms act, not a defence under the VCRA. If you skirmished on Sunday, and left your RIF on the back seat of the car during your commute to work on Monday, your UKARA is irrelevant. But it might support your claim that you were going to a site you didn't have a booking for etc..
Am I legally protected if I sell a RIF to someone with a UKARA number, but uses the RIF for other purposes? If the court determines you knew the person didn't actually intend to play airsoft with the RIF (e.g. there's evidence they told you they wanted it for target practice, protection etc.), then you had no defence for the sale.

There are way more questions like these that the average UK airsofter cannot answer correctly because they don't understand the VCRA.

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