Tar_Alcaran

We made the dodo extinct despite it being so gross they Dutch sailors nicknamed it the “walgvogel” or “revulsion bird”.

Ahhh, killing everyone in the room just so Sigma doesn’t get another 200 bucks from you.

Or is this not a vain attempt at cleaning it?

Yes, but not competent ones.

Let’s hope the destroy themselves before they elect competent fascists instead of this bunch

Those are for academic books, not novels. And you’d still sort everything within a category alphabetically by author and then by title (usually)

I’ve never seen that outside of videogames

I used to work in a library, and I hate this. We used to have both a “2001: a space Odyssey” and a “two thousand and one: a space oddesey”, sorted based on the spelling.

Caveat, not including multipliers, like “273 billion”

You mean 273e9?

Exactly. Basically nobody in their 30s can, say, drive a manual car without a synchro, unless they specifically practiced it, because there is zero need to learn that skill. And basically nobody under 20 can set port forwarding on a router because there is basically zero need for that skill.

When I wanted sound on Arkanoid, I HAD to learn IRQ settings, so I did. But now that stuff just works.

My grandparents old farm had an asbestos carpet under their current carpet. I’m very very happy I was around to spot that, and for having audited a lot of abatement companies.

It also had asbestos roofing, but at least we weren’t about to rip that up by hand

Doesn’t burn, really hard to wear out, you can just dig it out of the ground, easy to shape and repair.

Except it kills people, and it hurts the whole time they’re dying.

Ah, but eventually the trolley breaks down, and in the case of the reincarnating circle, you end up with zero deaths (but a whole lot of Therapy)

It’s also surrounded by all of the not-easy parts

But how?

But at least “big bear” is consistent. That’s literally what Ursa Major means, and that the name it had basically for 2000 years now.

The reason it doesn’t remotely look like a bear is because this is just the ass and tail. The whole thing looks like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ursa_Major_IAU.svg/1280px-Ursa_Major_IAU.svg.png

Ehhhh they’re younger than some mountains though. There are ranges that are over a billion years old, but the Himalayas are “only” some 40-70 million years old, depending on when you start counting (40-50 if you actually start from being mountains, 70 if you start from “ground moves up”)

They trade off. There are other stars that make for good pole star candidates

Nah, I’m also not on Iran’s side in this. Probably even less so.

I’m VERY much not on Israel’s side. But you can’t exactly say this massive barrage had an amazing military impact, right?

That’s a LOT of money for basically no real effect.