I guess I don’t get what your point is. Caribou are wild, reindeer is generally used for domesticated caribou (at least in North America)

The poem “A visit from St Nicholas” (aka “'Twas the Night Before Christmas”) was written by an American.

Is it different outside of North America?

They’re “Les Schtroumpfs” in French.

The Wikipedia article on Spice has some pretty good details on the subject:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice#%3A~%3Atext=Early+history

Mariah Carey has been so overdone she’s now Pariah Carey.

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

A lion would eat a human and is smaller than a horse. A predatory horse would wreck the shit out of a human.

Some politician posted a video of “drones” in the sky and it was literally the constellation of Orion.

That’s what I was going to say!

They probably pulled the article since it was bullshit, based on the other comments.

Virtucon (Dr Evil’s org in Austin Powers)

I’m using Voyager and the search function is awesome. I stopped using Jerboa a long time ago and I don’t remember exactly why.

Where are you searching?

!playstation@lemmy.world

Yo momma tried reading a book but she so fat she ate it as a snack instead.

Agreed, just making a joke because of the context.

Real men sit to pee so they don’t have to clean their own piss up later.

Whenever I talk about this, some asshat will come along and make a comment about sitting on a tree. No, dumbass, I don’t sit to pee on a tree. Or a urinal. I sit to pee on my toilet at home so I can tell you what an idiot you are while I’m pissing just to prove how manly I am.

Agreed. As I mentioned elsewhere, Falcon 9 is still revolutionary, but I was just clarifying that the SRBs were recycled, as that is sometimes forgotten.

The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) from shuttle launched were recycled. They parachuted into the ocean after being jettisoned and were recovered and refused. They just didn’t land themselves. The external fuel tank was not reused.

Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.

NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.

I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary

Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2024/09/11/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bezos-as-musks-greatest-space-threat/

They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.

Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.

Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.

There’s dozens of us. Dozens.