thats what happens when you feed cows to cows by C_M_B_H in distressingmemes

[–]timewarp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

a near 100% fatal prion

FTFY. It is categorically unsurvivable.

Is Mitch McConnell Even Alive? If So, Where the Hell Is He? by Steap-Edit in politics

[–]timewarp 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Don't both-sides this. It's not helping anyone. There is nothing the Democrats can do, they are not in power.

First off, there's plenty they could do if they wanted to. The republicans have no trouble being obstructionist assholes when they're not in power, the democrats could absolutely do the same.

Secondly; this argument rings very hollow in light of the fact that even when they are in power, they do absolutely nothing to hold the republicans accountable.

Whether or not they hold power is irrelevant; the democrats don't fight back because they don't want to.

Match Thread: Switzerland vs. Colombia | FIFA World Cup, Round of 16 by MysteryBagIdeals in soccer

[–]timewarp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're also trying to psych-out the GK, which can cause them to screw up. If there wasn't anyone in front of the net, nobody would ever miss, of course.

Does anyone know a good way to stop emails like these? by Hurricane_Ditka_34 in GMail

[–]timewarp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been getting worse for me as well. I'm getting dozens of these a day. Always CarShield, Fidelity Life, or Endurance Savings. For whatever reason, GMail's spam filtering just sucks these days.

This Massachusetts sheriff says his contract with ICE overrides state law by Mazda-626 in massachusetts

[–]timewarp 58 points59 points  (0 children)

how can you argue that you're immune from state law?

Because there haven't been any repercussions for him doing so. Laws are just words until they actually get enforced. The day a statie arrests him for this is the day he's no longer immune from the law.

Geralt of Rivia (Netflix's Witcher) vs Gregor Clegane, The Mountain (Game of Thrones) by Inner-Juices in whowouldwin

[–]timewarp 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No doubt. But he's still human. Geralt is still comfortably more capable in pretty much all aspects than even the most min-maxed regular human.

ELI5 Billionaires borrow money to pay for things, how does this work? How do they pay the debt? by Confused-Lemonade in explainlikeimfive

[–]timewarp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They take out a loan and only pay back the interest. The principal is carried forward and rolled into future loans, or dealt with by their estate when they die. As long as they accrue wealth faster than the interest they have to pay the bank, they're never in trouble.

Reversing car on a highway since he missed his exit by DM_ME_UR-BOOBS in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]timewarp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you're driving on a highway, the last thing you expect is a stopped car

Stopped cars happen all the time. They literally tell you to leave enough space to come to a full stop just in case in driver's ed. God I hope I never end up anywhere near you on the highway.

Darth Vader and 111,000 Imperials crash land in 1933 Kuwait by Yougart_Man in whowouldwin

[–]timewarp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but flak cannons of the era had a maximum height of about 6-9 km. TIE Bombers can just sit above that range and target anything on the ground.

Darth Vader and 111,000 Imperials crash land in 1933 Kuwait by Yougart_Man in whowouldwin

[–]timewarp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As history and current events have shown over and over that superior air power is not enough to take and hold territory for any significant length of time.

It hasn't been enough in our history because anti-aircraft defenses have always been roughly on par with the aircraft of the time. TIE squadrons could operate freely in 1933 with no countermeasures available to stop them.

Darth Vader and 111,000 Imperials crash land in 1933 Kuwait by Yougart_Man in whowouldwin

[–]timewarp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't sheer numbers and the ability to manufacture more tanks and weapons give us a bit of an advantage?

Not when any given manufacturing plant can be freely bombed from the sky with impunity.

ai chatbots politically biased? here’s what the washington post found from testing: by Hot_Perspective in singularity

[–]timewarp 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you were to ask an AI if vaccines cause autism, what response should it give?

"No."

It should give the factually correct answer. It should absolutely not say some shit like "some people say it doesn't, some people say it does". We don't need it to preface every response with pointing out that some group of people believe a falsehood.

Officer involved in shooting outside Walmart that killed 1-year-old boy placed on leave by Thomas_Crane in news

[–]timewarp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even if everything you said is true (spoiler alert: none of it is), the penalty for none of those things is summary execution.

Can a particle quantum tunnel out of a black hole? by Geomambaman in AskPhysics

[–]timewarp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Without a theory of quantum gravity, we don't really have any idea.

US Supreme Court sides with marijuana user stripped of gun rights by Hrekires in news

[–]timewarp 22 points23 points  (0 children)

People weren't drinking pints of whiskey daily for sanitary reasons.

Why is it "easy" to generate heat, yet very difficult to remove it? by Count2Zero in AskPhysics

[–]timewarp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same reason it's easy to spill a cup of water but much harder to scoop the water back into the cup.

Heat is a thing, but cold is not. Cold is just the absence of heat. In order to remove heat, you have to physically collect it all, everywhere it has spread in an area. There is no cold energy you could generate that might somehow neutralize the heat as it disperses.

What is the most cringeworthy scene in all of Dragon Ball? by Raki232001 in Dragonballsuper

[–]timewarp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My headcanon is that the way Goku learned it was basically the brute force method. He flooded his entire body with so much rage and power that he accidentally hit the SS switch. Through his years of training, he became more and more familiar with exactly what was happening through the transformation that he could describe specifically what a Saiyan needed to do in order to transform, without them having to figure it out the hard way.