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Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago.

https://explainxkcd.com/3081/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

They serve for life (or until resignation), so if someone relatively young is elected pope, the same person will be pope for many decades. The cardinals don't typically want that to happen, so they'll tend to want to elect someone who is probably going to die soon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

look up spelling systems of Gaelic languages (e.g. Irish, Scottish Gaelic), that is not too far off

 

'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.'

https://explainxkcd.com/3079/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

these guys are doing Notepad++ in Qt: https://notepadqq.com/s/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yes; I thought there had been enough news stories about this that this was common knowledge?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think the above user was referring to this: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-private-information

They are no longer making the information public which aircraft belongs to whom, so in the future you might no longer know that any given aircraft belongs to Elon Musk or any other celebrity. You can still track it, but you won't know what aircraft to track.

 

The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

https://explainxkcd.com/3078/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've long been subscribed to [email protected], but I agree with you that it isn't getting a lot of activity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yes it will for those who (like me) are sorting by "new comments"

 

Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people.

https://explainxkcd.com/3077/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Sort by "new comments".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

For my country there is a price comparison website at geizhals.at which is where I usually start. They also seem to be a thing for Germany, the UK, and Poland. Maybe there are similar services for other countries too?

 

When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo.

https://explainxkcd.com/3076/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, you're also one of the few usernames I keep seeing repeatedly.

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