[-] Balinares@pawb.social 48 points 3 months ago

For serious. I wish they hired remote.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh man flying to planets manually is TOUGH, the physics engine is just realistic enough that doing it manually takes more skill than I care to develop.

Just use the autopilot. Yes, you have to be careful about not starting it when there's something else between you and your destination. But for real, use the autopilot.

Mind you, you are still going to die a lot because the universe is as amazing as it is unforgiving. You WILL die in that one specific way that will be your own damn fault because everyone does sooner or later. It's okay, and it's fun.

And it's very, very worth it.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 45 points 3 months ago

Good job! Now ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about the crunchiness of potato chips.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Le Pen's party polls strong but has few allies. My guess is that Macron hopes that even with his party weakened, he can form a broad coalition that would keep Le Pen out. I have no idea how likely that is to work.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 160 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Macron's party got disastrous results and got trounced by the far right in the European elections.

He had been selling himself as the shield that protected France from the rise of the local far right party. With these results, he has lost his credibility, and therefore his government did as well.

Therefore he's calling out-of-schedule French parliamentary elections that -- I assume -- he hopes will reelect his party and allies ahead of the far right. It might work: the far right party polls strong at around 30%, but has few allies, and may not be able to form a coalition government. If Macron himself can, that will strengthen his legitimacy.

Needless to say, this is a risky gamble.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 45 points 7 months ago

Presumably the My Little Pony comic. I haven't read it but I understand it likes putting in references that will amuse adults.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 60 points 7 months ago

I wonder why people are downvoting your comment. It's literally what happened. See for instance this paper on the history of gender segregation in the Olympics: https://theworld.org/stories/2016-08-17/see-120-years-struggle-gender-equality-olympics.

Quote: "Margaret Murdock from the US won a silver in a tie in the 1976 Riffle Event, one of the events in the shooting categories. The rifle event was split into men's and women's events in 1984."

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 41 points 9 months ago

Considering it's a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian, I'm gonna go with yes.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 218 points 9 months ago

Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 41 points 10 months ago

One might surmise that the people doing the electing and the people doing the protesting are not in fact the same people.

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 42 points 1 year ago

The actor in the picture on that site looks like Richard Harris, not Michael Gambon. -_-

[-] Balinares@pawb.social 51 points 1 year ago

"Today you. Tomorrow me."

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