I wonder of these two will ever meet and become friends

Not a pizza story, but I used to deliver for jimmy johns. I took an order one time to an address that was in an area with a bunch of individual doctors offices, and this address looked like it had a small lobby just like any of those doctors offices. I walked right into this family’s living room while they were having some kind of get together, they asked what the hell I was doing, and i turned bright red and held up the box of sandwiches. It ended up alright; I explained myself, then they asked me to take a picture with them and joked about delivery so good they didnt even have to get off the couch. In retrospect, I realized I basically just broke and entered in a stand your ground state and got super lucky the family was chill about it

It makes sense if you read all the red speech bubbles and then go back and read the blue ones. Each character is monologuing, not having a conversation

Afaik its more of a “Europeans had a massive headstart” thing. Consensus is that humans have only been in the americas for 15-20 thousand years, where europe has been populated by humans for close to 50 thousand

Okay first of all, it’s a graviton Lance and you’re supposed to aim it into a flux ewaonarion chamber.

Is this before or after you use it to boil water and make steam?

I feel you. I’m so fucking sick of the scam based economy we (I’m assuming you’re also in the US based on the vibe of your comment; apologies if I’m wrong) live in. I don’t have a family, I can only imagine how much more difficult things are right now for people who do.

It makes me feel like the only path forward in terms of improving any facet of human life is to push the kleptocrats and oligarchs currently running things out of power. That’s honestly one of my goals going to law school; I want to work in politics in some fashion and try to change that. I see some of the anti-oligarchy politicians that have had success or at least a lot of news coverage lately and that gives me some hope for the future. I absolutely hate the idea of being a politician, but I hate the idea of allowing the people currently in charge to remain in charge even more.

I feel this. 5 years ago I was a radar engineer making ~200k/yr. Today I’m unemployed and just submitted an application to a law school. I love technology and I’d love nothing more than to continue working in STEM fields, but I just cant justify it when the torment nexus is the only project those in charge are willing to fund. I cant bring myself to continue letting the rich harm people with technology I make, hopefully I can at least get involved with the law and try to create conditions where people in the future can work on tech without building the torment nexus

“You can’t just write people out of your life!”

- people who I have, in fact, just written out of my life

We’ll get there. I believe that, and if you’re going to med school there’s at least a part of you that also believes we’re gonna keep going for a while. I think you should be really proud of yourself for surviving all the nonsense in the meme and still going to med school and trying to be part of the solution to the state of the world right now

The horrors persist, yet so do we. You’re gonna be able to look at 2026 in a decade or so and be really proud of yourself for getting through it

All models are wrong, but some are useful

I used to work in an office that had rules about how many of different types of personnel could be on the same airplane at the same time. With engineers on the team for instance, it was a massive pain scheduling flights anywhere because we were never allowed to have more than two of us on the same flight. We were allowed to have infinite LT’s on any flight though, and somebody added an addendum to that chart indicating they were also allowed to run with scissors. I wouldn’t admit to being a LT online either lol

The FAA wants to recruit children as ATC because most people who have been alive for longer have seen how quickly the FAA will fuck them over and try to get them to work for free while striking is illegal. I wouldn’t even consider working ATC before like $150k/yr based on all the “work without pay during the shutdown” fuckery I’ve seen from the FAA during my lifetime

Can anybody eli5? I like the art and the words seem deep on first blush but my brain is too smooth to understand what it means

Just wait until ai figures out that the conditions in the core of the sun are perfect for maintaining stable qubits…

(Not true, but this comic gave me a bit of inspiration to run a ttrpg based on that premise)

JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN JOHN MADDEN

Office hours with the Survivor: can’t tell if I’m learning or providing free therapy listening to this man talk about physics through analogies about his old government murdering all of his family and friends

That last one is easy. Given any x,

(x - 45)/2 = lost gains. If you still fit through doors, put that plate back on

The derivation is a bitch left as an exercise for the reader

Theres a huge difference between growing up and hearing about the heroic soldiers lionized for their “acts of bravery” and actually hearing and seeing a person’s face while they die. Both change you, in pretty opposite ways.