My best efforts from the script, but it ultimately goes to show that you’re right:
Hah, I figured the second sentence was as parodically on-the-nose as I could manage without a satire indicator.
Hah, I guess my sarcasm got missed on this comment! The premise that fish can’t feel pain because we don’t know for a certainty that they can is blatantly just mental gymnastics to justify the continued practice of a cruel hobby.
So long as you release them after a few minutes, they feel no pain whatsoever. Not even the hook through their mouth or gills.
Ceres is between Mars and Jupiter.
The problem with recognizing Pluto is that Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, Orcus, and perhaps also Salacia also should probably be included, and that makes for a nightmare of a mnemonic. As we all know, classification is decided on mnemonic plausibility.
This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.
Sonia Sodha is still a contributor to The Guardian and is a massive TERF. The Guardian is one of the better news outlets in the UK, but so long as they give her a platform, fuck them.
Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: https://explainxkcd.com/3080
I can imagine Laurence Olivier in The World At War would be good for this!
great(adj.)
Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)
(Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).
You were right the first time - they’re CRISPR-edited gray wolves engineered to exhibit the physical traits they found in dire wolf DNA.
There’s an 80-gene difference between dire wolves and gray wolves, and they’ve modified 14 of what they felt to be the most variant differences.
It’s still fascinating and tremendously difficult, and probably the best we can hope for in a very long time, but I don’t feel Colossal are being totally honest in their presentation.
@Vincent@feddit.nl was dead right in their comment here - you can escape out of the search by tapping Esc twice, at which point you’re back to the URL. Panic over!
Yup - most typically to change TLD (e.g. from example.com to my own country, when I’m after local results) or as a quick way of copying the URL without unnecessary extra arguments to share elsewhere.
I like most of this, but if search term persistence makes it harder for me to tweak the URL (like on mobile), it’s going to be really annoying. I’ll suspend judgment until I’ve tried it, I guess.
and sometimes itn’t
In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.
I’m not trans myself, but Oberon by Lump always felt like it was a non-trans trans song. Apparently the lyrics are just from various jotted ideas in Laura Marling’s notebook.
Don’t call me by my old name
Cruel as you are to bring up old pain
I tried to play the boys’ game
Yes, I’m all for change till it takes my name
It’s also an incredibly beautiful song.
I’ve used the “writing tools” extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.
I’ve also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.
The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.
I’m really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we’ve got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn’t set our expectations too high. I do respect that they’ve not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.
Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.