How? Did they have a straw?

This reminded me of “tapa na pantera”.

I love how she looks so ascetic in that last frame, and yet she drew those cute hearts around Horse.

What a nice looking stick you have there…

A monday?

Moms have superpowers, obviously.

Yes, that’s the second arc.

In the first accident there were no half-spheres, the neutrons were being reflected back using bars of tungsten carbide placed around the exposed core.

Wiki photo from a recreation of the first incident:

In the second accident, a year later, the reflective material was the two beryllium half-spheres. Shims were used to ensure the two halves were never fully closed, which would trigger the nuclear chain reaction.

Supposedly, this guy liked to show off and had done this demonstration a dozen times in front of different audiences, wearing jeans and cowboy boots and using his screwdriver instead of the shims.

Some report that Fermi told the guy and others that “they would be dead in a year” if they kept doing that… and voila.

The good thing is that he at least was hunched over the core, so he mostly shielded everyone else in the room from the worst of the radiation by absorbing it himself. 9 days later, he was dead. The guy closest to him was in the hospital for several weeks with severe radiation poisoning, but at least survived but died fairly young, in his 50s, which may or may not have been related…

That was hilarious. Also kinda spooky to think that, if Japan hadn’t surrendered, Demon Core-kun would have been the 3rd nuke dropped over them.

The cartoon only covers the second story arc though, the one with the screwdriver.

In the first arc, the core is “nude” and they’re stacking neutron-reflecting bricks around it to bring it close to criticality. A scientist drops a brick by accident on top of the core and boom, blue light and you’re dead (takes 2 weeks for your body to notice though).

This isn’t hard, you’re just trying to make it to be.

Memcpy from a file to a screen buffer is as much a UI as pouring water in a pot is a soup.

I think you’re right and that is how the word is most often used, but at least merriam-webster gives a broader definition, as the “practices or pretensions of a quack”, which it then says is the same as a charlatan, so I guess it would be acceptable. I’m not a native speaker, however… :)

That’s because it’s lifted from an actual security flyer, edited for funnies.

The original is probably this:

6. Consumption of alcoholic beverages will help target selection in target-deprived environments.

I hate the term “pseudo-science”. Call it what it is: quackery.

You really took the bit between your teeth blaming the lycan there, didn’t you Mr Fox. The lab guys are pulling teeth to get the results, but we’ll soon know who’s bite marks are on that girl who bit the bullet. You wouldn’t be lying through your teeth now would you? Because I’ll sink my teeth into you and bring you down if it’s the last thing I do…

…said some detective with a hyperfixation.

Not German, but close enough - there’s usually at least one bus within walkable distance, even if it’s only like 4 times a day or something, that connects to a larger hub.

I lived in a place where I had to be by the bus stop at 7h30. If I missed that I’d have to wait for the next at 8h15, and if I missed that one, I’d better call to say I wasn’t able to go that day.

However, in smaller towns and in the countryside, with no cars, life is so different to the frenetic chaos of big cities that it’s hard to put into words.

Relevant username.

It does work, but it’s harder to pull off because you need to give a short, relatable reason along with a negative (if not immediately obviously).

If you reply that you’re stressed but you leave it at that, the other person won’t know if they should ask you about it or not. If they do, they might be getting into a much harder, longer conversation than they were expecting to.
But if they don’t ask, then they will feel like they’re being rude, because you’re supposed to help out other people if they’re not well, so either way it probably won’t be a pleasant experience for them.

If you offer something like “stressed, finals are coming up”, then they can keep the conversation going by asking you about it, or they can just move on by wishing you luck or something to that effect and move on.

I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.

People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.

It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.

What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?

And probably made of chocolate? I can see where they might have picked that one up.