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usualsuspect191

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  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • Sorry, it being 2026 now was making be constantly think of 2025 in the past instead of the "future"

  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • You're right, after some further thought I forgot one rule that I use. Will edit to fix this.

    To answer your question, the February that had recently passed would just be "February" until later in the year (likely when February 2025 would be closer or similar distance to the past one) it would shift to "last February" or "back in February". It would be "next February" until the end of the year, then "this February" once into the new year.

  • xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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  • "This Thursday" is the closest Thursday coming up, "next Thursday" is the next one after that. The exception is if you're already passed "Thursday" that week, then it's "next Thursday" until the new week starts.

  • The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep

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  • Seems to align with my personal experience that turning on the filter (but also really turning down the brightness more than the default settings on the phone allow) makes me fall asleep sooner, but that could easily be from just training myself over time that this is the signal to start the sleep shutdown process.

  • How magical

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  • Poor Guy, that was his retirement bird seed

  • No fear!

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  • Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don't understand survivorship bias?

  • 'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

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  • Again, talking about safety, not fires. Not only does number of fires not necessarily mean more dangerous: the fires could be on average smaller and/or easier to escape from, or maybe they tend to happen while unoccupied (block heater fires for example) etc. but also EVs could be more dangerous in other ways (they are heavier so maybe harder to avoid certain types of incidents?) so it'd be a wash even though they're less likely to burn.

    Additionally, rates are a better way of looking at these things I agree, but ignoring sample size and use case can miss part off the story. That might not be free case here, it's just worth keeping in mind.

  • Progress

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  • 'Man' is often used in the same way as 'mankind'

    Yes, which is why without the "a" it doesn't work. "A small step for mankind, one giant leap for mankind" is nonsensical.

    He was saying he (a man) was literally taking a step with his leg, but it was a figuratively large step for the species because of where/how he was taking that step.

  • A super-human attention span

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  • The beauty of a time machine though is even if you take a really long time to build it, you can just go back and build it faster.

  • Progress

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  • It "works" in that we know what he meant, but it literally doesn't work without the "a".

  • Progress

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  • Didn't NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?

    Edit: hmmm, maybe not

  • Progress

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  • Didn't NASA confirm a little while back that it was likely a transmission issue?

  • 'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

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  • Of course, but we're talking safety here. The claim is that ICE vehicles are less safe than EVs. I'm wondering how that is since all of the safety features will be essentially the same.

    If you're saying one has a higher risk of fire injury I'd love to see the stats on that as fires for either type are pretty rare.

  • 'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars

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  • Wait, how? Aren't they essentially the same except heavier?

  • Cooties can kill!

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  • Obviously it would give you mono, not meningitis (it's the kissing disease after all).

    The real danger is that cooties can lay dormant in your nervous system and flare up again when you're older. That's why it's very important to get circle circle dot dot vaccinated.

    Edited: mono for mumps because I'm a dummy

  • Scotty at play

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  • You beamed it, you steamed it

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  • Better than before the call

  • Strange things are afoot at the Walter Reed

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  • I'm not saying it's completely correct but just suspiciously better than usual. Like, a student that always gets Ds and Fs getting a B-

  • Poorly drawn guys club

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  • Arabian sand boa