Prigozhin must think he has some kind of leverage. I think he's going find out he only has velocity, specifically 10m/s^2

https://english.nv.ua/nation/prigozhin-suggests-granting-navalny-internet-access-to-pursue-further-investigations-50324639.html

#ukraine #politics

@process
Ambition requires ideas.
Did she have those?

@process Globalised:
They speak every language
Can convert any currency with what's in their pocket
Exist in all time zones at once and
Don't age
Because they live at the north and/or south pole
Drive cars on both sides of the road simultaneously
Circle drains counter/clockwise
Have no passport nor local ID
Can breathe fire
I made up the last one, all the rest are true

@ecksmc okay but "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" Schmidt is not qualified either. Not technical and has no visible moral compass

Just escorted an ant out of the house because it was so big the dog took one look and remembered something really important at the other end of the house.

#ANT

@SimplyZippy
OR it could be baby rabbits.

That's how my month is going.

So the headline, Thirteen-year-old girl punches shark is going around and I'm glad she survived a freak-y rare incident, especially given the shallow water, but sharks really need a break. This wasn't really headline material.

We've done our best to wipe out the planet's predators and we need them.

P.S. if you can punch a shark in the nose you can just squeeze the tip instead and put them in tonic shock.

#survivalTip #seeWhatIDidThere

@sazemisery way to go!

My lazy approach to that problem is to hold a prospective rafter up and transfer the angle either with another board held up to the ridge, or a bevel gauge. I may never know the angle.

@MrGoat
I deleted my account and replaced all the posts with exact duplicates

@Render Ahh that makes more sense. Must have read too fast

@Render So...uhm...
"20 or fewer airframes in service"
??!!
Unlimited artillery and 20 airframes?

#cognitiveDissonance

@LiberalLibrarian
Scars of battle are not held against the contestants. --American Kennel Club, dog show rules

#wordsToLiveBy

Terrorist barbarians.

As the Ukrainian band Tvorchi was about to perform on the Liverpool Eurovision stage, Russia bombed their hometown of Ternopil in Western Ukraine

#ukraine

@drdewaynelehman
Wolfram has fun stats for lots of things. I get the sense it's got a lot of human-curated items. e.g. Diameter of Harry Potter's glasses... Really?

@opie tortillas. Very Dangerous.

Was wondering how wight changed meaning from 'person' to 'immortal/undead being'.
Looks like the answer is, it always carried a couple meanings and now I'm curious why the English ignored the demon-y aspect for a while.

Huh.

wight (n.)

Old English wiht "living being, creature, person; something, anything," from Proto-Germanic *wihti- (source also of Old Saxon wiht "thing, demon," Dutch wicht "a little child," Old High German wiht "thing, creature, demon," German Wicht "creature, little child," Old Norse vettr "thing, creature," Swedish vätte "spirit of the earth, gnome" ...
Not related to the Isle of Wight, which is from Latin Vectis (c. 150), originally Celtic, possibly meaning "place of the division."

@HaikuHedgehog @Alfred
There's an official event in Appalachia next month; the bugs are synchronized. They just are I don't make the rules.
https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/nature/fireflies.htm

Hey check out this really important new development: You can deep fry a Mars bar.

AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar
#AI #fryEverything

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/12/ai_algorithm_heart_attack_scotland/

@jjmacnab
Good grief. She will no doubt try to get ultra-woke brands like Coca-cola, Chevrolet, and Budweiser to buy ads