I recall an anecdote about a mathematician being asked to clarify precisely what he meant by "a close approximation to three". After thinking for a moment, he replied "any real number other than three".

Link to the actual study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617

BTW, let me add a bit to the cautions about attributing the difference in death rates entirely to Republicans' performative dumbshittery: older people are, in general, both more likely to be Republicans and more likely to die of COVID (and also other diseases that an overloaded medical system could otherwise have helped them with), so there's a pretty obvious confounding variable here.

On the other hand, that confounding variable applied just as much before the vacciles were available, and the difference in death rates doesn't seem to have existed before that.

On the gripping hand, I'd expect the similar difference in performative dumbshittery WRT masks to have been around before the vaccines came out, and to have caused a difference in death rates before vaccines... but it looks like not.

This is "Serendipitious Green Meteor", taken by Prasenjeet Yadav in October, 2015. The town is Mettupalayam, in southern India. The meteor was captured entirely by accident; he'd set his camera to take 15-second exposures 10 seconds apart over the course of a night, and only afterwards discovered the meteor in one of them. The picture won an honorable mention in National Geographic's 2016 nature photographer of the year contest.
Some more info at: https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-photo-was-captured-by-accident/

Reminds me of this:

Nobody has ported Doom to a Himalayan salt lamp.
Yet.
This is your opportunity!

So according to that, the company's address (both physical and mailing) is 3739 E Sandstone Way, Washington, UT, 84780-1952.

(from https://maps.app.goo.gl/q48YJf3XndfY5Ges8)
...yeah, honestly that's about what I expected.

When I realize the car or truck ahead of me is emitting something I don't want to breathe (either because I see it coming out the tailpipe, or because I start to smell it), I want to switch to recirculation RIGHT NOW, not after I navigate through a maze of menus that require me to take my attention away from driving.

Also, I want temperature regulation based on how hot or cold I feel, not what some thermometer says (and often have different opinions about where the air should be blowing depending on how I feel).

"Sesame Street was brought to you today by the language R, and the number F."

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eXj97stbG8

Looks like it happened in Chicago, last october. From what I can find, they dragged her off, shuffled her around for a few hours, then released her without charges. In December, she was one of the people that testified before congress about ICE's abuses.
Sources: https://newrepublic.com/post/202593/federal-agents-immigration-crash-car-drag-woman-by-legs, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/04/chicago-woman-us-citizen-detained-by-immigration-agents/87074841007/

We'll need a humongous iron, and an even humongouser ironing board.

It's available as an extension: https://webextension.org/listing/javascript-toggler.html

That's true of pretty much everything. As John Von Neumann put it, "Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations."

They're just following John Green's policy on electricians and witches: "If you don't know how to do something well, hire someone who does. My policy is that I don't change the wiring in my own house, and I don't hex my own enemies." (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mxdwS3f209E)

Reminder: five years ago, an update bricked some $350 Nike self-lacing shoes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/my-left-shoe-wont-even-reboot-faulty-app-bricks-nike-smart-sneakers/

"Drawing Bayesian inferences after extensive sampling, I've determined that it's 99-percent certain that anyone who uses 'woke' as pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead. Please don't blame me for pointing this out—it's just science." — Mike Godwin

Julia Child did some 400° cooking, for a science-oriented TV series called "The Ring of Truth": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3mjb9BSaU&t=850s
Later in the episode, she got to cook a diamond to amorphous carbon. "I'll remember that recipe -- one carat diamond, two and a half hours, three thousand degrees": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3mjb9BSaU&t=1458s

I've also been watching CtC quite a bit for the last couple of years. Unfortunately, they've lately been doing a lot of long, highly technical puzzles, which I don't find as interesting (though their shorter videos are still good). If anyone's interested in checking them out, I'll recommend a couple of older videos that I really enjoyed:

• "The Sudoku Miracle" set by Mitchell Lee has just two given digits, and some inadequate-seeming rules.
• "Everything is Wrogn" set by DiMono has pretty much every rule in the book, and requires that the solution violate all of them.

If you enjoy watching people solve sudokus and other puzzles, I'll also recommend Rangsk (generally does the daily NYT hard sudoku, a 6x6 intro-to-nonstandard-rules "sudoku adventure", and a collection of wordle-ish (but not not actually wordle) games), Bremster, and zetamath (does quite a few live solves with audience participation, as well as reaction vids to other people solving his puzzles).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpuPN3bT3Xw

But the study, apparently, did not fall into that trap: “I was surprised by the fact that about 90% of the variables assessed significantly predicted conspiracy belief (of 52 variables). These results point to conspiracy belief being even more psychologically complex than I initially presumed,” Bowes told PsyPost.