HeckGazer

@HeckGazer@lemmy.world
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"giant kites" mfs really just forgot the word for sails

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Of all the arguments this one always feels like the absolute weakest. There are so many acronyms that are not pronounced like that it's unreal. Unless you commit to pronouncing it jayfeg for the rest of your life...

Means "contains carbon" in any context other than food

Yeah, two strokes sounds about right :/

Maybe because that's not the full quote and you're misunderstanding the meaning. This is like when people think "survival of the fittest" means the strongest/fastest etc.

won't get any calories out of them

Me, an intellectual: eats a chunk of uranium

if you're using OLED, which most people aren't

That doesn't sound right at all to me. Majority of Internet traffic is on mobile, mobile devices far outnumber desktops, non-OLED phones are pretty rare

Are you my neighbour? 👀

These are both examples of catapults, broadly, siege engines that use stored energy to make big projectile go over there real good.

What people tend to refer to when they say "catapult" is a mangonel or onager, and go on to imply that the trebuchet is not a catapult. It is a catapult, just a different kind. Much like we have cars, which are vehicles, but we also have trucks, which are also vehicles.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult#Medieval_catapults