Malgas

The point is there’s no statistical difference between rolling one die an infinite number of times, rolling an infinite number of dice once, and rolling an infinite number of dice an infinite number of times.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there’.

—Randall Munroe

Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.

When Pump Up the Jam was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes.

The lyrics give clues to the location of a buried golden hare that has never been found.

Even if Sisyphus is infinite and the boulder is infinite, they can be accommodated within an infinite space.

But not if they’re uncountably infinite.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass.

Hence error 418.

Fortified with essential salts.

That’s Shreking at your enemies.

Love Demetri Martin.

But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.

Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.

I just looked it up, and apparently it’s /ɡɛʃ/.

Never would have guessed that.

Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

I think it’s because that’s the more distinctive part of her name. “President Harris” sounds kind of generic, like the fictional president from an action movie.

It may start to constitute a pattern that the same was true of Hillary Clinton, though in that case it was likely that just saying “Clinton” might cause confusion with Bill.

Also Bernie Sanders is mostly referred to by his first name, so…

Ask him if he knows anywhere good to eat.

Just to note: Marie Curie’s lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

It’s not a measure of efficiency per se, but efficiency is a limiting factor:

In order for a solar panel to put out 1000x more power, the baseline you’re comparing it to must be at most 0.1% efficient, because otherwise the new thing would have greater than 100% efficiency and that isn’t possible.

And that’s a purely thermodynamic argument. The actual limit for solar efficiency is likely less.

No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.

Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.

They did a fantastic score for the Watchmen tv series as well.