blasphemy. they’re powered by tiny crabs

I think it’s more likely that the consistent quality is a side bonus from most of 3M’s customers being other corporations, not individual consumers

If 3M only sold painter’s tape to the public, most of the public will buy it whether it’s crap or not because most of the public only needs to put up with painter’s tape occasionally

However if a large commercial real estate company who goes through palettes of painters tape suddenly has to start ordering 1.5x as many palettes because some of the tape is defective, they’ll threaten 3M with cancelling a multi-million-dollar contract that will hurt 3M’s quarterly spreadsheets.

That is until inevitably someone at 3M gets the idea to start producing a cheaper “consumer grade” painters tape and then everyone who doesn’t have a relative in building maintenance who can swipe a pro grade roll for you is SOL

Old Bay seasoning
batteries (when I have to use disposables)
Command hooks

holy shit i thought i was the only one
all other cheese curls taste greasy and overseasoned in comparison

depending on what you’re taking it for those 10 minutes can be worth it

That’s a fantastic talent. Creativity is one thing but quick improvisational creativity is a whole other level

For monologues: do you do ok improv-ing dialogues? If so maybe you could trick your brain by thinking about how a monologuing character is kind of having a dialogue with different parts of themself

Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent… like holy shit that’s impressive!

I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.

With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?

I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it’s off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I’m sure…)

You may be better at “math” than you think :]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

Here’s a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it’s at least somewhat serious…?

I just got a new job at a place where my coworkers are really into seasonal decorations, so I’m low key excited for winter

KOBEEEEEE

the melody: 🎶energetic foot stompin barn rompin high tempo banjos & fiddles🎶
the lyrics: this drought is killing my village so we’re turning the last of the grain into whiskey so at least we can die smiling

you’re mother porkin right

they said badly described

Your mom dies, your brother runs away so now your dad spends all his time looking for him, and your village gets overtaken by fascists, oh and you’re like 12. Somehow it’s your job to save the world though.

butt air dryers, like hand air dryers, are good in theory but horrible in practice. they blow toilet air around and blast infectious particles EVERYWHERE :[

the internet is for

1. porn
2. cat pictures
3. poop talk

I was also having the Jerboa startup crashes starting yesterday. Version 0.0.35 fixed it for me (it’s not on vanilla F-Droid yet but it is on the IzzyOnDroid repo)

If this ever gets ported for NewPipe and/or LibreTube it’ll be sensational

The fact that it exists makes me happy :]

Isn’t the ultimate issue enforceability? For a dev to be awarded some of the profit made off an open source project:

1. A whistleblower would have to discover, gather, and publish evidence that the software was being used to generate profit
2. The dev would have to win a court case against the company

It would be fuckin rad if that happened and a dev got a huge payout and a legal precedent was set. But it’d be more rad if we didn’t live in a society where this was an issue in the first place :[