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What about the 1%?

Occasional ums and ahs are fine but when every other phrase starts with a long aaaaah it can be pretty unpleasant to listen to.

I was never interested in seeing the gore pics but the library section had some great writing in it. They even had an interview with Patton Oswalt: https://web.archive.org/web/2017…

Corncob 3D was a flight simulator with quite realistic physics and flat shaded 3D graphics written in x86 assembly. It ran pretty well on a 286!

Don't forget dirt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagia#Humans

In the physical world, sure, but there's no reason why a virtual linear slide could not be made endless

There's also the issue of cargo space. The 777-300 actually has a larger hold, about 11% more. Cargo is pretty lucrative so even passenger airlines like being able to devote some o…

Took me several years to unlearn 'Lie-nix'!

I'd love to see someone make a kind of response to 300 based on the Battle of Leuctra where the Spartans got their butts handed to them by the Thebans

Not the Pinkertons, but John Sayle's Matewan from 1987 features the Baldwin-Felts agency behaving similarly.

Just like Andorra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4

Japan used NTSC-J, not PAL. Apparently it's close enough to American NTSC that they are basically compatible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC-J

Sega had basically the same service several years earlier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel

Except a moving subject, of course.

Well a university in New Zealand got the ok to blast pigs in the head with a Glock for a blood spatter study - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/284438/how-did-shooting-...

Those houses across the street are reminiscent of the sort of mid-century build you'd see lining the streets of every city and town where a young New Zealander might have grown up.…

> You couldn't fit a four stroke engine to a leaf blower or chainsaw etc. Actually not true - you can definitely get four stroke blowers, chainsaws, weed whackers, etc.

The bedrock around Göbekli Tepe is apparently limestone, so saith Wikipedia, so no, metal is not required to carve it.

I found an obvious one I thought was fairly amusing. This site acting like "The Far Pavilions" miniseries from 1984 had only just come out and was up for a second season next year,…

Parts printed in ABS can be smoothed with acetone vapor - https://all3dp.com/2/abs-acetone-smoothing-3d-print-vapor-sm...

The Pyramid of the Sun and the other pyramids of Teotihuacan actually predate the Aztecs by over a thousand years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan