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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
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I… am strangely ambivalent and conflicted about soup.
I recognize logically and rationally that it should be lower or to the left, but would personally place it higher or to the right.
Maybe smack dab in the centre gives us the worst of both options.
One of the cooler parts of Three Body Problem was when they attempted the Orion Project to accelerate a probe to 1% of light speed.
Project Orion is a bad idea??
Just don’t start the nuclear propulsion until you’re outside of earths gravity well…
If anyone else is also curious on why “putting mold on infections” is more good than crumple zones:
They [molds] also play important roles in biotechnology and food science in the production of various pigments, foods, beverages, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals and enzymes. - Wikipedia
My beef with the placement of that item is that it isn’t even further down the “actually a good idea” axis. Penicillin – perhaps the most important medical innovation of the 20th century – rated less “actually good” than mere laser eye surgery and fecal transplants?! C’mon, Randall!
Hey leave project Orion out of this
This graph is rather discutable.
I’m sorry, what transplants?
It’s about the microbiome, lots of critters living in your bowels breaking down stuff for you. Some conditions or treatments (e.g. chemo) can fuck with that severely up to completely obliterate everything so you need a donor to get it started up again.
Most of your body’s mass does not have a human genome, it represents other living things existing in symbiosis with your body. And your digestive tract is nearly 100% reliant on these microbiota to break down food and provide it to the small intestine. If you don’t have the right mix/balance or you have too many of the wrong species, you can suffer extremely deleterious health effects. If you have none at all, you starve pretty quickly regardless of how much food you eat.
Fun facts:
- Almost all of your excrement that isn’t visible remnants of unchewed food are the remains of gut bacteria that died.
- Scientists have recently confirmed that your appendix acts as a “safe room” for your good, beneficial gut biome to retreat to when the rest of the intestinal tract is suffering from catastrophic environmental issues or another bug is running rampant and dominating in a destructive manner. Once things calm down, the intestines are re-colonized by good bacteria from the appendix.
people with certain medical issues in their bowels can be cured of them by a fecal transplant from someone who is a good donor. It usually means a family member. The purpose is to treat bowel infections. Pretty neat shit.
neat shit
Actually i think it’s usually pretty diluted
South park aired an episode about it with a Dune twist.
Pizza is way too right and too high on this graph.
Wouldn’t a fake prank fire extinguisher just be a normal fire extinguisher?
Yesterday I heard a conspiracy theory that the reason lead was added to gasoline was to keep the Pouge carburetor from becoming viable because it allegedly used pre-heated gas vapor to achieve 100-200mpg efficiency, but the lead clogged it up instead.
Here’s my own counter-conspiracy on that… if everything we read says that it didn’t actually work, why did Breen Motor Company claim it worked when THEY tried it? And why did Pouge suddenly disappear?
oh lord that alt text
How dare they put heelies in the bad section
An extension cord with 2 male ends is useful for powering your home with a generator.
Yeah, if you want to electrocute some poor linesman outside. If you have considered purchasing a generator for emergencies, get the transfer switch installed and be prepared so when you do it, you do it safely.
I’m hardly an electrician and even I know to have some sort of a cutoff switch that can isolate the home if I want to power it separately.
I always upvote Mr. Skullhead!
Excuse me, what about pizza in squares?
If the pizza is a square or rectangle (like Detroit deep dish or a flatbread) it is on, but round pizza cut in squares is just bad
The only correct way to cut (not too gigantic) round pizza is into six parts so you get equilateral triangles (well, modulo a curved section) which is ideal for holding.
Home-made pizza rarely if ever is round, though, in which you probably don’t want to go for squares but eyeball some appropriately-sized rectangles.
I guess because there is no crust to grab. Gotta get grease and maybe sauce on your hands to eat the inner squares.
This can be solved by using a napkin
(Or just not caring about the problem anyhow)
But square pizza is the sort you eat with fork and knive tho?
Not necesarilly. I fear we have to face it: This is one of the rare cases where xkcd fucked it up.
Not at all, they are probably talking about horrible Dayton Style pizza. For when you want pizza but it needs to be thin, unsatisfying, greasy, and difficult to eat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton-style_pizza
Fucking heathens, if it weren’t for them keeping keeping the alien technology from area 51 at Wright Patterson AFB I’d have them wiped off the map.
Do people actually eat this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Marion%27s_Supreme.JPG
I only had New York style pizza in the US and thought the US pizza game isn’t that bad.
People who eat Dayton-style pizza are like the city of Dayton itself—smelly inside and bereft of true purpose. Those of us in the US who haven’t been so psychically damaged wouldn’t eat that shit.
(I’m only just learning about the disgusting gutter pizza. I don’t like Dayton because my last company was slowly destroyed over several years by a company that was headquartered in Dayton. I associate the city with the asshole who was CEO. Fuck you, Chris! I’ve heard Dayton is, at worst, not great, so take my comment as the joke it is.)
Yes, and well-made crust like this is delicious.
Unfortunately lots of it isn’t great
Hard to believe but they do. Note the blackened edges to make it even worse. It isn’t a nice char like you get with Neapolitan, or even the seared cheese you get with a good Detroit or Pan, it’s just burnt.
There are many American pizzas that are great, Chicago deep dish, NY, Detroit, on and on, Dayton style is not one of them.
This is the superior thin crust style of pizza. Cut in squares, which is a totally fine and legitimate thing to do.
There is no pizza acceptable to eat with fork and knife.
Pizza with zucchini and champignons. Vegetables pizza in short.
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That’s a misnamed quiche.
Tomato soup in a bread bowl, with cheese. Not quiche, the filling isn’t egg-based.
It’s delicious. And since the Italians call just about any round bread with toppings pizza (e.g. Bartolomeo Scappi’s pizza was cake with powdered sugar & saffron toppings) it’s pizza. As is New England clam chowder in a bread bowl!
Any pizza that requires utensils is not pizza.
As a fork-and-knife pizza eater, I have come around to pizza squares.
That said, PIZZA BELONGS IN A TRIANGLE
Combo washer dryer are never as good as two decent machines. Empiric fact.
