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Bad things have happened to me and next to me and behind me because of niceholes wanting to control the traffic flow.

The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

This year’s (belated, as is tradition) April Fool’s XKCD is written in the Rapier.rs physics engine....

This is about exactly how I remember it, although the lanthanides and actinides got shortchanged.

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Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that hed “wasted over a full year” doing tedious calculations by hand about “so trifling a matter” as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras quoted in Crawford, 1997.

This reminded me of myself age 8-9 when I would get stressed if I didn’t “undo” any rotations of my body, or rounds around a table. Quite to the annoyance of my teachers and parents. Did anyone else have a phase similar to this?

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Alt text: Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.

Classic

Alt text: My first words were ‘These were my first words; what were yours?’