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An x-ray gyroscope is used to determine exactly which toppings they included in the pita.

They're robust against quantum attacks because it's hard to make a quantum system that large.

The combination croquet set/10-lane pool can also be used for some varieties of foosball and Skee-Ball.

Also, they're getting increasingly worried that someone will accidentally hit the 'retract' button, and that the end of the cable thrashing around as it winds up could devastate the Earth's surface.

The film is set in 2018, but when Commander Bremberly chases the hologram through Times Square, there's a billboard for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Depending on the date, that billboard would have been advertising either Infinity War or this movie.

Thank you to Katie Mack for teaching me about this effect, and to Janelle Shane for describing redshifts as 'like galaxies sinking into a pool of dilute blood,' which is how I'll see them from now on.

Oh sure, I know Keira Knightly, from the first movie in that series by The Land Before Time producer. You know, the franchise with the guy from Jurassic Park and Ghostwriter, and script work by Billie Lourd's mom?

Donate now to help us find a cure for causality. No one should have to suffer through events because of other events.

A medicine that makes you put two dots over your letters more often is a diäretic.

We carefully sampled the general population and found that most people are familiar with acquiescence bias.

OpenStreetMap was always pretty good but is also now *really* good? And Apple Maps's new zoomed-in design in certain cities like NYC and London is just gorgeous. It's cool how there are all these good maps now!

Hey! No running in the back-arc basin!

'We're shocked by the Notre Dame fire. Click for our tribute to--' [okay] 'Now that we're all staying at home these past few weeks thanks to this new coronavirus, we--' [okay]

It's like sigma summation notation, except instead of summing the argument over all values of i, you 2 the argument over all values of 2.

The projection's north pole is in a small lake on the island of Mahé in the Seychelles, which is off the top of the map and larger than the rest of the Earth's land area combined.

A lot of Jedi romances start with this turning into a Lady and the Tramp spaghetti situation.

The Stroop-YORP number of a scientific paper is how many of the 16 finalist names (sans 'effect') it manages to casually sneak into the text.

Gödel should do an article on which branches of math have the lowest average theorem number.

No, we actually do have a woman who's basically part of our fellowship. She lives in Rivendell, you wouldn't know her.

Grandma says that because of differences in primate and feline lifespans, the cat is actually my 17,000,000th cousin 14,000,000 times removed.

At first I didn't get why they were warning me about all those birds sitting on the wire, but then I understood.

U+2A0B ⨋ Mathematicians need to calm down

The Taylor series should have been canceled after the first term.

The distinction between a ship and a boat is a line drawn in water.

The rope keeps breaking, I'm covered in bruises and scrapes, and I've barely reached the end of my driveway, but I don't care--I'm determined to become the first person to commute to work by tetherball.

You'd think 'linguistics' would go to someone important in the field, but it's actually assigned to a random student in Ohio who barely graduated and then went into automotive marketing.

Happy little turtles

You can click to preorder to get a copy of What If? 2 when it comes out 9/13, assuming we all make it past the spider situation(?) on Tuesday(?).

You say this daily walk will reduce my risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 30%, but also increase my risk of death by bear attack by 300%? That's a 280% increased! I'm not a sucker; I'm staying inside.

They might make it past that first line of defense. For the second, you'll need some picture frames, a level, and a protractor that can do increments of less than a degree.

"We can do 0.33 or 0.34, but our payroll software doesn't allow us to--" "NO DEAL."

I know it seems overwhelming, but don't worry; I'm sure most of them have only a few stars, and probably no planets.

A blow from Emmy's Cutlass of Variations will transport the dragon to a corresponding symmetric position in the Noetherworld.

Now, you may argue that the varying hour lengths and feedback effects would cause chaos. To which I say, yeah, and I'm also curious to see how the weekday cycle interacts with it! So, you in?

The foil on the toothpick represents the blue flash.

There are two types of dichotomy: False dichotomies, true dichotomies, and surprise trichotomies.

Qua qua qua is the sine qua non of sine qua non qua sine qua non.

Bald-faced hornets are only a 2 on the Schmidt pain index, so I shouldn't complain. The tennis ball ejected from the dryer exhaust vent could have ricocheted off the nest of a much higher-scoring insect before knocking me off the ladder. Really, I'm lucky.

There are regularly placed bumps on the underside just the right size to press the rocker switch on the power strip.

Single-elimination might provide more drama, but I think we can all agree that a comprehensive numerical scoring system will let us better judge the party's winner.

For the sake of simplicity, gardeners are assumed to move through Euclidean space--neglecting the distortion from general relativity--unless they are in the vicinity of a Schwarzschild Orchid.

If you ever see someone using a capital xi in an equation, just observe them quietly to learn as much as you can before they return to their home planet.

I've developed a novel propulsion system powered by loss of precision in unit conversion.

Roundly-condemned headlinese initiative shuttered indefinitely.

And even though it all went wrong / I'll stand before the lord of song / with nothing on my tongue but 'I don't understand, I swear I backed up my keyboard config before messing with it'

It's important to make sure your analysis destroys as much information as it produces.

You will live on forever in our hearts, pushing a little extra blood toward our left hands now and then to give them a squeeze.

Remember not to take it easy. Put a hot washcloth on your forehead, remain standing, and breathe dry air while taking lots of histamines. You need to give your body a chance to get sick again.

Did you base the saucer shape on pop culture depictions of aliens, or was that stuff based on your ships? Does the rotational symmetry help with ... hey, where are you going?

