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Title text:
People say setting of fireworks indoors is dangerous, but I looked at their energy release and it's like 10^-40 foe; totally negligible.
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3208/
I imagine "snews" would be pronounced kind of like "snooze", so it's funny that it's intended to be the polar opposite of an alarm snooze :)
Thanks! I missed the double entendre
Actually snews are just snake news
To understand the "title text" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foe_(unit)
Foe is a unit to describe the amount of energy released by supernovae.