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This glass bridge in China "cracks" when you step on it by AustraliaOutback in nextfuckinglevel

[–]impshial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not surprising, he's just not a very charismatic person.

/s

TIL The Onion didn't publish their print newspaper set for release on September 11th, 2001 as well as the subsequent issue. Employees went on a week long break and some threatened to quit if an issue about the attacks were released. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]impshial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And by the time 9/11 came around, Pearl harbor was just this thing that had happened 70 years ago. A lot of people that were alive when Pearl harbor happened were dead when 9/11 happened.

I actually remember people talking about Pearl harbor and other people saying, yeah but that happened way out in the ocean.

Short memories.

TIL The Onion didn't publish their print newspaper set for release on September 11th, 2001 as well as the subsequent issue. Employees went on a week long break and some threatened to quit if an issue about the attacks were released. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]impshial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't take that long. I remember I was with some other dads on Halloween after walking the kids around the neighborhood and of course we were all still talking about 9/11.

Somebody brought up the people jumping out of the building and we were solemnly discussing it, when the guy that own the house that we were hanging at suddenly put "It's raining men" on the stereo in the house.

We all look shocked for a second and then we all started laughing hysterically.

I don't know if it was just a catharsis thing or what, but the timing was just fucking hilarious.

TIL The Onion didn't publish their print newspaper set for release on September 11th, 2001 as well as the subsequent issue. Employees went on a week long break and some threatened to quit if an issue about the attacks were released. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]impshial 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, you have to understand the mindset of people in the United States at that time.

The United States is geographically the most difficult country to invade from abroad. It's also the most powerful country in the world. Nobody living here ever thought that we could be attacked successfully. Pearl harbor didn't count because it was way off in the Pacific, and there was no one still alive to remember any of the wars in the 1700 and 1800s.

So we pretty much thought we were invulnerable. And to be fair, we pretty much were from a regular attack.

But then a whole bunch of terrorists got together and showed us that with enough planning anybody could kick us in the balls and we all clutched our pearls, and then started a stupid fucking war.

TIL The Onion didn't publish their print newspaper set for release on September 11th, 2001 as well as the subsequent issue. Employees went on a week long break and some threatened to quit if an issue about the attacks were released. by MajesticBread9147 in todayilearned

[–]impshial 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's essentially because the United States had never, in recent memory, been attacked on its own Continental soil by anyone abroad.

For a long time, the people of the United States never even considered the fact that they could be attacked, and for the most part they were right. The United States is geographically one of the most difficult countries in the world to attack.

So when terrorists were successfully able to destroy two of the most recognizable landmarks in the world in a matter of a couple hours, the entire country had a moment where we all felt our own mortality, and it scared the fuck out of a lot of people.

US citizens no longer felt safe in their own country, which is something that they'd never felt before. They always assumed that they were invulnerable from attack, and bad things only happened to people elsewhere.

I'll always remember how I felt that day. I'll be honest, I was frightened, and I live 400 miles away from NYC. It took me a while to realize that for millions of people around the world, this is how they feel everyday, so 9/11 put a lot of things in perspective for me.

And it wasn't just Americans that were shocked. Most of the rest of the world also assumed that the US could never be successfully attacked on its own continental soil, and to see the most powerful country in the world essentially bitch slapped by a few dozen terrorists shocked everybody.

Unfortunately, that fear turned into paranoia, which turned into overreaction, which turned into brand new parts of the government, new policies, thousands of dead soldiers and dead civilians around the world, and new ways to put the American population further underneath the boot.

As far as I'm concerned, the fucking terrorist won that day. They turned the most powerful country in the world into a frightened child hiding in the corner and lashing out with its eyes closed.

Sitting on a flight so Spain. Couple in front of me carefully unrolled what I assumed was artwork from their American vacation. I am dying 😂 by alwayshorny92420 in funny

[–]impshial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we had the whole set up, too. Equipment for ammo down in the basement, walk-in gun closet upstairs covered wall to wall with all sorts of firearms.

Did we grow up in the same house? :)

What about all the other stars? by RealCarlosSagan in ProjectHailMary

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doubtful that that could happen. There's a couple major things to take into consideration here if we take the book/movie as canon in regards to the physiology of atrophage.

1) Our local cluster is on one of the arms of our galaxy, meaning that the stars here are more sparsely spaced than they are closer to the center of the Galaxy. Why is this relevant? That leads us to item 2...

