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Car Wash

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I'm glad modern car washes use synthetic baleen, instead of harvesting it from whales like 1800s car washes did.
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macr0t0r
106 days ago
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Actually, this makes a car wash sound like a giant mechanical puppy. Now I like it more!
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gordol
106 days ago
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Car wash I use doesn't like the cars. It spits on them.
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alt_text_bot
106 days ago
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I'm glad modern car washes use synthetic baleen, instead of harvesting it from whales like 1800s car washes did.

Astronomy Numbers

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I adopted a cat that weighs 12 solar masses. Laser pointers love chasing it.
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macr0t0r
357 days ago
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Since when did astronomers use miles and hours as units in the first place? Weird.
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alt_text_bot
358 days ago
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I adopted a cat that weighs 12 solar masses. Laser pointers love chasing it.

Easy or Hard

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"Friction-driven static electrification is familiar and fundamental in daily life, industry, and technology, but its basics have long been unknown and have continually perplexed scientists from ancient Greece to the high-tech era. [...] To date, no single theory can satisfactorily explain this mysterious but fundamental phenomenon." --Eui-Cheol Shin et. al. (2022)
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macr0t0r
417 days ago
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Wait, really? Hairy balloon static is still a mystery? It's exciting to know that such everyday stuff still has an opening for breakthroughs!
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Formatting Meeting

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Neither group uses iso 8601 because the big-endian enthusiasts were all at the meeting 20 years ago.
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macr0t0r
697 days ago
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We have tried so hard for so many years for a proper date format. This is worse than Daylight "Savings" Time. We've been here before: https://xkcd.com/1179/
silberbaer
695 days ago
I used to have 1179 printed out and posted to my cubicle wall, and would point to it when people didn't like my date format.
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mkalus
693 days ago
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More like the rest of the world.
iPhone: 49.287476,-123.142136
jcherfas
693 days ago
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2022-01-04 is the Only True Way.

Except for 04-01-2022
ReadLots
697 days ago
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This is bad, but the worst is using Excel which is the biggest date-format-bully on the planet.
"Hey that's some nice date strings you got there, shame if someone were to go and automatically reformat them on you. Oh, you've set your localization parameters, well guess who doesn't give a shit."
chrisrlowery
697 days ago
then when you manually change it to treat the cells like plain text, it converts the previously plain-text formatted date string into the internal numeric representation of the datetime

Saturn Hexagon

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Sorry, in SI units that's "there's a big football in there."
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macr0t0r
810 days ago
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The image alt text sells it: Soccer is the messed-up imperial unit to Football!
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alt_text_bot
811 days ago
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Sorry, in SI units that's "there's a big football in there."

Coronavirus Name

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It's important to keep the spider from touching your face.
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macr0t0r
1366 days ago
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I'm willing to settle for everyone to at least call it Coronavirus instead of "that beer virus."
Juglugs
1365 days ago
Beer Virus? - Lyme Disease?
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1366 days ago
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It's important to keep the spider from touching your face.
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