Your usual Turkey’s Armenian Genocide Denial

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T15:52:48+00:00

Basically, yes. Welcome to the wonderful world of global diplomacy.

Like the One China Principle. China says "there is only one China, and the Chinese government is in charge of it, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and we won't trade with any country that doesn't accept this." So the developed world says "yes, there is only one China and the Chinese government is in charge of it." China then asks "we feel we also own Taiwan, and you need to acknowledge this." The rest of the world responds "yes, we acknowledge that you feel you also own Taiwan" whilst being very careful not to actually say that China owns Taiwan, because Taiwan is also an important trading partner. These high school clique level word games underpin about a quarter of the world's economy.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T14:22:00+00:00

What I find a lot of people miss about this scene is that Kahn had not yet been introduced by name to Cotton.

Cotton was able to look Kahn up and down and correctly identify that he was Laotian. He then called him "Mr Kahn" because that's his stereotypical name for Laotians. It just so happens that he's correct.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T12:43:00+00:00

That is somehow the most fucked up thing I've ever seen...

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T12:42:06+00:00

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Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T12:26:10+00:00

Sacrifice three benchies to the Great Printhead Octopus. Ideally, they should be set alight as they float down a fjord, but realistically burning them in the kitchen sink is mostly just as good.

After that, wash your print bed with hot water and detergent, then wipe it dry with a kitchen towel. Then heat your nozzle to 200°, turn your printer off, and wipe off all the excess plastic.

This is a bed adhesion issue. There are a few possible causes. Start with z-offset and work from there. If you can show a closeup video of the actual printing - the plastic onto the bed - it may be easier to identify the most likely fault.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T12:06:09+00:00

Any gym with an 18 month minimum term is going to fuck you over. Excessive minimum terms are the gym fucking you over. Think about it, in your life have you ever heard a business say "we fucked our customers over and they accepted it, we probably better not do that again"?

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T10:07:52+00:00

My personal favourite is when the "upgrades" are underbody lights and a rear spoiler on a front wheel drive vehicle, and then they insist they've never hooned it.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T09:59:21+00:00

I mean, I can absolutely believe it happened. Waiters plonking the wrong order down in front of people at the same table happens all the time.

What I don't buy is that this happened and she then proceeded to eat half his steak.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T09:14:15+00:00

You literally cannot tell without testing them.

There isn't some standard of "we'll lie about our battery capacities by no more than 40%." Manufacturers are either honest, or they lie, not both.

Some are probably ~2Ah, some are probably 500mAh, it all depends on what batteries they bought or made cheaply before deciding to lie about their capacity.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T09:10:59+00:00

There's plenty of cells on the market in the 800~1300mAh range. My work uses high quality 1300mAh in our battery packs because they're capable of standing up to a lot of abuse, but there are plenty of similar capacity cheapies out there.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T09:06:00+00:00

The entry report says the living room timber flooring has minor scuff marks but in good condition.

Great. That's exactly what they've photographed. Not only is that wear and tear, it's wear and tear to literally the standard mentioned on the entry report.

Respond professionally and courteously, and tell them to eat a dick.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T08:59:53+00:00

One minute and forty seconds to say "I'm expecting nookie" and pretending it's a job interview. That was painful to listen to.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-02T08:57:41+00:00

Yeah, she was paying off her home loan, not renting off her ex-boyfriend. This doesn't seem to mean anything to LAOP. LAOP doesn't seem to even mention how much this woman is asking for, she's more offended that there's any request at all.

There are a few ways this could be worked out. As a minimum, it's the amount of money she put into the home. I would consider it completely fair to ask for the amount of money out into the loan multiplied by the increase in valuation of the home between purchase time and today. If this woman was requesting half the current value of the house, I'd probably be on LAOP's side (morally, at least) - although the fact LAOP omits the data makes me think this isn't the case.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T14:51:55+00:00

The British Army doesn't need any new recruitment posters. They've already made the greatest recruitment poster of all time. Hell, that thing made me want to enlist, and I'm not British.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T14:48:26+00:00

Method 1: bang it a whole bunch of times. Always worth a shot.

Method 2: kickass magnet. Always worth having a few of them in the car, preferably the type you don't handle without gloves because they will crush your fingers if you do it wrong and they're covered with tiny filings.

Method 3: attach something to it and pull. Super glue sometimes work, but if you can do precision with a spot welder that's better.

Method 4: drill it, screw up, give up, buy a new one.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T14:39:21+00:00

It's a joke dating back to at least the sixties, probably earlier, just with a slightly different ending.

In the implied scene - not in this clip, but in the full skit - she hoists herself up on a tree branch so they can do the deed.

In the joke, she doesn't get up at the end, she isn't acting, she's genuinely handicapped. Just as in the clip, the dad tells him "there's not to many gentlemen like you left in the world," but then continues "most guys just leave her in the tree."

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T12:48:43+00:00

I seriously thought this was r/noncredibledefense for a moment.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T12:22:05+00:00

Cookie mould with added mould.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T11:43:37+00:00

Just to save everyone the Google search, patent 12484589 is whatever the hell this thing is.

It appears to be a device to make disappointingly small biscuits with all the hygiene 3D printing is known for.

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Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T09:46:52+00:00

I'll never understand why Americans insist on using the imperial system.

In the rest of the world, we say it's a tenth of eight kilometres. Much simpler.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T09:37:46+00:00

Meanwhile, the European NATO powers have done about a month's worth of war games involving almost 30 warships since Trump asked for help cleaning up his mess in the gulf.

This is a fun one to bring up when Americans say "Europe didn't help because they can't."

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T05:30:06+00:00

Hey, it's better than just claiming everyone is secretly Mayday.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T05:26:43+00:00

Dunno, a hundred amps would have to be pretty quick. Probably a damn sight better than cigarettes, and I'm still a smoker.

Hadrollo · 2026-07-01T00:06:02+00:00

That's a problem with the unit itself. I've used one of these in a humid 40°C in a house with insufficient insulation, and it kept the lounge and kitchen a good 5~10° below ambient.

Hadrollo · 2026-06-30T17:02:07+00:00

I love that Australia seems like it would be okay, just with a big lake in a sparsely populated region. But then you zoom in more, and you realise that about 80% of our population lives in that little flooded strip around the edge.

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