Mum shed some pounds.

Ah. A rare SFW Oglaf.

Yes. Because people are not the only observers.

What qualify as observers though? Or, how far divorced from an event counts as unobserved?

If a tree falls in a forest and scares a rabbit which a dog barks at which I hear… is that chain of observation enough to grant existence to the tree?

Farscape is even directly referenced in SG-1’s 200th episode, by Vala.

Farscape is great. Give it a try.

New Zealand.

Māori had land, the English wanted it, so they took it. Often by simply murdering the inhabitants.

You could probably do four if you go middle out.

He was a pain in the neck.

My country’s history.

It’s glossed over on schools and disengaged with across almost all of society.

It’s also an endless record of genocidal actions of our colonisers.

It’s both depressing and enraging.

This is a (valid) criticism of proof-of-work, not necessarily a criticism of a public ledger manifested in a block chain.

Movies and TV shows starting with “Star…” are not known for their hard-science fiction.

Star Wars is just a western, set in spaaaaace.

I am enjoying it immensely.

Quality shit posting sir!

I suspected/assumed they were ‘true’ to the lines of latitude and longitude.

The amusing projection in green makes it obvious that the map projection is taking some liberties ;-)

Cock fighting arena it is then!

So, if its borders are straight lines in this projection, are they actually concave curves?

Edit: convex for the northern border.

Steve Balmer is a pill.

What is it with Steves in technology being just the worst (Woz is Woz, not Steve).

“I don’t understand your job therefore your job is fake”

Just accept your inner American and make it a car park.

They’re the same picture.

All money is fake money for criminals.

I don’t believe there’s a shortage of new ideas in the industry, writers are creative. Producers however are the actual problem: they’re the ones refusing to pony up the money to make anything other that dross.

It seemed to best fit the theme of the thread.