jon

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[–] jon 11 points 2 years ago

"Let all brave Prussians follow me!"— Field Marshal Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin (6 May 1757), at the Battle of Prague, immediately before being struck by a cannonball.

[–] jon 2 points 2 years ago

They already told us that their optimisations consist of them telling us to buy better hardware.

[–] jon 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Based on how he's been acting since he became a lord, i would guess that his donations to Labour were simply to secure him the life peerage that Labour duly gave him in 2009, and since then we're seeing his true colours, including reposting a photoshopped photo of Corbyn with Hitler, and mocking the Senegal football team, saying they looked like street-side hawkers. Í think he occasionally bleats some sexist crap on xwitter as well.

[–] jon 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

He was one of the largest donors to the Labour Party, who made him a Lord. A few years later he switched sides to the Conservatives, and had been acting like the archetypal Tory gobshite ever since.

[–] jon 4 points 2 years ago

Relativity only applies to local reference frames and not to the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.

[–] jon 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can't find any reference that says it's moving away from us at twice the speed of light, which would violate Relativity. The fact that it is further away from us in light years than the age of the universe in years, is due to the fact that the space itself is expanding.

[–] jon 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It doesn't. Gravity is caused by mass not spin. The planet's rotation about it's own axis will create a centrifugal effect that offsets gravity, but the effect is negligible for anything rotating as slow as planets.

[–] jon 5 points 2 years ago

It doesn't take much research to find out she was against wearing masks during COVID, she's pro-Brexit, and she's a climate change denialist.

In short she's a reactionary fuckwit, who should be ignored.

[–] jon 2 points 2 years ago

You will know us by the trail of our rubbish.

[–] jon 1 points 2 years ago

I played the original Elite on the BBC, and then Elite 2 & 3 on the Amiga. Elite Dangerous on the PC was just plain dull by comparison.

[–] jon 11 points 2 years ago

Not sure those categories are mutually exclusive, in which case a pie chart is illogical, captain

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