charonn0

joined 2 years ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Make out" makes out so many things.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 125 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Here come the test results: 'You are a horrible person'. That's what it says, 'a horrible person'. We weren't even testing for that!"

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 18 points 2 months ago

That's terrible

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

You shouldn't help old ladies cross the street anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESczegwk0g

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The trick is to bounce both legs but in opposite directions. When one is going up the other is going down, cancelling each other out.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

-Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1792

Or, put in modern terms: There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

It could certainly be used as evidence in your favor. Whether it by itself would be enough to exonerate you would depend on things like the evidence against you and how much weight the jury gave to your records.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 2 months ago

These are known as souvenir plots. Generally, you aren't buying the land, but rather you're buying a contractual right to prevent the actual owner from developing the land.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Californian. No.

It wouldn't solve any problems that can't be solved by other means, and it would create new problems that we haven't had to worry about before. It'd be a net loss for everyone involved.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

Insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

 
 
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