In 1876 a Victorian banker “decided to release into the wild a pair of grey squirrels he had brought back with him from a business trip to America. Other landowners, viewing the non-native species as a fashionable garden novelty, soon followed suit.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/05/red-grey-squirrels-cornwall

i can’t think of a better way to get shy kids to engage and learn than to figuratively put them on a pedestal in front of the whole class and have them demonstrate that they don’t know the answer.

i have had SMR drives slow to about 2MB/s with sustained sequential writes. “noticeably bad” really undersells how terrible they are.

the 3.5" barracuda disks are SMR. the barracuda pro disks are all CMR. https://www.seagate.com/products/cmr-smr-list/

in NC i saw a faint red/pink/magenta glow over the whole sky for a little while. it was as bright as the sky normally is about 45 minutes after sunset when you can only see the brightest stars and planets. the stars looked like they turned pink

not OP but the moon was to the Northwest around a heading of 300° and the moon is in this picture

what is a chicken but very mature egg goop?

americans carefully using imperial units instead of metric to waste time of the rest of the world

i fry my chicken in petroleum oil

100kW can raise the temperature of 1L of water from 20C to 100C in 3.34 seconds. It’s enough power to brew about 300 shots of espresso in 30 seconds. That seems like a lot to me.

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Mali

https://youtu.be/xzpndHtdl9A?si=agrSuTZtnqBvOAOi

What about Rankine?