Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
“both sides”
One side is committing genocide.
The other side are an oppressed people fighting for their basic human rights.
Yes, there are civilian deaths on both sides, and that is lamentable. But to imply that it is anywhere near an equal conflict or that both sides are anywhere near equally to blame is completely ignorant of the facts.
I’m usually pretty good at shifting between the two ways to perceive optical illusions. But for this one I cannot see anything but white and gold. Even knowing that it’s actually blue and black, I still see it as that.
am I part of the joke here??? It’s clearly blue and black…
The objective fact is…it is a blue and black dress. Other photos of the same dress show that.
But I cannot, for the life of me, see how anyone can possibly get that from this photo. Sample the RGB values all you want and it clearly is not black in this photo. The exposure and white balance have messed around with it so much it is incomprehensible to me how anyone can see it as blue and black.
Birds? Am I missing something, or did you accidentally comment on the wrong thread?
Yeah I think this one became particularly tricky and wormed its way into a lot of people’s minds even who would otherwise be wary of it, because even Labor and the Greens stood in favour of it (with some minor tweaks), due to poor tech literacy.
If they call to ‘Ask what they can do to keep you’ or ‘Find out how they can do better’ just hang up. They have no decency, and nothing they say should sway you to give your money to companies that treat you like garbage
Don’t hang up, tell them. Tell them “I’m switching because you jacked up prices beyond what’s reasonable.” If they offer to lower prices, say “no, it’s too late. I don’t want to be with a company that takes advantage of loyal customers in the first place.”
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Puzzle #740
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I had no idea about purple. Just got it from the leftovers.
Found blue first, though had to google to confirm two of them.
Each of those bullet points should be read in the context of the bullet point above. 31.1 km is the average weekly distance by UK runners. 30.7 km is the average longest run by UK runners.
They get a lot of attention because they’re a majority (in terms of political power, if not numbers) white nation that Australia does quite a lot of trade with, who are currently committing genocide.
Australia could stop our arms trade with them, but that would make America mad. And it would also make the pro-Israel lobby in Australia mad. It’s not really clear to me why we care what the pro-Israel lobby says; they’re a vanishingly small number. But for whatever reason, politicians on both sides do listen to them.
Defining “a runner” as someone who ran two times per week for at least 75% of weeks of the year, they get:
Anyone that is against heavy funding in public transport, tax on land/ reallocation for more density and education isn’t a capitalist they are just a cunt.
Especially true since there’s a lot more potential for capitalism in trains than there is in roads—the latter of which is probably the biggest socialised cost in America.
Like the Australian Broadcasting Corporation?
I think what @adingbatponder@fosstodon.org is trying to do is to reference the idea that corporations love to “socialise the costs, privatise the profits”.
This was only 7 years ago.
wtaf? My last place had an electric hot water heater. I moved in there over 10 years ago, and it was already old by then. I think it was resistive, not heat pump, but not 100% sure on that. Never had gas. What were those dudes smoking?
In other news: water is wet.
That should be a tip for your reception, not the wedding itself.
These days it’s reasonably common to replace the disposable cameras with a QR code or link to where people can upload photos they took on their phone.
hahaha, as a non-American, I have no idea what the red herring you fell for even was. Even knowing what it’s apparently about, I can’t see which words would go in it.
Gloves (multiple??) and ball are baseball, I guess? Not sure what else.
The other option (my preferred option) is to have every line end with two spaces instead of no spaces, but a blank line between paragraphs. The difference is:
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Puzzle #739
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That’s two spaces. This is the triple backtick method:
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Puzzle #739
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See also: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
And: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
Both of which are vastly better.