It’s actually an infinitesimal chance per subatomic particle, so if it does happen it’s actually more likely you’ll only be partway through the wall before your luck runs out.

And if that weren’t existential dread enough, the same applies to walking on floors.

Floating in space seems safe right about now.

… except that quantum tunnelling can happen without anything in the way. Any one or more of the particles that make up a person can spontaneously resolve its wave function elsewhere in the universe.

But the odds of any of this happening, especially in a massive object with interlinked wave functions, are so close to zero they might as well be.

Dr Becky (aka Dr Rebecca Smethurst) for Astrophysics / Space news.

Any of the channels run by Brady Haran like Numberphile and Periodic Videos.

Most of my other picks have been mentioned already or else lean into spectacle which might not be appreciated by a 12-year-old girl. (Quite a few of the chemistry channels I watch are like this. In order of decreasing silliness: Nile Blue / Nile Red, Labcoatz, Amateur Chemistry, Chemical Force… Actually CF is pretty good by comparison.)

But I’m not you or your daughter. Check them out anyway and see if either of you likes what you see.

Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, 1919.

This case found and entrenched in US law that the primary purpose of a corporation is to operate in the interests of its shareholders.

Therefore OpenAI, based in California, would be under threat of lawsuit if they didn’t do that.

This goose is already cooked.

Language evolves. Ð/ð made it into the very early Old English alphabet, but it didn’t last long and was supplanted by Þ/þ for both soft and hard sounds.

Bear in mind that very few people were literate at that time, and that there are very few, if any, words that were distinguished by the need of an ð (I mean, we get by just fine with “th” for both sounds), so those who could write, simplified.

S and Z have a similar kind of relationship, and we harden S in places we might otherwise expect a Z, just like what happened with Þ. One of, if not the main reason Z has managed to stick around in English is because of its use in loanwords from other languages, and we’re now so familiar with them we don’t even think of them as foreign. And likewise Z itself.

Freedom to kiss Putin’s ring? What more could you want?

The closest I get is the “release” or “drop” or similarly hard to describe thing that I could do when trapped on a hot bus on hot days that allowed me to handle the heat, but it only worked every so often.

I imagine I was triggering a change in blood pressure through conscious vascular relaxation or similar. Or maybe I was just fooling myself. But it gave a few moments of reprieve from the oppressive heat and allowed a reset before I started boiling again. (Getting off the bus would have meant being out, walking, in cooler air, but under the hot sun for even longer.)

We don’t get hot weather a lot in the UK (even if it is increasing in frequency) and even more rarely have I found myself on a bus during the brunt of it, so it’s not exactly something I have much need or opportunity to practise.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s some kind of control over the “blood runs cold” fear response. That would fit with my psychology, tbh.

Blame the time vortex and an information paradox called Bad Wolf.

- or “wibbly wobbly timey wimey… stuff” if you prefer.

Dolphins evolved from land mammals just like we did. Kick that fish and there won’t be any dolphins.

The DDR4 sticks I got 18 months ago now cost 300-400% the price they were, so it’s not just DDR5.

… and I just realised the title doesn’t actually mean “DDR5 prices”, but that was an easy misinterpretation on my part, so I guess I’ll post this anyway.

That’s why you have that in a different wallet elsewhere on your person.

In my case, the card wallet goes inside my jacket, and the cash wallet goes in my back trouser pocket. And in the front pocket if I think pickpockets are likely.

They were on Godpigeon business. Or helping out a dog. One of the two.

mineral oil […] innocuous

From an electrical standpoint, sure.

From the standpoint of making an enormous mess if it escapes, it’s very much not.

Don’t put an official government ID in there. A separate card wallet is always a good plan. Put any card IDs in there instead.

Do put a card in there with your name and contact details along with name and contact details of next of kin. If your wallet didn’t come with such a card, any old bit of cardboard or folded paper will do, so long as it doesn’t look like a joke.

Doing that saved my bacon once or twice, or at least I assume that’s how the people who found me knew who to contact.

As for what money to put in there, amounts and so on, it’s going to depend on how often you pay cash, how much you pay when you do, and how much you’d be OK with losing if you lost your wallet (or worse).

Did you miss the part where I said “It’s not there as an alternative.” or are you being deliberately obtuse?

The point of them putting Discord itself into their page of Discord alternatives. It’s not there as an alternative. It’s there for comparison purposes.

You missed the point. They’re using it as a baseline (literally their word), a basis for comparison, a control (in the sense of experiment) if you will, before leaping off into the alternatives.

At first glance, sure. But then, strength in conviction and leadership mean nothing if you’re strongly leading your people and your country into ruin.

Ah. Graphic novel. Close enough, I suppose. Carry on.

(Take this as you please. I’m no moderator.)

Nice art, but I’m not sure it’s a comic strip.

This sounds like my experience before I burned out. And while I was in the process of burning out, I still would have preferred to work from the office because home was, and is, my safe space. I don’t want work intruding there.

This does not mean that I haven’t worked from home - I was the on-call tech more than once, nor does it mean that I think WFH is a bad idea. In fact I’m all for it for those who can handle it.

I like the idea of unnecessary layers of manglement sweating because they can’t justify their existence through pointless micromanagement.