Kbin_space_program

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Kbin_space_program, (edited )

Because Trees are for rich people only.

Poor people don't get natural shade. They just get to see "luxury" apartment towers with tenant only "public parks from a distance.
/s

Kbin_space_program,

It's not even right, since the French were the ones that stole most of the artifacts out of Egypt. Then the English stole them from the French.

Kbin_space_program,

It's mostly due to early "archeologists" being almost entirely trust fund babies born into the aristocracy and to whom it was a contest to make the craziest claims possible.

See the OG trench at Troy that went completely past the end of the Bronze Age and dumped all of the important artifacts into a refuse pile that is apparently still being sifted through today.

Also see early "paleontologists" who seemed to use Dino bones in an attempt to make monsters scary enough to make kids cry.

Kbin_space_program, (edited )

looks at ICBC, BC Hydro and BC Ferries.

Looks at how Canadian ISPs led the world in early internet technology then once privatized, ignored it and allowed Nortel to be infiltrated and shut down by CCP spies, allowing then to steal 5G technology.

Hell, in Vancouver you have the private Canada /RAV line, and the public Skytrain line. One was built in the 1980s and isn't at capacity yet and the private one was finished in 2008 and is already over capacity.

Yeah there really is 0 comparison between public and private.

Kbin_space_program,

The Sony minidisc players were decent hardware, but the app that loaded music onto the discs was completely garbage.

It would set the bit rate down to sub 40kbps(so it looked like you had mp3 Cd levels of storage, and would move the original music files it "loaded" deep into %appdata% to try and hide the originals from you.

Kbin_space_program,

I had a Sony Bluetooth MP3 player that accidentally got through a full washer and drier sequence.

And worked out of the wash for another 3 years.

Their software was garbage, but christ some of hardware was Nokia levels of tough.

Me vs my ISP

So I was looking into getting port forwarding set up and I realized just how closed-off the internet has gotten since the early days. It’s concerning. It used to be you would buy your own router and connect it to the internet, and that router would control port-forwarding and what-have-you....

Kbin_space_program,

You can. But it then has to route through their modem+router single piece unit.

E.g. I have my own router which handles everything I need. But I switched ISPs recently to save 70$ per month, and the new company router has parts of its functionality, like turning off the wifi, built into their smartphone app and disabled in the admin panel.

Also the username and password for the unit is, by default, admin/admin. In 2023.

Kbin_space_program,

Tazo is Lipton, as someone else explained here.

The big bagged tea supermarket brands don't get even the bad quality tea leaves. They buy the remains and dust no one else wants.

That's why the bags have such fine mesh. And also why them having any amount of protein isn't entirely unexpected.

Kbin_space_program,

Netanyahu and Hamas are on the same side.

Kbin_space_program,

Sir Christopher Lee: schooled the LOTR crew on precisely what it sounds like to stab a man in the back.

Kbin_space_program,

Apple is only protecting you from other companies also getting the data they harvest from the phone.

Kbin_space_program,

Truth be told I have a Motorola Droid running Android 1 and if all you need is a phone with some email and sms texting it works fantastic. Even has a physical keyboard.

Kbin_space_program,

Lol, yeah that's an issue.

Kbin_space_program,

Because the Greeks you hear about were the aristocracy. You don't hear how some estimates of the population breakdown were more than 80%-90% slaves.

Just like how you hear of the 300 Spartans, but not the several thousand Thebians, most of whom were slaves, who also defended the pass.

Kbin_space_program,

Pretty sure this is the video. It's just that old.

Kbin_space_program,

SSB is toys of those characters. That's why they turn into figures and why all of the items are figures.

And why the final boss is a hand.

Kbin_space_program,

There's also the problem that an advanced civilization will seemingly always ruin a less advanced one with contact.

They might be staying away simply because they're isn't a solution to that issue.

Kbin_space_program,

Should have put it as a pusher propeller.
If nothing else it would be a way to spice up the risk of tailgating.

Kbin_space_program,

No French press?

Kbin_space_program, (edited )

Maybe you shouldn't use the "leave Britney alone" dude for that given that what she went through was because we didn't listen to her or leave her alone.

Kbin_space_program,

In a word, Yes.

The music industry, like the movie industry and video game industry, wants guaranteed hits. What better way to guarantee a hit than to rehash some old thing that is now more than 7 years old. (And falling!)

Kbin_space_program,

And then Frasier is just that captain's personal holodeck program?

Kbin_space_program,

It could have been cheesily amusing if Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra was made into a run-in the Enterprise show had with the same species.

Kbin_space_program,

Older than that. I, as a layman, suspect it might be one of the points that indicate the development of conscious thought.

Because Chimps, Cuttlefish and Crows can and do lie to each other in the wild.
Chimps will cheat on each other(i.e. a non-dominant male in a group will pair off with a female chimp, but the female chimp remains paired to the more dominant male of the group. Even going so far that the "other guy" will shield his erection from the first guy to avoid a beating.
Large Cuttlefish males will create and defend "harems" of female cuttlefish during their breeding periods. Smaller male cuttlefish are known to pretend to be female to sneak into a harem and mate with them.
Crows will make false caches of food if they suspect they are being watched by another crow.

Kbin_space_program,

Canada's Hundred Days. Aka the last 100 days of WW1.

Functionally, Canada won WW1 for the allies.

Being under 10% of the WW1 force, in that period they tackled defences everyone else thought impregnable and shattered them, like the Hindenburg Line, and in the process paved the way for the allied advance. They also took out a quarter of the German forces in that time.

While they did arguably use proto-blitzkrieg tactics of using lots of machine guns, and then also using vehicles to move troops even quicker while using said machine guns, one of the biggest factors was a prodigious use of chemical weapons.

To the point that in the interwar period, Canada had the largest capacity and stores of chemical weapons. During WW2, said stockpile is one of the reasons Hitler refused to use chemical weapons on the allies.

Edit: And a lot of the rules on fair treatment of POWs and rules on capturing surrendered soldiers also stems of Canadian soldiers behaviours during WW1.

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