They’re a legume. They grow in pods.

And if it is an exceeding rare book, you probably don’t want to be destroying it to scan it. I think it’s possible to use a decent camera instead of a scanner, but it is still quite an involved process. Look at what Google did…

The books were placed in a custom-built mechanical cradle that adjusted the book spine in place while an array of lights and optical instruments scanned the two open pages. Each page would have two cameras directed at it capturing the image, while a range finder LIDAR overlaid a three-dimensional laser grid on the book’s surface to capture the curvature of the paper. A human operator would turn the pages by hand, using a foot pedal to take the photographs. With no need to flatten the pages or align them perfectly, Google’s system not only reached a remarkable efficiency and speed but also helped protect the fragile collections from being over-handled. Afterwards, the crude images went through three levels of processing: first, de-warping algorithms used the LIDAR data fix the pages’ curvature. Then, optical character recognition (OCR) software transformed the raw images into text, and, lastly, another round of algorithms extracted page numbers, footnotes, illustrations and diagrams.

It’s a butthole. No judgement. https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

“[Supporting Israel] is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.” US senator Joe Biden, 1986.

*reported crimes

Women are just better at it.

SJW seems like a good name for a place to get pissed.

No CEOs or politicians makes it hard. Can we do people from the past? If so I choose baby Donald Trump, baby Elon Musk and baby Peter Theil.

I propose we make the calender a nice round 360 days, then have a roughly 5-6 day holiday for new New year around the spring equinox.

It’s Xmas that highjacked the winter solstice. New year used to be the start of spring (March) then the Romans decided to acknowledge the first 2 months, and then changed the start of the year to January so they could elect some officials to govern Spain instead of waiting an extra 2 months. It’s about as arbitrary as it can get.

https://youtu.be/RrGHtl5qJfk About 24 minutes in to skip to ^

*4.3% of the humans.

Alligator on a kiddie raper.

*drivarr, surely.

https://uk.haynes.com/products/fiat-500-panda-2004-2012-haynes-repair-manual

Why are Nobel prizes so highly revered when they originate from an explosives manufacturer?

“Chav” doesn’t mean working class though. It’s a type of working class person, sure, but not all working class people by any stretch.

Edit. In fact I’m sure it could be applied to middle and upper class (particularly new money) people too. ie driving a white range rover in ones designer tracksuit is pretty chavvy.

Around 2.7 kilometres.

*Order of magnitude out.

Wasn’t Jander the hobot?

Those of us behind Hadrian’s Firewall thank you.

ICE as in Internal Combustion Engine, or as in the US neo-brownshirts?

My guess is that he fumbled saying “you’re the best thing since sliced bread”. He’s probably now cringing and mentally kicking himself for it.