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Reply to comment by Nanojack in TIL Eating every course seperately is Service à la russe. Before this meals were service à la française where all courses were served at once. Ambassador Alexander Kurakin introduced Service à la russe to France in 1810 and it became the norm by the 1880s. by jamescookenotthatone
>English cuisine was not widely admired or emulated
According to every British comedian it remains that way today.
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Reply to comment by AsFarAsItGoes in 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days (2023) [00:48:35] by LetMeSleep21
We still do a lot of flood / tsunami drills, but the nuclear distaster has been forgotten.
Japan just recently reauthorized all the old nuclear plants to reopen, extended their licences thirty years beyond their end-of-life, and continues to dump radioactive waste from this disaster into the ocean unabbated.
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Reply to comment by andromeda-andi in 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days (2023) [00:48:35] by LetMeSleep21
There's a lot of footage from that day that will probably never air again.
Even in this, you may notice a scene or two where a camera pans around and you wonder, "Where did everyone go just now?"
Into the water. They're gone.
On the day it was much worse. Many times a helicopter was filming people running, or trying to drive away, only to rotate just enough to show the road they were on wouldn't take them out of the path of the tsunami. Then it would pan all the way around, showing some other part of the destruction, and when it came back the whole road was gone under the water.
I remember one heartbreaking scene where a guy hopped on his scooter and made a bee-line away from the wave, stopping to try to warn people crossing the road he was on that they were doomed. A few seconds later there was nothing but black water and wreckage where all of them had been.
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Technically the twelfth year anniversary, but anyway..
Around 12:30 there's a moment that provides a very good reference for how the tsunami came: it wasn't a huge standing wave that crashed over the shoreline; it was a humongous, black amoeba that gradually overwhelmed the coast, the cities, and the people who stayed on the ground wondering what all the fuss was about.
quequotion t1_j6oq1qy wrote
It used to be a secret, and apparently various military R&D happened there--particularly of aircraft, which were also secret.
The surrounding area became a hotbed of UFO sightings, some of which were sightings of actual aircraft.
This fueled conspiracy theories, such as that the wreckage and survivors or bodies from the Roswell incident had been taken there for study or storage.
These conspiracy theories experienced a resurgence in the 90s due to the X-Files, but I am not sure what revived the momentum that led to the pathetic 2010s "raid".
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Reply to TIFU by constantly singing this one song around my girlfriend and giving her the “ick” by poopmushroom
>me (25 M) and my girlfriend (22 F)
I think you mean (15 M) and (12 F).
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Reply to comment by Nebula_Orion in The position in space where Earth will complete its journey around sun is different for different countries. by Nebula_Orion
I think you're a few drinks from realizing the r/timecube.
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Reply to comment by san_serifs in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
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Reply to comment by ImNotAWhaleBiologist in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
>$1000 lottery win
I AM MIDAS. ALL THAT I TOUCH IS GOLDEN.
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Reply to comment by 49thDipper in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
I fully expect that of this situation as well. Makes me wonder if we couldn't do a study to find the approximate dollars per unit of time income that stimulates one's god complex. Like, at precisely what amount of cash grab does the human brain give up conceiving that it could ever end?
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Reply to comment by beach_2_beach in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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Reply to comment by 1dererLives in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
Welcome to post-truth civilization. Reality is now whatever makes the biggest impact.
I hope whatever future civilization replaces us is unable to rectify ours
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Reply to comment by pegothejerk in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
I understood that reference.
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Reply to comment by Flatline2962 in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
Oh, we need it all. If it takes two seasons, so be it.
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Reply to comment by mminnoww in FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
We're going to have to add a whole new category of Daves.
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Reply to FTX diverted $200 million of customer money for two venture deals that caught the SEC’s attention by cloud_coder
There must have been some point where SBF and his management team transitioned from running a mere ponzi scheme to thinking they had carte blanche to do whatever they wanted with the monopoly money they could create indefinitely.
For once, I actually want a docuseries about this. I understand people who had reasonable trust in this company lost dearly, but I think it would even make a great sitcom. This is hilarious. One of the companies was called "Dave"? Like, really? "Dave"?
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I am convinced that Alfred is fully complicit.
Not only in aiding and abetting Bruce's vigilante alter-ego, but encouraging him to become Batman.
He didn't take the boy to therapy, he apparently taught him to release his stress with violence, and he instilled in him that the Wayne legacy was to improve Gotham's standard of living whatever the cost.
Alfred may not have known he was raising a Bat-man, but he definitely raised a violent fanatic with delusions of altruism.
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Reply to Cornell suspends fraternity parties and social events after allegations of sexual assault and drug-laced drinks | CNN by beeps-n-boops
Good, now make it permanent.
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Reply to comment by NerdHerder77 in TIFU by kissing a guy on the cheek by pettyclassymolassy
I wonder if they keep any data on that. Like I strongly doubt the sincerity of anyone using a dating app to meet someone of a gender they could be romantically involved with strictly for platonic friendship. I assume this is for people who are too socially akward to outright say they are looking for romance who are then nonetheless disappointed when it does not occur, and that it occasionally does occur despite having told the app it wasn't what they were looking for.
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Reply to comment by Commie-commuter in TIFU by kissing a guy on the cheek by pettyclassymolassy
Why would a dating app bring people together for platonic relationships?
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Reply to TIFU by kissing a guy on the cheek by pettyclassymolassy
>met on a dating app
>going on dates
>thought he wasn't romantically interested
quequotion t1_jdyk4hr wrote
Reply to Could we terraform mars with our current technology? by TheZogKing
Doubtful.
We could get started, probably make some habitable enclosures, but before we can alter the global atmosphere--a fundamental prerequisite of any other global-scale terraforming we might attempt--there are significant impediments to overcome that are as-yet beyond our capacity.
Namely, the lack of an Ozone layer and a global magnetic field. Both of these serve on our world to protect the atmosphere and the surface from radiation and solar wind. Without them, any gas we pump into the air around Mars is just going to bleed off into space like its first atmosphere did.