Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

Definitely talk to your doctor if there’s blood in your urine!

Yep! And people have different sized feet, so measuring distance in feet is silly and arbitrary!

It lubricates the skin for a smoother shave!

I just use a few drops of oil from my squeeze bottle and then spread it around. Oil is easy to spread around and it sticks to everything (which is why we need soap to wash it off).

The soap is the source of the lather. Shaving cream is literally a soap lather/foam. Loads and loads of microscopic bubbles.

Why do you need to spray oil? Just seems like another way to make a mess.

I use those basic restaurant supply squeeze bottles that you can fill with anything. I squeeze a few dabs to a few tsp of oil depending on what I’m cooking and away I go. I’ve never needed to spray a fine oil mist to cook anything.

The brush is for working up a lather with the bar soap. You can achieve the texture of shaving cream just using bar soap and a brush (and water obviously).

Thanks! I was half asleep when I wrote it!

Jeff Bridges. Love him as the Dude (obviously) but also loved him in Tron. I think he’s actually a pretty underrated actor because of how famous he is in The Big Lebowski.

Lemme steelman your position.

I don’t like AI because it tries too hard to flatter me. It never pushes back! It gives me the sense of paranoia dictators must feel when they’re surrounded by sycophants!

That’s what AI does though. It will lie to make you happy. Its objective function is based on the approval of its human trainers, not based on the truth (which it doesn’t know anything about because no one has time to label the truth value of every piece of information on the entire internet).

Sure you can have a unique identifier. That’s not the issue. The issue is that anyone can contact you via your phone number! This is not a problem with chat apps where people need permission to add you to their contact list. Why not have a system like that?

Same goes for credit cards. They should need to ask for permission to charge your credit card. Merely knowing your credit card info should not be enough.

Whenever you put any hot, bread-based food into the fridge it’ll get soggy. Gotta wait for it to cool down completely before putting it in the fridge.

This extends even to the trip home from a takeout pizza place. Putting the box in one of those thermal bags is one of the worst things you can do, since it traps all the steam inside. Much better to leave the pizza on the passenger seat with the box ajar (some pizza boxes even have steam vents).

I like the Stargate-lite system in the game Terminus (2000). Unlike Stargate, each gate connects 1 to 1 with another, so there’s no “dialling up” a new destination. In fact, these gates don’t go anywhere unexplored. They only go where we’ve already been (around the solar system).

See, in Terminus the space ships can only fly at realistic speeds (similar to real life rockets) and maneuvering is difficult (with pretty decent Newtonian physics). If you want to travel to other places in the solar system it takes an extremely long time, so the gates make it actually feasible to get around.

This all had the effect of making space feel like the age of railroading. You can get around but you’re limited to where the rails can take you. I don’t know why, but there’s something so romantic about that.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory.

Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!

This video is fantastic! Alec went all out with it!

You a can also buy common university textbooks from India at a fraction of the price they sell for in the US. I say take your deals where you can get them!

You’ll have to visit a priest who can remove curse. Be prepared to make a large donation to his church!

This is the answer. The entire cathedral is part of the instrument!

The ideal gas laws don’t deal with gravitation. The earth’s atmosphere behaves the way it does because of earth’s strong gravitational field (relative to the same volume of gas without earth).

It should also be noted that real gases are not ideal gases. Instead of being point particles, real gases can have asymmetric molecular shapes. This can lead to all kinds of funky effects as the particles bounce off one another and acquire both angular momentum and linear momentum.