Merlin really shouldn't leave his dirt bike lying around.

There are two rules on this ship: Never gaze back into the projection abyss, and never touch the red button labeled DYMAXION.

Placeble 228 x/6n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜n⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

CLARIFICATION: By 9/13, I mean September 13th, not the 9th day of Jancember, the cursed 13th month that exists between December and January in the transdimensional temporal plane.

I ADMIRE HOW YOU SET BOUNDARIES AND I HOPE YOUR COLLEAGUES RESPECT THEM! PLEASE SPARE MY LIFE!

Fine, we can go search the Himalayas for the Yeti ONE more time, but keep a safe altitude over the Pacific and PLEASE watch where you're going. We can't afford another Amelia Earhart incident.

ALERT: Human 910-25J-1Q38 has created a Youtube channel. Increase erratic jerkiness of flying by 30% until safely out of range.

Current (water) running through the water (wires) causes it to boil, increasing the pressure (voltage), but resisting (impeding) the flow of hydroelectricity (water currents). This is the basis for Ohm's law.

We can ask the Earl for his order once he's fully extruded from the dispenser.

Frazzled scientists are requesting that everyone please stop generating hypotheses for a little bit while they work through the backlog.

Other high scorers are melt-in-your-hand aluminum-destroying gallium and tritium-powered glowsticks. Lawn darts are toward the other end.

The worst is the Terrible Twos, when they're always throwing things and shrieking, "forsooth, to bed thou shalt not take me, cur!"

Arguably, the '1/2' in the drag equation is purely decorative, since drag coefficients are already unitless and could just as easily be half as big. Some derivations give more justification for the extra 1/2 than others, but one textbook just calls it 'a traditional tribute to Euler and Bernoulli.'

Each SCAPDFATIAT point increases the chance that the process will involve the phrase 'by the next business day.'

RIP the surface of Mars

I always felt like what the 'you are now aware of your tongue' thing needed in order to be truly enjoyable was an element of mortal peril.

Neither group uses iso 8601 because the big-endian enthusiasts were all at the meeting 20 years ago.

Novel ideas and cool explosions are both good, but what I really want from a movie is novel ideas ABOUT cool explosions.

You can find a perfect correlation if you just control for the residual.

Update: Santa has been destroyed by the range safety officer.

A solid red area with two white lines means that you have been infected with the anti-coronavirus, COVID+19, which will cure anyone you have close contact with.

This plan may sound appealing to people who know a little about the immune system, but the drawbacks are clear to people who know a lot about the immune system and also to people who don't know anything about it.

Thanks to the ForcedEntry exploit, your company's entire tech stack can now be hosted out of a PDF you texted to someone.

It's 10:34 PM for this user. They really need to get going, they have a thing early tomorrow. Are you sure you want to notify?

In addition to having all their budgets in a spreadsheet with consistent formatting, they just love expressing preferences on a well-calibrated numerical scale.

Increasing-precision timestamps are the Jaws theme of incident reports.

Biology is really struggling; they're barely at 93% and they keep finding more ants.

Mark Zuckerberg has only neutral feelings toward Peppa Pig, who he understands is a fictional character, and he blames the coronavirus pandemic on other factors.

Each one contains a chocolate shaped like a famous spacecraft and, for the later numbers, a pamphlet on managing anxiety.

Every time IERS adds or removes a leap second, they send me a birthday cake out of superstition.

Hm, this burger place has a couple of good reviews, but LakeSlayer7 says he got food poisoning there and everyone should try this other place down by the lake instead.

Directions from CITY OF TROY to ITHACA / Total time: 10y 54d 14h 25m / Warning: Route crosses an international border / route includes capture by the goddess Calypso / route includes a ferry

The real challenge is how to file Boba Fett's biography of Doris Kearns Goodwin.

P((B|A)|(A|B)) represents the probability that you'll mix up the order of the terms when using Bayesian notation.

Was this your car? [looping 'image loading' animation]

Even if you said you were an employee of the website, if you asked for my password, I'd tell you.

Could be worse. In some towns north of here, it's already December, and the 21st will last for nearly a week.

Oh no, Murphy just picked up the razor.

Tomorrow's sessions will be entirely devoted to sewing machine rotary hooks.

Premed: "Does this count for a physics credit? Can we shorten the string so I can get it done faster? And can we do one where it hits me in the face? I gotta do a thing for first aid training right after."

Although grad students, suddenly reminded that food exists, tend to just grab and devour both without further discussion.

This year, our team took home the dark blue ribbon, better than the midnight blue we got last year but still short of the winning navy blue.

This was always going to be a controversial Wirecutter post, but what really got them in trouble were their 'budget' and 'upgrade' picks.

"It's not an influenza, but the onset has notes of the '09 H1N1 strain." "Ah yes, that was a good year for H1N1."

Hard to believe that for so many years once they were fully extended we just let them tip over.

"What? I can't hear--" "What? I said, are you sure--" "CAN YOU PLEASE SPEAK--"

CVS's pharmacies are fine, but I much prefer their [censored]s.

You think, 'okay, THIS is an ideal use case for hardlinks!' but then 6 months later you're doing some extremely cursed Google search like 'javascript ext4' and wondering where things went wrong.

We don't need to do a clinical trial of this change because the standard of care is to adopt new ideas without doing clinical trials.

After decades of studying the curve and the procedure that generates it, the consensus explanation is "it's just like that."

Delaware hopes to explore the western edge of areas marked with the Belgian flag, once the tornadoes die down.