CyberEgg @ CyberEgg @discuss.tchncs.de

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Bist du das?

Guess my physics professors back at university were wrong then ¯(ツ)/¯

Changing direction is not acceleration. You also experience inertia when changing directions.

Just be a gay bull instead.

(Actually, there are inland gulls like the Franklin's Gull)

Not yoiked. Look at who posted it there and here.

Also, who cares? Memes are made to be spread. They're open source.

No, the steering wheel does not accelerate laterally. It just changes the direction of the front wheels which dictate the direction in which a vehicle is accelerated.

RCS thrusters for example are accelerators. A steering wheel is not.

Would the steering wheel have the accelerating wheel on the side of the car it is supposed to turn slow down (like how track tanks turn) it would be an accelerator.

No, the steering wheel is not technically an accelerator. It doesn't change speed, only direction.

Flaw number one: sci fi can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number two: fantasy can be a lot, tonally. It can be depressing, but also hopeful, horrifying, epic etc.
Flaw number three: "literature" is not a setting. There's fantasy and sci fi literature as well as real-world-related or apocalyptic literature. "Literature" is just written down stories.

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Vegan fish sticks. Sometimes you have some things you can't easily swap out.

Let's have a look at the memes you created... Oh.

That's socialist propaganda! You see, you cut both apples in half with one cut, everyone gets half an apple and the remaining half is given to someone who struggles affording life.

(/s)

Red is just wrong. Worse than ice cubes in beer.

We use 'usw' informally and 'etc' formally.

The original Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn. They were the first books to expand the Star Wars universe after the original movies and introduced some names, characters and other stuff that were later used in other productions, like Coruscant was first named here. Also, they are great books, intriguing characters, nice story, etc.

Yes and no. Imperial measurements that are not integers are displayed in fractions. Hence quarterpounders and thirpounders. In metrics, fractions are rarely used. Because the scales are more granular and because non-integers are usually displayed in decimals.

People thinking a third-pound-burger being smaller than a quarterpounder could not have happened with metrics, because, well, look at the title.

I just used the opportunity to flip some of what vegans come across daily.

I just found the picture with the caption during a web search for such an infographic. Only the Goodfellas-part is from me. But does it matter what kind of burger it is?

How do you spot a meat eater? They'll tell you.

Wikipedia confirmed though:

The AW research firm organized focus groups. The results revealed that many participants mistakenly believed that one-third of a pound was smaller than one-fourth (quarter) of a pound. Focus group participants expressed confusion over the price, asking why they should pay the same amount for a "smaller" third-pound burger.

This misunderstanding stemmed from consumers focusing on the numbers "3" and "4," leading them to conclude that one-third (1/3) was smaller than one-fourth (1/4), even though the opposite is true.[2]

A similar explanation appeared in The New York Times in 2014, citing the third-pound burger as one of the most vivid examples of consumer arithmetic failure.[3] In taste tests, customers actually preferred AW's burger to McDonald's, and it was less expensive.

According to a CBC report, more than half of the people surveyed about the burger said they didn't buy it because they thought they were getting less meat.[4]