Real space battles are probably like split-second flypasts repeated until one spacecraft is destroyed. The likelihood of both spacecraft voluntarily keeping the speed between them below 100m/s is very low.

I still can’t get used to her eyes, which makes her a perfect casting.

You sir, are suggesting that Star Wars makes logical hard-sci-fi sense which it has not. Please refer to first minute of movie where you can hear engines and laser fire.

Yes.

Like the fact that no matter what, the cables behind your monitor are always going to be tangled.

In ‘Rise of Endymion’, the ‘Magic Carpet’ creates a kind of force field that keeps its occupants in, and the wind out. But you can still slam and splatter into lots of bits if you hit a rock wall. The force field isn’t that powerful.

You can downvote a post on Lemmy but you’re still looking at it, maybe examining it, thinking, is this post relevant to others?

So not having an algorithm to remove it from your life completely makes you less of a neuron-firing drone and more a consciously thinking person.

Linda and Leslie Hamilton, yes

I didn’t know what to say but you nabbed it.

Also reminds me of the motor effect: electromagnetism causing motion. Perhaps that’s why the name ‘electric motor’ became so dominant…

I’m guessing because it’s a process in which you need to show a valid ticket of travel (or buy it) while ‘boarding’. Like onboarding or something.

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Has anyone used a bidet? Someone in this thread got me curious. Why are they so highly rated?

I was going to say are you sure you mistyped bidets instead of something else, and then you really rounded it off with bidets.

Quite a few idioms like ‘You dodged a bullet’ or ‘I’m laying low.’ have originated from military in general.

That was one of the best I’ve ever read, made me laugh out loud ‘swamps of dagobah’ bahahaha.

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Looking at the reviews about assets being accessible…yes sir, that is what business based vpns are for.

Wow, showerthought #2

Wartime. Don’t know why the hell they didn’t remove it.

Reminds me of AITA? (am I the asshole?) posts that either felt incredible or just posted as ragebait for farming karma.