MansfromDaVinci
MansfromDaVinci t1_jefmy4x wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in There really isn't any reason why north is always upward and south is always downward on maps. by GuinnessTheBestBoi
less imperialism more the guy who invented it worked at Greenwhich observatory
MansfromDaVinci t1_jefmgcw wrote
Reply to comment by showMeYourPitties10 in There really isn't any reason why north is always upward and south is always downward on maps. by GuinnessTheBestBoi
Egyptain maps we orentated with South at the top
MansfromDaVinci t1_jayl8ma wrote
Reply to comment by pypoupypou in Sleepy Rock, Austrian Alps on the way to Innsbruck, [4608 × 2080] [OC] by pypoupypou
worse than i would have thought, tbh I just wrote it because the cliff looks like admiral akbar.
MansfromDaVinci t1_javtgoy wrote
It's a trap!
MansfromDaVinci t1_j8cacd8 wrote
Reply to comment by GetlostMaps in Six journalists arrested over footage of South Sudan president wetting himself by Zap478
you have parties for horse headgear in Utah?
MansfromDaVinci t1_j7mbq29 wrote
Reply to comment by Top_Explanation_3383 in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87
The Berlin-Baghdad railway was mostly about getting Germany access to oil, initially for it's navy but by WW2 for it's airforce and army as well. The actions that the British empire took to stymie this are a major contributing reason for WW1
MansfromDaVinci t1_j7djhfz wrote
Reply to comment by bbadi in Was it a good Idea for vercingetorix to take refuge with his army in Alesia in 52bc? by thereasonyousuffer
Very good answer
MansfromDaVinci t1_j79g980 wrote
Reply to comment by PositionParticular99 in From £130M to £1M: Brexit causes collapse in research funding by XaltotunTheUndead
This is more that there are pan European funding institutions for reasearch which were quite beneficial for the UK and leaving the EU cut them off. Various pro-leave politicians made promises to match the funding, which nobody in their right mind believed, hey ho. Academics and researchers generally did not vote leave and the ones who could have been quietly leaving the Uk since 2016.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j79f5uj wrote
Reply to comment by Blenderx06 in From £130M to £1M: Brexit causes collapse in research funding by XaltotunTheUndead
52% of voters who bothered to vote, about 38% of eligible voters, 27% of the population.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j6l19qd wrote
"Stabbed? Takes a second. Crucifixion lasts hours! It's a slow, horrible death!"
"Well, at least it gets you out in the open air."
MansfromDaVinci t1_j6iqup3 wrote
Reply to Children's book author giving books to young Ukrainians: "A former local educator and author of children’s books set a goal last year of donating 500 special books to displaced Ukrainian children" by SAT0725
i hear schools in Florida have a bunch of books they got no use for anymore.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j649c8h wrote
Reply to comment by 19781984 in Engineering Class Builds Awesome Robotic Hand for Physically Challenged Young Man - Man Catches First Baseball In His Life by another_gen_weaker
he qualifys in the video "with my right hand" clickbaiters gotta bait them clicks, I guess.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j60peu2 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIFU by letting my parents pawn my silver by [deleted]
can they stop you?
MansfromDaVinci t1_j5ja578 wrote
Reply to comment by antiquemule in Expert says ‘Trees are the enemy’ when it comes to water production by alxzsites
I don't know nearly enough to say: overstating the case for deforestation or thining and the emotional 'enemy' language might just be because it's a very unpopular move and they feel they need to combat that, but generally if someone lies it's for no-one's benefit but their own.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j5j7676 wrote
Reply to comment by antiquemule in Expert says ‘Trees are the enemy’ when it comes to water production by alxzsites
a tiny percentage might sublime into the air if the air is dry but yeah, almost all of it will just melt into the water supply. And the bit that sublimes falls as rain too eventually, same way almost all the water taken by trees transpires into the air to form clouds and fall as rain, often locally. These people are at it.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j5j17qq wrote
do they think the snow caught by branches just sublimes into the air or something?
