As in Margaret Thatcher was an Englishman?

No, you could be doomed both ways, or safe both ways, or there may be more or fewer than two doors, more or fewer than two brothers, they may not be brothers, maybe none of them are truthful etc

When your conversation partner is chaotic/* you can’t trust what they say

@AtariDump@lemmy.world is a nice guy (/girl/whatever) but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice when it comes to spotting users’ instances

(You were replying to psud@aussie.zone, not at lemmy.world, though both are me)

People also look at it as an example of how identifiable people are right now.

It really does feel mainstream to come up with tech specs for a new comms technology, not the sort of thing that nerds* might do /s

Tim Burners-Lee** worked in particle accelerators. Total jock****.

* People excessively interested in tech

** Inventor of HTML - the web

**** I’m old. The world is divided into nerds and jocks per Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

I see people like you, and I am reminded that Lemmy has nothing to dissuade those who chase the largest negative score.

Not saying that’s what you’re doing, just that if you aren’t, you should consider it since you seem good at it

I would argue that nearly no one finds this one funny but many found this one funny

The OP comic is less accessible than the empiricism one, so the target audience is smaller, some of the smaller audience comics required one knew Firefly, open source memes, and Corey Doctorow. When you’re in the target group the comics are especially hilarious

Some have fallen flat for me until I looked up XKCD explained, since I have very low knowledge of pop culture. I wouldn’t say those aren’t funny, I say I don’t get them

You’d be imprecise for civil timekeeping, but spot on for astronomy

The civil rule is it’s a leap year if the year is divisible by 4, unless it is also divisible by 100 unless it is also divisible by 400

We saw the rules play out in 2000 (at least those of us over 23 saw it) which is a year divisible by 100 and by 400 so it was a leap year

Yours (and astronomy’s) is Julian style “if it’s divisible by 4”

I prefer the newer calendars, where there is no good mental calculation for leap years - it’s a leap year when the computer says it’s a leap year

I would think that the best time period to use for a light year is whatever year definition has been used to date

Now let’s work on the best second to use for the light second

I don’t understand how McDonald’s does so well in Australia, since our traditional takeaways do such good burgers and better chips (fries) a home cooked version true to the fish and chip place original

Though my partner prefers the burger “plain” which omits the bacon, egg, and pineapple

“republic” is opposite to “monarchy”. It is unrelated to democracy or authoritarianism. Nazi Germany was a republic. France is a republic.

Your republic is flawed by design. Your founders didn’t trust democracy so they weakened it, the country hasn’t managed to improve the democracy since.

Australia is also a Federation, but a monarchy not a republic. Australia is quite a bit more democratic than America

Luckily we don’t build clocks for n-dimensional time

My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it

*It must be correct as it’s very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past

The people with the most experience with nitrogen suffocation are scientists working with animals. It’s the current best ethical euthanasia method.

The exit bag uses nitrogen suffocation as a suicide method. It’s a bag that encloses the person’s head. If they felt a mask could have been used, they would have

In Rome they tell you the fountain water is fine. Though I suspect some is fed through lead pipes

Adelaide water is fine now

Australian here, yes. Our tap water is pretty good

There is no accounting for taste. Who’s to say what’s a better actor?!

Tom Cruise has employees rewrite movies he’ll be in to make his part more, and more in his style.

He has more acting range and ability than so many other actors