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Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

steinrokkan posted:

Wait until you learn about eagles

Should have gone with the turkey after all.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2021 15:56

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:58

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Paladinus posted:

That's a big circle.

It's got a dashed line!

# ¿ Jul 26, 2021 13:03

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The Cheshire Cat posted:

The Olympics are a weird sort of "rich guy gets a $10 haircut" thing; apparently the cost to actually make all the gold medals out of pure gold would be a couple million dollars, which is a lot of money but given what is already spent on the Olympics, would barely make a dent in the budget.

But it would be a couple million less to go to the IOC's buddies' pockets and get spread around from there, so

# ¿ Aug 8, 2021 21:23

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

I hate that graphic and the people that make it so much for taking "the truth is in the middle" as unquestioned received wisdom.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2021 23:36

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Powered Descent posted:

Any three non-collinear ghosts define an astral plane.

Boooooo!

# ¿ Oct 11, 2021 22:16

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Captain DIEgiene posted:

Whose rereg is OnlyBans? I can't honestly believe a new user would join last month only to make a stand this long on a subject like this.

Check the rap sheet.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2021 19:52

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Paladinus posted:

What's Updiana?

The gearshift lever.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2021 19:35

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OwlFancier posted:

The nice thing about fusion is you know it has to be possible cos the sun is doing it.

The Sun cheats though by compressing plasma via gravity, so fusion can happen at lower temperatures. Here on piddly little 1-G Earth we have to apply insane amounts of heat to get the atomic nuclei to whiz around fast enough to bang into each other.

Plus we have to worry about containment if we want to do anything long-term useful with fusion, whereas "perpetual thermonuclear explosion" is basically what a star is when you get down to fundamentals.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2021 09:52

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OwlFancier posted:

Are we not all, ultimately, piles of goop that evolved into bigger piles of goop?

# ¿ Nov 27, 2021 23:56

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

Edit: Google tells me octopus first appeared...about 300 million years ago. I got way closer than I expected.

Yeah, but molluscs and vertebrates are so far apart that the last common ancestor was something a little like a flatworm more than half a billion years ago.

Like, we don't even do embryonic cell division the same way.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2022 12:02

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Ragnar34 posted:

Draculi.

Ketchup pasta is such a hosed up idea that I thought it was an American Midwest thing at first, like out in Dust Bowl country where recipes were invented by starving white people with nothing but jello and mayonnaise on the shelf. Did Denmark go through some kind of terrible famine?

My wife will make ketchup spaghetti for herself occasionally as some kind of childhood flashback comfort food, and she's from a family of Boston Poles.

I don't get it, but she puts up with dumb poo poo I do too so I figure it's pretty much even in the end.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2022 03:52

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Splicer posted:

Morally Inept?

Son of a bitch.

# ¿ May 21, 2022 22:16

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King Hong Kong posted:

Since when is biology a “soft science”?

Since the gender ratio of biologists got to be about even.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 19:55

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jeebus bob posted:

I honestly can't tell what joke you're reaching for here.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

there's a correlation of a science field having more women and it being classified a "soft" science, and it's not a coincidence

It was this, yes.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2022 05:49

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DontMockMySmock posted:

I am unclear on whether "economic freedom" means markets are more "free" (aka more capitalist) or whether it means people have more freedom, economically (aka less capitalist).

I'm pretty sure that's by design.

# ¿ Aug 3, 2022 04:57

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EDIT: NM, that was the joke.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 22:54

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OwlFancier posted:

I know from previous experience that I can drag an entire playground full of primary school children around.

Your burlap sack must have been huge.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2022 17:49

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Amoeba102 posted:

Chart is flawed, because the Brussels Griffon is as good as it gets.

Also because pugs belong right next to bulldogs in the Monstrosity Circle.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 07:42

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MrUnderbridge posted:

So where does Ben Shapiro fall on this chart, exactly?

Through the floorboard gaps.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 05:00

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jjack229 posted:

That's the one. Thanks

Edit: I see that I had the country wrong, it was Austria not the US

I'm sure there's multiple studies out there showing that it happens in the US too.

For anyone who hasn't seen this sort of thing before, basically everyone estimates their place on the spectrum of wealth by comparing themselves to the people around them rather than to the whole spectrum. Since everyone tends to know and interact with people who are slightly-to-moderately richer or poorer than themselves, but not with people who are significantly so, there is a tendency to place your own dot closer to the middle than you actually are.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2023 16:49

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

A friend of mine did her master's thesis on evidence for improv in Shakespeare's plays. It's pretty well known that the folios, octavos, and quartos we have that are the source of our knowledge of Shakespeare's plays were written after the fact, transcribing what was said on stage, and the original "scripts" weren't actually scripts as we'd understand them today but writers telling the actors what to say verbally.

Anyway, apparently there's sections in many of his plays where the directions were just "goof around here and improv something funny, play with the audience a bit" and what we have documented was just what was that day's performance. Her scholarship goes into why we can deduce this, but I'm not any kind of an expert enough to understand it so I just took her word for it.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2023 19:02

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Muscle Tracer posted:

I would love to read this if it's available somewhere.

I'll ask her and PM you.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2023 20:51

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CommonShore posted:

Shakespearian comic characters don't speak in blank verse.

Yeah, if I recall the conversation right that's one of the clues.

