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For example, plating memory contacts and latinum

I've never heard a dead person complain about not being

You can also toss them with seasoned cornstarch before frying for extra crispy taste

Dark Rincewind

An image of boxes of dinner rolls. The boxes packaging shows jeans and a t-shirt. A hand is pulling up the t-shirt, to make the dinner rolls look like defined abs.

Pizza is toast, not cake.

You got it. I'm in Portland. We had a week if steady rain so the ground is saturated with water. Then the high winds came in. The tree roots have nothing to hold to, so they fall down.

Now we're forecast to get over half an inch of ice overnight, which will bring down more power lines.

This isn't usual weather for us, just a confluence of shitty events.

The cake is a lie

It's in their licensing, and how MS-DOS became the de facto operating system of early PCs. If you want to license Windows, you have to pay for every unit you sell - not just units with Windows pre-installed, but every unit.

Passenger wanted to boing from a Boeing

Everything is made up and nothing matters the points don't matter. This comforts me most sometimes

Learn how to say "two tabs of acid" in 10 languages

Sounds more like a Klingon saying

According to this a burning candle releases about 80 watts.

It could operate a Sterling engine .

Assuming most of the candle's energy is released as heat, with light and magic making up a small percentage, and assuming a perfectly efficient engine, and a spherical cow for good measure...

You could charge your phone, or a power bank. You could power a light bulb. You could heat up water (for a flow of 2 milliliters per second, you could raise the temperature by about 10 degrees Celsius).

If anything, I would say a percentage should go back to ActivityPub development.

ETA: I say this as a (small) monthly contributor, but I can only speak for myself.

Candle. Infinite energy, plus no stress.

You must ask for consent before plundering my booty

I'm not a bacteriologist, but I do wonder why so much work is put towards finding new small molecule antibiotics instead of towards finding species-specific bacteriophages.

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