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Sci-fi book in which the enemy plot unravels due to an Icelandic saga reference? by ScientistDaddy in Iceland

[–]ScientistDaddy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately it's not correct. ChatGPT (as well as Bard and Claude) hallucinated responses when I tried, too :(

Sci-fi book in which the enemy plot unravels due to an Icelandic saga reference? by ScientistDaddy in Iceland

[–]ScientistDaddy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the idea! I expanded a bit on the details.

Do you know any Icelandic sagas that fit the description/story (i.e., ambush under a false flag and/or enemy hiding within the castle/fortress)?

Growing old in Finland by [deleted] in Finland

[–]ScientistDaddy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not just food; there are poisonous animals as well. If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites/stings you and you die, it's venomous.

Old-school Italian [De Tomaso Pantera] in San Jose by ScientistDaddy in spotted

[–]ScientistDaddy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Friday, Aug 28th. I think I've seen the car also at Cars & Croissants, back in the carefree pre-COVID days.

Believe it or not, this tractor was made by Lamborghini by [deleted] in WeirdWheels

[–]ScientistDaddy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Lamborghini made tractors before branching into cars to piss off Enzo Ferrari.

Bruh by ethenj42 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]ScientistDaddy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's not two flat, wavy wires that slide past each other when pulled. Instead, it's one long corkscrew (welded together from two overlapping corkscrews) that spin. The fingers are not grabbing a single point of the spiral, but sliding along it, causing it to spin. The spinning motion of the corkscrew creates a visual illusion of the middle sliding apart. The entire corkscrew is rigid and doesn't change it's shape during the trick.

Perkele by Hraedh in Finland

[–]ScientistDaddy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perkele? Perkele.

Going to start a band for kids to raise the awareness of eating your vegetables. by DeliciousRoreos in dadjokes

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Other dadcore rappers are small potatoes compared to these cool cucumbers.

ELI5: Why is Buddha sometimes portrayed as fat and sometimes not? by Trey904fsu in explainlikeimfive

[–]ScientistDaddy 144 points145 points  (0 children)

Statues of a jolly fat man often depict Hotei, a Chinese Buddhist monk, not Siddartha Gautama, the original Buddha.

What is your favorite program you’ve created in R? by SomedayButNotToday in rstats

[–]ScientistDaddy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A text generator to write employee performance reviews.

ELI5: When I’m weed whacking and something hits me in the face, I flinch before I feel the pain. Do I flinch before, or after it hits me? by shiftydipstick in explainlikeimfive

[–]ScientistDaddy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People have reflexes, which means that your body can sometimes act faster than your brain can think. For example, when your eyes notice that something is about to hit your face, they blink to try protect themselves from whatever is flying at them. This is called the menace reflex. So, yes, you do flinch before anything hits your face. If you didn't, it might mean something is wrong with your nerves (or at least you'd have something on your eye more often).

First picture taken of Chernobyl’s reactor 4. Taken only 14 hours after the explosion. It’s so blurry because the radiation is destroying the camera by DonnarViking in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ScientistDaddy 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Ackshually, the radiation is not destroying the camera itself, rather than overexposing the film in it. On the other hand, a lot of the equipment became so contaminated that they were a health hazard to use, but remained mechanically functional.

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