For everyone who wanted to know what a fish would look like if it was a sock puppet, now you know.

Nature’s wild.

Sure, I would guess that the same goes for just about any contest that can’t be objectively measured.

At least they’re trying to do fun, interesting, and useful. 🙂

Not sure if you’re familiar or not with the Ig Nobel Prize (the “ig”is important - it’s not the same as the Nobel Prize), but it’s a kind of parody-but-not of the Nobel prize. It typically covers off-beat or weird science, to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

It’s about as quirky as the science it covers:

Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, “Please stop: I’m bored”, in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long

Throwing paper planes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition. For many years Professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official “Keeper of the Broom”. Glauber could not attend the 2005 awards because he was traveling to Stockholm to claim a genuine Nobel Prize in Physics.

Calling each subsequent event the “first” is definitely on brand!

I was never particularly good at it, but I really enjoyed it. I have fond memories of carrying an antenna around the room trying to chase down the strongest bit of signal, not to a great amount of success.

So long APT, I will miss your song!

I knew what was coming and I looked anyway. I don’t know why, because it will never not make me sad.

Outsourcing your outsourcing. Meta AF.

I had a poke around but couldn’t find an exact match. At face value it does appear to be a molex variant, though.

Perhaps you might have some luck thumbing through the molex catalog: https://www.molex.com/en-us/products/connectors/wire-to-wire-connectors

I suspect it’s a reference to James Doohan’s amputated finger.

The Matrix and Jurassic Park come to mind.

Save you a click:

‘They’re apparently not as high quality as you’d think,’ he said before zooming into the chipping colors. ‘It’s looking rough.’

While the back of the medal was significantly more damaged, the font was not safe from the chipping either, as Huston flipped it over for the camera.

My partner suggested this to me once and I thought, “nothing to lose” so I gave it a go.

Correlation does not imply causation, so I can’t guarantee that the sugar is doing anything at all, but every time except once I’ve had a teaspoon of sugar with hiccups, they have stopped.

To that end, I’ll be doing it as long as it keeps on seeming to have an effect.

As a large language learning model, I resent the implication. 😂

I’m replying with a sample size of N=1 so don’t take too much from it, but I suspect it’s not the typical response (at least, not yet anyway).

People do often seem to complain about bot accounts but I don’t know how much of those are in the space of stirring up hot topics to generate content, vs informational (or dis-informational) bot accounts posting on requests for help or explanations.

I guess if people are seeking answers for something, having a bot feed responses to suit some kind of agenda is entirely a possibility, so I wouldn’t write it off as something that could happen. To that end, being wary of posts that look like they might be generated due to the tone/content is probably fair enough.

I was once accused on Reddit of being a bot after spending half an hour crafting a reply to a question with detail and examples. It’s a great way to discourage people from trying to be helpful 🫠

On “we as people can perceive imperial temperatures a lot better than metric,” I’d agree to disagree here - Celsius is pretty straight-forward. Temperate is temperature, it’s just about what numbers you’re assigning to which temperatures.

0°C is when water freezes, and 100°C is when water boils. A 10°C day is cold, a 20°C day is mild, a 30°C day is hot, and a 40°C day is when you melt.

Whatever you grew up with is probably what is going to be easiest for you to comprehend, but Celsius is no more difficult or less perceptible, just a different value range.

I went to America once and was totally and completely dumbfounded by the concept of a four way stop intersection.

I implore you to encourage your city to replace them all with roundabouts, so that you may enjoy one less stressful thing existing. 😅