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!!! the American Institute of Physics puts an "other" checkbox with optional fill-in on their survey's gender field! I'm always happy to see that ^.^

okay, having to wait literally over a minute for a full-size image to load and un-blur is getting kind of annoying. @vahnj is there anything that can be done about this?

fact we learned a while ago: every part of a dandelion is edible

fact: all words in the phrase "awoo to you too" rhyme

allow me to share with you all, for no reason in particular, this adorable crop of a loading screen from the game Geneforge 2, which we just finished earlier today. awoo.space/media/0d8RzU33IzNGg

it's something like n^^∞ is finite when exp(-e) < n < exp(1/e) or something like that, I have no idea how to derive that

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it seems weird to me that there are numbers n > 1 where n^^∞ is finite.

The limit of the difference between the natural linguinirithm and the harmonic spaghetti is the Euler-Macaroni constant

I'm sorry, that pun was terrible

Good morning everyone, and everytwo, and everythree, and

magnetic amplifiers are a really neat idea

Another geneforge quote: "Since dickering around with mysterious magical devices tends to result in explosions, you leave it be."

Would a judiciary wizard be a con-juror?

First quote is from Geneforge, second two from Geneforge 2, both by Spiderweb Software's Jeff Vogel. Just to give credit where credit is due!

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I really love this game's writing.

"It looks like some sort of ledger, covered with ancient records and mathematics. Your best guess of the meaning is that, at one point, the people here had a lot of sheep and then, later, they had more sheep."

"Giant rats didn't always exist. Then a careless wizard let one escape, and now they do."

"Now you know who did it. It was rogues. You can tell because they are currently ambushing you."

You ever have one of those days where it's just too much effort to eat? It's not a bad day or anything, just.... no spoons or something

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