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xkcd #2875: 2024

Huh. "Elected twice", not "served two terms"... So, even if the insurrectionist ban doesn't pan out, Trump still has to concede that he lost the 2020 election to run again.

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YSK: To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole.

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Pretty sure it's the beaters (assuming that's an electric hand mixer type-thing, i've never heard them referred to by that term) that made them gummy. Over mashing will break up the cell walls too much, releasing the starches and ruining the texture. Cooking chopped or whole doesn't matter as much, since the number of cells broken by chopping is negligible. And the skin is water permeable anyway.

You gotta mash by hand, that's all.

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Reaching a new level of cocky

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It's just unnecessarily huge. I've never seen so many gas pumps in my life. Or so many toilets. It's honestly absurd and made me feel existential dread. It's like everything wrong with America all in one convenient pit stop. I couldn't even enjoy the wall of jerky. Bathrooms were nice, though.

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You've been instantly teleported two feet to the left. How does this affect you?

A bunch of people in here without something solid two feet to the left of them seem to be assuming that there is a perfect them-shaped vaccuum that they will be teleported into. That's not the case. There is air there, and you'll be just as dead as the guy sitting next to the family refrigerator.

Unless you are an astronaut currently in space, the only correct answer is "dying of multiple simultaneous embolisms, with or without widespread traumatic amputations, and 'gross dismemberment' (SFW, only text) from instantaneous pressure changes inside the body."

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y'all remember the "ring back" tones? i don't think they ever really took off since they are a ring tone that people hear when they call you instead, which is... just... totally idiotic... but i did encounter it a few times in the wild.

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A Bit

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I think you can use semicolons that way, but only to eliminate confusion when the items in the list contain commas. Eg: Today I ate sausage, eggs, and hasbrowns for breakfast; a sandwich and soup for lunch; and alfredo with chicken, asparagus, and grape tomatoes for dinner. Dammit. now i'm hungry...

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A beginner's guide to astrology

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The zodiac constallations don't even line up with their original dates anymore, for exactly the kind of reasons you described: the universe and our position in it are not stationary.

This website has a chart for the updated dates (note also that they had to add another zodiac sign because of parallax or something)

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Smart password

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i have totally run into stuff that silently truncates the password i give it. It's always something like online banking that you would hope has robust enough security standards to hash that shit, too... The one in particular i'm thinking of silently truncated the password in the reset-password form, but not for the log-in form. Took me forever to figure out wtf was going on there.