Metal is also elastic.

But that doesn’t mean metal is plastic or elastic in terms of material type, just the English sucks.

Want my mother’s maiden name and my favourite pet’s name too?

You’ve created a simple laptop bending device. I would add a LOT more support to both areas where it contacts.

Technically, a military surplus store could be considered a second hand store. What militaries use berets that could be considered “raspberry” in colour?

They’re also proud of their other son, the sanitation engineer.

No more poop knife, you just bite it off.

I’ve only seen the sciencealert.com link, so that one.

It might be that I expect technical proficiency from science journalists, which might be a high bar.

15 days. Great. What’s the circumference? Oh, they didn’t give that either. “15 days” is still not a rotational velocity, it’s linear.

I’m not giving these folks grief for doing near impossible measurements, I’m giving the article grief for claiming a measurement was made, and then not stating said measurement.

I’m fine with even just an “order or magnitude” ballpark number. But again, they did not give us a rotational speed.

The same thing that’s wrong with saying I’m going 1250 rpm down the road. It may be correct, but doesn’t actually mean anything without more data.

They calculated it, and could only say “less than 25% of C” which isn’t even a rotational speed measurement?!? Get bent. If you don’t want to say, fine, don’t. But don’t tell me you’ve calculated something and then A) not give me that number, and B) give me a number that isn’t the number you calculated and can’t be used to determine the number you calculated without additional data that you also haven’t provided.

By extension that means we can also reprogram alien satellites and probes. So why aren’t we??

I’ve seen that Star Trek episode.

The disarming route:

You: Can I have a raise? Pest: What? I can’t give you one, I’m not your boss. You: Say that last part again slowly. [insert raise eyebrows here for emphasis]

I think you’re confusing it with Zuckerberg. Or maybe they’re one and the same?

No, and I don’t intend to. Fuck that place.

But Facebook still exists.

USERS REFUSE UPDATE USING THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK, MICROSOFT HATES THEM

On eligible.PCs that are already running Windows 11 21H2. Title is a bit clickbaity, implying it’s forcing an update on any eligible PC running any version of Windows.

You’d need to explain how they’re evil. We use them as a resource, as food, as an oxygen source, as shade, as animal habitat and food… even if they had “evil” intentions I don’t see what they would have been or how it wood have played out.