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That has a lot more to do with whether the cave started out containing anything "more complex than insects." 5 million years isn't, like, an evolve-monkeys-from-scratch number of y…

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(Author here.) Oops! and thank you. Should be fixed now. Happily I used SVG for those images, or it'd have been harder. :)

The submission is AI slop.

Hm, but I think he's right. The problem comes when you try to break down the authority portion into host and port; TFA's parser treats the first colon as introducing the port, whic…

... which started with "Night of the Living Dead"... :)

> to use the square root character (√) as a checkmark ([filtered out]) IMHO that's an old-school-ism: I've never seen that in the post-Unicode world, but I recall its being common …

> it doesn't make sense to spend hours papering over a legal agreement with someone who wants to sell seven copies of a book at an anarchist book-fair Huh, you're right. That's not…

Indeed, > (A writer to the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser of 1903-10-24 points out that you can get the apparently-most-common wrong answer if you read the puzzle incorrectly as “…

> Dozens of people declare solemnly that Mary and Ann are twins, though the slightest attempt to "prove" this shows it does not fulfil the conditions of the problem. [...] "About M…

Not the Flynn effect; just people having fun, and selection bias. I (the blogger) deliberately left out many boring responses, except for linking to the Evening World's letters pag…

You mean the new, worse, Dune movies. The David Lynch Dune movie was pretty colorful, right? So Dune itself was... Dunkirk-ified?

> Combined with a TikTok account of a person who is clearly participating in the attention economy, I am skeptical. Yep, from the context, 100% this is fake. Also, while this Jason…

The complaint quoted in the article is here, in PDF form: https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?CaseNum=CGC26637986... (Click "Documents," then "Complaint and demand for jury tr…

One of your snails is clearly a chambered nautilus instead. :)

Not quite. A "thin space" is thinner than an ordinary interword space, which in turn is thinner (or at least less stretchy) than an intersentence space. The space in "No. 12" or "F…

> It’s also probably been read by the majority of Americans, or at least the story is well-known. Read by, yes. Story well-known, I doubt. What is the story of The Great Gatsby , i…

It's easier to just use your eyes, isn't it? The photo in the article is here: https://cdn.labrujulaverde.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/07... There are two standing figures to the…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_... Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that! IMHO…

Wiktionary: > Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name w…

"Two weeks of warranty" jumped out at me. That's like "you have two weeks to find the thing we broke, or else we aren't responsible for it." In my experience, a good bug can hide f…

Sounds like you're thinking of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem . Wikipedia quotes David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" 3.1.1 as follows: > In every …