Geographical continents and geological continents aren’t quite the same thing.

So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/newspaper-headlines

All I see is a sign explaining how to steal from the vending machine.

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Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it’s engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.

It’s not a modern standards thing, Genghis Khan was seen as a complete monster in his own time.

The main advantage of Blu-ray audio is supporting 7.1 surround, while a CD is limited to 2 channels. Unless you have the equipment to take advantage of that, though, it’s a moot point.

The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

The really weird case is “two thousand” to “two thousand nine”, then we revert back to “twenty ten” and onward.

However, as the name implies, this is nothing special about pi. Almost all numbers have this property. If anything, it’s the integers that we should be finding weird, like you mean to tell me that every single digit after the decimal point is a zero? No matter how far you go, just zeroes forever?

free him

“Why” implies they act according to some form of logic. The thing is, they’re racists, and racists tend to be fucking stupid.

It should be legal to slash the tires of anyone who does this.

The IRS won’t report you unprompted, but the FBI can get it from them, at which point you’re fucked either way. If you reported it, they have additional evidence for existing charges, if you didn’t, they add tax evasion to the list.

Because the laws are being pushed on a religious basis, not a rational one.

It’s actually even worse. They tried to pass off 2048x1080 as a big upgrade over 1920x1080 by marketing it as “2K”. It didn’t work, but locked marketing into using the horizontal resolution.

As a bonus it also deflects what would otherwise be a damning story about the gun violence problem.

This is such a frustratingly common misconception about the Planck length. It’s not a pixel density, the Planck time is not a framerate. You can have lengths that are not multiples of the Planck length. The only significance to the Planck length is it’s the distance scale where gravity becomes as strong as the nuclear forces, and physics gets weird.

He did quite a bit of writing for it though.