hansolo

joined 6 months ago
[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Well, the result of railroads needing to standardize time tables.

Prior to that, towns had their own local time, and often it was approximate at best, based on a guy looking at a shadow and keeping time with inaccurate tools.

Imagine trying to explain to the people of Bumblefuck, IA that the train departs Nowheresville, IA at 10:30, and is a 30 minute trip, but the train arrives in Bumblefuck at 10:52 because the town clock is the one guy that winds his watch every day.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Robot is as surprised as I am!

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Naw.

Next question?

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It means use the Wise app to throw USD into EUR.

But it's also a little late for this. The Euro has been plateauing up in this $1.13 range for a while before dropping. It was $1.11 last week.

Short of some TACO, 12 hours of martial law, tariff yoyo shit, right now is the worst time to buy.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

"But it turned out the French were the ones producing it all along."

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

In which case it's just a 3D crocodile. 4D crocodile? It's a beefy necked crocodile, OK?

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't sleep on aspirin and netti pot.

At some point blowing your noise over and over leads you to to basically harm your sinuses and swelling that makes it hard to breathe.

Source: had to do it literally this morning. Worked all day.

Also, avoid inflammatory things like tons of carbs, delicious red meat, whiskey, and beer, etc.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER!

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Lol, idiots. This is what happens when you lose touch with reality.

Case in point: These geniuses pushed seasteading for nearly a decade until they realized what everyone else did in the first minute of hearing the idea, that it is a dumb fucking thing to live on a floating trash heap to avoid normal amounts of regulation and participate in society. None of them ended up wanting to actually so the thing they were pushing.

How's their Utopian blockchain city idea going? The only IRL version, Prosperia in Honduras, is falling apart.

These people are fucking lunatics, simply by virtue of using abject wealth to push ideas that are idiotic on their face, over and over.

The real danger is when idiots enthralled by money are elected into power and taken by these people. The blind letting the blind, elected by the dumb.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Aw, dammit. See, I would have showed up as late to that party as if I had done it today.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't try and prove anything.

I would "invent" a few basic tchotchkis and nick-nacks to get money, then out to California ahead of ~~the Gold Rush~~ Hollywood? to ...something, I dunno, and buy land.

Invent a couple variations on heat pumps and electric motors. By 1928 sail away to New Zealand.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it's a big part of why I stopped participating in reddit. Any hobby or skill subreddit has driven off anyone truly knowledgeable and is a constant flood of images of someone doing the "Fisher Price My First _____" level thing and a title like "guys, am I doing this right? :3” for karma. Actual questions bring out toxic opinion-farmers. It's pointless.

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