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I’m not sure that subtle nuances like that are going to affect the way the tiger responds to the taunt…

Well, with the way cats bounce around the plac£ when excited, you have to ask sometimes.

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I had originally mistaken that for a giant club when I glanced at the image, and wondered what, exactly, they thought a public education would teach.

Only the admin of your instance can see your IP address, it doesn’t get federated to other instances.

Not 86 hours, 86 thousand hours. I assume the idea is that she’s obviously played it obbsesively, then left a useless negative review when she got frustrated.

It’s not the fall that hurts, it’s the sudden stop at the end.

Hang on. Blowing up miserable planets doesn’t increase total happiness, it increases average happiness. Tell the tobot that its error is making you less happy, so it should blow itself up.

The saving on the knob alone would pay a reasonable chunk of a basic but useful printer. Use it for a few more things and you’ll be in the black even ignoring the more fun things you might do. The time it takes to learn a CAD system can also be fun if you enjoy that sort of thing.

Yes, I’d say that’s very much the point of the strip. The journalist is being incredibly intrusive in persuit of their own career. All the characters in this series are basically caractures, it’s very much a product of it’s time, but it still resonates today.

Edited to add an explaination as my initial comment wasn’t helpful on it’s own.

Why is this filed under ‘theonion’? Does anyone actually think he wouldn’t start a nuclear war to avoid embarasment, let alone what would happen to him if anything damning came out in those files? I sippose the only unbelivable bit is that he is planning anything, rather than being told what to think.

Yeah, they really had to rise to the occasion here. Some people would have disposed of it irresponsibly, but I guess they’re just bread better there, although whoever left it in the sun must have been baked.

No need to make snippy comnents, he had to do it, there was a claws in his contract.

Pawns can be promoted to queens when they get to the other side, and when the elite pieces get past the pawns they get promoted to ‘media’, and can slowly, but surely, pick them off.

2,500 custard creams a minute is a mind boggling number, but what put it in perspective for me is that it comes to 250 tons a week.

Assuming there isn’t a warehouse filling up sonewhere, the world is eating more than two blue whales of just their custard creams a week. Many other factories make them too, as well as their biscuit cousins like bourbons. That’s a lot of biscuits!

Truely the heros we need in this tired world.

They’re special onions, err… bath onions. Very good for you.

You’ll need a bracket that’s designed for the card I think, but if you have a drill and there’s a blanking plate you can canibalise you could probably make something good enough for a headless server.

It is a fun picture, I enjoy pictures of mildly horrifying kludges that do the job.

It’s not screwed in, and you’re going to be hanging a fairly heavy cable out of it. It’ll probably be fine short term, but any vibration or movement of the machine or monitor risks partially dislodging the card.

It also looks like you have removed the bracket and reattached it outside the case, which will mean that the plug on the cable can’t mate properly with the socket, likely leading to intermittent issues.

In short, it might work for testing the machine, but it’ll cause you pain in the long term. Get, or make, a full sized bracket and it’ll be much happier.

Dr Kumar said the cobra had died apparently because of the trauma to the head and mouth from the child’s bite.

Nah, I’m going with it dieing of a combination of shock and embarrasment. That is not how a snake bite is supposed to go.

If the kid’s first reaction to somerhing deadly is chomp, I pity anyone who crosses them in the future. I don’t think it would be inappropriate for them to wear the fangs as a trophy, and a warning.

Not OP, but that is an excellent post. OP, when you read this take some time to really understand and appreciate it.

Stopping it eating or drinking would involve being a constant low grade threat that it has to spend time and energy monitoring. Gorillas normally live in groups which means that while one is on lookout duty the others can feed in peace. A single gorilla being constantly harassed by what is comparatively huge group of humans would find itself in a constant state of fight-or-flight.

If the humans were ineffective at stopping it drinking in particular, or finding hydrating food, the contest could end up going on for a very long time.

Obviously, a lot depends on the exact rules and location of the encounter. If it’s in the gorilla’s prefered forests and the humans can’t use the environment, it’ll be a stalemate. If it’s somewhere enclosed, so the humans can’t escape, the gorilla wins. If it’s somewhere reasonably open, with less food, the humans could wear the gorilla down. If both sides can use the environment it swings it further towards the humans by overwhealming numbers throwing things.