Oh, “And Another Thing”? I didn’t enjoy that at all. It was like a rehash of old jokes and I felt the author was barely familiar with the previous work. I remember coming across one rehashed joke they clearly hadn’t understood completely. Can’t remember the details, though.
And 😙 is more like:
Edit: and it just occurred to me that the the French AI, Mistral (“a strong wind that blows from southern France”) might have been referencing this with the red-faced cat in their logo:
Pshaw. Wake me up when we get to The Telescope of Devastation.
“Who’s signal is this?”
“Oh, it’s that guy with the metal strips. His address is on a post-it note somewhere around here.”
Kind of an aside, but I had no idea that concrete ships were a thing. Not ships carrying concrete, but ships made of actual reinforced concrete, like a building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYLBPg56TA
Symptoms of [nitrite] poisoning can vary depending on the amount and duration of the exposure. Those with very mild methemoglobinemia might not have any symptoms at all, or might appear a little pale and feel tired. Moderate-to-severe poisoning is associated with cyanosis (blueness of the skin), confusion, loss of consciousness, seizures, abnormal heart rhythms, and death.
It’s it supposed to be special in some way?
I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.
Bottle caps are stored in big bags of some sort before being placed on bottles.
They have sharp edges and they scratch each other’s paint as they shift around in the bags.
The scratching produces a fine dust of plastic/paint particles. The dust covers all sides of the bottle caps in the bags.
The caps are placed on the bottles. The dust goes into the liquid inside the bottle. People drink it.
Yes. So many people are misunderstanding this article… The microplastics are on the inside, in the drink, and they are bits of the paint from the exterior of bottle caps that stuck to the inside of other caps when the caps were all jumbled together in big bags before they were placed on the bottles.
It’s a pretty awesome superpower, either way you look at things.
Two passing nurses postponed her death.
Since I didn’t know:
“Parasocial” refers to a relationship or connection felt by a person towards someone they do not know personally, typically a celebrity, character in a media, or public figure. This relationship is one-sided, meaning the other person is unaware of the connection.
I get the impression this is a video-only thing because you need multiple vantage points of the scene. You can still extract a single frame in the end of course (like the article itself does), but you’ll need to shift around meaningful distances, like attack submarines do with Target Motion Analysis.
That’s 25 attoseconds, no?.. If so, that’s impressive.
The power record holder right now is the Măgurele laser in Romania, at 10 PW, but it lasts a thousand times longer, at 25 femtoseconds I believe. I can’t find clear info on pulse duration anywhere. They do intend to decrease pulse durations it seems.
I think “blitzkrieg” matches somewhat: don’t stop to engage every stronghold, just drive around them, isolate them, and cut off their support networks.
That’s the longest time I’ve ever heard someone take to build up a comeback. Be on your guard!
Disagree. Just because luck saved your ass doesn’t mean what you did wasn’t stupid.
Winning a round of Russian Roulette doesn’t make you a genius.
Thanks, and sorry about that! I removed the colon from near my URL now, just in case.
I… I don’t understand what the joke is here. Not even the explainxkcd mentions any kind of humor outside of the alt text. What am I missing?