Bassman1805

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[–] Bassman1805 49 points 2 months ago (16 children)

On a related note...

Full Self Driving coming next year? Or the year after that? Or after that?

[–] Bassman1805 2 points 2 months ago

Sure, I agree. But the CEOs of McDonalds and Wendy's don't want to miss a single day of profits and their wealth gives them a lot more political power than I have.

[–] Bassman1805 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not satire, it's 100% the reasoning that would be used in this argument. That's the train of thought that we took towards covid.

[–] Bassman1805 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why does a language have different words for different concepts?

[–] Bassman1805 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It's an abbreviation.

Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it's not an acronym.

On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they're spoken as the letters rather than the "word" they create.

FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.

[–] Bassman1805 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

That's...not an acronym. That'd just be LG.

[–] Bassman1805 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This one is ceremonial, but I'd guess similar swords are intended for mounted soldiers to slash at ground troops. The heavy bit on the tip gives it momentum to carry through when you hit someone.

[–] Bassman1805 2 points 2 months ago

Seriously, getting this shit at 4:53am for a crime that happened 7 hours away was not how I wanted to start my day.

[–] Bassman1805 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In specific applications where it is useful to consider time as a 4th spacial dimension.

So if you're not talking about relativity, it's probably not.

[–] Bassman1805 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, the geometry actually works out such that it doesn't matter your distance from the mirror, only how tall the mirror is and how high it's mounted.

A mirror that is as half as tall as your, mounted at head height, will show your ~~white~~ whole body regardless of how far away you are from it. TECHNICALLY, the bottom edge must be halfway between your eyes and feet, and the top edge must be halfway between your eyes and top of head.

[–] Bassman1805 7 points 2 months ago

There was a moment where Vance was hammering the word "choice" about like daycare costs or something and I really wanted Walz to say "so NOW you care about choice?"

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