Let me see if I can explain it to you: Nerds don't have a problem with women; they have a problem with change. I'll give you an example: Nerds are upset at black stormtroopers in the new Star Wars movie. Do they have a problem with stormtroopers being black? No. They have a problem with you changing their definition of a stormtrooper. I'll be a little clearer: If the first time you introduce oatmeal to a nerd it has maple syrup in it, it better have maple syrup every fucking time, or it's not oatmeal.

– Larry Wilmore, on the closed-mindedness of sci-fi fans.

It has also been suggested that the average temperature has actually lowered over time due to the average person harboring fewer parasites at any given time.

That, of course, is due to better standards of hygiene, food, and sanitation.

WiFi Direct is a thing

Rock Apparently Factors Into Girlfriend’s Shower Routine

The manufacture of 2.5 years of disposable diapers has a lower carbon footprint than the energy usage to launder cloth diapers over the same time period.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/291130/scho0808boir-e-e.pdf

Nobody really uses Kubernetes for day-to-day work, and it shows.

Wat.

Betazed intelligence? That makes sense. There has surely been a thread or two asking why that wasn't a thing.

Laughed out loud at the disappointed Romulans. It was cheap, but I still adored it.

I am proud of all of you

AnD wHaTs ThE dEaL wItH aIrLiNe FoOd? Am I rIgHt?

For anyone who came here without reading the article to comment about the impending effects of climate change on coffee yields, do note that this proposes using spent (i.e. already used) coffee grounds. SCG currently end up in landfills and eventually get turned into carbon dioxide and methane.

Fountain soda typically uses a higher ratio of syrup to water. This is in anticipation of some ice melt.

Sheesh, you could barely floss between those houses!