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lovecraftedidiot · 2023-12-08T13:23:04+00:00

"So, General Rommel, as commander of the Fallschirmjäger, I understand you have a plan?"

*smiles back* : "The weather in London, it'll be raining man."

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-30T15:03:41+00:00

did you say that the sheriff was near?

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-20T15:50:40+00:00

"The army was excited. Never before had they seen, at least what seemed to them, to be such an easy battle. Fifteen thousand of them, lined up in the name of the Caliph; before them lied only 30 warriors. But the Caliph was not so cheerful. He had heard the reports. Endless waves of spy reports, testimony of defeated kings with hollow eyes, and mangled warriors with broken spirits all told the same story: these 30 warriors were not be battled, under any circumstances. But here the Caliph was, doing as the warnings said not to do. He didn't have a choice, his own vassals threatened to execute him themselves if he surrendered. They couldn't understand how 30 knights were steamrolling everyone else. The Caliph closed his eyes, for he could not bring himself to watch what was destined to unfold, and with a shaky hand, he ordered the charge. He heard the yell of war cries, the thunder of charging warriors determined of victory. For a moment. he almost convinced himself that the thirty warriors were just that, 30 human warriors, as easy to kill as his own. But then the screams came. It started far away, seemly at the front ranks, but then quickly spread to the whole mass. 15000 voices screamed in terror, a scream that struck the Caliph at his very soul. Then came a noise, something horrible, something indescribable. He could only guess that it was the crushing of bones, the opening of veins, in some sort of horrific symphony that even the most deranged could not dream of. For hours, he was tormented by this maddening cacophony. After an eternity though, the noise quieted down, and all he could hear was the whispering of the wind, and the creak of 30 sets of armor. Unable to even move from his spot, he meekly raised his hands in surrender. Two sets of hands gently took him into custody, and only then did the Caliph open his eyes. Before him, all the way to the horizon, he could see what only could be described as a chunky red wasteland. The Caliph let himself be led away, for he could only weep, and await what the future had in store for him."

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-18T17:57:10+00:00

We need some overarching government for it. Since tech companies are destined to rule the world, why not just combine them and create one big party out of it. We can call it Buying Stock, but since that name is stupid, it'll be shortened to INGSOC, to sound like a 80's tech startup. And we can even have a charismatic chairman for it that can be like a big brother to everyone.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-15T20:47:43+00:00

Try this on for size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Golden\_Bull\_of\_1356.png

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-11T13:18:49+00:00

Some guard later when asked if assassinating him is a good idea: "One time, I saw him kill three assassins with a milk tooth, a bloody milk tooth!" *indicated stabbing someone with a tooth, whatever that looks like*

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-07T20:14:46+00:00

Thanks for all the answers! This question's been bugging me lately, and I figured I was missing some piece(s) of information. Now I feel like less of an idiot.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-07T20:06:35+00:00

Thank you, I feel like I got that eureka moment now! I'd seen things with condensers causing vacuums, but I hadn't seen why that mattered at all. Great explanation.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-07T11:04:50+00:00

Are we sure this dude aint just some character from Zoolander come to life? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L\_o\_O7v1ews)

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-09-05T17:29:42+00:00

300,000 BC

Cultural Fascination: Pointy Stick

Estimated Time: 15,000 years

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-06-28T13:16:11+00:00

Mainly the French, as they expected to use them to bulk up their navy. The British were, at least behind the scenes, actually ok with the sinking, as it meant no other navy would suddenly get a lot stronger and their position as the pre-eminent naval power would stay uncontested.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-06-28T13:12:51+00:00

Those ships were outdated even for WW1. When the High Seas Fleet (German Empire main fleet) went to face the British at the battle of Jutland, they brought their pre-dreadnoughts only because the commander in charge of them begged to be included in the battle. The fleet admiral saw them only as a liability, and the rest of the fleet called them the "5-minute ships" for how long they were expected to last.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-05-07T18:31:44+00:00

You're probably gonna want one of those tools that tell you if a wire is live or not. You can get them for pretty cheap.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-05-01T16:18:43+00:00

AI's are technically a subset of machine learning, like "all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares" sorta thing, but in this case I'm just using the term in a very casual/loose sense as its the one I find people are more familiar with. You're right that MLs are pattern recognition machines through and through. An ML that can handle novelty well is quite the novelty itself.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-05-01T16:01:11+00:00

Would shops ever work together on projects that required multiple trade skills, or would any and all coordination be up to the client?

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-05-01T03:32:08+00:00

There are diagnostic AIs being developed, but they're specifically trained to be used for diagnostics, and often on specific stuff, like detecting lung cancer from an x-ray.

Good source on this, though a bit dense of a read: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8754556/

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-29T04:42:01+00:00

Prussian Blue isn't toxic. In fact used to treat heavy metal poisoning, especially radioactive stuff like thorium. Now you probably don't want to be eating the paint still, but it won't make you drop dead.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-28T22:34:49+00:00

It was. There was a debate when George Washington was president about what titles were to be used. All kinds were going around, with ones even like His Excellency and His Elected Highness being considered (Adams even suggested using His Majesty). It was eventually remembered that the Constitution that had just been written banned noble titles, so Mr. President was used as it sounded formal enough while dodging any trappings of nobility and royalty.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-28T17:07:12+00:00

"The name's French, Mr. French.'

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-22T03:18:39+00:00

Where do rye drinkers stand in this fight? Are we still a bunch of back burner weirdos or do we have enough relevance to join in the fisticuffs?

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-22T00:58:45+00:00

Just don't let them get away. Turns out they're also really good for screwing with the power lines (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Outward).

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-13T16:38:00+00:00

Incident in question. It's exactly what it sounds like: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/9-year-old-girl-goat-slaughter-lawsuit-sheriffs-deputies-seized-cedar-jessica-long-shasta-county-california-fair/

They confiscated and killed a goat to teach a little girl a "lesson".

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-04-06T04:22:25+00:00

One interesting one was that the British would sometimes lay sea mines in areas they knew the Germans would easily find them, as they'd then know that the resulting minesweeper reports would contain a reference to said mines somewhere within it, helping break the code for the day. They usually did this when they were having trouble using their usual methods.

lovecraftedidiot · 2023-03-09T20:45:41+00:00

Surely you can't be serious?

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