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Thank you! I didn’t realize those were expandable until I read your comment. The black triangle bullets are expandable, folks, and worth expanding.

Anyone else use mosquito fish? I got some from the pet store, put them in our small koi pond, and the mosquitoes really died off dramatically.

Heh, I loved it within seconds. So relaxing while also so darkly funny. Everyone is a bit different I guess. I sent it to some of my art-biz friends.

As a guy I found this article oddly riveting — the author seems super cool for being so candid. But the “pee slowly” thing had me coming to the comments to learn more: is this some…

Really interesting to read. So IIUC ambergris is _sometimes_ formed in the 4th (last) sperm whale stomach, is basically a constipatory plug of indigestible squid parts (beaks, quil…

Interestingly, basketballs are designed to be as standardized and replaceable as possible (so there’s no question about whether they affected the game.) Whereas musicians do not th…

Any citations for it being rare?

Can we as a society ease up on the use of the word ‘bespoke’ thank you so much.

I wouldn’t wish a forced-read of that guy’s bio on my worst enemy. (But I did just send it to all my close friends.)

I believe they just mean any random Apple device (iPhone, iPad, iMac, etc)

I was happy to see the word “bolus” in this essay.

Is he 45, or has he been an engineer for 45 years? Either way, I wish I had this guy’s sauna.

If it is destroyed without anyone seeing it, how does the IRS verify that it was indeed a loss? Couldn’t a studio lie about making a film, then simply say they destroyed it?

“The actor was even an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.” As a longtim…

“Drunken words are sober thoughts.”

Holy cow, thank you! I read this once, a year or two back, and have been trying to find it again but without luck. What a cool text.

Thank you so much. I don’t always mind long form articles when they justify their length, but this one would have been better if it started with your summary, followed by the some …

> About one-fifth of mammalian (including human) sperm are typically abnormal, containing no heads, two heads, two or more tails, oddly misshapen or malfunctioning tails, and so fo…

I had the same reaction. Whether or not it’s worse, tho, it does seem at least different. The regurgitation loop used to be all human, but now there is a machine in the loop. A com…

I worked at Citrix from 1996 thru 2000. In the early days, Citrix was licensing Windows NT (source code) from Microsoft and selling a modified version of it such that (a) one could…