I did this a few days ago in accident only to basically pass the person in front of me and then sit in heavy traffic for the next 5 minutes.
I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my head, with them thinking "way to go, asshole, you saved yourself exactly 2 seconds by going around me."
I'm super stoked for the Project Hail Mary movie. But I was super disappointed in the trailer, because it shows the WHOLE freaking movie. If you haven't read the book, you're far better off skipping the trailer and going in blind.
My company cut funding for traditional projects and has prioritized funding for AI projects. So now anything that involves any form of automation is "AI".
The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.
Wow that's crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.
I love stumbling across random information like this. I had no idea that mint spread so aggressively - and will likely never need this information. But it's fun to learn.
University of Oxford astronomer Matthew Hopkins is part of a team of scientists that think 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope, is around 7 billion years old.
I don't know how I missed hearing about this until now!
I used to be in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Diskin, big fat guy, I mean, like, orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning...
I feel bad you're getting down voted, because I was thinking the same thing. If the reply was just "Brian." I suppose it would have made more sense to me. But since they tagged his full name first, it was throwing me off.
I did this a few days ago in accident only to basically pass the person in front of me and then sit in heavy traffic for the next 5 minutes.
I could feel their eyes burning into the back of my head, with them thinking "way to go, asshole, you saved yourself exactly 2 seconds by going around me."
Cars need an "I'm sorry" emote somehow.