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Did you guys hear about the plan to allow non-Greeks to compete in the Olympics? Personally, I’m against the whole idea.
  • That attitude will soon have you pay for the next statue of Zeus, mister.

    (Adding: there's a row of Statues of Zeus near the Olympic stadium, with plaques describing why they were placed. The idea was that these would be bought with the fines placed on cheaters. One common way to cheat was to have various gods and/or powers place a curse on the competition, and we have numerous records of this)

  • Should I ask applicants about what scifi books they've read?
  • Look up any personality+leadership theory, DISC is a common one I've seen.

    Ew. Personality tests are a terrible way of building a working team, and the idea that every need field needs the same kind of people is just demonstrably stupid

  • Anon has a warning about the ISS
  • And most supply missions give it a boost before leaving as well. Also, the ISS can "glide" by turning it's narrow end forward, getting less drag from the atmosphere and reduce the decay rate at the cost of power generation

  • Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)
  • A name in the Native American language

    There is no single native American language. There are over 200 of them, and used to be around 300-400, in 57 different families and over two dozen completely isolated languages (which might not be, but it's hard to find out). And they'd likely be at the very least somewhat mutually culturally insensitive.

    So that might be even more difficult than using English, which at least has the benefit of being popular now.

  • ‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdown
  • And any vegans that think is for the best, keep in mind it involves a genocidal like slaughter of all those dairy animals occurring within hours of workers being unavailable.

    Ok, but they'd probably it would be only once, instead of the current unending cycle.

  • The Indonesian Navy continues to amaze me
  • USA: this is an aircraft carrier. It carries aircraft to destroy enemy ships.

    Japan: this is a helicopter destroyer. It carries helicopters (and some aircraft) to protect our fleet.

    Indonesia: this is a humanitarian vessel. It uhhhh. Shhhhh

  • Two rocks carved and stacked in similar ways? Endless debates!
  • You're telling me that two different cultures both concluded that small gaps between large rocks can be filled with smaller rocks?

    Shock. Gasp.

    Next you'll tell me that several different groups of people independently realized that "wide on the bottom, narrow on top" is a really good way of making tall things.

    Both are concepts a 4 year old playing with blocks will realize pretty quickly, so this post is pretty hilarious

  • Why did you pick 40k?
  • Battlefleet gothic started as a tabletop game with plastic space warships. That's what I was referring too.

    But, totally apart from that, the Battlefleet gothic videogames are also really good, if you like slow tactical ship sims.

  • Hiding read posts?

    There are a whole bunch of options to mark posts as read, but as of yet, I can't seem to find an option to actually hide to posts.

    Am I missing something, or does marking a post just grey it out?

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