Carl [he/him]

physics: laws, unless you look reeeeeally close, then it’s all about probability.

non-sapient animals have no concept of consent, people reveal their prejudices by what intent they read into their behaviors.

Too many billionaires? We released wolves into the highest income neighborhoods in America, and you wouldn’t believe what happened next!

On the ISS, they sleep in sleeping bags enclosed in a little padded soundproof capsule. I feel like you could zip yourself up, with or without a partner, and make it happen.

A Nasa engineer named Smythe answered questions from Conan O’Brien on his podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend in 2022.

man says funny thing on comedy podcast, more at 11

there is simply no way that nobody has had sex or masturbated in space. i know it’s against the rules but they sent a married couple up there at the same time once!

(and asparagus staging in real life would require jet turbine fuel pumps that are physically impossible I was just joking)

I’ve played kerbal space program with increased gravity, you just have to use asparagus staging, no prob!

i get that this is just an edgy joke but the evidence that most computer programmers really wish they were antebellum south slaveowners continues to grow

They’re pretty neat. Since the molten salt core stays hot for a while after the sun goes down, in some high-output high-storage setups they’re cheaper than traditional PV panels + batteries while providing the same power.

GOD tier sideburns tbh

the brain is plastic, so it seems far more likely to me that being in conservative circles causes the amygdala to enlarge than the opposite

yeah that’s a wild rabbit hole to go down, the shaprs are either extremely satisfying or extremely distressing, there is no in-between.

I forget what this shape is actually a solution for but it is very funny