!showerthoughts@lemmy.world would also be appropriate, though the mods might disagree.

The Eagle Line supertrain will revolutionize train travel in the new century.

Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: https://explainxkcd.com/3080

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Likewise, I avoid Reddit as much as I can; I found the AMA with a web search.

Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

Great post.

Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

The sort of end user that gets common sense stuff wrong is not the sort of end user that would ever have read the documentation anyway 🤷

(For those not from the UK, “butty” is another word for a piece.)

There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.

My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.

This is Stupendemys geographicus from Urumaco, Venezuela, and Rodolfo Sánchez from Coro, Venezuela.

I don’t know anything about insects and spiders, but maybe some sort of running crab spider, e.g. Philodromus cespitum?

I’ve not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It’s made by a Mozilla employee.

Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there’s still plenty of debate). It’s thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.

Copying my comment from a couple of days ago.

In fairness, July and August weren’t inserted, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis, literally the fifth and sixth months of the Roman calendar.

Much earlier, Pompilius (history about whom is largely legendary, and actions attributed to him should be taken with a grain of salt) introduced January and February and set the numbering out of line. These months were previously just lumped in as monthless winter days.

All Julius Caesar did was rebalance the calendar without changing the months. The rename of Quintilis wasn’t even until after he was stabbed.

Gregory XIII then further tweaked it to give us the modern calendar.

Hah, I was just referring to the “pomegranate” message in the OP. In Greek mythology, Zeus’ daughter Persephone was tricked into a marriage with Hades by eating pomegranate seeds.

It’s typically not made from cows’ milk, typically doesn’t dispense drugs, but eating it might possibly consign you to the underworld.

I’ve used the “writing tools” extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.

I’ve also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.

The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.

I’m really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we’ve got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn’t set our expectations too high. I do respect that they’ve not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.

Er, excuse me, it’s an unwritten rule of the internet that if you’re using Old or Middle English, you’ve got to horribly butcher it.

Tarhiel?