‘and half of them are dead / but what about THIS ONE? / nobody knows, nobody knowwwws’

No, the cat is one or the other. Radioactive half-life is the point at which there is a 50/50 chance that any single isotope had decayed, and we usually work around that in classical systems by using large sample sizes (a pile of isotopes, it’s easy to see that half of it would have decayed). But for one single isotope we aren’t observing (or the cat), we need to look at it in terms of probabilities until we observe it

… It’d be a lot easier to explain this if Schroedinger had a whole pile of boxes with cats in them

I actually used to stand brooms up when I was a kid working at Hardee’s. I’d get like 3 or 4 of them standing and then this pothead Joe and I would try to land dishrags on the handle like we were throwing a disc golf putter or something. Manager was not impressed

2017: Buy 2x 1080 Ti for 1500 bucks, your build is GOATed, have fun spending half your time tinkering with your overclocks and fishing for the perfect SLI compatibility bits in Inspector

2026: This. It’s a shame

I’d say ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Getting tangled up in that whole stress trap is so innocuous that many people don’t appreciate how bad it is to push it all to the point that an affluent household is 2 paychecks away from destitution. It’s just some cultural thing that keeps people awake at night and to even address it with candor is verboten

I always think of amperage as a cat trying to use its jawline to prise open a cracked door. The door is ohms and the volts is the cat’s energy levels at that point. Wide open door you just hear the cat’s claws frantically scraping a thud when it slides into the wall

My experience in the US is like this meme. I gotta show up every 3 months just to be like ‘hey’. And then they’re like ‘hey. Any changes?’ ‘Nope.’ 'Cool. Here are your ‘scrips.’

If you can avoid that rock for around 60 billion years, it’ll be almost entirely lead, and then you can mock it. ‘Not so tough now, stupid rock’

The threshold is way higher for revocation. You have to do something absolutely wild for that to happen, such as pull off of a road without a shoulder and into a parking lot while the police are trying to stop you

Supposedly putting a cheapo luggage lock on a door latch requires a coordinated effort involving a locksmith or a tow truck

It was a joke. Everything is self-checkout nowadays, so the cashier just narrating the play-by-play

Good GUIs are awesome. It’s just that you often cede control to a bunch of fucking idiots who somehow think if it’s not broken absolutely destroy everything that made anyone love it in the first place. ‘They’ll adapt’

If you’re really paranoid you should buy all your stuff in a brick and mortar store. You’d have to be high up on a list for it to even be worth someone’s time, but intercepting a package and swapping the contents is pretty easy to do, typical Tuesday multi-agency gun ring bust for some postal inspectors

As someone in Minneapolis it’s also the most out of touch bullshit to say to people that are just trying to walk to a bus stop or pass some car on their street when it’s parked in the middle of the fucking road. It’s impossible to not ‘interfere’ with those shitheads because they think they own the 9 blocks around them

“You can’t change the rules just 'cause you don’t like how I’m doing it.”

I don’t think it’s all that uncommon to see in houses with recessed light fixtures, 1970s-90s type stuff. Couple 3-ways for hallway lights (also controlled elsewhere in the hallways), 1 (or 2) for ceiling fan (2 if it has lights and wired as such), rest for banks of recessed lights so someone could use lower wattage incandescents in some. I think this nonsense mostly died out with shag carpeting tho

If you’ve never tried, def give grape jelly+chili sauce a shot! There are a bajillion recipes floating around if you google (recipes, like ratios of grape to chili sauce), but I’ve made that for myself and the grape somehow makes it pop. It’s just good lol

I bought a 3 pack of Corsair LL120 RGB case fans directly from Amazon-dot-com (as the seller) before and got a 3 pack of someone’s old case fans instead (the old swapperoo). So Amazon told me to just keep them after I sent them many photos of the box and the LPN sticker on it, and they sent me another. Take a guess what was in that box? Yup, more swapperoos. But this was back in 2016-2017 so they may have changed up how they handle returns since then, or how they isolate their own products from 3rd party ‘FBA’ sellers

My family (kinda not-quite-northern MN) uses key lime, mini marshmallows, wanna say cool whip, and usually mandarin oranges, but that’s a hit. And someone always brings a whole slow cooker full of meatballs that have been marinaded in there with grape jelly and possibly chili sauce (just the sauce). Those 2 things are so awesome and the meatballs are easy to cook