MansfromDaVinci t1_j59em6h wrote
Reply to comment by fuxxociety in Man who sex trafficked and extorted daughter’s Sarah Lawrence schoolmates gets 60 years in prison by flowerhoney10
r/unexpectedthehumanstain
MansfromDaVinci t1_j56stau wrote
Reply to [WP] Write a story about a doctor trying to save a patient in critical condition, but it's in a fantasy world, and all the scientific stuff is replaced with magic and artefacts. by SciencesnObjects40
"Bloodroot and maidenhair, STAT." Lauren'rt cried desperately, his knitted hands pressed over the wound. Already blood was pooling in the symbols carved into the healing tree stump, activating the passive wards to promote healing and strengthen the patient lain atop, but it was like throwing a pail of water at dragonfire.
His halfling assistant, Callalily, handed him the spell components and he instantly started chanting the words of a healing spell. Warmth flowed down his arms and into his glowing hands. At the edges of the gash the flesh started to knit together again and the wound began to close. Lauren'rt let himself release a deep sigh. He glanced at his unconcious patient's near perfect elven features, agelessly beautiful with just the slightest hint of care lines around the closed eyes. The kingdom couldn't afford to lose it's queen.
Suddenly she arched her back and cried out. Something icy cold and evil seemed to writhe under his hands, like a fish from some lightless pool, deep in the depths of the netherworld. The wound reopened impossibly. "It's like it's fighting me." he muttered under his breath, then shouted "We're losing Her! Fetch the healing crystal!" Callalily seemed to teleport across the room to the shelf holding the precious stones and back.
"Link with me and we'll use it as an arcane focus." Lauren'rt cried. They quickly stood themselves on either side of her both holding the faintly effulgent crystal above her chest. "Chant Ambrosius's allcure with me on one. Three, two, one." They chanted the words of the spell together. Lauren'rt watched the colour return to the queen's pale skin as the light in the healing crystal dimmed and faded. When they said the final words it finally went out and the crystal crumbled into sparkling dust which Lauren'rt blew away while still in the air.
"That should do it." said Lauren'rt, feeling the fresh scar on the Queen's side: the unnatural cold was gone, but there was still something evil present; if sleeping for now.
"You almost lost Her." a harsh voice from across the room said "We should have known better than to trust Her to a human and his halfling pet, no matter your reputation." Lauren'rt hadn't even noticed the Prince-Consort until now, he stood resplendent in ornate golden armour, flanked by captain generals of his faction. "A simple wound like this would barely trouble a village crone amongst our people. If the Queen didn't favour you I'd have you in irons for incompetence"
"The assassin's knife was poisoned, Lord, with wyvern venon and an orphan's bitter thoughts, so we drove the posion into a spotless milk white billy goat and cut it's throat; then the wound became infected with the red rot, so we burned a statue of the Witch Goddess Heca carved of pearwood from the dark orchards of Dis and made her drink the ashes mixed with a widow's tears; now the wound has mysteriously reopened and a curse tried to keep it open. This is no ordinary healing, someone is trying to thwart me, someone close."
The Prince-Constort, still flanked by his captains, stalked up until he could put his flawless face right into Lauren'rt's "I don't want to hear your excuses" he snarled through bared teeth "Or your baseless conspiracy theories." he grabbed Lauren'rt's collar with one hand thrust an outstretched finger into his face "If she dies, so do you and the half-pint." He spat, then turned and strode out. Lauren'rt waited until he was gone then daintily wiped his face with an embroidered handkerchief.
"Half-Pint? Half-pint!" said Callalily nearly vibrating with anger "I could drink a flagon to his flute and still walk away leaving his-pointy-earship to sleep it off under the table."
"His rudeness, though all-encompasing, is the least of his sins" said Lauren'rt "His hands smelt of doll's eyes."
