Tar_Alcaran

Well, that’s good to know!

Needs a green curve to show that you need to turn a corner in the distance.

It’s super oxidative, AND corrosive. When you pour a normal oxidizer on metal, you get a thin layer of oxidized metal, and the reaction stops.

But CIF3 will dissolve that oxide, and keep going. And keep going fast enough that stuff catches on fire.

It’s a chemical used to clean vapor deposition chambers, in tiny little ampules. The idea of using it rocket-sized volumes should make every sane person run for the hills.

Whenever someone is doing, or is about to do, something stupid, simply say out loud what they’re doing, and ask what they want to happen.

The peak of 2007 was reached again in 2013. Not exactly the next day, but also not disastrously long.

Fuck that noise, audio seems optimized for smartphone speakers nowadays.

No, it’s optimized for 42-speaker, billion-watt Imax screens. Where I have to wear earplugs.

I keep thinking that the next Katrina or Andrew or Helene scale hurricane is going to just make whatever part of the US it hits uninhabitable. Its going to be bad enough that nobody rebuilds in that area, and we have our first refugees.

It doesn’t even have to be THAT bad. People living in floodplanes are largely uninsurable in more and more of the US, and because it’s the US, there is no state-level fallback like more sensible places have. There is no real emergency aid anymore, since the conservatives have basically destroyed FEMA. There are no protective works anymore, because conservatives are stripping flood mitigation and resilient communities are now Woke and thus bad.

The US has never been less ready to deal with another big disaster, and the likelyhood of one is only increasing.

This little cutie will grow up to be an adult Canada Goose.

From anime familiar, to miniboss

He’s his own best friend.

“Good Boy”. Its a pretty basic haunted house movie, from the perspective of a dog.

I, however, am a bit curious.

the median without listing the standard deviation is almost as bad as the mean (for some datasets) I strongly suspect there are very few people between $100,000 and $200,000

So, you’re saying a standard deviation is useless too? If there’s not a normal distribution, then a standard deviation is probably more pointless than a median

My dude, the US constitution specifically permits slavery.

Two breadrolls are in the oven together.

One of them says to the other “Sure is hot in here huh?”

The other replies “AHHHH, a talking breadroll!”

Ah, I know this joke with three people standing on the magical diving board, meeting the diving board fairy and being told the pool will turn into whatever they shout.

A Brit jumps and shouts “beer” and jumps into a pool of the best beer. A french person jump and shouts “Champagne” and jumps into a pool of the finest champagne. A german stubs his toe, trips and calls out “Scheisse!”

Disco Elysium makes quite a big statement on law enforcement, and you play an amnesiac cop who does all sorts of weird shit (because you’re the character in a point and click game) and people tolerate it because you’re a cop. That by itself supports the message about law enforcement.

Dutch people: “both of those are dumb and dangerous”

A no-fly zone isn’t just “we make their planes go away”. It means you need to fly there. And that means you need to take out their AA, and their airborne radar outside the zone, and their ground based radar. You need to take out their ability to fly, so you need to kill the airfields, which means taking out the close range AA at those fields.

To establish a no-fly zone, you need to bomb the ever living shit out of Russia, not just inside Ukraine but deep within Russian borders too. The 2011 no-fly zone over Libya involved attacking 600 tanks, for example (insert turret-toss joke here), and thousands of ground-attack sorties.

Make no mistake, a “NATO no-fly zone” is just a declaration of war, without any boots crossing the border at ground level.

Not that I think we shouldn’t, but it’s not exactly easy

One man, one jar