This is basically KPOP Demon Hunters if you're one of the five people left who hasn't seen KPOP Demon Hunters.

Reclassifying them as a food animal species would piss off the horse people but would be by far the safer option for humans: we know for a fact that we're exposing people to meat contaminated with aminoglycosides and God knows what else.

There's a bunch of regulations on species classified as food animals to make sure that people don't end up consuming milk or meat with drug residues. Horses aren't in that group, but the US just ships them to Mexico to get slaughtered there.

Second, when we say “All knowledge is contained in fandom” what I mean is that I once posted “Hey, does anybody know anything about Eastern European wars in the mid-to-late 1880s?” and three hours later had a historian go “I study the Serbo-Bulgarian war of 1885, can I help?”

Thanks to you a number of us recognize the dread words “Quanta Ray.”

For those of you who don’t, this is why he has a grudge - it’s an excellent read:

www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-...

Of course they are, their shadows are black.

No more drops. I am now deadheading flowers and announcing loudly “Gosh, I sure couldn’t do this if it was raining!”

There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data

The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

It’s my belief that absolutely everyone has some gap in their collection of knowledge that makes other people wonder how they’re still alive.
I say this with utmost adoration for humanity. I love us. 🥹

Giving ChatGPT an anxiety disorder is a legitimate use case, I guess.

A little breakfast diner called the Golden Spoon with the most beautiful home fries I've ever had. It closed when I was 10 and I still haven't figured out how to replicate that magic.

When people keep making really hurtful comments just because your literal job title is "terror tzar"

Psychosis can definitely make people do things that they wouldn't do otherwise--there's a reason that "legal insanity" is a thing. We just don't have enough information yet to parse whether that's what happened here or if people are (unsurprisingly) downplaying a politically motivated hate crime.

Bonds are basically the lowest-risk and lowest-interest investment option available since you're lending to the Treasury: you're getting paid back unless the US government collapses. Investors are now scared enough of that possibility that they're pulling money out of the "safe" option.