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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microwave Intensifies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a black and white photo of people walking in front of Pier 14 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, with the “Raygun Gothic Rocketship” sculpture visible (dating the photo to sometime in 2010 or 2011). A giant Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner) stands between the Ferry Building and the Ferry Station Post Office Building, taller than the former’s clocktower. The large text “BIG DATA” is overlaid on the left side of the image.

  (it’s either something like this, or OP elided the word “audience”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  not only a racist but also a misogynist, a present-day gamergater, who is literally in 2025 still complaining that “video games used to be made for guys and now they’re made for everyone” 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poor jeremy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  screenshot of a (fake) tweet by @UberFacts with text: “facts” posted on UberFacts are rarely factual.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)

  these two snails mated with each other instead, producing 170 right-coiled snails. One of the left-coiled snails later mated with Jeremy, producing 56 offspring, all of which also had right-coiling shells.

  they also omitted this crucial detail:

  Jeremy was named after the left-wing British Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn, on account of it being a “lefty” snail, but also due to Corbyn’s reported love of gardening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one are you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  handheld red shopping basket, 20L capacity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You gotta see this one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hey, “humorless if you want”, it’s a fake screenshot created for entertainment purposes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Screencap of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in ST:TNG S6E11 “The Chain of Command, Part II”, pointing his finger, subtitled “I understood that reference”. (The actual line he is speaking in this scene is “Hahaha you called me Picard!” followed by “There are four lights!”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cell wall is the wall of the cell.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia says:

  The mitochondrion is popularly nicknamed the “powerhouse of the cell”, a phrase popularized by Philip Siekevitz in a 1957 Scientific American article of the same name.[4]

  But know your meme attributes its meme status to this tumblr post from 2013:

  screenshot of text: “what i learned from school 1. im a fucking piece of shit 2. everybody else is also a fucking piece of shit 3. mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”

  Contrary to comments in many places like this reddit thread from 2018, I suspect the phrase wasn’t actually used in many textbooks or very commonly known prior to that tumblr post.

  (If you search on Google Books you can find numerous textbooks using the phrase. Range-based search on Google Books appears to be broken so I’m not sure, but all the ones I checked were published well after 2013.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “hello fellow kids” meme, but with the head of Lenny Wosniak (Steve Buscemi) replaced with the head of the Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) from Coneheads. Top text “HELLO”, bottom text “FELLOW CONSUMERS OF CARBONATED BEVERAGE”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess at all:

  “Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

  To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without manual intervention as this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still tend to lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨originality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.

  (and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  fridayeveryday.com/how-psy-ops-warriors-fooled-me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨faen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of “slut” to “sludd” in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a bit freaked out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A comic showing a man is eating at a sushi bar. Behind the counter there is a sushi chef standing next to a giant squid who is also wearing a chef’s cap. The caption is: “He feels he can do more good working within the system”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Einstein-Landauer culinary units⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this guy knuths how units work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For reference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  second panel of standard “same picture” office meme, but with “fig” in lowercase impact outline covering the word “picture” in the subtitle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  screenshot of the genetically-engineered reptilian humanoid Tosk (Scott MacDonald) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1 episode 6 “Captive Pursuit”. he is standing on the promenade with a perplexed facial expression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes their dream home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  how far away does the water delivery come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: X's DM feature is getting rebranded as 'XChat'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “disappointed cricket fan” meme template. Pakistani cricket fan Muhammad Sarim Akhtar his hands on his hips and is wearing a look of disappoint on his face. The logo for the early 20th century IRC client “X-Chat” (an X filled with a yellow to red gradient, with the word “chat” in white text in front of it) is superimposed over his chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  imo the pejorative connotation of that word is (like many expressions of homophobia) ultimately rooted in misogyny

  “always has been” meme with “wait, it’s all about maintaining the patriarchy?”

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRASSICAS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i am reporting this post for promulgating misinformation. this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is false: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is NOT actually ever called “wild mustard plant”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unusual Pollinators⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks!

  here is a side-by-side comparison of the neural network upscaling slop vs conventional zoom on the original:

  Image

  and then of course there is the text:

  AI-upscaled screenshot of the words “cannot BELIEVE” with many artifacts

  😦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ScIence⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The campaign hasn’t made any progress since 2011 when Wolfram Alpha added support for it, a year after Google did. Google’s calculator still does support it, though, so you can write queries like like “1Zbit/s * 1 year in hellabytes” (3.9 hellabytes), or “mass of the earth in hellagrams” (5.9 hellagrams).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time is an unstoppable force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that not be 113?

  🤦 indeed 😳 thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time is an unstoppable force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  screenshot of the film The Big Lebowski, with Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski sitting on the toilet while one of Jackie Treehorn’s thugs (Mark Pellegrino) holds a bowling ball. The subtitle reads “Obviously you’re not a golfer” but “a golfer” is covered by impact outline meme text saying “using base-six numbers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time is an unstoppable force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  screenshot of the moment in the 1987 film Spaceballs when President Skroob (Mel Brooks) says “That’s amazing! I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!”. (no text)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time is an unstoppable force⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this will become true in just a couple of years from now, assuming you represent age as a base-six number. (4*6+5 == 2027-1998)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My only problem now that my packages have arrived...⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold it down