When my sister bought a couch, it wouldn’t fit and so the building super “helped” her by ripping half of it to pieces in order to get it into her apartment. Then she made me put it all back together, which was rather challenging. At least the upholstery was still in one piece.

I’ll have my revenge years from now when my sister wants to get rid of the couch. She’ll try to break it up again and she’ll realize that I put it together using heavy-duty screws rather than the little nails that the factory had used. That thing is not coming apart again.

It’s OK folks, this isn’t what you think. Actually he swallowed that porcupine whole.

So no proof of P != NP. Too bad.

That calculator only has “NP” labeled on the top right switch, but I saw another similar one that had the other setting labeled “P”. What is that switch for? It’s really funny in the context of computer science.

I can’t think of any. It’s hard to be a better sequel than the greatest action movie of all time is.

If I had to pick, I would say The Empire Strikes Back.

The feeling I have for Pikachu must remain hidden.

Well technically you can neglect anything you want.

Sorry, I only date women who would prefer to wear the French maid outfit themselves.

I was surprisingly old (about 10 or 11) before I understood on an emotional level that “everybody dies” meant that the people I cared about would die. Before that time, I could have logically reasoned that these people were a part of “everyone” but I still felt like they would live forever.

What I’m saying is that I think it’s realistic that Simba knew that if there was a new king then the old king was dead, but he never really thought about what that meant about his own life.

What are the official policies of midwest.social and of lotrmemes regarding comments like that?

I wouldn’t use an instance on which support for this killing was official policy, but I can respect the decision of an instance admin to permit expressions of support (and of opposition) out of a commitment to facilitating free speech, as long as lotrmemes itself is not a place where such expressions are allowed. I would rather not see any sort of divisive real-world issues discussed in this particular community.

For CQ aerial B.

The article is interesting but it just adds to the long list of erratic, megalomaniacal behavior by Musk that I assume most people here are already familiar with.

My uneducated guess is that he’s mentally ill. Some sort of chronic mania or psychosis, perhaps as a result of bad luck but perhaps as a result of drug use or severe, long-term sleep deprivation. Then even in his lucid moments, he’s the bad kind of perfectionist (the kind that can’t bear to have flaws) and too proud to recognize that he has a problem or that he made a mistake.

They’re supposed to be the Two Trees from the Silmarillion.

That’s disfavorable of Trump? I thought it was one of his main talking points.

I guess it would be disfavorable if it referred to 2024 rather than 2020, but claiming 2024 was rigged doesn’t seem to be a big thing so I expect that most of the search results would have been about 2020.

Edit: I was laughing at my own joke so much that I had to make it a separate post too.

It’s ok because she’s not very mature for her age.

If you could grant wishes and people kept bothering you, how long would it take before you started messing with them just because it was funny?

If I were a genie, I would grant people’s wishes without any twists (usually) but then I would also turn the people into funny animals. It’s not what they wished for but who said I can’t do anything except grant wishes?

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

You mean white breasted purple tit.

a Christmas tree of error codes

I’m a programmer and I still try to avoid appliances with a computer in them. It’s impossible to avoid every sort of computer unless you buy vintage stuff, but something like a microwave with a digital timer is still OK. However, something with wifi or a display showing more than the basic seven-symbol characters is out.

The old stuff is often not just less annoying but works better. For example, my old washer/dryer each took about 20 minutes for a standard cycle. My friend’s fancy new ones take an hour. Dishwashers have the same issue. I expect that the modern ones use less water and electricity, but I don’t think the savings would be worth the inconvenience even if they used none at all.