I'm still waiting to hear back from my friend. I don't think she'll want me to post the paper openly on the forums but whoever's interested can PM me and I'll ask if I can distribute the link that way.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 17:10

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No Safe Word posted:

As a lifelong Texan I feel basically nothing about Oklahoma. I wonder if DFW people really dislike it for some reason (which is strange because it's just like, you go there for casinos and that's it I would guess)? Or maybe it's some holdover Texas/OU animosity or something?

I have more of a mild sneering distaste for Oklahoma than an actual hate, but then again I'm not the typical Texan/DFWite and I pretty much feel the same way about Texas.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 00:24

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Freudian posted:

Alaska hates Texas for claiming they're the biggest state in the Union.

I once saw a guy from Alaska threaten a Texan to shut up about being so big, or Alaska would break into three states and make Texas the fourth biggest state.

Good joke. Everybody laugh.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 08:50

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Ragnar34 posted:

That's a solid line but there are about 750k people in Alaska, which is the population of one medium-large city, less than Rhode Island and the same as Washington DC. Imagine cutting that into fourths, right? It'd take two of the new states just to run all the fishing boats.

I'll be sure to tell him that the next time we're all pub-crawling in San Diego on shore leave twenty years ago.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 09:11

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Platystemon posted:

WTF that’s a square not even thirty‐three hundred metres per side for each person. Three Central Parks.

If you can get to the neighbor’s in anything less than a solid day’s hike, you’re too close.

I've heard of a way to get a whole planet to yourself but I guess you have to live in Utah for a while first?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 15:31

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Xenoborg posted:

Are the bed actually get shorter or the whole thing getting longer?

Using this site for data, the overall length of the base model jumped in the late 90s but hasn't really gotten much longer since then:

1992-96: 197"
1997-2003: 207"
2004-2008: 211"
2009-2014: 213"
2015-2020: 209"
2021-2023: 209"

The bigger cabs are much more common nowadays though, and those add 2-3 feet, though they'll often have the bed that's a foot shorter.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2023 18:53

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ultrafilter posted:

"military grade" means that it's hard for a bored 18 year old private to destroy.

Not impossible, mind you.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2023 05:38

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Piell posted:

https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1623430094739087360

Gone?

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 01:08

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Lemniscate Blue posted:

Yeah, if I recall the conversation right that's one of the clues.

I'm still waiting to hear back from my friend. I don't think she'll want me to post the paper openly on the forums but whoever's interested can PM me and I'll ask if I can distribute the link that way.

If anyone is still interested in this, I heard back from my friend. She's happy to talk with folks about it but says her thesis was published in an abridged form as a chapter in an obscure book, but she can host it as a pdf if people really want a link and I can give out her email address in PMs.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 18:10

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Brawnfire posted:

"Looks like a deer, actually."
"Kind of a big deer."
"It'd be a big dog, too."
"Sure but it's clearly a pet."
"Like a companion?"
"Of sorts, one that bears burdens."
"Burdens...? That doesn't sound like a dog. And what about the one claw on each foot?"
"poo poo. So it's a dog, that's like a deer."
"An... Elk?"
*pinching bridge of nose* "Let's stick with dog."

Many Native American peoples used dogs to pull travois! And llamas were pack animals too, but that's in South America of course.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 05:27

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Paladinus posted:

On the other hand, leopards are lion horses.

"Pardos" comes from the Greek for "spotted". It's related* to the root of "Cerberus", which means that Hades the Lord of the Underworld named the three-headed guardian of the entrance to his realm "Spot".

*maybe

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# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 15:49

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credburn posted:

Travois was a word that I assumed was in much wider use than it turned out to be. I find I still drop this word when describing something hauled in this manner and nobody knows what the gently caress I'm talking about.

I know it's a product of the limited resolution but that looks for all the world like an upsized dachshund and the idea of wiener dog cargo haulers is making me laugh like a maniac.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 17:50

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Barry Bluejeans posted:

That only makes them mad

Like the emus.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 22:58

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Captain Hygiene posted:

What on earth is Delisle even doing out there?!

It measures the contraction of mercury in the thermometer. Colder = more contraction. The Celsius scale actually went the same way at first but after the inventor died it was generally agreed that this was stupid and rewritten to be the current way.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2023 01:32

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Phanatic posted:

It's coincidence is all. Moon formed in a much closer orbit, and as tidal effects slow the earth's rotation and the moon's orbital speed, conservation of angular momentum raises the orbit. In the past it looked larger than the sun, in the future it'll be smaller.

And as cool as a total solar eclipse is, an annular eclipse is also really cool, so future civilizations won't lose out too badly.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2023 16:15

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Captain Hygiene posted:

I'll be kicking myself forever about the one back in 2017. I had to drive 60 or 70 miles to get into the path of totality on a perfectly cloudless day, I found the perfect rural spot to watch it alone....only to realize right as it peaked that I'd miscalculated and was just a couple of miles outside the true totality path.

I saw everything except for the corona, and It was still one of the coolest things I've seen, but to get that close and then just screw it up....

We weren't in the totality path for that one (will be next year! YAY!) but it happened on the first day of school, so I bought a cheap monocular and set it up with a big foamboard for shade on a tripid so it projected the eclipse onto the ground outside. Amazing start for my students that year. I was able to show some pinhole camera effect stuff too.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2023 18:55

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Antigravitas posted:

https://xkcd.com/1967/

Strictly speaking, 'violin' refers to the internal structure of the data. The external portion visible in the plot is called the 'viola.'

violva

# ¿ Jun 30, 2023 15:10

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 09:58

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Nenonen posted:

This monstrosity will be called the Penis Farting.

Sounds like a real gas.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2023 17:13

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