Oh that's easy, so you know what a billiard ball is like, so just imagine that but too small to imagine and it's not a sphere or any particular shape and you can't touch it and it's not made of anything and it doesn't have any properties except the ways you interact with it without touching it

"and Patreon supporters get access to Stone Soup Plus for the low price of some carrots, a small potato, a little salt, some beef if you have any..."

"Oh no I'm all out of anger, guess I'll just sit out the next election"

*reads two and a half words of the next NYT headline*

anger meter: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥

Good to finally get that settled once and for all

tag urself, im "left forefoot strike, other feet elevated to rear"

Potassium-deficient zombie desparately looking for someone who’s thinking about bananas

They finished the game ages ago, but someone jokingly called it Half Life 2.999... recurring and they can't release it until they finish arguing

They finished the game ages ago, but someone jokingly called it Half Life 2.999... recurring and they can't release it until they finish arguing

Reminds me of this sketch by John Finnemore

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6vk...

and this follow-up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxj8...

Ah sorry, wasn't looking to pick a fight over this. Sometimes I think social media needs a way to flag the seriousness of posts, from "just chatting about something interesting" to "I will fight to my last breath on this hill". Hope I didn't come across as too far to the latter end of the scale

And conversely I'm not arguing that it's definitely possible or definitely coming soon. Just that "we have no idea" really means "we have no idea". 10 years ago you'd have (reasonably) said that we have no reason to think "steal a library and stir it with linear algebra" would make anything at all

How many decades of drug development have we managed to get from "these chemicals seem to work on these symptoms, let's try these similar chemicals on these similar symptoms and see what happens"?