Flying Squid
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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•China’s “Artificial Sun” Shatters Fusion Record With Over 17 Minutes of PlasmaEnglish0·3 months agoWhat we need to do is find some way to make a giant fusion reactor and put it in the sky and get energy from it that way.
But that’s just a pipe dream…
Blackburn is one of the poshest places in the UK? What are you even talking about?
https://www.plumplot.co.uk/Blackburn-salary-and-unemployment.html
The only reason we’re even staying here is that it was cheaper to stay here short-term than almost any other place in England with an urban population.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•Why are serfs so lazy?1·3 months agoIt probably is a myth in the sense that it was some sort of formalized ritual, but I would bet there were plenty of lords who were willing to rape any serfs they felt like raping whenever they wanted. Who was going to stop them?
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•Why are serfs so lazy?0·3 months agoThey also always complain when you reserve the right to primae noctis on their wedding nights. Just ungrateful if you ask me.
So are monkeys, but I don’t see anyone selling monkey milk.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Acrobat 7’s maximum PDF size limit (381 km²) overlaid on Germany1·3 months agoOops. You are correct. Thank you. Fixing.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high."English0·3 months agoIf the pay is lower than £30,000 a year, I can’t get a family visa for my wife and daughter.
Meanwhile, a recruited told me I should be asking for £50,000 a year.
And if you look at how much rents are even in the outskirts of London, I think you will find that low amount of pay is not going to let you have much of a life.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high."English0·3 months agoI was asking for £30,000 a year. I don’t think that’s unreasonable for a professional position.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump won't deport Prince Harry as 'he has enough problems with his terrible wife'English01·4 months agoYes, but it’s something he and Harry’s late racist grandmother would agree on. So there’s that.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•How many lives does a cat have in Europe1·4 months agoMaybe it’s 7 or 9 depending on the cat. Like if it’s an especially assholish cat, the cat god grants it another 2
years of lifelives.(I have had a teenager talking my ear off all day and it has made me illiterate.)
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•I can never remember the reed-stroke command to delete a column...1·4 months agoThat’s just the rival system the Egyptians came up with.
No one really knows which one was invented first!
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldto Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Not only in the US, it is a universal fictionEnglish1·4 months agoI’m 100% in favor of fair capitalism.
How funny! I am 100% in favor of magic pixie dust!
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•Technology is getting out of control0·4 months agoAs a capuchin monkey myself, I am happy just throwing feces, thank you.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•You can't just re-use stone blocks!1·4 months agoEuropeans did not steal them, locals did and re-used them. But yes, they used to be cladded with brilliant white limestone with a gold cap at the top.
They would have looked similar to this:
After the sun itself, it would be the brightest thing any Egyptian would be likely to see. Which was sort of the point. You can sort of think of it as the path the Pharaoh would take to the sun.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•You can't just re-use stone blocks!1·4 months agoWith the lone exception, god knows why, being Stonehenge. Somehow that’s the one thing white people could not achieve by themselves.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•You can't just re-use stone blocks!1·4 months agoThey’re correct in that the Nile floods every year. They’re totally wrong in that the pyramids are on a plateau and it doesn’t affect them.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•You can't just re-use stone blocks!2·4 months agoAnd let’s be clear, by sea level rise, they are talking about the Biblical flood of Noah.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•These new food fads are getting out of control2·5 months agoInsanity. But they do insane things on the Tin Island.
Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMto The Internet in Ancient Times@lemmy.world•These new food fads are getting out of control1·5 months agoYou just make a hole in your bread loaf and pour the soup in. What are you, a steppe nomad?
Does the Great Koala not imply an even greater eucalyptus tree? And does that not imply a yet greater still Australia? At which point, is that on an even still greater Earth? Is it a Great Koala Cycle in both directions?