teft

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[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

Fun fact. La Brea means "The Tar" in english. So we basically call them "The tar tar pits".

[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago

In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 there is a quest where you have to banish some demons from a castle. During the quest one of the cooks asks Henry what the demons look like and one of the options is black sticky tar.

I always choose that one so that canonically Armus is in 15th century Bohemia.

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I don’t usually play sports games because i prefer to play actual sports but my buddy who rides enduro MTB with me loves Riders Republic. He plays it every time the weather isn’t conducive to riding.

[–] teft@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago

Remember when wales lowered their speed limit and all the car brains went nuts? Yeah, same thing will happen in ireland i would wager.

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

It’s how i went to iraq/kuwait. Commercial flight with the most of the battery hq to get there and back and commercial flights for leave.

[–] teft@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago

Just like in real life the pigs of bikini bottom work for capital and not for the regular guy.

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

And the fifth brings you back to upset tummy.

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

It’s all fun and games until you try to take your cranks off and they decide to stay on. Last time i replaced my bottom bracket took me hours because of that bullshit.

But i agree, lots of fun fixing it yourself. And much cheaper.

[–] teft@piefed.social 27 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'd have made Quark a space dwarf (loves gold pressedlatinum, short in stature) and I'd have made romulans space goblins (descended from space elves, evil).

[–] teft@piefed.social 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Simply going to Mecca isn't the Hajj. There are a whole bunch of rituals Muslims have to do while in Mecca and its surrounding areas.

When the pilgrim is about 6 miles (10 km) from Mecca, he or she enters the state of holiness and purity known as ihram and dons the ihram garments; for men they consist of two white seamless sheets that are wrapped around the body, while women may wear sewn clothes. The pilgrims cut neither their hair nor their nails until the pilgrimage rite is over. They enter Mecca and walk seven times around the sacred shrine called the Kaaba, in the Great Mosque; if possible, kiss or touch the Black Stone (al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) in the Kaaba; pray twice in the direction of the Maqām Ibrāhīm and the Kaaba; and run seven times between the minor prominences of Mount Ṣafā and Mount Marwah. On the 7th day of Dhū al-Ḥijjah the pilgrims are reminded of their duties. At the second stage of the ritual, which takes place between the 8th and the 12th days of the month, the pilgrim visits the holy places outside Mecca—Jabal al-Raḥmah, Muzdalifah, and Minā—and sacrifices an animal in commemoration of Abraham’s sacrifice. Male pilgrims’ heads are then usually shaved, and female pilgrims remove a lock of hair. After the rajm ritual at Minā, in which pilgrims throw seven stones at three walls (formerly pillars, symbolizing the Devil) on three successive days, the pilgrim returns to Mecca to perform the farewell ṭawāf, or circumambulation, of the Kaaba before leaving the city.

[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

F vs c is easier if you think in bands of temps. 15 C is about 60 F. Each ten degrees difference in F is about 5 degrees different in C. So 20 C is about 70 F. 10 C is about 50 F.

[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you think Geordi is as big of a fan of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon that Murderbot is?

 

Inspired by a post asking for help with GIMP and Queen.

 
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