This works, but the quicker method for me was to hold the book over my head, out of my line of sight while I focused my eyes on something a little farther away (a few feet away is fine). Then you can simply move the book downward into your field of vision while refusing to let your eyes refocus. It should be blurry, because you’re still focusing past it, despite it being right in front of your face. Then just relax and let your brain do the work.

This method got by far the quickest and most reliable results for me, most pop suddenly into view in just a couple seconds.

I think this method works best because you’re using established muscle memory to focus your eyes on an object at a measurable, consistent distance, and then just not letting them change. Removes several variables from the equation.

You’d also need to make it immune to the various antibiotics that work on it. Otherwise it’s not particularly difficult to treat with modern medicine.

Pol.is looks interesting. I wonder how many users it has so far.

Frankly, if the goal of the administrations was to be helpful to Russia’s offensive, then halting shipments while muddying the waters with inconsistent messaging would be an excellent way to accomplish that.

Stop the shipments, but lie about it and say that you will ship more in the future. Then just never actually do that. This keeps them hoping for shipments that will never actually arrive.

edit: Another possibility here is that the Def Sec Hegseth does not want to help Ukraine, but Trump himself does not actually care one way or another, and thus could be convinced to overrule his Def Sec.

Tough to say.

She’s got this really in-character vibe here. I wonder if Cate actually is just staying in-character between all the cuts as part of her acting method, or if that suit is just too uncomfortable to be able to relax in.

Not all marine life, just the big stuff. We just added a ton of sugar, fat and protein to the ocean, so I think we’re going to see an explosion of microbial life.

Now, with milk being opaque, I think we are going to kill most of the phytoplankton and replace it with bacteria that produce CO2 as a byproduct of their metabolism, so I do think we’re going to drastically change the Earth’s atmosphere and more or less run out of oxygen eventually, so we are definitely all dead. It’s just a question of how long it takes.

Chaotic good is fine if you don’t launch it too hard. It’s enjoyable to put barely enough force in so that it just slides into the cart in front of it.

It’s like bowling.

Just don’t launch it from far away, otherwise it could veer into someone’s car. Which would be caught on camera, incidentally.

Not exactly a showerthought, maybe better off in a TIL, mildly interesting or history sub. This community is not for real information, though, showerthought communities are for more light-hearted and silly stuff.

How about a space station? Lot easier to keep things livable if you just contain everything. Would probably end up being easier to build a station and fly it out there than try to terraform something that distant.

Ahhh, the Erdogan economic strategy. It’s a bold move, Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them.

They don’t mention it specifically, but I thought osmosis was the primary mechanism. Water flows towards dissolved solutes, and honey has tons of solute and little water, so water will flow out of bacteria into the honey until an equilibrium is reached. Bacteria can’t survive that level of dessication.

Then if you want to make mead, the first thing you have to do is add a bunch of water so bacteria can grow.

Even when I see Elrond in LotR, that’s actually just Agent Smith in a funny costume.

It could even be a far right racist propaganda bot.

Alternate challenge: Find a line of more than just a few words from Holy Grail that won’t be recognized.

…wat?

That’s gotta be an internal decapitation, right? I cannot fathom how a full decapitation happens during delivery, unless someone was using a straight up lightsaber to cut the umbilical cord or something.

I would check myself, but I just don’t want to for some reason.

We found them.

Wouldn’t we also be under enough pressure to begin fusing some of that hydrogen into helium at that point?

I was just gonna say, a squash that I cut in half, hollow out and dry is pretty low-tech stuff. Could probably use a coconut if you were in a pinch… Lot of options.

The purpose of a legal system is to provide stability to a society, so that a person can safely pursue long term goals over their lifetime in a predictable environment.

The most effective way to accomplish this is to make a system where laws originate from a process where people are allowed to have some say in the creation of the laws that will apply to them, and the laws are then applied uniformly, consistently and fairly to all people regardless of background.

Our system partially fulfils this.

Can anyone think of a case where opening fire on unarmed citizens actually caused unrest to die down? Because I can’t think of a single case. Even in Russia, the Russian Revolution of 1905 was sparked off by firing on civilians.

In every case I can think of it made things worse for whoever was in charge. Aren’t there any counterexamples?