[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Shh shh shh, don't give them ideas.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Someone in this little thread be like:

Image

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

More than 564k signatures! That's about 100k in two days, just about! There is still a possibility!

If you can, sign it, please!

[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago

Y'know, it does sound like something sweet to wish upon someone if it did not literally mean death. I can imagine someone who doesn't have the linguistic & cultural connection with The West to wish something like that upon someone in a heartfelt manner.

120
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Alt text:

Update: The physics department has recruited an astronomer who studies meteor fireballs.

Explain: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3061:_Water_Balloons

264
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Alt text:
I wonder what surviving human held the record before balloons (excluding edge cases like jumping gaps on a mountain bridge). Probably it was someone falling from a cliff into snow or water, but maybe it involved something weird like a gunpowder explosion or volcano.

Explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3039:_Human_Altitude

111
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Because they use a honey comb.

[-] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago

Take any tech bro take on transit, and if you try to perfect it, you'll almost always end up with a train.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd's:

image

295
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

TRANSCRIPT:

Me: Is this birdcage made out of nickel?
Pet Store: Aluminum I think
Me: So there's no nickel in this cage?
Pet Store: Don't you dare!
Me: It's a nickleless cage
Pet Store: GET OUT!

[pictured is a long-haired Nicholas Cage, looking fabulous in the sun and wind. To his left, it's captioned with the text "Worth it"]

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

To be Devil's Advocate:
Given that the rest written in Comic Sans, it may be an early elementary school exercise, aimed at teaching kids to do multiplications. In this case, it's tolerable and/or defensible to find a simplification for pi.

That said, making pi equal to 3 would have been more accurate for that...

17
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago

Men, do yourself a favour.

If a girl ghosts you because of the phone you use, she's clearly too shallow to bother with, and it's worth ghosting her back.


Girls, do yourself a favour.

If you've got a problem that a guy uses a 'droid, you may want to reconsider your priorities.

[-] [email protected] 107 points 2 years ago

Same. Though can we also add a button to hide all content pertaining to US state politics? "The governor of Arkansas-" I live in The Netherlands, that shit has no bearing on me

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 years ago

I remember someone got into such a billboard and replaced the ad with IKEA-style instructions on how to replace the ads in those billboards.

1
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Pretty much what it says on the tin.

If I click the chain icon on a comment with MMB on the website (Lemmy.world, BE: 0.18.3, accessed via Firefox), it opens to a blank tab. If I do so with LMB, it works just fine.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago

Can somebody build & sell a dumb electric car? Or at least one not permanently internet-enabled and/or that has no functionality and capabilities locked behind software and subscriptions?

view more: next ›

Iron_Lynx

0 post score
0 comment score
joined 2 years ago