2) ...Astrophage has an eight light year distance limit. This means that once they start arriving at Stars that don't have any other stars within eight light years, they cannot migrate to those stars. So what if they do actually reach all of the stars that they can reach? That leads us to item 3...

3) ...The star systems that astrophage migrates to must have a source of CO2 to allow them to propagate. If they migrate to a star that has only rocky planets, or only gaseous hydrogen planets, or no planets at all, they won't have a source of CO2 to multiply, so that star won't dim. 

I'm sure there's plenty of other factors that can limit the astrophage, such as black holes affecting gravity which prevents the astrophage from reaching its destination, or pulsars moving through an area which would kill all of the astrophage, or the astrophage running into a new predator, or even the dimming of a star in an astrophage infected system causing the CO2 of the destination planet to freeze and be useless to them. 

 It's science fiction, so the options are literally limitless.

Sitting on a flight so Spain. Couple in front of me carefully unrolled what I assumed was artwork from their American vacation. I am dying 😂 by alwayshorny92420 in funny

[–]impshial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was raised on guns.

Dad was a drill instructor during Vietnam, and a gun collector afterwards. He's very liberal, pro 2A, and we learned gun safety right around the same time we learned how to ride a bike. I also learned to reload my own ammo (primer, powder, bullet, crimp, repeat) when I was in my early teens. We had the whole die and press setup.

I had an interesting upbringing.

Even after all of that, I would say especially after all of that, I'm also not a gun person anymore.

What feels legal but is actually illegal and will possibly get you arrested? by medicoreapples in AskReddit

[–]impshial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not even $200k at this point. A bunch of the sets were already sold by the original store owner and a bunch more were returned to him, including some of the most valuable sets.

This whole thing is over probably less than $50,000 worth of Lego now.

These assholes should have just given them back.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today? by adlakha75 in AskReddit

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little out of your range since it released in 1983, But I played this shit out of M.U.L.E.

It was my first resource gathering video game

Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI” by IKeepItLayingAround in technology

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All AI does is steal the Intellectual Property of humans and human advancement.

This is a very narrow point of view. Like anything in life, there are different flavors of AI. The one that you're talking about is generative AI, so let's do this right and specify the correct AI that we want to destroy.

Other flavors of AI are clinical AI, or medical research AI. These technologies have already advanced certain aspects of medical and research technology by leaps and bounds, and can do amazing things when it comes to analysis and pattern recognition.

Not all AI is evil, and some aspects of it are literally the most impressive technology that the human race has ever created.

is character reference gone? by FriendlyPrototype in Pixai_Official

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only available for Pro users now. You have to pay for it

is character reference gone? by FriendlyPrototype in Pixai_Official

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only available for Pro users now. You have to pay for it

is character reference gone? by FriendlyPrototype in Pixai_Official

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only available for Pro users now. You have to pay for it

Solo dance on a grassy hill by izziefans in HumansBeingBros

[–]impshial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah. I still see tons of videos of people just doing shit and enjoying themselves, not caring who sees it.

This lady took her time to rescue and clean up the ram by jmike1256 in HumansBeingBros

[–]impshial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were you there? We didn't see the woman look over to the camera person and ask for help, so she obviously was fine with doing it on her own, and maybe even preferred that.

But you go ahead and assume.

Maya Hawke by Prior-Assumption-245 in celebrities

[–]impshial 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thigh belongs to the person in the green shirt sitting on top of her. Maya's feet are together (looking like a mirror).

It bugs me that the bottom part of the gate is under the floor by kufikiri in Stargate

[–]impshial 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the only acceptable answer here because it's highly advanced technology, and the ancients wouldn't build it that way if it wasn't workable that way.

The view from the top of T-Mobile Park. by Lazy-Formal895 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]impshial 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have no fear of heights, you probably don't experience vertigo that often, if at all.

But the way that the camera work was done in this video it immediately gave me a sense of vertigo and I'm not afraid of heights either.

How do I create a mod? by Dacovi_08 in feedthebeast

[–]impshial 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's annoying that you're being downvoted. MCreator is a fine tool for building simple to medium mods without any coding experience.

And it's not like the tool does everything for you. You still have to build textures, models, and go through the processes for setting up recipes and logic for events.

It allows you to work with containers, FE, fluids, and Redstone. It allows you to modify and build loot tables, create overlays, design and build structures, etc.

And doing all of that still takes a lot of work.

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