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[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IIRC it's the Milwaukee airport that has a "recombobulation area" immediately following security. I thought the self awareness was a nice touch.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

rocky dessert

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A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a terror not knowing what this, uh, song is about...looking for someone to help me out...with the lyrics I mean.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

...the department wrote alongside photos of the column. In the photos, the tall, geometric figure reflects the rocky desert and perfectly aligns with the horizon.

Not sure how you would prefer that be phrased? Also, if you can reasonably see the horizon aligned with its reflection, that suggests something to the reader about how it's more or less perpendicular to the ground, rather than slanted (cone/pyramid/etc.).

I think that's covered by, "in the photos."

Take it with way more than a grain of salt


add some nutritional yeast and MSG, anything to give that tofu flavor!

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

B's one raised eyebrow is skeptical of this.

I always thought backwards-compatible FM stereo was pretty cute


transmit L+R channels as before, so they can be picked up and played without trouble with mono equipment, and transmit L-R separately. Just add or subtract to get the L or R channels.

But what's the Fourier transform of a delta function?

...that's right. It's all of the Hertz.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's an audio illusion that's somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion


instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone

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