FallWind

21208 pts ยท January 18, 2015


More like FailWind, AMIRITE?

With how the crow here acts, there is no way the water could actually make its way to the stomach. It's not like the crow can apply any suction to move the water upwards with their beak partially open.

1 week ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

I'm 99% sure it is AI.
Corvids don't drink like this. They can't.
They fill their beak with a bit of water and then raise their head up, tilting it slightly so that the water will flow down their throats. They (seemingly) can't drink with their head held level or below their body as shown here.

1 week ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 3

Not breed, but species. "Anglerfish" isn't just one species but an umbrella term for multiple ones. Similar to "canine" containing wolves, dogs, foxes, jackals, and a bunch more.
The largest anglerfish species' females grow to 120cm or 4 ft length while the smallest only grow to 5 cm or 2 inches. Males are generally much smaller, to the point that some species' males can't live on their own and become parasites to the females. When you think of an anglerfish, you just think of a female.

1 week ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

For perspective. Also, this happened two days ago in Berlin.

1 week ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Not the guy you replied to.
But: A lot of the global wealth is bound in stocks whose prices aren't tied to money in circulation. In a day, a company's value (according to its stock price) can fluctuate by much more than the trade volume of that stock. Meaning total stock value can increase by more than money is changing hands. They two are decoupled. There is, in theory, no limit for a stock price, regardless of amount of actual money in circulation.

1 week ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#14 What does one do with a PhD in student loans?
Except cry.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If they didn't, their teeth would block the blood flow. So they'd have lift their teeth out again after the initial bite and then re-attach to suck the blood. But you never seem the do that, do you? Thus, they must have straw teeth.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure there's still a number hiding in there.

3 weeks ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It is.
The only other days with multiple deaths are March 8th (Millard Fillmore and William Howard Taft) and December 26th (Harry S. Truman and Gerald Ford).
Also notable that Jefferson and Adams died on the same day (i.e. in the same year, too: 1826).

1 month ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

If serious: Because the others are the ages at their deaths. You throwing in Biden's age makes it seem like he either died or you wish he did.

1 month ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Modern game consoles are typically sold at cost or even a slight loss. So this isn't about selling consoles directly. And if it were directly about selling games, the best choice would clearly be to release the games everywhere.
Instead, it's about locking people into one ecosystem so that so that Sony/MS/Nintendo then has a monopoly on the games that person can buy (without a large investment into a second console).
Does the practice make sense for a business? Yes.
Is it consumer friendly? No.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Generally pretty well-regarded. It's basically a choose-your-own-adventure style game, somewhere between a classic Point and Click Adventures and the Telltale style narrative titles. It's more about steering the story than difficult puzzles. While the broad strokes always follow the events of the books, it gives you minor choices that can differ.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't understand. From a technical standpoint, wouldn't you just use a link to the menu on the web? That shouldn't be an issue.
On the other hand, if you tried to encode the menu's content, then yeah. That's a bad idea. Most phones/apps won't display that properly. And it defeats the whole purpose as you'd have to change the QR code whenever the menu changes.

3 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You can legally drink beer at 16 in Germany.

3 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

October 2022.

4 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Hannah Fry. Cambridge maths professor. Used to work on aerodynamics for a Formula 1 team. Has been doing maths outreach stuff for over a decade. Worked for the BBC, NatGeo, and others. Also active on youtube, lately with Vsauce's Michael Stevens on a podcast called "The Rest is Science" which I highly recommend.

5 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#14 A sperm whale can get away with a tiny skeleton because it doesn't have to support its own weight. A land-based dinosaur doesn't have that luxury. Thus, we know they can't be *that* chubby since their bones couldn't take the weight. Also, we have found a few dino fossils with clearly visible soft tissue.

5 months ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 0

Same rule in Germany (unless superseded by other signs).
Another aspect is that you might not see whether the car coming from the right is indicating a right turn or not. And since they'd have right of way if you were both going straight, you'd have to slow down anyways.

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Essenswerkzeug.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You'd do both with equal momentum. But since momentum is the product of mass and velocity, the velocity would be inversely proportional to the mass ratio between you and the ISS. So yeah, you'd impart significantly more velocity on yourself than on the ISS.

6 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Of course Astarion does not approve.

6 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Counterpoint: Professional skaters are used to carrying their partners around on the ice. This is much closer to what he's been training.
Plus, I'd reckon that this has less risk of injury in case of a fall.

6 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I never had the missed/failed test dream. But I do have a "forgot to sign up for a class in time so now I'm missing credit and can't graduate" dream. Didn't happen and I've graduated a decade ago.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

MORE YAY!

6 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

#TeamToaster

6 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That ostrich rider was smooth as heck.

6 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

There's a frame on impact when the bat is horizontal and the apple is completely invisible. That would only make sense if the apple was behind the bat. But that would mean it got launched backwards. But it doesn't. It gets launched sideways and even a bit forward.
So I'm with you on it being fake.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0