[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

This is why pirates were wearing eye patches, to be able to enter the hull of the ship and see immediately without lighting up a candle. Fire is not a good idea inside a wooden ship filled with black powder.

This is one theory for why pirates wore eyepatches. We haven't found any historical evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, we have at least a few documented cases of pirates wearing eyepatches for protecting a damaged eye.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

If I were writing the Star Wars movies with the benefit of hindsight, I would allude to the fact that Vader seems much more aggressive when dealing with Leia compared to other Rebels, like something about her Force aura is triggering to him.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

This is not true. There are a litany of laws that capturing a wild duck from a public park would be a violation of, so don't do it.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, dude is asking the wrong question.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah, if you want a single system for heating and cooling, you'd be better off getting a heat pump. It's the most energy efficient thing for both anyway, from what I've been told.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

As an American whose only knowledge of UK government comes from sporadic episodes of Politics Unboringed, my first thought would be to replace the Minister for Women with a Minister for Gender Equality. They would have all the powers and responsibilities of the Minister for Women, and also gain any powers and responsibilities that a hypothetical Minister for Men would need.

  • If there is a need for a Minister for Men, then that need is met by the Minister for Gender Equality
  • If there is no need for a Minister for Men, then the only thing that changes is that the Minister for Women has a new, less controversial title

Sounds like a win-win to me, but again, I'm a dumb Yank lol

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That would actually be comic accurate, too (to some degree). At one point, Aunt May reveals on her deathbed that she secretly knew Peter was Spider-Man for a long time, and wanted him to know that she was proud of him before she died.

They retconned this, of course, bringing Aunt May back to life with no memory of Peter's identity. Then eventually did more stories about Aunt May learning Peter's identity, dying, then coming back to life... man, keeping up with comic book lore sucks.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Stop, you'll give the bots ideas!

In all seriousness, I never fake anything. If I see a bicycle, I click it. Plus, I never need to fake my pauses, since the ones I get are actually bitch hard lol

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

If I ever feel the need to downvote my own post, I would probably just as well delete it.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Not a dentist, but the reason dentists gave me for doing it in that order is that bacteria and plaque build up a lot while you sleep, since your teeth are just kind of sitting there doing nothing. So I guess waiting until after breakfast is just an unnecessary delay.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

If that one innocent person agrees to it, I say yes. Otherwise, no.

[-] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

I think they're continuing the joke

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I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn't do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn't exist? I think it's super convenient, especially if you're subscribed to a ton of channels and don't want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.

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