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cyberic, in Do math memes count?
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You should crosspost onto !mathhumor

elavat0r,
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Thanks! I’ll check it out. Still figuring everything out. I’m not sure I know how to cross post here yet - unless it’s literally just posting the same image again?

airbussy, in Do math memes count?

I was thinking coffee mugs were blind holes, until I realised mugs come with a handle

rmuk,

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh. Me too. We are brothers.

paramaramboh, in me_scirl

can just sit down and focus on writing what should be an easy and straightforward paper in a few hours

GlennMagusHarvey, in Primitive doom scrolling
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You may even find strange, extinct creatures such as a chubby man wielding a lightsaber, or even a helicopter created entirely using fixed-width text.

usualsuspect191, in >:(

This is one of the most perfect uses of this meme I’ve ever seen

fossilesque, in Ocarina of Time is unplayable 😞
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My partner is a game designer and it’s something I laugh at all the time in games I see. I am like none of this geomorphology makes sense.

Jessica,

Someone gets it! My people lol

fossilesque,
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Bro, don’t even look at procedurally generated planets like Star Citizen omg. I cannot. The game is pretty but the planets make me want to throw a chair.

ilovededyoupiggy, in Ocarina of Time is unplayable 😞
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Can you eli5 for a non-geology person what the game did wrong? And maybe what the hell a thalweg is?

Asking for a friend. I definitely already know what a thalweg is, I just want to make sure you know!

Jessica,

Sure! I tried to indicate with the red and green lines hastily added in MS Paint, but the gist of it is when water goes around a curve, it doesn’t flow perfectly in the middle. The majority of the water hugs the outer wall (the cutbank) and is traveling faster. As it’s faster, it takes more sediment with it, thus deepening that part of the river. The deepest point in a river is part of a line called a thalweg. You can see it all summarized in the image below.

tl;dr: Water moves through a river kind of like a race car goes around a race track https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/1bad0bf6-715e-4afc-8ec3-34d9d59487d3.jpeg

n3er0o,
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Thank you for the explanation! I would however say it’s the exact opposite of how a racecar goes around a track, because they try to take the inside of corners rather than the outside.

tubbadu, in least unhinged econ researcher

Cool glasses

acockworkorange, in Humanity is strange.

Can we get a “humans are space orcs” tag going in this sub?

dudinax, in least unhinged econ researcher

“Do I really need to disembowel myself, too?”

“Yes, I’m afraid that’s the only way.”

fossilesque,
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Haha, I threw out my back, and this comment made me laugh too hard. :)

saplyng, in PTSD: Scientist Edition
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This also applies to coding! And I'm not currently dreading the fact I keep thinking of more and more convoluted solutions to my problem at work at all!

physcx,

The overlap of things tried with logical reasons is far too great for programming. Have you tried speaking to your duck about it?

janus2, in (seafood) soup-like homogenate
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Article about the original vintage Polytron ad, for those who may not have encountered it before

Bozicus,

…an entire mouse, eh? Obviously this is the ur-text for those ads where someone sticks a smartphone in a blender and only the blender survives.

DaveNa, in least unhinged econ researcher

The article is real. I thought it was a joke.

Eleazar, in pluto pls

Pluto has a valid point. Neil is a grifter who’s made it his entire job to talk down to people.

Arghblarg,
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I admit I want to like his science education efforts, but … and I mean this in just an objective way and it’s only my opinion but … he just doesn’t click for me anywhere close to how Carl Sagan did. Sagan had such a thoughtful, reflective and soothing manner in how he presented science concepts, and his awe and love of all things science (and science history) was infectious. The original Cosmos is capable of making one weep at the beauty of the universe… I only got through the first 2 or 3 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new series; his style of narration just doesn’t work for me. I even have trouble listening to his science podcasts, it’s just too much ‘sports-talk’ like back and forth.

I dunno. I’m grumpy today and need more coffee.

NotAPenguin, in More of these, please.

They didn't sacrifice their lives, they were abused and killed against their will.

Calling it sacrifice is pretty disgusting.

CookieJarObserver,
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And? Do you want to test on humans or what?

MildlyArdvark,

That’s irrelevant. The comment was about the choice of words. It’s simply false to say the mice sacrificed themselves. If anything they were sacrificed by us humans.

Duke_Nukem_1990,

Hey!! How am I supposed to feel good about my human superiority complex if you come in here all rational like?? Let me be a speciesist in peace!1!1!

aeternum,

Yup. Those poor mice had all sorts of horrendous stuff done to them. They didn't sacrifice shit. They had 0 choice in the matter.

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