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- Comment on The Republican Flying Doctor Service. It's funded by taxes. 1 day ago:
Seriously, why are they producing all these great promo shots for him? If they had done that for someone like Bernie Sanders, the US would be in much better shape now.
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- Comment on Warning 5 days ago:
“Good-morning, good-morning!” the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
“He’s a cheery old card,” grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
- Comment on git commit -m "depose" 1 week ago:
Gooble! Gobble!
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- Comment on if statement == false 2 weeks ago:
In normal parlance, “if and only if” rules out that something could also happen as a result of other circumstances. EG, if you fall out of a plane, you will lose your glasses. But there are other conditions that would lead to the same result.
In code, the alternative would be to have a different if statement that executes identical code. Or *cough* ~you could use a jump statement to execute literally the same code.~
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 weeks ago:
Kind of a shame that our fish ancestors didn’t have more gills. I wonder what we’re missing. I mean, we’re obviously missing something, right?
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 weeks ago:
Please babe! I can change! Here’s proof!
- Comment on Radiation Research 3 weeks ago:
Wait, how did they build the snowman? There’s no snow on the ground.
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the inflexibility of your connecting body parts that kills you. It’s the insufficient tensile strength of the connecting tissue!
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the different times at which parts of you stop that kills you. It’s the different places they are in when they do.
(C’mon, y’all. Help me out. I’m trying to start a thing here!)
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the sudden stop at the end that kills you. It’s the different times at which parts of you stop.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 4 weeks ago:
jabde.com/…/haha-so-true-reply-in-text-theory/
Alternatively, here’s a somewhat similar one: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0378216616302594
- Comment on Just a little guy 4 weeks ago:
Ohh. Effing is a place!
I always thought… Never mind.
- Comment on Petrichor 4 weeks ago:
Hmm. Seems strangely on point that Ichor is the blood of the (greek) gods. (Petro- means stone, as in Petro-Oleum.)
Fee-fi-fo-fod
I smell the blood of a god
- Comment on It ain't much, but it's a livin' 5 weeks ago:
So they just… f*ck off and die.
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
Obviously we’d all die but I wonder how exactly. This would make a good question for Randall Munroe.
- Comment on Grindr be like 1 month ago:
What are you doing, step stool?
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 2 months ago:
- Comment on Preference 2 months ago:
Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.
I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.
- Comment on Throw back time 2 months ago:
Meh. As a german, it just doesn’t make me tingle quite like sending tanks to the east.
- Comment on rabioli 2 months ago:
Much of Europe (ie the rich parts) is free of terrestrial rabies because of such programs. Bats really get around, though.
- Comment on Chemistry 2 months ago:
I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away.
This was, altogether, a remarkable experience - both in its sudden onset and its extraordinary course. It seemed to have resulted from some external toxic influence; I surmised a connection with the substance I had been working with at the time, lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate. But this led to another question: how had I managed to absorb this material? Because of the known toxicity of ergot substances, I always maintained meticulously neat work habits. Possibly a bit of the LSD solution had contacted my fingertips during crystallization, and a trace of the substance was absorbed through the skin. If LSD-25 had indeed been the cause of this bizarre experience, then it must be a substance of extraordinary potency. There seemed to be only one way of getting to the bottom of this. I decided on a self-experiment.
Exercising extreme caution, I began the planned series of experiments with the smallest quantity that could be expected to produce some effect, considering the activity of the ergot alkaloids known at the time: namely, 0.25 mg (mg = milligram = one thousandth of a gram) of lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate.
From LSD: My Problem Child by Albert Hofmann. I will leave it to others to explain all the ways in which this is absolutely hair-raising.
- Comment on Chemistry 2 months ago:
It was 1943 and even in Switzerland fuel was not to be had. Incidentally, it was the same day that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto began.
- Comment on Chemistry 2 months ago:
Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn’t even use gloves and lived to 102.
- Comment on Large flavored quark 3 months ago:
Huh. I thought I did check OED. Maybe it’s cause I don’t have a subscription. Or maybe I just mucked up the search.
- Comment on Large flavored quark 3 months ago:
The physicist who named the particle apparently liked to come up with nonsense words in his head. Later, when trying to decide the spelling, he came across a quote by James Joyce and spelled it “Quark”. Unfortunately, the particle rhymes with fork, while the german cheese rhymes with Mark.
According to his own account he was in the habit of using names like “squeak” and “squork” for peculiar objects, and “quork” (rhyming with pork) came out at the time. Some months later, he came across a line from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake:
Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark.
The line struck him as appropriate, since the hypothetical particles came in threes, and he adopted Joyce’s spelling for his “quork.” Joyce clearly meant quark to rhyme with Mark, bark, park, and so forth, but Gell-Mann worked out a rationale for his own pronunciation based on the vowel of the word quart: he told researchers at the Oxford English Dictionary that he imagined Joyce’s line “Three quarks for Muster Mark” to be a variation of a pub owner’s call of “Three quarts for Mister Mark.” Joyce himself apparently was thinking of a German word for a dairy product resembling cottage cheese; it is also used as a synonym for quatsch, meaning “trivial nonsense.”
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/quark
However, there is another interpretation of the quote.
This passage from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, part of a scurrilous 13-line poem directed against King Mark, the cuckolded husband in the Tristan legend, has left its mark on modern physics. The poem and the accompanying prose are packed with names of birds and words suggestive of birds, and the poem is a squawk against the king that suggests the cawing of a crow. The word quark comes from the standard English verb quark, meaning “to caw, croak,” and also from the dialectal verb quawk, meaning “to caw, screech like a bird.”
www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=quark
This sounds very learned and all, but I can’t find that standard English verb in the dictionary.
- Comment on Large flavored quark 3 months ago:
It used to be, you got 3 quarks for a mark, but then it was 6 quarks, because the euro was 2 marks. Now you only get 2 quarks, though, because of inflation. It’s always just up and down. Stupid cosmologists.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 3 months ago:
You think the managers at Aldi work for the satisfying feeling of serving their community or what? Aldi cut costs in any way possible and greeters are simply a very visible way.
Aldi isn’t really a direct competitor of Walmart. There are other more similar (hypermarket) chains in Germany that directly offered the same as Walmart. For its attempt to enter the german market, Walmart bought up a bankrupt chain of such hypermarkets. The stores were in worse locations than those of their competitors. Basically, it was unwanted left-overs. The Walmart, closest to me, was right next to its competitors but on the far side. It was just a little less convenient. If they had been able to offer better prices or quality, that might have made it worth it. But they couldn’t. There were only greeters and packagers.
