You have clearly never driven a manual transmission, nor have the slightest idea how to. It is not possible to operate a manual transmission without using both feet on the pedals.

Please don’t comment authoritatively about things you know nothing about. It just makes us all a little bit worse off.

In the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, one of the animals they’ve cloned are these giant dragonflies. Its only one line in the book (Tim, one if the kids, sees one fly by and recalls reading about them) but it caught my attention as just straight impossible. I remember thinking, “Unless you’re somehow controlling the oxygen level of the air around this entire island, there’s no way that bug can’t breathe.”

What? Not it’s not. Where did you get this number?

It’s more like 6.7 AU. Source

In other words somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn in terms of distance to the sun.

Well, a billion kilometers is almost 7 times the mean distance between the earth and the sun. Asteroids pass in that distance all the time. We’re currently closer to Ceres (the dwarf planet) than that and its on the other side of the sun from us.

And how much gasoline are you refining in your backyard on those cloudy days?

Kidnapping is a crime.

Toothpaste companies give free products to freshly graduated dental students, then ask them if they would recommend it. They get a bunch of “sure, whatever, yeah” replies and boom, “9 out of 10 dentists recommend! We can’t say 10 out of 10 because legal says that opens us up to lawsuits.”

I’d like to file a complaint. Vermont, a landlocked state, is lumped into the “lobster” group.

> Be me

> American college kid by himself in Italy for a week

> Staying at hotel with Italian hottie at the front desk

> Hell yeah, love this country

> Eating all the pizza cause that’s Italian food, right?

> The pizzas are so goddamn thin

> Like eating a sheet of paper

> Eat an entire pizza and still hungry

> This goes on for like three days

> Tired of being hungry

> New pizza place, order three entire pizzas

> “They’ll just think I’m picking up for my friends”

> Get my pizzas, hell yes

> Walk back to hotel

> Walk past the front desk carrying three pizzas

> Front desk hottie knows I’m there alone

> Cover blown

> Go up to my room and eat all three pizzas in shame

> Finally fucking full

Worth it.

As opposed to French, which famously exists as a natural truth of the universe. Even if we had never discovered French it would still be there… waiting.

Not just the sets but the camera, too. Whedon wanted the audience to feel like they were in the space, so they wouldn’t do the usual tricks of removing walls to set the camera up for stuff like hallway shots. If you watch on the longer shots where they move through the ship you can see the actors turn their shoulders slightly when they pass the camera cause they’re squeezing around the corner of the hallway.

I haven’t seen a Darths & Droids reference in the wild in a while.

I remember just cackling the first time I read their Episode I comics.

Have you played Caesar 3 with the Augustus mod? Its like a whole new game. It adds a ton and there’s even a whole fan-made campaign.

Yeah, that’s cute and all but then it starts raining and the whole experience becomes miserable. I’ll happily take “public transit that’s nice to use in any weather” over “public transit that is aesthetically pleasing when it’s sunny out”.

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 mods installed for Rimworld. The in-game mod management system is pretty basic and simply does not cut it. Definitely interested in more management options.

There are islands out there. If you truly think you would prefer that life you can just… go do it.

You don’t even need an island. You could wander off into the jungle of Vietnam and never hear from society again.

Copilot is a LLM. So it’s just predicting what should come next, word by word, based off the data its been fed. It has no concept of whether or not its answer makes sense.

So if you’ve scraped a bunch of open source github projects that this guy has worked on, he probably has a lot of TODOs assigned to him in various projects. When Copilot sees you typing “TODO(” it tries to predict what the nextthing you’re going to type is. And a common thing to follow “TODO(” in it’s data set is this guy’s username, so it goes ahead and suggests it, whether or not the guy is actually on the project and suggesting him would make any sort of sense.

Extremely disappointed to discover that this isn’t by the other Edward Teach. Please give me Blackbeard’s extensively sourced treatise on porn.

Do you have a fireplace or wood burning stove? Mosquitos hide dormant in dead wood over the winter, so it’s not uncommon to bring in some logs from outside and have the mosquitos inside wake up, thinking it’s spring in your nice warm house.

I learned this when I was getting bites inside my own house with sub-freezing temperatures outside.

Hello there, sounds like you’re experiencing survivorship bias.

Its rare for you to see this, sure. Same for everyone else. But people aren’t here to post screenshots of “look at this website where I didn’t get flagged for having an ad blocker.” So we just see a lot of screenshots where it is a problem, because that’s what is noteworthy. There isn’t someone out there getting flagged on every single website they open, we’re just sampling a large population of user for only the websites where people do get flagged.

Why are we talking about this at all? Because it is becoming more common and more intrusive. This example is particularly egregious because you’re already on the website to give them money. They’re complaining to the user they they don’t get to make money off of them while taking their money, which is ridiculous.