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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important in c/technology

[–] kryptonite 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

5 years: pay what it costs now

It doesn't cost anything to copyright something. You just automatically own the copyright to something you create.

(This may vary outside the US; I'm not familiar with international copyright law.)

The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords in c/technology

[–] kryptonite 2 points 5 months ago

Only a 2% yearly increase?!? Are you serious? I lived in an apartment for 8 years, and my ending rent was 70% higher than my starting rent. By your number, it should have ended up only about 15% higher.

Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames in c/technology

[–] kryptonite 26 points 6 months ago

Well, if Musk said it, it must be true. /s

What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older? in c/[email protected]

[–] kryptonite 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don't repeat.

to those of you of either sex who wear thongs or strings, doesn't the back side get in direct contact with your anus? in c/[email protected]

[–] kryptonite 6 points 7 months ago

"Thong" can mean a type of sandal, also known as flip-flops, but it's also the name of a type of underwear or swimsuit bottom that's basically a string in the back.

I grew up calling flip flops "thongs", but as I got older, people were almost exclusively using that term for the underwear, so I switched terms to avoid confusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong

TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory in c/til

[–] kryptonite 1 points 7 months ago

500 pages seems a bit much. In only 8 lines, it can be "proven" that 1 = 2.

cross stitch design of a proof that 1 = 2.

from https://www.etsy.com/listing/606236792/proof-that-12-math-cross-stitch-pattern

/s, of course.

Why don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] kryptonite 2 points 7 months ago

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a medical intervention justified by observational data must be in want of verification through a randomised controlled trial.

This was a great read. Thanks.

Would you drink breast milk if it was commercially available? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] kryptonite 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That depends on how you define breasts. From Wikipedia:

The platypus' mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life? in c/nostupidquestions

[–] kryptonite 4 points 8 months ago

Because eating less doesn't require any effort.

Eating less takes a lot of effort for me because if I eat until I feel reasonably full, it's actually too much food, and I gain weight. If I'm maintaining my weight, then I'm constantly hungry. If I'm losing weight, I feel like I'm starving.

I used to be pretty thin, even slightly underweight. Then I went on a medicine for a few months, and it completely ruined my appetite. I'm currently on a medicine for something unrelated that happens to curb my appetite, and it's the only reason I'm not severely overweight.

Great talk in c/autism

[–] kryptonite 5 points 1 year ago

Dude.