The Hidden Talent! I remember reading an Alan Dean Foster book when I was a kid. Two old academics were fleeing some danger on a ship, and at some point they said "This thing has a gun!!??"
Because, of course, they had been an elite gunnery team back in the war...
It is currently the top post :)
I know that a lot of it is nonsense but I do love that sub, it's so cathartic
bsky.app/profile/texa...
Contrabiscuitarian - the impulse to argue with your fortune cookie.
"On the drive home from the Chinese restaurant I gave in to my contrabuscuitarian impulses."
Isn't it? I've read it twice now. It feels so fresh and original. His short story collection is very good too.
Ahhhh god I love the live cover of Jolene, it's amazing
It devolved into fantasy by 2/3 of the way through. I mean, imagine telling every billionaire on earth that the new currency will reduce their wealth to $50M or whatever it was. Everyone involved would be dead by midnight. The one thing the wealthy are genuinely good at is hanging on to wealth.
I loved this series so much:
Oh come on. Grass (1925)? Still to this day one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. In 1925 it was groundbreaking.
It's a chess joke, sorry. I was just on chess bsky and switched over to here and saw your post.
Is this a Hans Niemann post?
Amazing.
One way to make the (x-h) shift more natural is to move the k to the other side of the equation. So if the parent function is y=f(x), don't make the shifted function y=f(x-h)+k. Make it y-k=f(x-h), then you're using the same rule for both axes. Once it's clear you can move the k around as needed.
Fill it with spices and stick in in the cavity of a roasting pig?
This was the first thing I thought of
For god's sake is there no way to collapse a thread on this app? It's putting me right off.
Damn that's pretty.
Fencing Saturday! Special post today, if you're tired of watching the US democracy go down in flames, take a break and watch corruption destroy your favorite sport! Yet another excellent report from CoC:
youtu.be/g8aeAs5Oqy8?...
I did not know that! Thanks. I agree with the comment below, there needs to be a way to collapse a thread, but this is still a big improvement on "flat by design" discussion spaces
?? There were like six posts on him doing his nazi shit on the front page as soon as it happened.
Kevin. And I say that as a Kevin.
There are a few "power users" modding the big subs who are often not acting in good faith. The site is still the best discussion site on the web IMO, but still. I live in fear that it's going to be taken over the way twitter was. You could buy off 20 power mods and ruin the site.
Threaded discussions are also just better, IMO. I like bsky, but reddit and usenet have hosted far deeper and more interesting discussions for me than twitter or any flat discussion site ever has.
As a redditor, agreed.
Not to be all serious or anything but when Harvey flooded Houston the best place to get info clearly and fast was the reddit thread. There's one here for the LA fires:
old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...
Astonishing. Thanks for that.
The @nytimes.com should hire whoever wrote this headline. Seriously!
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