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$12 million per year is $5769/hour, assuming a 40 hour work week.

They couldn’t, like… Retype it? No need to use garbage AI for everything.

I’m not really surprised, common wisdom is if someone malicious has hardware access to a machine it’s compromised. And if you don’t trust your hosting provider to not tamper with your machine, you should really find a new provider (or buy your own server).

Why is this tagged Spanish?

Microplastics are so last century, all the cool kids these days have macroplastics.

Yep, just an example of how names don’t necessarily correspond to the actual dimensions.

It’s not really about “attracting” asteroids, it’s more about their orbital trajectory happening to intersect the Earth’s at the right time. I think the Moon’s gravity is about as likely to redirect an asteroid towards the Earth as it is away, but the Moon also physically intercepts some asteroids, so the net effect would be a slight decrease in Earthly asteroid impacts.

Yeah, 2x4s aren’t even 2"x4" anymore, more like 1.5"x3.5", but the name has still stuck.

As an American, I use the metric system whenever possible. As of more recently, it’s usually taught in schools, as well as used ubiquitously in science. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US switches to primarily using the metric system in the next few decades.

What do you mean??? WikiHow is a collection of only the most reliable tutorials and information. Now be good and install the shady app.

Photovoltaics have left the chat.

I think there’s just a big fanbase here. I just ended up blocking the Star Trek communities; no hate towards them, but I don’t watch the show so it was needless clutter to me.

Got too distracted by the random lowercased "i"s to actually read the comic.

Too mathematically correct, 0.9 = 1 too if you feel like it. Heck, 0.8 is close enough that it’s probably alright.

Sadly, the escape velocity of our galaxy is an order of magnitude higher than the manhole cover’s velocity. And even at that speed it wouldn’t hit with nearly enough energy to cause a mass extinction. Still a fun idea though. :)

I wouldn’t, but I would know if it didn’t work and that’s pretty much the same thing.

Do I have to ensure I’m still born? If not, I choose the last common ancestor of modern humans. We’ve screwed things up enough that I think the world would clearly be better off without us.

Microsoft bad and all, but is this really a good fit for the pics community?

My guess would be that the hypertonicity of the salt water causes water to move out of your nose’s tissues through osmosis, reducing swelling, while the water clears out the mucus and stuff clogging it up.

Better yet, I’m buying an oxygen mask and several layers of winter clothes and going to Titan. Can probably walk around for a few minutes before freezing to death!