Gustephan

Cast iron pizza is the shit, the only other pizza that comes close is a well made Sicilian. I like to stuff a bit of shredded cheddar between the edge of the dough and the side of the pan right before baking; makes it slightly more work to get the pizza out when it's done but it makes a perfect cheese crisp on the crust

I don't think this is loss. I'm ready to eat crow if I'm proven wrong, but I think the real joke is the amount of time people will spend staring at this image and trying to figure out how it's loss

"We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I know perogi are eastern European in origin, but the name feels like a Welsh prank to me. I've seen like 8 or 9 distinct correct ways to spell pierogi, none of which I'd pronounce correctly if I didnt already know how to pronounce the word pierogue. Your piroghi pizza fills me with the jealousy of a man who loves potato and cheese but the rage of a man who hates being made to consider the word pirogi.

The crossbow is what really makes the darts good. Many of my duelist champion runs end up being crossbow dart runs because all of the enemies die before they can get in range of my other weapons. Iirc a +8 crossbow makes untipped darts shoot for like 10-50, and being able to do that with up to 8 infinite durability ammo is cracked

How will this work with the troll blacksmith and reforge upgrades? I'll occasionally get the blacksmith to turn a stack of 3 boomerangs into a single +2 boomerang, will I need to find 9 boomerangs to do the same after the update?

Yep! To both I think? I remember back in like 2021 there was a paper where some team used lasers to induce radiation pressure in a beam of hydrogen and got it to cool down significantly, but I don't remember if they reached or were shooting for absolute 0. My napkin plan was thinking more along the lines of "optical vortex --> optical tweezers --> OAM molecules in the trajectory out of the way" rather than cooling them down. I'm pretty sure optical tweezers have only been achieved in close range lab conditions manipulating a very small number of particles, so the idea of doing it on enough particles to create a flight path and also at the distance you'd want to fire a projectile is probably unhinged

Study (N=16) finds absolutely nothing because their sample size is too small to meaningfully substantiate any conclusion.

Napkin math plan: a really big fucking laser. Use aforementioned big fucking laser to generate optical vortices; with the specific intent of creating a brief localized vaccuum state along the desired trajectory. This will require R&D during building. Concept is similar to how lightning works; "ionize" (or in this case, vaccumize?) a path, then send the payload. From there add in whatever condenser you need to generate solid forms of the substance you want to chuck and some kind of mag lev style launch rails to accelerate it into the vaccuum path. Theoretically if you can create an effective enough vaccuum along the trajectory, you shouldn't have to worry about the payload being affected by drag heating in transit.

Possible? Probably not. Would the government give general atomics a few billion to try anyway? Probably

This blew my mind the first time I experienced it. I thought I just didn't like receiving head for the longest time, because none of my past girlfriends really liked doing it and my pleasure tends to be pretty empathetic. Then I "dated" a woman in an open relationship/swinger situation who actively wanted my dick in her mouth most of the time. The first time she blew me (and honestly also most times after that too) she managed to get me into a full on autistic sensory overload state, like to the point that I was forgetting to breathe. It worked out super well for me because that made her feel like a sex goddess, and she really liked repeating that experience. It was strange because like, I've never felt more submissive in my life than when she had me in her mouth. She could turn me into a lump of playdough with a hopelessly misfiring central nervous system, and I was entirely at her mercy when that happened. I'd still make ruinous life decisions to spend another night in her bed lol

So like, in any real system as x approaches infinity the difference between x and x+2 will fall below measurement error and make x = x+2 functionally true (far field small angle approximation and whatnot.) This kind of situation comes up in optics when you're finding different f points on lenses. I think it's more a case of "both ways to consider that math are useful in different regimes/circumstances." If a student in a proof based math class i was teaching came at me with the graphical explanation I'd tell them to try again, but if one of my junior engineers came to my office with concerns about the difference between x and x+2 at x=50000 or something id take it as an opportunity to teach them why it probably doesn't matter.