"Doll's eyes?" asked Callalily, confused
"Have I really taught you nothing in all this time? Yes doll's eyes." Lauren'rt stared at her.
"Uh, uh. I can't think.. What do doll's eyes even smell like?"
Lauren'rt walked over to a table piled with ingredients and components and picked up a sprig of berries.
"hmm?" he smiled at Callalily
"Oh! Doll's eyes!" She claped her hands delightedly "A type of baneberry. Deadly poisonous, even a few stop the heart. But it can be used in spells to cure rheumatism and heart failure and... oh yes.. and in adaptive curses." she looked at him wide-eyed "but for those to work the caster has to reinforce them each day by touching the victim on the lips."
"Indeed."
"And I thought it was sweet he kissed her every day! What an utter scuzzbucket!"
"The other problem with adaptive curses is, of course, that with a little ingenuity they can be made to rebound on the caster. All we'd need is some doll's eyes of our own, a brass mirror, some gravemould, dead man's fingers, a personal object of the curser as a focus and something of them, nail clippings, a lock of hair, blood, spit."
"How are we going to get all that?" asked Callalily "the berries, the fungus and the mirror I can get down the market if we've none in stock but a personal object and some toenail clippings or blood, we can't very well ask him for it, and he'll be on his guard."
"You'd have thought so." said Lauren'rt and he took out the embroidered handkerchief.
"That's not yours."
"It must have floated from his sleeve into my pocket while he was engaged in threatening me, face to face; rather damply I might add."
"Reversing a curse, it's dark magic ain't it? Pretty much necromancy."
"Yes. I don't care. Do you?"
"Naww.."
"Then let's crack on. Or do you think we should inform the Prince-Consort that we've discovered the root cause of the Queen's problems and have a solution at hand first?"
"Oh I'm sure he'll find that out soon enough. Half-pint. 'Swhat you get."
"And if he should get sick he can always find a village crone to heal him."
MansfromDaVinci t1_j54v966 wrote
Reply to ChatGPT really surprised me today. by GlassAmazing4219
They much prefer pool, after all, they're meercats.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j4zz08w wrote
Reply to comment by g7luiz in TIFU by having a picture of a flag on my phone by munilotthug
history teacher.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j4tw8zu wrote
Reply to comment by arkteris13 in How is it tomatoes have fat content? How does it get in there? by SubieOrNotSubie
seeds generally have some fat reserves i don't know about tomato seeds specifically but id be surprised if they had none at all
MansfromDaVinci t1_j3nlq4s wrote
Reply to comment by prowdwackadoo in PsBattle: Two police officers wrestling an ostrich by nelldog
Folks are also saying it was a sick Rhea.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j28hzca wrote
Reply to comment by Sonicfan42069666 in Question about The Glass Onion (spoilers) by polywha
Van Gogh never had a coven of spies and billionaires promoting his art. My point is there was little demand for it outside of as propaganda and a commodity but it was displayed everywhere and got loads of favourable criticism from complicit critics aswell as some dupes.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j288z40 wrote
Reply to comment by badstoic in Question about The Glass Onion (spoilers) by polywha
Rothko's get hung upside down at exhibitions rather often. A mondrian has been hanging upside down for 77 years. In a deeper sense modern art was adopted by Rockefeller and his cronies wholesale after Diego Riveria painted a mural that offended him on his building, the philistine had it smashed. Modern art was seen as vacous and inoffense 'free enterprise painting' which could be a commodity and status symbol without any inconvenient symbolism or meaning. It has since been heavily backed by the establishment, though deeply unpopular with the wider public. The CIA at the least destroyed the careers of critics and art lecturers to promote it.
MansfromDaVinci t1_jegrvnf wrote
Reply to ELI5-What is the fibonacci sequence? by amsdys
you see it in nature especially plants, it's often an efficient simple way to space things like thorns and petals or model the growth of branches, seeds, segements etc so it occurs.