You know, that’s the first thing that caught my attention, and it’s actually kind of bothering me. I now want to pronounce it “ootopian” to make it work, but it’s just so wrong.

Not going to lie to you, this is exactly what i did :)

It’s from God emperor of dune, i think it’s the fourth book in the series by publication, but not chronologically.

I guess this might be a spoiler if they eventually make it a movie, but basically, the son of Paul merges himself with a sand worm and becomes effectively immortal. It’s both interesting and bizarre.

There’s a lot more to it than that but i don’t want to ruin the story for anyone

Oh man, haven’t seen Little donny disease in a long time. Hope he gets the help he needs to live a normal life

No one who speaks German could be an evil man!

That’s interesting, guess i wasn’t tracking that closely enough. Thank you!

Ah, wasn’t aware, thanks!

I thought it was India and South Africa, not Iran and Saudi Arabia

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But without the caption, how would i know to wait until the end of a 5 second video? Who has that kind of time?

I don’t think breakfast needs to be that immediate? The dish prepared here almost certainly took a minimum of 30, if not 45+ minutes to make, and there’s no indication it was immediately after waking. Breakfast can be a bit later.

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To be fair, about that women’s world cup team, if i recall correctly it was a PR move to play an exhibition match with those kids and they were not trying very hard to win. I don’t think they would truly lose to U-15 if it was, for example, a tournament.

Your overall point has merit but i think that specific example gets overused a bit.

One of the finer points of something new is getting in at the right time. I have to imagine if you’re a streamer and you force yourself to stay on your old game “for the fans,” you could miss out on the shiny new thing that people care about. This could literally cost them money that they need for rent. I am confident that many streamers are not highly paid and depend on this income.

Don’t forget, fans are fickle, corporations are fickle, everyone is fickle. I don’t think any employee of a company should be loyal to that company if it is to their own detriment as that company will let their employees go if it needs to (better companies try harder, worse companies make worse decisions).

I don’t see why a streamer should treat their career differently. Do what you think is best for you. Streamers don’t owe me, the fan, and it doesn’t do me any good for them to force themselves to play a game they’re less interested in just to appease me.

Compared to the other Uber wealthy, he at least seems to have some sort of a code of ethics from what i can see, which is obviously limited. He’s still in it to make money (obviously), but his actions seem to suggest that he won’t go to the extreme of hurting everyone else just for money.

I started liking Mark more when he opened cost plus drugs. It’s a pretty decent endeavor to try to reduce pharmaceutical costs for the consumer

That’s not an analogy at all, as it’s completely different from what i said earlier. I’m not trying to prove that Earth is moving amazingly fast, I’m trying to show how the headline seems grander than it is.

I also don’t think a lot of people realize quite how fast the Earth is moving through space. Saying a million miles an hour really does seem impressive if you don’t have that information. But as we speak, we are literally hurtling through space at half that pace.

If we weren’t orbiting the sun we would end up orbiting something else at a different speed.

This would be similar to saying that San Bernardino county in California is 20000 sq mi, or about 50k km squared. It’s just a number without context. But if i told you it’s a county that is it was bigger than both the country of Switzerland and US State of West Virginia, that’s added context for size comparison. The way that California divides its county structure does not invalidate this comparison, and is irrelevant.

I’m not really sure what your intent or point is here.

I don’t think that’s entirely fair to say. The headline reads sensationally about a celestial object, but our own sun is traveling at almost half that speed, and we’re following it. I’m not trying to prove that the Earth is incredibly fast, only that the headline may sound more impressive than it is.

Isn’t the sun revolving around the center of the milky way at approximately 450,000 mph? And the Earth revolves around the sun, so we’re moving about half as fast as this new object right now. One million is pretty fast, but context makes it a little less shocking.

Not a reddit fan anymore, but this makes me think of r/portugalcykablyat

They almost certainly changed the picture to the one that was using a filter to make it more blue. I’m fairly confident the earlier photo was easier to distinguish

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I’m being downvoted, but either this thread or another thread did literally use a different picture similar to this before.

https://images.app.goo.gl/VNi1HLeFWEPpex2S6