My brian autocorrected this headline for me.

Shrek vibes

Though I’m generally familiar with the process of mining, I wasn’t clear how noise could be such a problem. TIL:

A single mining machine can produce sound levels of 70 to 90 decibels (dB), comparable to a vacuum cleaner or a busy street. When aggregated in large-scale operations, the noise can be heard over long distances and has led to health complaints and legal challenges from nearby residents.

Peppa FTW!

I just took a picture of one of these recently! No touchy though.

I don’t think most cats like wearing things. When our cat got spayed we were worried she was licking the stitches too much and put a sock on her. She just fell over and stayed like this. She rated it 0/10, was not a fan.

I like irony here that the headline focuses on the “closed on Sunday” bit rather than a vending machine provided by a company that specializes in fried chicken in a place where health is important.

Tangentially related great sci-fi short story: “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

This is silly, whales don’t fold towels. /s

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/612/

Relevant Simpsons: https://youtu.be/Nth4RqqmQZ4

My favorite quote:

“When tardigrades begin to dry out, they start making these proteins at very, very high levels, essentially filling the inside of their cells with these weird, disordered, floppy proteins,”

A sculpture in Berlin called “Politicians discussing global warming”

Source: https://cementeclipses.com/portfolio/follow-the-leaders/

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

Right in the feels.

Poor guy doesn’t look relaxed.

The peasants are asleep. Now we dance on the winds of our blades!

This guy is great. He does one on the word sh!t too. https://youtu.be/igh9iO5BxBo

Physics? Where we’re going, we don’t need physics!

The eyes want chaos.