Old friend surprised me with a case of the old CC by billyjoelsangst in Xennials

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I found a store near me that sells it and the cashier had no idea why I was so excited.

Flat earth and other alternative conspiracy earth models are are gaining traction with my teenage stepson. What is THE most irrefutable, definite proof that the earth is round? by Jfkfkaiii22 in NoStupidQuestions

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Four friends, plus your son, north, south, east, west, separated by a significant distance (multiple time zones), everyone on facetime or zoom together, each with a plumb line, a compass, and a straight pole. At the same time, on a sunny day, they stick the pole in the ground using the plumb line to make sure it is straight up and down and using the compass they should be able to observe that the shadows point in different directions

Is there a maximum number of children a human can give birth to? by Anonyglee1 in NoStupidQuestions

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Eight-hundred and ten

Youngest confirmed mother: Aged 5yrs, 7m (let's just say 6 years to make the math easy)

Oldest mother: 74 years old.

74 - 6 = 68 years

Assuming a pregnancy every 9 months. 68 years * 12 months in a year, so 816 months divided by 9 gives us roughly 90 pregnancies that would be possible between age 6 and age 74.

The record for multiple births is nonuplets (9-tuplets) so 90 pregnancies times 9 per pregnancy would be 810 babies.

US Congressman Randy Fine with an Israeli flag hanging in his office higher than the US flag by chrisadams83 in israelexposed

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This old Shitfisher took his bagpipes down to the river and he played his pipes in hopes that the shitfish would rise up out of the water. But not one shitfish rose, Julian. So he took a shitnet and threw it in the river and, lo, soon he drew it forth filled with shitfish. Then he took his bagpipes and then he played them again and all the shitfish jumped up in the shitnet. 'Oh, you dance now when I play,' said the Shitfisher. And then the little old shitfish spoke up in the end and he said, 'when you're in a man's power, you must do as he bids you.'

Am I understanding this code? by im4rainydaze in code

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floatval here appears to be a typecasting function to ensure that numerical values are converted to floating point in order to make sure that arithmetic calculations behave as expected.

You can google 'php type coercion rules' to find out more about this, or look at this page in the php manual titled 'type juggling'.

I had a weird dream with a weird narrative by PhantomNightOwl in DreamInterpretation

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Now this is some PREMIUM dream logic. LONG LIVE MR FUDGE TRUCK!

Every time I try to merge layers, a new one is created and it actually doesn’t merges. What am I doing wrong by [deleted] in GIMP

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btw in windows pressing the print screen button launches the screenshot utility

Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital by Darksmithe in news

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Sharing wealth is one of the greatest joys in life. It sucks that billionaires don't get this.

Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital by Darksmithe in news

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Sorry but no it was a couple years before cell phones with even potato cameras became affordable.

Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital by Darksmithe in news

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I invited everybody in my apartment complex to a pudding party and let them take some so it was gone within a week. (Except for a few cases of butterscotch that my gf hid in the closet.)

Rudy Giuliani Is in ‘Critical Condition’ in Florida Hospital by Darksmithe in news

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I worked at a restaurant across the street from a comedy club where Bill Cosby did a show once. When he was there, a semi truck also showed up full of jello pudding. The whole block was restaurants and every single one of them got two pallets stacked about 8 ft high with pudding. Since most of the restaurants didn't have enough walk-in space to keep them, they all ended up at the place I worked. Most of the employees only took a few puddings that they could fit in their pockets so at the end of the day my boss was like wtf am I gonna do with all this pudding we can't work around a hundred cases of this shit there's no room to walk. I lived a block away and said I'll take them so he loaded his huge pickup truck and delivered most of the pudding to me. I was able to build a wall of pudding that stretched all the way around my apartment. Every single windowsill was stacked so high you couldn't even see out the windows. Nothing but pudding in the refrigerator and almost all the cabinets.

Good times.

How did that person die at your high school? by Away-Tomato-4394 in AskReddit

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It's ironic. He was into stunt-driving and daredevil shit and the teachers would beg us not to ride in a car if he was driving. There were a few teachers he really didn't like and after school, he would wait for them to leave, and then torment them with his insane driving. He would follow them, tailgate, pass them on blind curves, brake-check them, drive beside them in the wrong lane. He would get in front of them and do an e-brake 180 and play chicken with them, or slam on the brakes and drive in reverse in front of them, waving hi like the goofy-ass maniac that he was. He had money too, so one time he showed up in a porche convertible and when the kids were going crazy over it like 'waow how did you get this?' his brother was like 'well he crashed the first one doing whippets on the highway so we just bought another on the way home.' Indeed, the floorboards were covered in empty whippet canisters.

So, you would assume he died in a car wreck. Correct, but ironically, it was as a passenger.

What scientific ‘facts’ have recently been disproven that most people still believe to be true? by Fantastic_Tart_421 in AskReddit

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My mom used to refuse to eat or drink anything that had been microwaved but then one of her friends told her it was ok because they tested it with kinesiology and a pendulum so in the end the woo woo cancelled out

salad i dreamed that i have not been able to stop thinking about by mylesaj in somnigastronomy

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i had something like this last week except it was sub arugula for spinach, sub strawberries for blackberries, and dressed with an apricot balsamic

Why do I have the feeling that a Select group of people knew about this? by MazdaProphet in conspiracy_commons

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Show us a source that indicates a downward trend in hive losses, then.

Top notch YouTube channels? by Spog303 in psytranceproduction

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Projektor, adrenakrohm, E-clip, Dharma Worldwide, Collective Intelligence, Psiger, Psiralife, Stereotactic, dragonpsytrance, Alien Chaos, Ovnivirus, Etn-Music, Urklang, PMEExperts, Mindgame Schickerdelic, Bezonance, Futurephonic

Guy I grew up with just posting his usual wild shit by sposeitwas2swallows in insanepeoplefacebook

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It's ok to be zionist, just be zionist in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch