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If I ever see it as a name I’m just going to assume it’s someone who was named Eric by his parents and had it changed to be edgier when he was fourteen

This is ABC’s fault rather than OPs, because the post title is the same as the article’s, but it’s not the largest coral reef. It’s the largest individual coral.

I have to use Teams for a remote course I’m doing and holy shit no program I have ever used is worse for notifications than Teams. Even turning off everything doesn’t prevent it from flashing on the taskbar, so you then have to go disable that for everything as well. I know someone sent a message in chat, Teams, I am in the fucking call where they sent it

It still does. I have no idea why we bother paying articles like this any attention. Then again I suppose it is worth reporting on that it happens generally, and I don’t have any suggestions for how to make news outlets just do an annual summary

While I don’t think that what you’re saying is by any means implausible, there is an actual difference here. All rockets and missiles destroy themselves in the process of attacking a target. Not all drones do. A lot of them have a simple mechanism that drops a grenade or similar

You fool, you’re only supposed to post things like that on the Warthunder forums!

space nerd is a title i shall wear with pride

I know this is absolutely not the point of this, but for some reason this prompted me to try to get a sense of the resolution the JWST is providing here. Here is the original image without our infinite otter overlord. It’s a small part of NGC 3324, which looks like this. If you look at the right hand side of that photo, about in the centre vertically, you’ll see the section that the post’s image shows. It’s rotated 90 degrees between the zoomed in and zoomed out images.

NGC 3324 has an apparent dimension of 11 arc minutes, or 0.183 degrees. So if you imagine a ball that’s 10cm across and another one that’s 20cm across but twice as far away, they’ll have the same apparent dimension. If you imagine a triangle drawn between the observer and the two outside points of the subject, the apparent dimension is the angle of the corner of the triangle at the observer.

So if imagine holding an object at arm’s length, say 0.8 m away, how big would that object have to be to have an apparent dimension of 11 arcminutes? About 5 mm. The entire photo - the zoomed out one - is the equivalent of holding a grain of rice at arm’s length. And then we get this zoomed in one still showing crazy detail on just a tiny fraction of that

Johnson is a slimy tosspot, and his position on Russia is good only for self-serving reasons. Supporting Ukraine let him act out his little Churchill fantasy and distract from all of his domestic failings

I don’t think it’s necessarily a misleading headline. I don’t doubt for a second that Trump would make some meaningless demand with no regard for reality

The guy that got “installed” was the leader of the opposition in the parliament, had the backing of a clear majority of the parliament, and had been supportive of the protests. It would be weirder for the Americans to support anyone else

Hamstrung or not, the delivery in that article is 70,000 tonnes of fuel. That’s almost as much as the Russian delivery in the article.

Mexico has been doing a lot

Where I am, autumn is when the spiders decide they want to be indoors

If you want pausable combat and a logistics focus, the Hearts of Iron games might be interesting to you. They’re pseudo-real-time in that things happen on an counter that ticks forward once per in-game hour of the day (so the results of two units fighting, a diplomatic message being sent, construction on a building), but you can speed up, slow down, or pause however you wish. If you want to zip along at a few seconds of real time per day in game, cool. Want to slow things down to a few seconds per in game hour instead? Also fine. Need to pause while you read a description? Also fine.

Seconding Space Marine 2. It’s built for three-player co-op, crossplay works smoothly, and it’s a super satisfying shooter

The US military is currently directly involved in fighting in Yemen and Somalia. It’s relatively small-scale, but it is happening

Classic ChatGPT there, forgetting two letters and adding in two that weren’t there before

I’m pretty sure comparing this spike to the spike from when he actually did drop out is exactly what they intended to do. They’re showing that even though this spike exists relative to recent weeks, it’s small compared to the number of people who were relatively on the ball.

This is actually a Lord of the Rings shitpost and it turns out that Bree, Eriador has a thriving cheesemaking industry