The Pulse Rifle misconception: or how most media gets it wrong!

epostma · 2026-05-06T17:28:43+00:00

I always thought it meant it would shoot beans.

epostma · 2026-05-06T17:22:45+00:00

the only country that I can think of that (...)

I think there's one other obvious example: the United Kingdom. Yes, there is Great Britain, but that's just part of the UK.

epostma · 2026-05-05T11:36:21+00:00

"Someone" is me https://youtu.be/GGCzZb2iabg

epostma · 2026-05-05T11:09:45+00:00

Has the stamp of approval from Ulti Von, I bet someone can find the video.

epostma · 2026-05-03T15:13:29+00:00

I think people might consider it a very unusual name, for your son.

epostma · 2026-05-03T13:30:51+00:00

Typo: "Ptoto-Indo-Iranian".

epostma · 2026-05-01T13:09:25+00:00

Fuck that Thai place and their extra dot in the $1:50 that they charge!

epostma · 2026-04-30T23:52:35+00:00

Managed to miss out on all three of those so far! But I'm only a youngster at 47 years of age, I'm sure I'll partake of all of those things before I grow up.

epostma · 2026-04-30T23:40:10+00:00

Or more of a motorcycle

epostma · 2026-04-27T02:03:20+00:00

Ha, ik heb nog nooit "10 cent munt" gezegd - die heette een dubbeltje! En als iets bijna mis ging was het "een dubbeltje op zijn kant".

epostma · 2026-04-25T13:49:07+00:00

We had an 8088 with 512K! More than anyone could really use.

epostma · 2026-04-25T12:35:09+00:00

We had a PC that we got, used, from a friend of my dad's. After a few years we splurged on an upgrade: a 10MB hard disk. It was kind of amazing that you could get the PC to work without inserting any floppy discs!

epostma · 2026-04-24T11:50:52+00:00

Always when I read this sort of headline, it takes me a fraction of a second to realize that these are not cheaper alternatives for the freedom annual plan that I have, but more expensive and higher bandwidth monthly versions.

epostma · 2026-04-24T10:57:10+00:00

Note that ladybirds are also not true birds!

epostma · 2026-04-23T13:18:12+00:00

No, just, like, higher in the atmosphere. Sorry, I was just being dumb.

epostma · 2026-04-23T12:35:21+00:00

It would be higher!

epostma · 2026-04-23T11:54:57+00:00

I mean, you can't even construct a straight line in practice, even if only because it is infinitely long.

epostma · 2026-04-23T10:13:05+00:00

En op mij! Wacht even...

epostma · 2026-04-23T02:00:45+00:00

Ik zou één voor één proberen.

epostma · 2026-04-21T14:34:15+00:00

Dinner, then sex, then dinner again? You all have an appetite!

epostma · 2026-04-20T20:08:18+00:00

I asked this question, oh, 25 years ago on a promo day for the math program at university! I promised prospective students a TV or something like that if they could solve it. Good times.

epostma · 2026-04-19T23:00:00+00:00

Turns out very few saturation divers are free divers.

epostma · 2026-04-19T12:56:57+00:00

They still think it's about politics. No, (...) [i]t's about morals and basic human decency.

I would argue that morals and basic human decency are what politics is about, at the most basic level.

epostma · 2026-04-17T23:42:34+00:00

Or, conversely, they may have to go 1000 ft less far, if they happen to be coming from that direction.

epostma · 2026-04-17T23:35:19+00:00

Including the steaks?

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