In Chinese they're also not called ananas. In Chinese, pineapples are "phoenix pears".
The funniest thing I saw when I visited Australia was the street names in the part of Australia I visited being a mix of super British sounding names and the goofiest sounding aboriginal names.
The second funniest thing was a Mexican restaurant called "South of the border", as if their point of reference was the US-Mexican border. Australia doesn't have land borders with any other nation, much less Mexico.
Sir Spooks is also pretty good. Previously I subscribed to too many spooky compilations, but then I noticed that the same videos would show up in compilation after compilation, so I unsubscribed from the ones with annoying narrators.
Are the vertical bands and shadows visible when you view this with your eyes as well? I'm curious whether those are artifacts from the way camera sensors are scanned or whether those vertical bands are part of the phenomenon you' observed.
When they start diesel generators, the exhaust pipes often cause these smoke rings, especially if they have a few hard pops during start-up.
See this video of a smoke ring generator making these rings.
Wow! What are they packing them with? That drone didn't look nearly big enough to cause an explosion that could level a building!
This map shows who calls pineapples 'ananas' an who doesn't. All the countries colored in pink call them ananas. Even Israel (which is off the edge of the map) and the Arab nations call them 'ananas'.
Only English and Spanish are exceptions.
This looks cool, but the explanation given in the graphic is bullshit. That's not how ions work. That's not what swirling water does. The explanation is ignorant pseudoscience.
Beware of people appealing to "the ancients". The ancient who? Ancient societies were not uniformly developed, and they did a lot of really questionable things. Ancient ≠ wise. For example, the ancient Aztecs sacrificed children to Tlaloc, torturing them to make them cry as much as possible because they believed their tears were needed to bring the rain. Those are not exactly "the ancients" I would like to appeal to.
Dick Durban needs to call out Clarence Thomas as well. His wife was a key participant in trying to overthrow the 2020 election.
This is the post over at r/weirddalle where this was first featured:
Here's the video of him saying this:
Trump has NEVER asked God for Forgiveness. Which is the 1st step of being a Christian.
He is precisely the man the Bible warns Christians to avoid:
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But know this: Hard times will come in the last days. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people.
Those aren’t atheists’ views.
I didn't list those things as atheist views or beliefs; I listed these as the dismissals I typically hear from atheists when they come across people's testimonies of supernatural or paranormal encounters. Such dismissals are a consequence of an atheistic worldview.
There is another thing I find that atheists seem to have in common; I have never come across an atheist who didn't also have a materialist/physicalist worldview, which denies the existence of anything that isn't matter/energy/fields/waves. This world view then denies the existence of any ghosts or spirits, which are immaterial. Even if materialism is not technically the same as atheism, materialism implies atheism. I guess in theory there could be spiritual atheists, but that combination doesn't make sense to me.
I don't know. When I doubt, don't wear it out.
Yeah, don't wear this in public.
"uncanny, weird, threatening, horrible"
The second and last characters look like they're made up. They don't correspond to any character I can find on Jisho.org. They look like two other characters stacked.
The second character looks like 大 (big) stacked on top of 吉.
The last character looks like 自由 ('freedom') but with the two characters stacked.
I don't recognize the second to last character either.
The Messiah doesn't have to fulfill every prophecy first before you can confidently and positively identify him as the Messiah.
Suppose there's 100 things that he is foretold to do, and it is utterly improbable for anyone to fulfill even 20% of them, while Jesus has fulfilled 50% of them. You can reasonably believe that Jesus is the Messiah, and expect that he will eventually fulfill the rest.
Or you can refuse to believe until he fulfills the rest, which includes the part where he judges the living and the dead and condemns the wicked to be punished. But by that point it will be too late for your belief in his identity to do you any good.
The handwriting is awful and several of the characters are ambiguous.
Sorry, I can't help but see "I ANAL" and forgetting what this was about. Something about lawyers? I forget.
The one I was thinking of was the GLSDB, which was supposed to be a gamechanger. That was a new weapon design that took the winged small diameter bomb and made it HIMARS launchable. It turned out those weapons were super vulnerable to GPS jamming.
The GLSDB isn't old stock weaponry. Actually, a lot of the old stock was probably more robust because it had redundant navigational systems whereas new stock may crutch on GPS too hard.
Also, Ukraine has shown that cost-effectiveness is super important. Too many US weapons are overly expensive. They're precise and wonderful when you have them in stock, but if you face an enemy who doesn't care wasting another several hundred thousand soldiers, they'll still win because they'll just absorb all your fancy ammo and kill you when you run out of expensive precision weapons. The number of Javelins that we would need to do what the Ukrainian drones have done would never be cost effective to produce; the drones cost about $500-1000 at most, whereas a Javelin missile costs $180K each. They're more capable, but if you run out, the extra capability doesn't matter.
Another example: The Switchblade drones have been shown up by the Ukrainian home-grown drones. The Ukrainian drones haven't been less effective than the Switchblade, but Switchblade doesn't look like it could ever produce the volumes truly needed by Ukraine at a cost that they could bear.
That symbol is the symbol used in NATO war maps that means "destroyed". It is actually unintentionally hilarious.
UA 42nd Mechanized Brigade's "Perun" drone team used FPV strike drones to hit Russian infantry, infantry positions, and vehicles. One drone looks to fly into the window of an occupied truck (from 0:10 in video). Published May 20, 2024
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