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tory, in Pudding used to come in cans

Is that a plastic spoon?

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Resol, in this plug doesn't have the little holes
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I mean, if the US is gonna steal basically everything from the UK, they might as well steal their power outlet designs since they’re that good.

Oh wait, they just started doing that by forgetting to punch holes in their own power plugs? Hmm, I wonder when they’ll make the next step.

I am prepared for the massive amount of downvotes that the Muricans will throw at me because I said that.

Thisfox, in Logos For Superheroes And Villains - with character names incorporated

Theyrealmost all just their faces.

onichama, in My band aid came with a natural skin tone of albinism

That’s just a white band aid? There totally normal around here, some people are allergic to the brown ones.

Skullgrid, in this plug doesn't have the little holes
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What is this, the outlet denier?

xkcd.com/2589/

RIP_Cheems, in this plug doesn't have the little holes
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Throw it out. It’s not safe to use.

hakobo,

The holes don’t actually do anything. youtu.be/udNXMAflbU8

MacNCheezus, in My local coffee shop has a no birds sign on the door. It is placed at eye height for walking birds.
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I bet those birds would be very upset if they had self-awareness.

PhlubbaDubba, in in Australia, when we pay taxes, we get a receipt. The receipt shows what our taxes were spent on

Problem is in the US since so much of that is put into private sector hands we’d need to gather data on those costs outside of the taxes to put together a proper picture.

andy_wijaya_med, in Two airplanes landing at the same time with close proximity
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I knew it! I thought it to be impossible that planes can fly that close with each other without affecting each other. The air pressure (or whatever) would be affecting the flight of another plane if they are too close with each other.

originalucifer, in Some sand can look beautiful under a microscope
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i wonder if there are any hidden gems in sand.. and by gem i mean information.. unknown organisms, unknown fossil formation types.

could we someday feed sand into a sufficiently capable machine to identify novel particles? any value there?

brbposting,
weariedfae,

Uh what? I mean we can get geochemistry and look for trace elements.

Paleontologists will absolutely look for fossils in sand, they do it all the time. I just sent off a bunch of sand and clay for pollen analysis and I’m not sure how they process it but I know it involves dissolving inorganic material in acid sometimes.

Most of the time no one looks at sand in bulk. It’s…you can imagine, a daunting task. Sometimes people (individuals) will look at sand for some diagnostic purposes - usually in my line of work to note the type and abundance of minerals present, or especially the distribution of particle size and clay/silt content. I know other fields will survey things like diatoms and foraminifera for paleontology but also for I think oil exploration because indicator fossils are important but I don’t do that so I’m not really sure I can speak more to it.

A lot of time people look at sand in the field with a hand lens or drag it back to the lab to look at it with a basic microscope. Or slap it in epoxy and make a thin section. Sending it off for geochemistry is…possible but may not be especially illuminating depending on what you’re trying to learn. People can also date the sand using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to get a date of when the sand was last exposed to sunlight (and thus, deposited) if the sand is in the right age bracket (<150ka ish).

Rarely people get more involved with things like XRD/XRF, SEM, microprobe uh… something else, I’m sure. That’s more of a straight academia realm though.

I went off on a tangent but people slap sand in machines and other things to find out stuff all the time.

feedum_sneedson, in This dried pear is mildly something

It kind of looks like a golden vagina.

JCreazy, in Top hour sorting be like

The only apps are really care about are the ones that were created before or during the great redded debacle. Anything coming out months later, especially ones that charge money. Yeah no. You weren’t here when this began. You’re just coming in after everything’s already been cleaned up. No I’m not saying that people shouldn’t develop apps. They can do that if they want but there’s really no reason to switch when something is already working and it’s been working fine for months.

velvetThunder,

I think you don’t have in mind that it takes time to develop an app. Some people do it in only their free time so it takes even longer. I think some apps started being developed during the reddit blackouts.

MaxVoltage, in This package of bagels I bought expired on a date that doesn't exist.
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dont eat that

dylanTheDeveloper,
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Too late apparently

Crewman, in Top hour sorting be like
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