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@starkatt Why do they do that, do you know?

I hate that people will take advantage of others like this. the victims don't even realize that they're being taken advantage of, because they're convinced that it's the medical/scientific/whatever community at large taking advantage of them, and they can be enlightened to the secret truth or whatever nonsense they choose to use

it's like cult rhetoric or something

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/438342/would-this-module-serve-the-intended-purpose-of-hulda-clarks-zapper the question in question, incidentally

I really detest people who take advantage of the gullible and desperate by making some kind of sciencey-sounding nonsense and selling it to people for $ridiculous

now I see someone asking on stackexchange basically for the best way to electrocute themself because some snake oil salesperson claims that it's good for you or something--and they're extremely convinced that it works because they've "used it already with impressive results"

chocobos are cute

I just realized this cw says "a things" instead of "a thing"

The sun will rise tomorrow

"three and pi quarters" is an amusing phrase and i'm not quite sure why

I love that you can just take fundamental constants and easily-memorized numbers and jam them together into approximations of things

69^π^√5 is a good approximation of Avagadro's number, for example

or that there are three and pi quarters liters in a gallon

(a bunch more: https://xkcd.com/1047/ )

also the word hnefatafl is fun

I like old germanic consonant clusters, they're neat

do you ever just.. think about how weird pomegranates are

the reconstructed rules sound like a really interesting strategy game to play and I'd love to try it

So, we learned about an ancient germanic board game that sounds really neat and why is this not still seen alongside chess and checkers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

Baltasar is a good name, hmm.

still amazed at the fact that the PS1 had full 3D graphics without any floating-point support

*flops*

Today was long and oof.

@esp@sleeping.town @emily@sleeping.town @dhivael@dragon.style @packbat thank you all for the welcomes!

we are back hi

@Critter Want to make sure you see this too since I know you're working on Rose's commission!