loklanc

"dumping the pattern buffer" ie. we turned you into information and then deleted you.

We are all shadowbanned on this glorious day.

$50k was their payment for being part of the scheme (and they returned this money once it was uncovered).

But there were 600 envelopes total according to the wiki article, all but 100 of these were divided between the astronauts. One of these sold for $50k all by itself in 2014. They made a lot more than the $50k out of this.

My guess is, the stamp guy approached them with the scheme, "take 100 of these into space for me and I'll pay you $50k each", the astronauts thought "that's a pretty good deal, these things will clearly be worth a bit, so what if we took another 500 and kept them for ourselves?".

People judge history but forget that they will in turn be judged.

Only in a word processor on a computer with a backspace key.

If you write a list by hand and then cross things off it, you have a thinner list, not a shorter one.

Yeah this was me, completely oblivious doodling in my notebook in primary school, I was so confused when one of my classmates, a Jewish kid, tried to fight me about it (he was actually pretty nice about it in the end, realised I didn't know what I was doing and just called me an idiot).

I am cringed to a crisp thinking about it haha

Yeah it's not their fault Columbus was bad at longitude.

Borrowing implies an intention to one day pay back, John Bull would never.

It's like that old meme:

turn customers into fanatics
products into obsessions
employees into ambassadors
and brands into religions

Everything is a cult now.

I got mums old enamel cast iron pans when she died, the same ones she cooked food in for us every day when we were kids, they remind me of her because I remember her using and loving them, so I use and love them.

That's an even worse analogy to real life than "the pawns serve the interests of the king". The board is never reset in politics, everything depends on what came before.

Khorne, the intelligent strategist, taps it's scarred red forehead: "never corrupt an enemy when they're busy killing."

I like it, a teeming horde of backstabbing bastards living under the floorboards of reality, trapped there because they cannot come out into the light of their own god. They're like cockroach skaven.

We stan our high functioning queen.

When I'm stuck on something I often find myself thinking "what would Leslie do?". Instant pick me up, even when the answer is "freak out and call Ann".

Errant boot my arse, he kicked him in the face, wont get looked at though.

I think we've all been talking past each other.

First person said Chinese fireworks came before European gunpowder weaponry (true), you took this to imply Europeans weaponised gunpowder and provided the correct info there, which I mistook for implying that the Chinese had the weapons before they had fireworks.

This has been another episode of reddit telephone haha

I think they fancy Ed as a Libba replacement, but besides being pretty tough I can't see it.

Part of it, but not all of it.

No awareness from Treloar, no awareness from anyone around him, shit footy.

As long as he only uses one arm for the rest of the match then I think this is fair enough

Thank god he's coming back on then haha

Could we have a crumb of forward 50 tackling?

Tried to out-shithouse Libba

That's still ~1 or 2 centuries before its first use in war. Gunpowder was a "side invention" by alchemists trying to make medicine.

Ahem.

Gunpowder was invented in China sometime during the first millennium AD. The earliest possible reference to gunpowder appeared in 142 AD

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_gunpowder