[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

Whoever the writer thinks should be faster, so as to serve the needs of the story being told.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's been a long time coming. Department stores in Canada have been dying off one by one, and they were the last. It's a business model that just doesn't work here anymore.

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[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say try reviving the group by posting there yourself for a while. There's probably a few people who are still subscribed to it, so you'll get more eyeballs right out of the box than you would starting a fresh one.

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I don't know much about this one, a pick-up at the local used CD shop. I thought it was a Christmas album but it turned out to be one of those 90s solo alterna-chicks like Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, or Chris Cornell.

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[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago

Cadbury is also owned by Mondelez, so many British chocolate bars are out too.

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Springing from the otherwise non-existent Australian prog rock scene, the Lectroids released their self-titled debut album in 1971. The band members went their separate ways after selling only one copy, to electric flute player Gavin Whetstone's mother. Whetstone later formed the seminal punk band The Wankers.

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An EDM band from the 1990s that released two albums. This is the second, shortly after which they lost two members to stampeding cows at an outdoor rave and then disbanded.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 32 points 2 weeks ago

The EU already has a land border in the Americas. French Guiana is part of the union and it touches Brazil and Suriname. So the gate is already open to work it from the south up instead of the north down.

I read somewhere -- great source, I know -- that the existing rule is that the country has to be in Europe, though, not that it has a border. Otherwise Malta, Ireland, and Cyprus would not qualify, and the UK too back when they were in.

Oddly enough, the Canadian/Danish border is a questionable one for this purpose anyway -- Hans Island (where the border is) is part of Greenland and Greenland is not in the EU. It left in 1985 and is now one of the "Overseas countries and territories" that have special rights in relation to the EU but are not actually in it.

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[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Depends on the compressive strength of the material. Sooner or later the weight of the pyramid above the base exceeds the base's ability to support it. Considering that a mountain is basically a stone pyramid, Everest has to be in the neighbourhood of how tall you could go -- call it 10-12 kilometers high. Other materials would do better.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 180 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's based on a short story called "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang. He's published only eighteen stories in his career (starting in 1990), nothing longer than a novella and mostly short stories. Despite that they've won him four Hugos, four Nebulas, and six Locus Awards. He's worth reading, is what I'm trying to say.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 78 points 2 months ago

It would probably be faster to list the things he doesn't have a negative view about.

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago

Turned into a slurry and then administered as an enema.

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[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 130 points 2 months ago

Artist: Sarah C. Andersen

[-] pauldrye@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

Naw, it's got to be Aretha Franklin's "Respect". Or maybe the Beatles with "Twist and Shout". Soft Cell's "Tainted Love"?

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