Is that dangerous?

Oh God

Still on Flathub though.

How is ‘source’ part of the metaphor?

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Just randomly listened to this today in a VM I installed for a game. wtf.

Any ship traveling towards another ship would have its nose pointed towards it.

If both ships travel towards each other, their noses would be aligned, but their roll would likely be different.

That’s a bit different from what’s being shown in the comic where ships seem to have any orientation, no matter the context.

As for a galactic up/down, the galactic disc would be the obvious reference. That still leaves a 50/50 chance that two civilizations would choose the same direction as up.

Buy him out, boys!

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Time for a sleeve cleaning

The word ‘monosyllabic’ isn’t monosyllabic.

The word ‘alphabetic’ isn’t alphabetic.

The word ‘palindrome’ isn’t a palindrome.

For science

Stop consuming caffeine for a week?

Despite its reputation, coffee is continually correlated with health benefits in statistical studies. This is not something made up by news agencies. But honestly, I don’t get it either. I drink lots of coffee, but it can upset my stomach and give me the jitters. It just doesn’t intuitively seem like something that should be healthy.

Checkmate, managers

There’s this worry that high intelligence itself drives you to be more dismissive of other people. I don’t really think that’s the case. I think intelligence can help you understand and sympathize better with other people.

Anyway, if you go by IQ, the upper one percentile score about 135 or higher, so that’s where your dividing line would be in raw numbers.

But since intelligence is distributed in a continuum, it wouldn’t make sense for everyone at or above 135 to consider everyone else equally ‘dumb’ - even if they did choose to use the IQ-scale to gauge everyone’s ‘stupidity’.

To do so would be like you getting first place in a spelling contest by a single point and then concluding that the person in second place (and everyone following) must be completely illiterate.

All that being said, the one percent really are very far from average. One way of putting it is that these people are further from the average than average people are from the ‘extremely low’ range (>69).

x / x = 1

really shouldn’t make anyone upset

Think of hydrogen-power as more of a battery.

Batteries have to be charged with energy from an energy source. And hydrogen has to be produced with energy from an energy source.

A power source. It does not make sense.