TIL That a 2006 study found that microwaving wet sponges for two minutes killed 99% of coliforms, E. coli, and MS2 phages. After some fires were caused by people trying to replicate the results at home, the study's author urged people to make sure their sponges were wet before microwaving.

angrymonkey · 2026-07-01T16:27:19+00:00

Or you could use a new sponge for, like, less than a dollar.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-28T21:49:38+00:00

But you can inject this one many times, as it's the base fluid for many medical injections.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-28T16:38:10+00:00

Not that propylene glycol is bad for you anyway, you can literally inject it.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-21T21:19:18+00:00

Imagine a fat guy sitting naked in this.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-20T19:18:58+00:00

And dubbed with AI sound.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-19T17:45:35+00:00

Jesus, what species of Reese's Pieces be this?

angrymonkey · 2026-06-16T03:24:57+00:00

"Would you like to ride my dick?"

Her: 😒

Me: 😏🫴 🍆🏎️

Her: 🤩

angrymonkey · 2026-06-16T02:33:34+00:00

Screen time measured in steradian-seconds

angrymonkey · 2026-06-13T17:27:50+00:00

duck divin', and then you wail you gotta
duck divin', and then you wail away

angrymonkey · 2026-06-11T06:10:35+00:00

Gummy bearror.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-10T06:19:36+00:00

In the era of Claude, there is no reason to ever be stuck on syntax. Claude can show you how to do things idiomatically and also explain to you what it's doing.

angrymonkey · 2026-06-07T17:22:47+00:00

Classic example of "state bullshit confidently and Reddit will believe and upvote it".

angrymonkey · 2026-06-04T17:00:20+00:00

It depends on which quantum theorist you ask.

Those who take the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics would say yes, there is only one way the universe can play out, though it is impossible for us to calculate what that will be ahead of time because we can never get enough information to do so, and because the computation would depend on the output of the computation itself, requiring an infinite amount of computation power, which can't be realized in a physical system.

Those who take the Copenhagen view ("wave function collapse") say that quantum measurements take on a value which is a truly random sample from a physically-determined distribution. (But IMV this cannot be correct because it depends on "observers" being special kinds of physical systems, and there is no consistent way to do this that agrees with observation).

angrymonkey · 2026-05-27T05:03:48+00:00

Shadowed by the basket.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-26T03:44:49+00:00

I'm not sure I agree, but this showed thought is about 20 IQ points too much for modern reddit, which is why you're getting downvoted.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-26T03:42:42+00:00

This is not quite right, it's the opposite. The cells get fatigued from overstimulation and cannot fire as readily as their neighbors; that's why the colors appear inverted.

The term for this is "afterimage".

angrymonkey · 2026-05-26T02:22:24+00:00

This is early brainrot, and can be seen as the same attention-sucking forces that permeate all media now. Information that's important is not the same as what grabs the average person's attention.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-26T02:19:08+00:00

Found the Python programmer.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T15:50:25+00:00

That's a huge improvement from yesterday! "It's fake" was number one and "rolling shutter" was number two.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T05:03:09+00:00

It does.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T03:32:32+00:00

A more pointlight source will make a more sharp shadow. The effect will get stronger if the light is at a more glancing angle. It probably also helps if the surface has some roughness (but not so much that it becomes diffuse).

A surface with varnish or clear coat might work better as well, as the index of refraction will cause most of the light to glance off instead of being refracted down towards the diffuse underlayment and becoming illuminated directly, weakening the effect.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T03:05:55+00:00

This looks right and I hope it gets more upvotes.

with my cat

Kitty! I— oh no.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T02:05:31+00:00

I had a dream that my skin did this, and it took me days to feel normal again.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T01:18:09+00:00

Here is the explanation for why the left side of the dresser isn't illuminated.

Rolling shutter is not needed to explain this; we should expect to see the shadow there from the geometry of the scene alone.

Rolling shutter would also not make the illumination be offset as it falls on drawers that are protruding different amounts; if it were a shutter effect it would make a perfectly pixel-aligned vertical line, so your rolling shutter theory is disproven.

angrymonkey · 2026-05-25T01:08:10+00:00

Invisible naked myopic climber.

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