Archie McPhee is cheating. They have ketchup hard candies among other incredible atrocities.

Sadly it looks like they no longer have the Nihilist ‘mints’ that taste like nothing.

I love this quote and think it’s hilarious that it was said in response to Data moping about losing a video game.

Last night when I saw this post I happened to support it at a perfect round number.

To have a chance of being made into a real set, it needs a little under 5 times that number of supporters - specifically this weird composite number 2^4 * 5^4.

Yeah, but there hasn’t been an imfamous ‘Blitzen party’ yet.

Good luck with this particular episode…

Could happen any time.

My mom was fond of “Not the brightest egg in the drawer”.

Interesting.
Although I’m sceptical about that working for me specifically: I have a very weak sense of smell and therefore taste, so sweet, salty, umami, etc is probably much more of my tasting experience compared to most people. Without that I think I’d be left with not much at all.

As an example, spicy (‘hot’) in food to me is pure pain. I literally can’t comprehend how there could be any kind of flavor to it that people not only enjoy, but so much that they actively seek it enough to build a tolerance to the capsaicin.

Seriously, that video had a horrible ending, with no advice on how that might be feasible.

And it sounds worse to me than just being overweight and eventually getting diabetes and dying early (like most of my family)

I’m guessing in the first one they were making a barrier for the fire, instead of hitting it directly and letting the edge of it continue to spread if they didn’t get it all?

Any time I see an article about someone doing things with Redstone circuits, I think about that comic.

“Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees. with perhaps the tallest being Euphorbia ampliphylla at 30 m (98 ft) or more. The genus has roughly 2,000 members, making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants.”

After the first part I expected “Cleaning the vacuums from a room allows more sound to survive”

Let it go

This was my first exposure to Linux - one of the PCs in high school had it installed. (I had read about Linux before then, but not had a chance to try it)

It had a little foam Tux in the box, and I got to keep it:

The Man in the Moon.

Implosive compression.

I want learn this power, but can’t afford the price.

Agreed - but acting surprised that it can change opinions (for the worse) doesn’t make sense to me, that’s obvious, since anything can. That AI can potentially do so even more effectively than other things is indeed worth talking about as a society (and is again pretty obvious)

A piece of paper dropped on the ground can ‘shape human beliefs’. That’s literally a tool used in warfare.

The news here is that conspiratorial thinking can be relieved at all.