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  1. Dear Labour Party,
    How to pick a new leader:
    (1) Don't accidentally pick an agent of an enemy state
    (We all know where that leads.)
    (2) Don't pick anyone with a silly voice
    (3) Don't pick anyone who doesn't ask enough questions
    (4) Don't pick anyone who's ever accepted a bribe or financially abused their position
    (5) Don't pick a thicky - i.e. not a puppet figure
    (6) Do choose an actual fucking socialist

    Corresponding advice applies to the Conservative party.
    #HopeThisHelps

  2. @cardinal_reinhardt
    Moving from pi to tau is an excellent idea but only if the entire world also moves away from base-ten counting to base-twelve and/or base-sixty at the same time.

    #HopeThisHelps #pi #numbers #maths #ClickBait #NumberBase #radix

  3. @cardinal_reinhardt
    Moving from pi to tau is an excellent idea but only if the entire world also moves away from base-ten counting to base-twelve and/or base-sixty at the same time.

    #HopeThisHelps #pi #numbers #maths #ClickBait #NumberBase #radix

  4. @Phangurl
    It was a rather limp and tedious follow up to the eminently superior U.F.O. which I strongly recommend you watch first.
    #HopeThisHelps #UFO #Space1999 #Fanderson #GerryAnderson

  5. @Phangurl
    It was a rather limp and tedious follow up to the eminently superior U.F.O. which I strongly recommend you watch first.
    #HopeThisHelps #UFO #Space1999 #Fanderson #GerryAnderson

  6. @Phangurl
    It was a rather limp and tedious follow up to the eminently superior U.F.O. which I strongly recommend you watch first.
    #HopeThisHelps #UFO #Space1999 #Fanderson #GerryAnderson

  7. @Phangurl
    It was a rather limp and tedious follow up to the eminently superior U.F.O. which I strongly recommend you watch first.
    #HopeThisHelps #UFO #Space1999 #Fanderson #GerryAnderson

  8. @Elira
    I don't think that that is what "asexual" means.
    The Greek prefix "a-", including in its anglicised usage, is essential a negation.
    #English #language #HopeThisHelps

  9. @johncarlosbaez
    (1) If you weigh the gold first, assuming that the abundance of ¹⁴C in the feathers is significantly greater than that of unstable isotopes within the gold, then the gold will appear to come out on top as some carbon will have decayed.

    (2) It depends upon their arrangement. e.g. given a sphere of gold and a 'sphere of feather' resting on a surface at the same altitude, a larger proportion of the feathery material will be experiencing less 'gravitation force'.

    #HopeThisHelps

  10. @cmconseils
    No there isn't.
    The picture shows the Zhuozhou system of 25 toll gates designed to continuously absorb the capacity of the essentially four lane expressway between Beijing and Hong Kong.
    If they only had four toll booths it wouldn't really work, would it?

    #HopeThisHelps #FakeNews #roads

  11. @BlackAzizAnansi
    Yeah, there's a really good audio book running on the radio at the moment. I think it's called something like "The News".
    #HopeThisHelps

  12. @cmconseils
    AFAIAA it's because 'Sean' is Irish, not English.
    'Dean' probably didn't always sound like 'Deen' - we English tend to get quite lazy with vowels after a few centuries.
    (You know, like the French habit of stopping half way through a word. :-) )
    #HopeThisHelps #English

  13. @HannahHowe
    Just to be clear, a lot of these are impossible choices and therefore end up being coin tosses.
    #HopeThisHelps :-)

  14. @halcy
    You could do this yourself by living in a vehicle which perpetually travelled East to West at about 40 mph.
    (If I've got my sums right :-) )
    #HopeThisHelps
    #ChangingTheClocks

  15. @mooseallain.bsky.social
    Probably not, since according to Gell-Mann's own interpretation and pronunciation of Joyce's word, it actually refers to the sound of sea birds, so that would be rather confusing if ducks also quarked. (Especially if said sub-atomic ducks pronounced it correctly - i.e. rhyming with 'pork' and sounding similar to 'quart' (as in 'of beer')).
    #pedantic #quark #ParticlePhysics #physics #GellMann #HopeThisHelps

  16. @aeyeerotica
    COMPLETELY WRONG.
    (Apart from the highly unflattering body you've edited in) it's Dolores Mantez in UFO, c #1970 .
    #HopeThisHelps
    #UFO #Fanderson