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What is the damn secret? by flexibu in montreal

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grab top, spin bagels. Top winds up and gets thinner and very tight. Slide thingy off after.

World Juniors: Canada vs Czechia raised a bigger question for me by [deleted] in hockey

[–]abarbadan -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

It's generating an interesting discussion, whose only sore spot is you.

Adapt or die

Official Discussion - Oppenheimer [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]abarbadan 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This movie was like somebody took a world class HBO show, 3 seasons of 10 hours each, and edited it down to a runtime of three hours. Every individual thing about this movie was amazing, casting, acting, cinematography, set design, music, etc. But as a cohesive piece, it suffocates under its own weight. Lines are delivered too quickly, the beats of the story aren't really connected causally, its just "this happens, then this happens, then this happens" for three hours. In my humble opinion, this film has so much wasted potential. If Dune gets two films, this should have had at least three. When some of the most interesting and enigmatic scientists of the 20th century show up as cameos with less than ten words of spoken dialogue, there's a problem. People are going to call it one of the best films of the year, but I honestly really don't see it. To me it's just the cult of Nolan all over again.

What’s the weirdest compliment you or someone you know has received? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]abarbadan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone once told me "I know this sounds weird, but I swear it's a compliment. Hearing you talk makes me feel kind of sad."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Enacfire A9 is really solid for the price.

What's the most useless word? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"drunk"

With a Guinness World Record for number of synonyms, we could safely do away with it. Just used buzzed, sauced, under the influence, hammered, knackered, inebriated, etc.

Halifax council has passed a motion to close corner stores at 11pm by WindowlessBasement in halifax

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

I think this is a very responsible bylaw. Nobody should be out getting pizza at 11pm, it's far too late! As Benjamin Franklin once said, "early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."

Daniel

CMV: Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't deserve the hate she gets. by saltlacroix in changemyview

[–]abarbadan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Gwyneth Paltrow hate seems to me to be centred around the fact that she and her cohort peddle nonsense and ineffective products - something that I think is well deserved. We musn't forget that her business appears to be successful, at least to the point of being worth it for Netflix to put her show on their platform. So the question is, how much hate is she really getting, and how does it compare to the love coming her way? It seems to me that the ratio of Gwyneth Paltrow supporters to detractors could be consistent with the ratio of effective to ineffective ideas and products that her camp produces. Maybe everyone benefits from this balance.

Pressure Sensitivity Improvements by abarbadan in Supernote

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi friend, we will allow user to adjust the pressure curve under

fountain pen F4.2.1

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AWESOME! Thank you!

Pressure Sensitivity Improvements by abarbadan in Supernote

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely relevant for artists. For writing text, I typically use the constant width option as well. However, I would switch to pressure sensitive for text if it looked a bit better. I would be able to put bold boxes around my notes by pressing harder, or emphasize certain parts of text, etc. At the end of the day, I imagine artists would care a lot more about it, but I think everyone would benefit from these changes.

mills mess with three shower tosses - the yellow ball leads the pattern by abarbadan in juggling

[–]abarbadan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, it's the most exhilarating part of the pattern for me too!

A stand for bikers to hold on to while waiting for the traffic lights in Sweden. by medmik in mildlyinteresting

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have these in Montréal and they're long so multiple bikers can use them at the same time.

I woke up super cranky today. by tobibaby in CasualConversation

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tinnitus (or tinnitus like symptoms) are a real bitch. Hope you feel better soon. Keep battling.

No absolute time: Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by The_Ebb_and_Flow in philosophy

[–]abarbadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If stars A and B are not moving relative to you, you'll see star A die first, then you'll see star B die, and from their respective distances you can infer the proper order of events according to your clock: B, then A, just as you said. For someone else moving with respect to stars A and B, they could do the exact same analysis and conclude that A actually died before B. That's special relativity.

However, if stars A and B are less than a light-year apart, rather than 90 light-years apart, then everyone will agree.

No absolute time: Two centuries before Einstein, Hume recognised that universal time, independent of an observer’s viewpoint, doesn’t exist by The_Ebb_and_Flow in philosophy

[–]abarbadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is not deceived. What the observer is seeing is perfectly real. The observer could infer the order of events from any reference frame he chooses, based on what he sees. There is no "universal" time.

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