RobotToaster

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Honestly surprised, i thought blu-ray m-disc was moderately popular

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Wait, so you made all these posts because the author uses generic masculine for documentation?

That's it?

I was hoping for something more dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A trope, even.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not a website, but a facebook group I'm in specifically has a rule against "going live" from the bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's apparently making a small fortune selling merch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Originally tin cans were large things meant for military campaigns, so they used a chisel or similar large stabby thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Electricity is the flow of electrons, who move from negative to positive, the opposite of what you would normally expect.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US newspaper billionaire William Randolph Hearst owned enough of congress that he started a war with Spain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The reprap basically started the entire home 3d printer thing.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Frankly, I doubt he said anything worth listening to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, or perhaps less literally "bee hunter", it was used as euphemism for a bear. There's some theories that saying the actual word for bear was taboo (some theories say that people believed saying it's name could attract one), so they used euphemisms like that, or "the brown one", bero, which is where the English word "bear" comes from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really "modern day" snake oil when it was invented in the 1700's lol.

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