One of my favourite stories is the accidental discovery of synthetic purple dye. IIRC there was a chemist researching something completely unrelated and when he disposed some assorted chemicals down a sink he noticed they turned purple.

I just cannot comprehend how anyone can look at post brexit UK and think "yes, I want the same for my country"

fast forward ~~motion~~ moving picture experts group

I know this is a shitpost community, but you can always learn something new everyday

edit: corrected

thanks, the paper won't be sad anymore!

Teams also sets itself to autostart with Windows, even if you choose not to, or diabale it from the startup manager, it overrides it upon next launch.

It's the only software I've ever seen doing that crime against humanity.

it's a GUI for yt-dlp

I visited Melbourne almost 10 years ago and I went to a place that had 4 individual toilets, instead of labeling man and woman, they were labeled as the Pokemon Go teams

According to a local I meet there they would change the signs every now and then and last month they were labeled after the Harry Potter houses.

moral of the story, all single occupant toilets are gender neutral by default

A pancake is a cake you make in a pan.

It broke my mind when I learned that one

SanDisk has an entire line of USB C thumb drives, they are my to-go choice

well, if you ever dealt with DPD then you'll know the bot is not wrong

4. It happened to my country subreddit. The moderator migrated to lemmy and locked down the sub in protest to the api changes. An admin forced it open and it's now a cesspool of facsists and ring wing idiots.

yes