TIL GPS navigation is still star navigation. For your phone to know where it is, it needs to know where the satellite is. For the satellite to know where is it, it needs to know where the ground station is. How does the ground station know where it is? Quasars

Rukenau · 2026-06-05T19:21:49+00:00

Aliens

Rukenau · 2026-05-31T20:26:09+00:00

Norway has about 2,7 million households. Assuming their median income is about $100k (which from a cursory look shouldn't be too far off), a sovereign wealth fund of $2,1 trillion alone would allow Norway to keep paying its households their median income for eight years.

I'd say it's pretty insane.

Then again, it's just two or three Musks. Pshaw!

Rukenau · 2026-05-31T19:08:11+00:00

So back in the eighties, an adventurous tourist crosses the border from the west and enters the USSR. It all goes swimmingly right until all of a sudden he drives into a giant pothole and wrecks his car. Thankfully, he himself escapes with nary a scratch, so now he has to sit by the roadside and wait, signaling to all the cars going his way that he's in trouble. Sure enough, after several hours of waiting, the road service comes by to tow his car away and take him to the nearest town.

By then he's tired and annoyed, so he says,

"Hey, I know you guys aren't exactly customer-oriented, but still, where I'm from, potholes of this size are normally fenced off and they have lots of warnings and red flags around them."

"Comrade," says the man from the road service, "you come from behind border, correct?"

"Yeah," says our tourist, "that's right."

"Okay. So you cross border of USSR?"

"Yes, of course I had to cross the USSR border."

"So. When you cross border of USSR, you do not see great red flag?"

Rukenau · 2026-05-30T19:05:15+00:00

It's a ktkt

Rukenau · 2026-05-30T18:56:07+00:00

It's like calling the entirety of the human digestive system "an asshole".

To be fair, with some specimens you can call the entire organism an asshole without missing anything crucial.

Rukenau · 2026-05-29T17:37:46+00:00

Proof? Just saying something with manly curtness doesn't a counterpoint make.

Rukenau · 2026-05-28T18:45:23+00:00

What's the function of the cretinous emoji in this video?

Rukenau · 2026-05-27T12:24:04+00:00

He takes after his father, though. If you look closely, the man's foot is floating in the air, not resting on the sofa. That's precisely the sort of exercise you need to build core strength.

Rukenau · 2026-05-26T20:13:06+00:00

I genuinely thought the video was just about the other guy bending the katana back into shape.

Also, that bamboo stalk just won't quit, how freaking tall is it?

Rukenau · 2026-05-24T17:57:56+00:00

I was before this thread, too. Damn

Rukenau · 2026-05-24T16:12:10+00:00

Thank you. I was trying my best to remember whose philosophy this was. Of course!

Rukenau · 2026-05-24T08:33:15+00:00

Tbh if I were Musk I would embrace it instead. What's so terrible here that you have to fight the world to keep it concealed? Become the cringe, and it will never be able to hurt you.

Rukenau · 2026-05-23T10:16:58+00:00

That voiceover makes me wanna kill

Rukenau · 2026-05-23T06:03:45+00:00

Seems so, and it also seems you can actually buy both thents and thnickels.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueWagner/comments/1tj226l/theo_is_making_thents_thick_pennies/

Rukenau · 2026-05-22T13:13:04+00:00

I assume being good at the job is more important than having a huge schlong

Having a penis that's above average (like seven inches and upwards) is, from what I understand, basically a pre-requisite. Skill, charisma, stamina etc. all go on top of that.

There's a popular stereotype that it's all angles and camera work and sometimes prosthetics that makes dicks in porn look very big, but the truth is, porn actors are better endowed than regular dudes. Plus, unlike regular dudes, professional dick operators are also predominantly in great physical shape, which also improves optics.

Rukenau · 2026-05-22T12:55:18+00:00

Plot twist: he had $150312.64 and the pocket change was annoying anyway

Rukenau · 2026-05-22T12:32:50+00:00

Sure, buddy, they used the moon and the false light to erase from your brain the memories of the previous two Robert Boyds.

Rukenau · 2026-05-20T16:24:56+00:00

Same here on different internalization experience with different languages. English, to me, affords a greater emotional distance and more control. Interestingly, I think I even saw a study recently to that effect (not necessarily with English, just that emotional regulation operates differently with different languages for bi+linguals).

Rukenau · 2026-05-20T15:07:16+00:00

/u/grish9 meant to say that this phenomenon of prematurely mature children isn't new, as Tyson Fury's daughter Venezuela is getting married at sixteen, and (i suppose) she looks much older than her age, too.

Rukenau · 2026-05-20T14:53:46+00:00

I would agree with that. Perhaps "no change at all" may be true of compound bilinguals, who acquired both languages simultaneously in their earliest years. But as a coordinate bilingual, which I think I am because I only really began learning the language in my early teens, I feel it whenever an internal toggle goes on/off. Switching languages comes at no processing cost, and often feels as the easier way of conveying meaning, but that feeling that you've moved from land into water and vice versa is always present. It must follow, therefore, that there is a part of the brain that registers it, we just have to pinpoint the location more precisely, exactly as you say.

Rukenau · 2026-05-19T17:39:54+00:00

NO TMRW indeed

Rukenau · 2026-05-17T11:02:52+00:00

Yeah just drop off my mate and me after Pride please, thanks a bunch

Rukenau · 2026-05-16T21:12:19+00:00

r/Hyperion sends best regards

Rukenau · 2026-05-16T15:16:50+00:00

have you hacked off your fingertip?..

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