https://youtube.com/watch/rvramD11quY

most snakes can’t do math, but adders have the basics down

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I was sure it somehow involved Colonel Mustard/Mean Mr. Mustard (sleeps in the park), and/or Maxwell’s silver hammer

scrotifera literally means “nutsack havers”

edit: I suppose that’s just a paraphrase of the title, isn’t it

so that air can flow in and out of different sides of the same window, instead of having to have two windows, one with air flowing in and the other with air flowing out

if you examine something and it’s not the way you want it to be, congratulations, you have successfully identified a problem

I was just thinking yesterday, why isn’t there a “never store credit card info” option

I don’t know a specific word, but I always think of it as “closing the umbrella because you’re not getting wet”

the secretary of transportation, a former contestant on MTV reality show The Real World, thinks more cars will reduce congestion

there’s Cell (2016) starring Nic Cage and Samuel L Jackson, based on a Stephen King book, where people turn into zombies after hearing a signal secretly embedded into cell phone networks

technically yes, the issue is eventually you run out of atmosphere to push off of to maintain that speed, and if you don’t have enough momentum at that point to take you the rest of the way, then you’ll fall back down. but I suppose if we’re already assuming that they can fly without atmosphere, then that doesn’t matter

I’ll be the other guy: even if they could fly, the escape velocity of the moon is still 2380m/s, more than 25× faster than the fastest bird flight

> doesn’t glow

> powered by light

🤔

> doesn’t shock people

> powered by electricity

🤔

my favorite Duke Ellington song, take the A frame

what does that even mean? the whole point of the tech industry is for tech-literate people to work to provide products and services to the broadly tech-illiterate public. the goal of a tech product is to be used with as little tech-literacy as possible. why would you assume that someone is highly tech-literate just because they use the product of a tech company?

he was able to explain induction quite succinctly though

feels like a “bad 2-sentence horror story” post

sounds like you need a bed of rice

saber-toothed cats are actually an entirely different lineage from what are called conical-toothed cats, that diverged about 20 million years ago. all saber-toothed cats are extinct, and all extant cats are conical-toothed, and descended from conical-toothed ancestors; there are no living cats descended from saber-toothed cats