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Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for Sun, 11 May 2025

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Loose Parts by Dave Blazek on Sun, 11 May 2025

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gordol
7 days ago
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A staff infection is when the workforce gets sick.
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Jupiter Core

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Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.
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gordol
18 days ago
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The real question is, how many licks does it take to get to the center?
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malcolmredheron
12 days ago
You can't lick a badger twice
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18 days ago
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Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System.

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for Tue, 29 Apr 2025

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Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis on Tue, 29 Apr 2025

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gordol
19 days ago
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I have lost books that way before.
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Believe In Me Who Believes In You

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a tiny, angry fiddle

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gordol
20 days ago
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Why does Martin always close his eyes when smiling?
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Decay Chain

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If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.
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gordol
45 days ago
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I dunno, there's a reason the iPhone 7 was my last iPhone.
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jonathanpeterson
45 days ago
Mine was a 6s. No headphone jack, no thanks. Sadly, it's now impossible to find on android as well, but I'm not going back.
gordol
44 days ago
I think at least some of the non-Flagships still have it, and SD card slots. Odd, that. Me, I don't actually miss the headphone jack as I had already gone all BT for headsets.
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45 days ago
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If you have an old phone in a drawer, and you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the occasional tap of an emitted SIM card hitting the side of the drawer as the phone transmutes to a lower-end model.

Planet Definitions

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Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.
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gordol
64 days ago
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Guess I'm an "Expansive" per this chart. "Planet" is still in the classification of Pluto, it is not a satellite of another planetary body, is spherical by its own gravity, and orbits the star. It's a goddammed PLANET regardless of its size.
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Spike_B
62 days ago
Your argument is technically correct, which just demonstrates that instead of demoting Pluto, IAU should've made Pluto a category. So while Pluto is the largest Pluto in the solar system, the most massive Pluto is Eris, which is about 27% more massive than Pluto.
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jepler
64 days ago
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shouldn't the sun be included with "lunar"? (alternately: OK smart ass now define "moon"!)
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
alt_text_bot
65 days ago
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Under the 'has cleared its orbital neighborhood' and 'fuses hydrogen into helium' definitions, thanks to human activities Earth technically no longer qualifies as a planet but DOES count as a star.
fallinghawks
64 days ago
How about, the more moons it has, the more of a planet it is
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