these captcha's are getting out of hand

Always Carrying: it’s not just the beaver motto, it’s the etymology of beaver. If you rendered the Proto-Indo-European in English it would be “be-bear” meaning BEARING-bearing, ever-carrying, always-gathering.

Maybe it isn't. But everyone else would like the street back, thanks. And even if a work camp isn't 'dignified' it's probably not as bad for your health as cultivating a fent addiction.

<drunken rant> Reading a Polish writer the other day, I've understood why Russians are so hated in Europe. It's not just the direct military threat or cultural differences. We are a testament to the death of a particular vision of Europe that could have been, the Belle Époque

A hierarchical nickel organic framework confers high conductivity over long distances in cable bacteria biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_molbio

There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval, early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed, unedited, untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)

«Unitree robodogs have no use case outside research»

This tree was planted by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Empire, Li Shimin, for Empress Zhangsun, it has been 1400 yrs to this day.

Only approved for one extremely rare disease, so to recoup R&D it costs $60k for 8 weeks. Should be taken by everyone over age 30 to prevent brain-aging and dementia. Mass produced to 200M Americans it could cost a couple hundred a month. FDA delenda est

Genuinely the most enraging thing about housing discourse is how people talk about 'affordability' like it's some sort of innate quality, like the building needs to be made out of affordium. Housing. is. affordable. when. housing. is. abundant. Supply and demand are real.

Who’s with me here! 👀

ben this is like when I bought nvidia because I thought everyone would buy new graphics cards to play elder scrolls at 60 fps

Just listened to a podcast where Corey Booker, talking about Dems staying united against fascism, cited “the old saying that sticks in a bundle can’t be broken.”

My personal trainer is bullying me into cooking at home. This is actually helping me with the infamous SH3.3 situation much more than the actual workouts. She’s also like, trained in CIA mind control method or something. She makes me photograph everything I eat. Don’t tend

They made humans look good here by not including creatures like the fin whale (0.02 calories/g/km) or other large cetaceans, which would be off the bottom and to the right of the borders on this chart...

Did a double-take when I read this line in Dracula, but it turns out Kodak was founded in 1892, while Dracula was written in 1897

if you're on math or physics wikipedia and you find a sentence that is actually understandable to a layman, please let an editor know so that it can be altered or deleted thank you for your attention to this matter

While I suppose it's possible the guy takes payments for favors due to some psychological pathology, it would not be my first conclusion when trying to explain something about a billionaire. He already has a lot of money.

While the black smoke and clods of dirt are kino ... as test setups go this is pretty ghetto. And that exhaust plume (what we can see of it) doesn't look great either.