Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here’s NASA’s recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/

The blast blasted blubber beyond believable bounds.

It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.

I use my laptop for data processing, but most of my tasks can be adequately handled from my phone. There are days when I don’t open my computer when I get home from work.

My daughter listens to music while brushing teeth as a form of pleasant timer. We have been through the entire Weird Al discography (but had to listen to a few of the longer ones when not brushing teeth). Teenage me would approve.

Despite their size, steam engines do not typically disrupt my workflow.

Piercing damage. They have a bow, so the group could shoot 13 arrows at +4 to hit, each with 1d6+2 damage.

I read primary scientific literature for work. If I am reading for leisure, fantasy is the absolute best. I can’t waste my time reading nonfiction.

Like when our dog died, my dad tanned the hide, wore it as a cape, and played with the other dog?

I mainly use Lemmy. Reddit for search results, haven’t seen the home page in years. Never had Twitter or Instagram or TikTok. Still watch a lot of YouTube, mostly for either chess content or movie reviews, sometimes tutorials or professional lectures. Use Facebook for talking to exactly two friends.

Logged into Facebook the other day and saw a friend request. The name was familiar, but not exactly, so I checked the profile. Soon realized he was my ex-girlfriend.

Thousands of dollars for your books? Three books hardly counts as a collection.

I just finished marking student reports. There are some sections clearly written without AI, some that clearly are written by AI, and then some sections where the ideas are correct, the grammar is perfect, and it is on topic, but it doesn’t seem like it is written in the student’s voice. Could be AI, could be a friend editing, could be plagiarism, could be written long before or after the surrounding paragraphs. It is not always obvious, and the edge cases are the problem.

Perfect grammar and slightly unusual words in a paragraph. Could be a weird formulation from a student’s mind, could be AI. No way to really know.

I am nearly twice your age. Pretty much everybody has been through a version of what you are experiencing. Two things you must know.

1: You had a relationship that was valuable enough to you that losing it hurt. That is special in itself, and you need to consider the good thing that you had. Seeing a concert is ephemeral, but you remember the music and performance positively. Think of the relationship this way, also.

2: Give yourself time to mourn. Mourning is natural, and it is a process, but there is an endpoint. Many have walked this path and come out on the other end.

You are young, and you will have many more experiences in your life. Some positive, some negative. But your life is far from over.

Take a day, go for a long walk at the beach or park or nature trail. Cry, weep, wail, knash your teeth. Then move on.

1. The Colour of Magic
2. The Light Fantastic
3. Everything else

You need to read more Terry Pratchett.

Of course, everyone does.

You misread the first sentence.

Media during the election:

Kamala said “from” instead of “to” – does she have what it takes to lead the country?

Next up, how ripping apart trade agreements while pretending to be a truck driver is the what America needs.

China has a very large capita.

Watched last night on Disney+. I could swear that the nail went all the way through his foot, but in the streaming version, he pulls back as soon as the pointy end hits his food. Don’t know if that was edited or if my memory is faulty.