Lecture jokes are the worst. Especially if they put a cartoon on the slide, and then try to explain the slide.

“Ok, so this humorous cat, he’s saying he really hates Mondays. And today is Monday, I know we’d all rather be lounging like that cat. See his funny little face? And his whiskers… they’re all curled and… and the ears… But we’re here instead, thinking about orbital dynamics. And on that topic…”

Microsoft finally realizing that version numbers won’t get users to switch to 11, they actually have to give users what they want.

Meanwhile, XFCE lets me build as many panels as I want and configure them however I like.

It just wasn’t funny. It was a group of obnoxious young adults in apartments mugging for the camera while the laugh track assured us what they said was funny (it wasn’t.)

The only episode that landed for me was the boys trying to move a couch upstairs with Ross shouting “PIVOT!” Otherwise, nothing really interesting happened. The “Smelly Cat” song everyone memed about was just grating.

And I remember what was popular about it was Ross and Rachel. Which is mind-boggling, because they were both incredibly toxic and spent half their lives arguing over whether Ross cheated on her. Why would anyone root for that?

It was always a mediocre show, but was so massively popular at the time that any criticism was quickly drowned out and brushed away. But now the hype has died down and people are more openly talking about the show’s flaws.

I personally thought it sucked back when it was new and have no interest in watching it now. I watched a handful of episodes as it had a syndication spot on my local networks, but just never got into it. (For the kids: Growing up on the East Coast, the dinner hours were generally news and 8-11 pm was “prime time” when new episodes of shows would air. In between shows would air reruns in syndication. So Friends was the filler I’d sometimes watch while waiting for the new shows to air.)

Mint’s great.

My wife and I discovered some spearmint growing right by our house. So we just mow it into a patch and mulch around it: free mint and the bees love it! Fresh mojitos every summer lol.

Nah, it’s estimated that about 90% of “sinus infections” in adults are actually viral.

Your doctor just gave up and prescribed you antibiotics because you whined or they don’t care about antibiotic stewardship.

Bonus points if they gave you azithromycin (Zpak,) which does basically nothing for bacterial sinus infections but has slight anti inflammatory properties to enhance that placebo effect for you until the viral infection naturally clears.

What? Who’s calling pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers vegetables?

And no one calls mushrooms vegetables: mushrooms are mushrooms.

Oh, I misunderstood. My apologies.

Hepatitis B takes 60-90 days to incubate. Because of the slow incubation, the vaccine works best if started within 24 hours of exposure, and can still work if administered up to 7 days after exposure. Newborns are typically exposed during birth, not while growing in the womb.

Compare to, say, the COVID-19, where the incubation is 2-14 days. The vaccine takes about 10-14 days to set in, so if you take it post-exposure in most cases you’ll be done with the actual infection before the vaccine even starts working.

Would you prefer to test your smoke alarms by:

1. Pushing the “Test” button on your smoke alarm?
2. Lighting your house on fire?

The entire point of the vaccine is to prevent the virus. If you wait until you’ve been exposed to the virus, you’ve defeated the entire purpose of the vaccine.

In short, what we know about Tyler Robinson so far:

• He’s not affiliated with any political party
• He is pro gun
• He has a trans roommate, who by some accounts he was romantically involved with
• He is allegedly bisexual
• The carvings on his bullets are memes and video game references, not a political manifesto

In short, the guy likely has a mixture of conservative and liberal views.

They’re the same thing. You just take the square root of both sides to get i = sqrt(-1).

Because he’s in them. But so are several other politicians (any party), along with business leaders, celebrities, foreign royalty/diplomats, and other influential figures.

Whatever is in there is bad enough to mar Trump and a lot of other people, but not explicit enough to have incentivized the Democrats to release it for a guaranteed 2024 win. It’s going to have a lot of record keeping of trips, gifts, etc. but probably will not have clear evidence of criminal activity, and people will be left debating which vague terms (“island cruise” or whatever) were code for trafficking customers.

It depends on the exact context, but:

“Trivial” usually means “not important.” For example, a person gets an echocardiogram and the cardiologist reports “trivial regurgitation,” it means the valve is leaking so little that it’s not worth worrying about.

“Naive” means not having experienced that thing. For example, in pain management, there is a distinction between “opioid naive” people, who have not previously had opioids, vs. “opioid tolerant” who have taken opioids long enough that the effects are lower on them. The tolerant group can take higher doses that might put the naive group at risk of death.

The heart was going “kethumpathumpadump,” the doctor put a finger up the guy’s butt, and then his heart reset to a normal “lub dub, lub dub.”

Apple’s going to add some transparency to buttons and call it a groundbreaking redesign while Android is going to go all in on AI.

So iPhones will become more Apple and Android will become more Google.

It was a fraction in Leibniz’s original notation.

It doesn’t. You said Belloq hired them to be his personal army, which paints the Hovitos as complicit in working against their own self-interests. As in, they were the betrayers of their own people and were selling out to Belloq for some cash.

But no, the reality is both Jones and Belloq were out to screw them: Jones by directly robbing them, and Belloq by first scamming them and then robbing them. Both were being imperialist and the Hovitos were the victims.

He didn’t know Belloq was there until after he had robbed them.

Where do you get that he hired them?

The opening scene is them discussing that the tribe would kill them just for being in the area, and then Belloq taunts Jones saying he can’t warn them that he’s scamming them because Jones doesn’t speak Hovitos. No where does it say he hired them.

Yep. Like if I did Metallica, I’d put the Black album on the far left followed by Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets would go on the far right (the Noble Thrashes) along with Ride the Lightning and Kill ‘Em All. Load, Reload, and St. Anger would be Transition Metal; Death Magnetic, Hardwired to Self Destruct and 72 Seasons would be the Metalloids, and then of course at the bottom I’d have the Luluthanides and Garage Inctinides.

Except actually putting that together sounds like way too much work, so I’m just going to pat myself on the back for the puns and call it a day.