A gold hat on a volleyball could replace the royalty at a fraction of the cost.

Nah, just read into it a little and then forgot it afterwards! The first link – the old Reddit thread – was quite helpful.

I was interested in whether this was accurate. I got a similar answer, but I know almost nothing about nuclear fission and math is not my strong suit. Here it is anyway:

The heat capacity of water is fairly linear. At normal atmospheric pressure, it’s 4,200J/kg°C, which means a 300ml mug of water would take 1,260 joules to raise by 1°C and thus 75,600 joules to raise by 60°C.

Fission of a single atomic nucleus of U-235 releases an average of 3.2e-11 joules (0.000000000032). To release 75,600 joules would presumably take fission of 2.3625e+15 atoms (2,362,500,000,000,000 – two quadrillion three hundred sixty-two trillion five hundred billion).

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I’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.

He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough – the ping of Trump’s account seems pandering, but it’s not exactly a million-dollar donation to his inauguration.

10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.

Implies Republicans look to promote small businesses against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.

People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.

Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.

David Malki has been doing it for 22 years, I reckon he knows his limits!

Honestly, the small angular ones that lay larvae on clothing get swatted or electrocuted without a second thought. They fall into the mosquito category.

Everything else gets escorted outside or, if not feasible without risking harm, left to their own devices.

They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks.

Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.

I can personally vouch for this.

It wasn’t just other cultural groups that had other gods – proto-Judaism was polytheistic.

Although she appears to be very young, she was born into a long-lived race of elves and has lived for over a thousand years.

Oh, that old chestnut.

This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

This is a silly argument, but:

at some point they stopped making TV shows and movies set in the past and went to making everything science fiction

At the risk of being cliché, I recommend the original books by Bernard Cornwell!

There’s still a ton of historical media too. From my past three months of watching:

• Gladiator II
• John Adams
• Taboo
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Beneath Hill 60
• When Evil Lurks
• Life is Beautiful
• A Haunting in Venice
• Wolf Hall
• The Terror

Just because she likes to see the giggle doesn’t mean she thinks any less of the other women, she could even hold her in very high regard.

Misogyny aside, there’s nothing in this sentence that is gender-specific other than the pronouns. We should recognize it and call it out regardless.

I like the suggestion that the witch hadn’t cast a spell before this point because they thought it was a social faux-pas. Confrontation anxiety strikes again.