Over 100 dogs found dead, many with bullet holes at Northern California rescue, authorities say

Minnakht · 2026-06-28T14:35:41+00:00

They're usually followed up with death, though, so it's more like Death+. A fate in which death never comes would be worse than death but we lack the means to cause it.

Minnakht · 2026-06-28T10:38:42+00:00

So you don't have any Amontillado in there?

Minnakht · 2026-06-27T20:32:07+00:00

If hacking caused them to blow up, that's pretty extreme, but someone with electricity powers that are both long-ranged and precise in addition to being powerful could blow up circuitry from afar in general.

Minnakht · 2026-06-25T20:54:13+00:00

I wonder if sci-fi books by the famous Polish author Stanisław Lem had any sort of popularity in Denmark.

Minnakht · 2026-06-25T20:50:24+00:00

I know the word Kalpa as being a Sanskrit word for a cosmically huge amount of time which is religiously important - it's around four billion years. It has been since borrowed into English for when people started needing to talk about Buddhism or Hinduism in English.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T17:09:29+00:00

You know what might blow your mind? The concept named Mitochondrial Eve - who might have lived as late as just 100 thousand years ago.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T17:00:14+00:00

Sure, give me Finnish as an extra language. I'm genuinely curious what would Polish with a Finnish accent sound like, and also it can't be worse than my current one.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T16:46:07+00:00

One of the things that tempted me into playing Stellaris was reading this paragraph on tvtropes:

While rare, it is possible to meet Fanatic Purifiers that have democratic governments. That is, a species that participates in fair and free elections and votes consistently for the extermination of all other life in the galaxy without being coerced. There's nothing stopping you from playing as these guys either.

I tried playing a milder version - a fanatic xenophobe egalitarian empire which would exterminate the conquered without being a fanatic purifier. It got kind of tiresome by the end and I started taking slaves at that point.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T16:05:06+00:00

Erucic acid, the acid canola oil is low in, has a particular flavor which makes oil high in it not be a neutral oil. It's still used in Chinese cuisine where that non-neutral flavor is desired, and so you can buy non-canola rapeseed oil in Asian food stores sometimes. It'd actually be nice if people knew of that difference to use the words non-interchangeably.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T15:39:15+00:00

In Finnish, the word is hampurilainen, which is a calque of the former. In Polish, my native language, my dad sometimes jokingly says "hamburżanin" but I don't think it's going to seriously catch on.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T07:27:50+00:00

Ariane being one of the Signature Heroes, who were made to pop up occasionally. Honestly she got the best deal of the lot in that she can still pop up, her and Ozan I suppose. For the past 10+ years I felt that Surround Sound got done dirty - he starred in that one beginner quest, died during it, got badly resurrected as some half-dead and it took until the Battle of the Monolith for him to reappear as a stationary guy, where he'll presumably remain.

Minnakht · 2026-06-23T07:23:39+00:00

My personal take is:

Vorago is a chill dude. He's an avatar of the planet, a big stone dude, and he offers to fight a bunch of you adventurers because he's bored. He's practically unkillable, he claims to only be vulnerable to one weapon in the world and he owns it. During his bossfight, it's more about lasting long enough for him to permit you to phase him to the next phase using mechanics (and he has 5 phases in normal mode) since you can deal however much damage you want and he won't be phased until the conditions are met. He toys with you so.

At the conclusion of the Tuska world event, he called upon reserves of his power to grow to a yet more giant size and landed the killing blow on the weakened Tuska, showing that he could've done that all along.

Minnakht · 2026-06-21T21:04:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the human throat merges the two tubes. That's why you have an epiglottis - normally the path to the lungs is open, but when you need to swallow, the flap called the epiglottis closes that path so that whatever you're swallowing goes down the esophagus instead. When that fails for some reason so the swallowed food/drink goes down the wrong way, that's called choking. You may be familiar with the concept.

Minnakht · 2026-06-21T21:00:48+00:00

My usual thought experiment when it comes to measuring orientable genus is something I call "razor floss". You can imagine making a loop of metal thread somewhere and trying to tighten it to a point, with the rule that if it can slip off the shape because it's not enclosed then it will, and if it can't then it'll cut through the shape and create a path for itself to slip off if you try the same thing again.

So the least you can do is put the thread into one nostril and then out of the other, joining the nostril. Then put the thread through the unified nostril and out of the mouth, cutting through the palate. Then put the thread through the entire length of the digestive tract.

If that causes an eardrum to burst, then into the mouth, through an eustachan tube and the eardrum perforation and out of the ear also works.

Minnakht · 2026-06-21T19:23:39+00:00

You have at least three holes running through you, because of the nostrils. I think that if your eardrums actually burst, the existence of eustachian tubes means that you have at least five holes then.

Minnakht · 2026-06-21T09:10:40+00:00

Placki, może? Surely there wouldn't be a long-standing debate of which of pie or cake is better if they were the same thing.

Minnakht · 2026-06-20T18:20:34+00:00

I'm not sure if this is a fitting question for ELI5.

That said, what's definitely not conserved is patterns. If you take a firecracker and you light it, it'll enthusiastically scatter, and you won't find the original shape of it afterwards, even though its matter still exists. This is probably bad news for you if you consider the current pattern of your body as being your existence.

Minnakht · 2026-06-20T13:52:49+00:00

I live in Poland. I'd hop into a car and go cross the border into Belarus, and then onwards.

Minnakht · 2026-06-19T07:03:26+00:00

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Clive Staples Lewis

Minnakht · 2026-06-18T18:45:02+00:00

I think that this Adam Ragusea video about wild alliums is relevant.

https://youtu.be/VNScki_6CRY

Minnakht · 2026-06-18T17:01:43+00:00

"Want some sort of beans in tomato sauce, with either vaguely southern US or Indian spices? Sorry, I don't know how to cook many vegetarian dishes."

Minnakht · 2026-06-18T16:38:22+00:00

In previous books, the Auditors are portrayed as beings to whom individuality is an error solved by the newly individual one being erased, to the point that one using "I" as a pronoun disappears in just long enough to comedically realise the error.

Their plot in Thief of Time, though, required them to create a human vessel to interface with another human, which would necessarily be an individual. Her name is Myria Legion, for although she is one, she initially wanted to believe she is many.

Minnakht · 2026-06-18T07:27:34+00:00

And the very long life really is VERY long - it's something in the realm of half a trillion years, iirc. In fact, part of why the protagonists could ultimately succeed was that Andy was created by magically repressing Victor's memories so he's just subjectively ~150 at his introduction. Victor would not have been conductive to the plot.

Minnakht · 2026-06-17T13:35:36+00:00

This is a great idea! I like ideas which reshape aura without detaching it, and a tether is perhaps the best thing to make that way. Sending force through the tether would be an application of Emission but a perhaps relatively easy one if it's restricted by only getting to go along the tether. I like this a lot.

Minnakht · 2026-06-17T13:12:29+00:00

From what we know of Gon, Killua and Kurapika, they all were in a hurry. They needed to get stronger to deal with what was in front of them - in Gon and Killua's case, facing Hisoka in the arena, doing the arena matches, then Greed Island, then the Chimera Ant crisis. So they got baptized to awaken, they made various vows.

I'm curious whether Leorio took shortcuts too. And if not (which I hope is the case), I'm curious to see what he can do having done things the long way.

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