Ah yes, I too start my day by snorting half a cup of tapwater.
Ah yes, I too start my day by snorting half a cup of tapwater.
This is basically why the Netherlands doesn’t add fluoride to drinking water, even though it would be a great idea to improve health at basically zero cost.
You fundamentally can’t medicate people without their informed consent. So we don’t, and we add fluoride to toothpaste, which is more expensive and not as effective, but it’s much more ethical.
Exactly. Martial arts will make you live longer, not because you can kick ass in a fight, but because it is generally a great way to maintain cardiovascular health.
If need to train for an unarmed fight, I’d personally suggest the 400m sprint.
Akira definitely counts. I’m sure my parents were in the “all cartoons are for kids” camp that everyone was in in the 90s. Similarly, the Guyver.
More expensive doesn’t always equal better, especially for things like keyboards, clothes or eyewear, where branding is huge and inflates prices more than quality.
I meant in a “how many are there” way. You’re obviously a lot less likely to hit a Minke whale in your car.
What? Are you telling me that “baby one more time.mp3.exe” I got off of Napster isn’t actually reliable? Gasp!
So, disclaimers are needed here.
In Norway, they hunt Minke whale. The Minke whale is classed as “least concern”, which means “doing great” as far as being endangered goes. It’s the same category deer are in in the US, or pigeons everywhere.
So, obviously I tried whale meat, a few ways.
As a steak, it’s kinda like gamey beef in texture, but with a fish-adjacent flavour. Like if you shifted a steak 20% towards tuna without changing the texture.
There’s also whale bacon, which honestly tastes like pork bacon, but with the fat more in splotches than in layer.
There’s also the blubber, which I’ll simply an acquired taste. And that’s given that I’m Dutch and enjoy my pickled herring and even like lutefisk. It’s like if you filled a grapeskin with a nutty-oily, semi solid jelly substance.
Good news: since there are no gays in Russia (official government position), there is no HIV in Russia, since it’s only transmitted by the gay sex (official government position).
(Excuse me while I wash the fingers I used to type that)
Actual piracy involves a lot of corpses of mostly innocent sailors, IP violations are a victimless crime.
It’s not the engineers fault that another engineer hasn’t yet invented a machine that can make what he designed.
So that even if 99% fail or get shot down, 65 cities are still turned to ash.
Honestly, I don’t think so. It would be a huge and slow project. I’m pretty sure there are a ton of measures to prevent Internal sabotage.
Learning to cope with discomfort is a very important, and very often disregarded, life skill.
I trawl through All to find new communities though, and a short blocklist makes that much easier.
And don’t forget: companies are just a group of people, and they can fall for a good hyped up scam as easily anyone else.
Ooooh, i love this idiot! It overlaps my historical leather working hobby with my hatred of pseudohistorical bullshit.
So, a 30m diameter sphere contains 14.000m3 of gas. Every liter of hydrogen lifts 1.14 grams, and for helium it’s 1.05 grams. So 14.000m3 = 14 million liters, or about 14 million grams, which is 14 tons. Sounds pretty decent until you realize that animal hide isn’t exactly weightless.
A tanned cowhide, before it’s split, is over 4cm thick. Vegetable tanned cattlehide weighs something like 40 kg for a 5m2. But lets see how thick out balloon is. If it can lift 6 tons, it can only weigh some 8000kg itself. Our 30m sphere has a surface area of some 2800m2, so that means our animal hides can weigh, at most, 8000/2800=2.8kg per square meter. Those at home have probably noticed that 2.8 is a bit less than the 8kg you need to use cowhide.
So, what kind of leather or hide were those balloons then? Well leather is usually sold in “ounces per square foot” (even in Europe), so we can just look it up. 2.8kg per square meter is about 9.2 ounce per square foot (says wolfram alpha), and a handy table I have printed says that’s around 3.6mm thick.
So, we are too believe that the Egyptians made a 30m balloon, out of what is basically cheap-belt and saddlebag leather, somehow got that not just air-tight, while being ridiculously thin, and then used it to build massive structures.
There are several recreations of old Age of Sail ships, made historically accurate via historical methods, and its been incredibly educational for historians worldwide.
Reenactment like this is extremely useful in recreating information that was either a professional secret, or considered so blatantly obvious nobody ever had to write it down.
Mongolian steppe nomads, famous for their stonework.
So who do I throw money at to see this roast, with live audience reactions?