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TIL Humans have a tendency to walk counterclockwise over walking clockwise

My assumption for this would be that the majority of humans are right-side dominant. So they tend to lead with their right foot and their right leg is probably stronger meaning they tend to take marginally larger steps on the right leading to a counterclockwise gait

Similarly to the OP, I was told in Boy Scouts that if you're lost in the woods you need to stay where you are because if you do try to walk out you'll likely just go in circles and be harder to find

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Valve won’t subsidise its pricey Steam Machine as there’s no guarantee the open system will be used for Steam

Valve does seem to be one of the rare companies that can learn from other companies mistakes and this was an expensive lesson Sony learned. The original PS3 was sold with the ability to run Linux as a selling point and was sold at a loss to get it and Blu-ray players into households. Unfortunately, the US Government realized they could build a super computer by connecting a bunch of PS3s together and it was the cheapest way to do so. Obviously the government super computer wasn't buying Grand Theft Auto so subsequent PS3s were shipped without that ability

In a world where components are being purchased a year before they're built I don't fault Valve for trying to avoid getting fleeced

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Femality is stored in the nipples

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There was a protest in front of the Scottish supreme court when the UK had a ruling that declared trans women were men because of their "biological sex". So a bunch of trans women stood with their tits out and arms painted red since apparently they're men and that's OK

Ironically almost all media coverage of the event censored their breasts

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I get to repost my top Lemmy comment:

NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it's a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let's round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it'll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn't going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent

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Yeah, even stories of "benevolent" djinn who want to help still backfire and those are the minority. Most are tricksters who want to fuck with you, so giving them some sort of logic loop is more likely that they break logic/causality than you'll have them blue screen of death and poof away in a cloud of smoke

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Uma Thurman - Pulp Fiction (1994)

This is an interesting shot because it's clearly from the session where they shot the photo for the poster but she's holding a gun I'm pretty confident nobody in the movie uses. Mia obviously never fires a gun, but in the poster she's next Vincent's gun, which at least makes sense thematically

This also appears similar to the PPK (it may be one) which had a reputation as a "girl's gun" before it became more strongly associated with James Bond. That's because it has a sleek frame for concealed carry and isn't crazy high caliber. Obviously as the wife of a crime lord her having a weapon makes sense, I just wonder if they intended for her to use a gun in a different version of the script? But I also am not a gun guy, so I may be reading too far into this

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Lemmy just do some linear algebra at the grocery store

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That and NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it's a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let's round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it'll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn't going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent

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What's going on over at dwarf fortress?

Dwarf Fortress bug reports are incredible. Since this is lemmy I'm sure people have heard of the alcoholic cats but it's a fun reread

I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws.

I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks have alcohol. If cats step in something it sticks to their paws. Cats clean their paws, causing them to ingest what's on them. Enough alcohol will kill a cat. Put together: dead drunken cats.

I vaguely remember that part of the problem was the game didn't differentiate between licking a small amount of ale and drinking a whole glass. So the cats were basically chugging a beer each time they cleaned their paws