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Constitution of the United States
Third Amendment
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
He actually installed each piece in a different car in the lot, then built a new car in the spot from the displaced pieces. It's a confusing maneuver known as the auto-troll shuffle.
Donner, party of eight.
Some people haven't heard of the Donner Party. They were pioneers who got stranded and likely resorted to cannibalism.
You wouldn’t just let her die, would you?
Well, *I* think I'm real. Look at me. Look at my face. Cut me and I'll bleed. What more do you want? Please don't go.
Brains aside, I wonder how many poorly-written xkcd.com-parsing scripts will break on this title (or ;;"''{<<[' this mouseover text."
I love how often this xkcd comic and its derivatives make the rounds, but it's so sad how few people have seen the title text:
I’ve got a tiny black hole in a jar. Cute and incomprehensible isn’t it? Don’t open the lid. The last guy who did that got turbo radiation poisoning.
No it’s not a pet but it does eat light. Which is pretty easy to acquire all things considered. Just shine a lamp on it.
Again, do not open the jar.
What does it weigh? Only about ten pounds. It’s like carrying around a cat. In fact, a cat may have turned inside out on itself to make it. Or maybe it was a small dog or a raccoon, I’m not sure.
In any case, seriously, do not open the jar.
*opens the jar*
*you immediately fall over due to going through all stages of every type of cancer in 2 seconds*
*closes the jar*
They never listen.
Wait, how come you don't have cancer?
I don’t open the jar.
To those of you saying that the black hole would blow up in less than a nanosecond, clearly not. Because it’s still in the jar.
It would not blow up because the event horizon of a black hole that weighs as much as a cat would be miniscule. No idea how you suspended it in the jar though.
I didn’t say it was suspended in the jar. It still has mass. It’s on the bottom of the jar.
i made fanart of the tiny black hole in a jar
I love this thank you
It also brings all the boys, and everything else, to the yard.
I know it seems unpleasant, but of the two ways we typically transfer them, I promise this is the one you want.
Within the crypto community, to physically threaten or attack someone to force them to grant you access to digital assets; name inspired by xkcd #538
Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)
the doctor just walks around like i’m a slut….i’m a war criminal….i’m so sad…..i put on funny outfits……
I honestly forgot about Doctor Who and had a horrible several seconds of deep concern about your Primary Care Provider
fully thought this was about Julian Bashir…
Thought this was about the Holographic Doctor from Voyager ngl
[shouted, from the field] 'Aunt Beast hit a pop fly to second! Dive for it, Mrs Whatsit!'
All you need in life is a color picker willing to expose you to the unbounded madness we call color vision.
what is even happening here 😨 wheres the circle with the triangle inside we all know and love..
The circle and triangle are a lie we tell ourselves to cope with the ugly reality... Now this-- this is the real deal!
In seriousness, this is oklch.com, a color picker for the OKLCH color model.
There are whole several hour lectures one could take in color science and theory, but to keep it short: the set of colors we can see, the set of colors monitors can display, and the set of colors computers can model are three circles that only somewhat overlap.
In this case, if I wanted this color
but in red, I could just go of Photoshop and move over the hue slider, getting this as a result:
Which is.. acceptable, but not as "bright" and "vibrant" as the green I had. Looking at the graphs in the OKLCH color picker, we can figure out why:
It tells us that a red with the same luminosity and chroma as this green is out of gamut—that is, it cannot be displayed by this monitor.
In this case, you can use the edges of the graph to find the color that is closest to what you want. You can, for example, keep the chroma but sacrifice lightness,
keep the lightness but drop the chroma,
or a bit of both, which is what the common HSV triangles already do.
But I like to know when it happens, y'know?
What if what *I* see as blue, *you* see as a slightly different blue because you're using Chrome instead of Firefox and despite a decade of messing with profiles we STILL can't get this right somehow.
Some people think the natural numbers should start at zero, and get very worked up about this somehow being the "true", most logical, practical, etc. definition.
Some people think the natural numbers should start at one, and get equally worked up about this being the "true", most logical, most practical, etc. definition.
Unfortunately, to date -- and despite my vigorous letter-writing campaign -- the hidebound reactionaries that comprise the mathematical elite have rejected out of hand my elegant compromise position.
Apparently it "misses the point completely" and "wouldn't make any sense" and "1/2 isn't even an integer".
Conveniently approximated as e+2, Pau is commonly known as the Devil's Ratio (because in the octal expansion, '666' appears four times in the first 200 digits while no other run of 3+ digits appears more than once.)
Sure, you could just ask, but this also takes care of the host gift thing.
I WENT TO CLEAR MY CACHE N STUFF SINCE DOWNLOADS WERE BEING SLOW AND FIREFOX SAYS MY COOKIES TAKE UP
THAT'S LIKE 17 TIMES THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET WHAT DID I DO WHAT HAPPENED
google's entire server space is masquerading as cookies on ur browser and is stored on your pc specifically. sorry
There's planned downtime every night when we turn on the Roomba and it runs over the cord.
My wife asked me whether I experimented with sex and drugs when I was in high school.
I said, “Yes, but I was part of the control group.”
teens, in unison: change your fucking url
I understand large sample sizes are key to a low standard error of the mean, but the entire sophomore class?
![[Caption above the panel:]
When I got used to the regular nightmares, my subconscious got creative.
[Megan is standing with her hand on Cueball's shoulder.]
Megan: Please don't wake up. I don't want to die.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4b749e0fdbacd531a1a9ddb7db3f9036/bc94bfd5840766e0-a7/s250x400/792b0589f8b7586b86c372e055b950c82d12cd3f.pnj)
![[Cueball and Megan are holding hands, and Megan is pointing off to the side.] Megan: Oh, hey, it's twelve of the dudes from control group B! [Caption below the panel]: I'm cool with her past lesbian experimentation, but I wish she hadn't insisted the experiments be scientifically rigorous.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/83f7d449b0dad6bc893a4b7401e1b54e/53fb8dcc28166d3f-5e/s250x400/8335c669d808fb463ec860bc09e9d406ee33ced5.pnj)
