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I think that’s the joke, especially since the alt text asks about getting melted copper off the carpet.

It has a 60Hz electric waveform in, and it produces visible light, which is in part a ~500THz wave.

Yes, and there’s actually some interesting results from this too. Pain medicine marketed as targeting specific pains, such as headaches or toothaches, are often just generic ibuprofen or acetaminophen, but there is some evidence that the pain medicine will be more effective if you believe it is targeting your specific pain. So whenever my wife wants an Advil I always tell her that it’s a special Advil that is for whatever specific thing she complained about.

Intel kinda did for a while there, though they’re recovering. (Completely lost corporate direction led to the share price halving)

I must say, the legs on that last bird are amazingly accurate, perhaps the best depiction of any bird I’ve seen!

The west coast city I live in is just a little further north than Philadelphia and has a very Mediterranean climate so this puts that into perspective for me.

6 by 9, right?

I kept reading it as NFT-able firewalls and could not for the life of me figure out what that would entail.

Why stop there? Just have the companies taking out ads send random people their products!

My goodness, I love how for the M N and Us they just barely connect to neighbors to unambiguously form the correct letter. Diabolical.

WaWa gave me a free sample of a slice of pickle ranch pizza. I came back hours later and bought a whole box and they were like, “we got you, huh?”

Hey I wasn’t unable to finish my thesis, I hadn’t even really started!

You’re telling me this snake is eating a person questioning their gender? Wtf why are they taking photos instead of helping?

90% live in CA, TX, and NYC! Sounds right to me I can’t think of a single other large metro area or anything like that.

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

I don’t know enough about eyeballs to be able to answer, but 5 leagues is a bit more than 5x farther than eagles can see, and eagles already have larger pupils than humans do.

I legitimately know people who press the caps lock key, type what they need uppercased, then press the caps lock key again. That said, I use both shift keys.

In undergrad I once went back to my dorm room and eagerly showed my roommate the video of Grace Hopper illustrating how long lengths of time are (https://youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw). A little while later, he was talking about this scene and how he likes the writing, because engineers are often much more excited by something seemingly mundane, such as the various lengths of wire needed for a project, than “this is my spaceship.”

Anyway, I tell him, completely seriously and with no sense of irony, “yeah, but why would anyone care about lengths of wire?”

He yelled back, “You literally came in here to show me a video about lengths of wire.”

Idk, seems true to me. My phone died during a Twenty One Pilots concert at TD Garden during the part where we’re supposed to shine our phone lights and I was forced to stay an extra half-hour.