LOGIC💣

That is definitely true in some of my dreams.

They tried something that was 5% noodles, 5% vegetables, and 90% water, and decided that the result was water.

if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?

No, it has virtually no chance to help you, and most probably can only hurt you.

First, it kills indiscriminately. If you’re not sick, what are you killing? Your own healthy gut flora. That’s what.

Second, what if you are slightly ill? Guess what? It still probably won’t help. Doctors don’t just throw penicillin at you in random amounts. They prescribe a specific dose that has been shown to be effective. Having one untested dose of unknown quantity isn’t going to help.

Third, when you’re given antibiotics, you are told to take it over a number of days, and to take the entire amount, even if you feel better. They do this for several reasons, but one of the reasons is that, if you only kill some of the bacteria, but not enough of them, the remaining bacteria have a small chance to evolve to become resistant to antibiotics. By taking antibiotics without the guidance of a doctor, you have a small chance of making yourself even more ill with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I want to emphasize that this is a very small chance, but unlikely things will happen when given enough chances.

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A lot of the highway department’s budget goes to adjusting the sign whenever the moon passes directly overhead.

The sign on the left is mounted on a pole that extends 10 ft 6 in above the ground.

Welcome to Cretaceous Park!

I’ve seen videos of horses and deer eating small animals. I don’t remember which was which but one just picked like a pigeon up off the ground and started chewing.

Anyways, the point is that the herbivores we know today will often eat meat if it’s an easy meal. There’s no reason to think that a brachiosaurus would be any different.

Remember that story that some egghead science person decided to look closely at their own back yard and discovered a bunch of new species?

This reminds me of that. We’d assume that it’s more rare to find some unknown animals in the sea than it is to find some unknown animals in your suburban backyard. Or at least I would think that’s a natural way to think. But it’s really not that different. If you walk through your backyard, you might step on an animal that is rarer than the chirodectes maculatus.

Wikipedia continues to not disappoint:

The name ‘hellbender’ probably comes from the animal’s odd look. One theory claims the hellbender was named by settlers who thought “it was a creature from hell where it’s bent on returning.” Another rendition says the undulating skin of a hellbender reminded observers of “horrible tortures of the infernal regions.” In reality, it’s a harmless aquatic salamander.

And this:

Other vernacular names include snot otter, lasagna lizard, devil dog, mud-devil, mud dog, water dog, grampus, Allegheny alligator, and leverian water newt.

Lots of fabulous nicknames there.

A seagull alone may be dumb and have very little memory of the past, but I am sure that A Flock of Seagulls can remember all the way back to the 1980s.

As you say, the question presented to Fry doesn’t mention a question at all. Only an answer. So, you could make an argument that any answer could be the answer to something, and therefore you’d have to choose a 100% chance, which isn’t an option.

On the other hand, it asks for the chance of “picking the correct one”, clearly meaning “the correct answer”. So, as there is no answer that is the correct answer to everything, the correct choice would be 0%, which is an option.

I think it would be immensely instructive to have another, similar map that reflected the most popular time period for human zoos, but which showed the number of zoos of any type each country had.

I suspect the lack of human zoos in the countries on this map does not stem from a modern style of moral outrage, which is indicated by “this is crazy”, “never”, and “wtf?”, and instead reflects a lack of zoos, in general.

They should be required to keep a comprehensive database about any dog whose alert could be used as probable cause. Every time they alert, and whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Every time they are rewarded by their trainer. Every time they are tested and retrained.

Once the data is available, it will be extremely useful even if the police fake the data, because it will most likely be possible to tell that it’s fake.

I have to agree.

And actually, the pattern they talk about in the article happens in every generation, anyways. People’s values seem to change as they get older. But I think they don’t really change.

I think if you look into the issue, you’ll find that a lot of people don’t really have political beliefs. They just have selfishness and greed.

When they’re young and poor, it manifests as left leaning because they want the government to give them money, and after they’ve accumulated whatever money they can, it manifests as right leaning because they still want the government to give them money.

The first couple of paragraphs are about the UK, but then it says

Across the Atlantic, the pattern repeats. Average IRA balances for Boomers (ages 60–78) hover around $271,105, compared to just $111,524 for Gen X (ages 44–59).

Looking at the article, they don’t actually say, “in America.” They only say “across the Atlantic.” Seems a bit unclear to me, so I understand how you missed it. But most of the article is about America.

I don’t know what the deal is with people who say that. They’re good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they’re good or not. You don’t really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they’re all eaten.

Did they say that the chef made them close their eyes before tasting it?

They did a study one time, and in that study, at least, owners couldn’t tell from their dogs’ behavior alone whether any particular dog did anything naughty.

The people who conducted the study suspected that this is because the dogs weren’t acting differently because of what happened while their owners were away. They were acting differently based on how their owners were acting when they returned.

Given the explanation that says “you included”, I’m guessing that the original joke was both the people said, “I’m not gay”, and then they look at you, the reader, making you the one out of three people who is gay.

It’s basically the same joke I heard a comedian tell about San Francisco in probably the 1980s. “Look to your left. Look to your right. If they’re not gay, you are.” I’m guessing the joke is way older than that, though. It doesn’t work today because the majority of us all finally agreed that “You’re gay” isn’t an insult.

Also, juvenile birds look bigger than usual when they have their mouths open for feeding.

I suspect it’s an evolutionary adaptation to be the biggest target for food.