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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • Two households, not alike in dignity,
    The fediverse, is where we lay our scene,
    From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where civil bits make civil hands unclean.
    From forth the brooding loins of these two foes
    A pair of star-cross’d lovers go offline;
    Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
    Doth with their absence bury their parents’ strife.
    The fearful passage of their [removed] love,
    And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
    Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
    Is now the twelve hours’ traffic of our post;
    The which if you with patient eyes attend,
    What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.








  • Top performing sprinters accelerate faster that 1g, so slightly increasing the gravity would probably make them faster on very short distances.
    For long distances it would probably be some low gravity jumping limited by the relative speed between foot and torso that you can create before touching the ground and decelerate before overextending the leg.


  • To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand xkcd. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer’s head. There’s also blackhats nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from early internet forums, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they’re not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE.