Can anyone say the s and the th in Isthmus? It’s making my tongue feel funny.

Universe collapses into a black hole made of uncles

no, these are people who eat potato salad

I’ve never heard of Chester cheese. There’s Cheshire cheese, but that’s quite crumbly and wouldn’t hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.

I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It’s more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.

I’ve just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic

Bunch of people ain’t getting curly hair!

I’m often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like ‘why are you worried about fuel, it’s not that expensive, guys’ because he didn’t understand the questions. He didn’t understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn’t understand the rocket equation. He doesn’t understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.

May be a special interest? I don’t know if there’s a clear cut distinction, or where it would be, or if it’s even useful to make one.

If you check the ‘nerd stuff’, it shows it was posted at 15:13, and updated at 15:16. But there isn’t a UI element to show that at a glance.

And also

I don’t even work that hard

Trump would never compare himself unfavourably to anything, even in jest.

Feel old yet? This is him now

But then they don’t use PhD’s preferred pronouns to refer to PhD in the tweet 😔

The proposal [prohibits] the use, sale, import and export of food and feed “from cell cultures or tissue derived from vertebrate animals”.

Am I missing something, is it a translation issue, or did they just ban meat?

-1/12, obviously

How do they measure eerieness? What if it’s a reassuring green glow?

I find Wolfram Alpha helpful for this sort of thing. It said

13 TeV ≈ 13 × approximate kinetic energy of a flying mosquito ( ≈ 1.6×10^-7 J )

So absolutely tiny on everyday human scales. Credit to astronomy that they can even detect it over something as large as the earth’s atmosphere.

Oops, I’d assumed that was the total energy delivered to the atmosphere, but it’s the energy per photon, and they detected at least 140 of them (so there were probably a lot more unobserved). Who would have thunk to read the article before commenting?

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Haha JavaScript am I right? 💀💀💀

That’s not known. Relativity predicts that they shrink to an infinitely dense singularity, but we don’t know that relativity is still applicable in that environment. They could shrink to a small but finite volume, or they could stay at uniform density within the sphere of the event horizon (which would make SMBHs less dense than water), or space could just stop at the event horizon and there wouldn’t even be an inside. And all those possibilities would look identical from the outside.

Most pictures lack snow. Out of all the pictures in the world, most of them lack snow.