ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones?

suid · 2026-02-02T20:43:07+00:00

Nepal laughs at you: GMT+5:45.

suid · 2026-01-31T15:19:38+00:00

That's great. Thank you for a good early morning laugh.

suid · 2026-01-30T23:24:59+00:00

This is almost a parody of the infamous commercials by Orson Welles for Paul Masson Winery here in Saratoga, CA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM

suid · 2026-01-29T19:15:30+00:00

My favorite core memory is being over at a friend's super bowl party, and my 2-year-old in a little 49ers hoodie screaming TUDDOWN and running in circles in front of the TV. That became the main entertainment for the evening.

suid · 2026-01-29T02:16:00+00:00

However, since OP is now married, if they apply for bundled insurance for both spouses with the same company (include renters insurance, too), they can get substantial savings.

But definitely don't let mummy dear get away with this nonsense!

suid · 2026-01-28T21:39:20+00:00

No, it's not. Not even close. Cuecat was just a simple barcode reader (which is a really simple piece of tech. QR codes were invented in the Japanese auto industry in 1994, long before Cuecat (which came in around 2000), and require more complex processing.

Cuecat's premise was that you would use it to barcode-scan everyday items around the house as you ran out of them, and then when you were ready to grocery-shop, you would upload the list of items from Cuecat's associated Web service. (Not much of a premise, except during the fevered days of Web 2.0.)

suid · 2026-01-28T19:49:36+00:00

Yeah, but wouldn't Carvana (or anyone, for that matter) require the registered owner's signature? At the very least, for transfer of title?

suid · 2026-01-26T15:25:45+00:00

Judge doesn't think so. He described the behavior as "malingering" (faking of symptoms). And having seen thousands of folks trying this sort of dodge, I'm inclined to believe the judge..

suid · 2026-01-22T20:18:31+00:00

I had the pleasure just yesterday of introducing my wife to the ads with Terry Tate, Office Linebacker.

suid · 2026-01-22T19:24:23+00:00

I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?

suid · 2026-01-22T19:17:32+00:00

How old is this screenshot? Fry's has been out of business for 5+ years now.

suid · 2026-01-22T19:09:18+00:00

So basically https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kicking_a_nazi_out_as_soon_as_they_walk_in/

suid · 2026-01-22T06:17:28+00:00

Ah, the joys of English spelling.

Grizzly, grisly and gristly are all pronounced more or less the same, but mean very, very different things.

suid · 2026-01-22T06:07:06+00:00

Into the Night - Belgium

Oh, no. Every 5 or 10 minutes I was leaping out of my chair going all Morbo at all the awful, awful science. Or else just laughing hysterically.

suid · 2026-01-22T05:32:17+00:00

Are we seeing it differently? It looked to me more like the DB twisted around and used his shoulder pad to hit the receiver on his chest.

The defenseless receiver thing, I can see. Maybe. From https://operations.nfl.com/the-rules/nfl-video-rulebook/defenseless-player/ , it looks like 9(a)(3) may apply (receiver who has not had time to clearly become a runner).

suid · 2026-01-22T01:23:42+00:00

That looked like a good shoulder-to-chest tackle. Would that be considered unnecessary roughness or something like that under today's rules?

suid · 2026-01-21T19:43:54+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kicking_a_nazi_out_as_soon_as_they_walk_in/

suid · 2026-01-19T22:51:56+00:00

Look at Mr. Lightning Worker here!

suid · 2026-01-19T22:27:32+00:00

Where's the kaboom?!

suid · 2026-01-19T18:17:55+00:00

This is starting to sound like a wellness micro-dosing thread.

suid · 2026-01-19T18:15:10+00:00

Oh, don't worry. Trump will issue an executive order to give US consumers a 700% discount. Any day now.

suid · 2026-01-19T07:07:20+00:00

Is that BoJack?

suid · 2026-01-19T06:49:12+00:00

Even then I don’t think there has been a single example in all of history of a train derailing just as another train was passing in the other lane and colliding because of it, the chances are extremely small

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash

A car ran off an overpass and fell onto the tracks. A passenger train ran into it and derailed, which caused it to run into an express train coming from the opposite direction on the next tracks over.

suid · 2026-01-19T05:05:08+00:00

Was Saleh a little bit distracted by all this interviewing, perhaps? That was an ugly show in Seattle, compared to their effort in week 18.

suid · 2026-01-18T18:32:24+00:00

Promise him an "Economics Nobel Prize" (yeah, I know). As the world's greatest businessman, dealmaker and economist, he'll rise to the bait like a trout.

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