ohwhatfollyisman @ ohwhatfollyisman @lemmy.world

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she asked if i had a pen name.

"bic", i responded.

Her father was a mechanical engineer and her mother was a molecular biologist.

what, like howard and bernadette?!

each see each other as a threat. there's disputes on various territories across the 4k km himalayan border for one. both countries fought a war in the 1970s around these disputes and, by all reliable accounts, it was india that ceded territory then.

separately, india has provided sanctuary to the current dalai lama for many, many years now and also is a refugee base for tibetans, which mr. xi and his folks don't appreciate.

india has also banned tiktok since its inception as well as access to alibaba and other online chinese stores.

china's relationship with indian neighbours is seen as a threat as well, be it of a strategic nature such as their belt and road initiative with pakistan, their predatory relationship over sri lanka after drowning them with easy loans, or their latest "coup" in the maldives where the long-standing india-friendly government lost out in the last elections to a party that campaigned on "india out" and who were very pally with winnie the pooh and gang.

the geopolitical relationship is stereotypical of two neighbours who hate each other so much that each would go out of their way to torment the other.

either Esteban's surname is actually Ocin or Hulkenberg's forename is actually Noco.

thanks to them for making my deredditification that much easier!

this is so my life it's not funny. i've even quit binge-drinking without realising it.

i can't afford 5-atar treatment anymore but i wake up every morning so much more at peace which, one can argue, is the best luxury of all.

... or to within π meters?

i remember a time when it was only 2gb for all of wikipedia. usain bolt had just burst onto the world stage at the time.

I like that both driver and passenger get a neat throttle control. What does it do?

twin throttle controls are usually for different engines; it's not one set for the pilot flying and another for the pilot monitoring.

maybe this vehicle has two engines to allow its owner to really gun it?

maybe it was a typo and you went to the dr peeper museum?

to bee or not to bee, that is the question.

that won't work for yoda, though. for him, there is no triangle. there's just doangle or donotangle.

this comment needs to be higher. it's amazing how little self-awareness people have when they show astonishment that only Trump can act like Trump.

well, duh, that's why he's a dickhead. wishing him harm only makes one another bird of the same feather.

one must commend Hergé's research.

to show moon caves in Explorers on the Moon sixteen years before the moon landing in an era without the internet is some freaky stuff.

isn't malpractice what nathan fillion did to prepare for his role of captain of the serenity?

what are you on about, mate? who's paying for copilot's adoption? who's funding the disparaging of the medieval term for a minstrel with a song?

who's paying you for this absurd take?

It also wouldn't be okey if he wasn't aware of what his top people were doing. Any respectable leader would at least be aware of their tasks.

i think that's the very point the fella above you is trying to make?

lack of fitness to lead.

i think that's the very point the fella above you is trying to make?

i would have thought it was the keyboard.

that was the only peripheral that had any option to escape.

in this part of the world, we are blessed with stray dogs who are also protected by our supreme court. it's quite literally against the law, for example, to prohibit the feeding of strays by animal lovers.

i once saw one of them shudder and whine at the sound of fireworks. its tail scrunched under and it pissed itself in fear and confusion. its plaintive moans were drowned out by the incessant blasts of the "mala" crackers (a literal garland of 10,000 or so crackers strung out in sequence that goes on bursting for an hour or so). the poor thing just did not know what was happening and it became a shivering ball of anxiety until the blasts stopped.

anyone who sees an innocent animal suffer like that will never, ever, want to light a firecracker again.