Malgas @ Malgas @beehaw.org

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That's Shreking at your enemies.

Love Demetri Martin.

But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was "yellow-red".

Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we're used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.

This conversation is gastro-etymology, BTW.

I just looked it up, and apparently it's /ɡɛʃ/.

Never would have guessed that.

Well obviously this flower is pollinated by ducks.

When public officials tamper with elections, it's election fraud.

The guy from the Dan Brown movie was a ninja turtle?!

My favorite version was when Michael used it: "It's a human insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now."

"3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible."

Right, like the guy with the negatronic brain isn't going to be evil. Come on!

It could just be a difference of the liquor, or color balance in the photo, but I think that first picture might be an Old Fashioned rather than just bourbon. It has that sort of reddish-purple tinge to it that you get from angostura bitters.

There's a running gag in archaeology that variations on "ritual purposes" actually means "I have no idea what this was for".

That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.

That's not the half of it:

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

"On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

It's guns all the way down.

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

It wouldn't even change the difficulty, really. You'd just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.