nymwit

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brewing tea with space vacuum?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“bad leaf! bad!” -scold vs. scald just for fun. good comment!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus | Official Trailer | In Cinemas Aug 16th⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That’s an awesome one! Great backstory for the villain guy.

Stronghold was another good one - it had a synth that was indistinguishable from the real xenomorphs that could go into the areas where they were farming the things. Not as dark as Labyrinth though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I Put it in my Ass?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
hey it says “in” not “up”. Just gotta lay down or maybe go inverted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
DOJ wants to get in on some of that hot euro DMA action
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just don’t build a house of neutron-reflective tungsten carbine bricks around it or cowboy the beryllium hemispheres, hell, maybe just trust the last guys’ calculations instead of testing for closeness to criticality. Safe as houses.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a new era.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
rehash of this older New Yorker cartoon? there I go writing B.C. on my checks again
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neighbour deliberately blocking OP⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
one with wheels on it, right? Maybe important to note
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Nice!

I was thinking halfway through, “man I’m good if you just want to weigh it…” but the counting out time lapse did add something.

The one with rice I like was for exponential increases in size. Story: guy goes to the ruler of the kingdom and gets the ruler to agree to give him 1 grain of rice on the first square chess board, doubling every square so then two on the next, four on the next and so on. Runs the kingdom out of rice before he gets to the end of the chess board.

Another good one for the 1000x scaling is time. People seem to be able to grasp time magnitudes better than money. 1 million seconds is 12 days. 1 billion seconds is 32 years. 1 Trillion seconds is 31,688 years.