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Oh hey, an upside down bird! Neat!

Corn starch or cornmeal?

Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven

no, the finger would stop it

There’s no record of farmed karma, though? They’ve talked about it before, they just happen to have a lot of time on their hands at the moment and can’t do much else.

That’s wild. Did you need a special program to parse stuff out of the data stream? I guess it would mostly come in as http reaponses, so it wouldn’t be too hard, but still an interesting problem.

Just to give an idea of the unlikelihood we’re talking about here, you can model this as a Bernoulli process with a binomial distribution.

If N is the number of beings potentially snapped, then (√N)/2 is the standard deviation. (If you’re curious about why, you can read more here.) So for 8.2 billion people, the standard deviation is ~90,000. The chance of being more than ~3 standard deviations below the mean is 0.1%. That means there’s only a 0.1% chance of snapping less than 4,099,720,200 people.

I would think it’s basically a coin flip for each living thing. It’s possible, for example, that all humans survive, however the probability is so astronomically small, it’s functionally impossible.

Same with gut biome. Even with several billion attempts, the probability that even 60% of any individual’s trillion gut microbes get snapped would be essentially functionally impossible.

The proper Japanese pronunciation is like “niece-sahn”. In Japanese, it’s written in their phonetic alphabet as:「にっさん」

に is pronounced “knee” (like the knights who say “Ni!”)
っ indicates the following consonant sound is doubled to the end of the previous syllable (so “knee” becomes “niece”)
さ is pronounced “sah” as in a shortened “saw”
ん is pronounced “nn”

all angles have to be absolutely accurate

To what tolerance, though? Writing math exams has now become an engineering problem.

I think assuming 2 line segments which make up a larger straight line segment to be parallel is generally accepted practice, and that would trump the angles that are drawn inaccurately.

Of course, it’d be better to put a hash through them both to indicate they’re parallel, especially given the deceptively drawn most-likely-not-a-right-angle.

I’d get out my red pen and write: “Bad diagram. -1pt See me after class.”

“I’m technically still on the barstool, so it’s allowed.”

So cute!

I don’t know, but I’ve been told
Filling the jar is getting old

Oh, huh. That’s interesting. I’m from the great white north, and our gas hookups are copper from what I’ve seen. If this is indeed iron, then the melting point would be higher: ~ 1,540°C.

Interestingly that colour temperature chart is supposedly fairly consistent across different metals.

I think you’re right. I was curious, so I looked it up.

The melting point of copper is 1,085°C, and judging from this chart, its definitely getting close:

While it looks scary as fuck, wouldn’t it not actually explode unless the gas pipe melted through? There’s no oxygen in the fuel, so it can’t combust. I guess as the gas heats up, it’s also possible the for the tank or lines to spring a leak.

Either way, I’d be nopeing out and calling emergency services.

bug *ubg

OK, wise guy, listen here… >:(