skarn

joined 11 months ago
[–] skarn@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

This was 30 years ago. I was from Australia. The night is still a clear memory to me. I had a choice and thought, well if I'm going to get drunk for the first time in my life, why not do it in a country where alcohol is illegal? At least I'll have a story to tell.

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My father worked in Saudi Arabia, and I was visiting on school holidays. They had brewed wine and gin on site and I had enough to get drunk for the first time in my life at 17. I had to talk to my father and pretend I wasn't drunk. Apparently it worked as he has never mentioned it. I climbed up a water tower, and we got spotted doing that, and not realising my brother was snogging the girl I fancied while we did it. Then a girl I'd barely spoken to cornered me and wanted to know who I fancied, I asked what that meant and she said who would I kiss. I said I'd never kissed anyone, and she kissed me, then left without another word. I left the country the next day.

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing that with a battle involving thousands of soldiers, over a number of hours, with cannons and horses and 1500 prisoners taken and only 27 deaths.

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah right. So, an alternative to dark energy and dark mass?

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

So I wonder, even if it's only appearing very briefly it's still going to exert some small gravitational effect. And who is to say the density of quantum foam is perfectly evenly distributed through the universe, within, through and between galaxies? Could this be an alternative explanation to dark matter?

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago

I expect that's due to the 30% cut taken on subscriptions purchased through the app store

[–] skarn@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago

Clearly a catfish