Only things we can glean from that article is that some people think it was a squirrel that fell from a since-removed tree and other than that, no one knows the circumstances, so I think we can still draw the same conclusion!

Living things move, dead things don’t, in the main.

How do you figure, dropped by a bird maybe? There’s no obvious disturbance around it, so it’s a fairly sure bet the frog was dead when it ended up there.

Guess it ended up in the cement mix somehow, died, got embedded in the path as it was laid, and then picked out after the path had set?

The Eagle Line supertrain will revolutionize train travel in the new century.

Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: https://explainxkcd.com/3080

Likewise, I avoid Reddit as much as I can; I found the AMA with a web search.

Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

Great post.

Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

The sort of end user that gets common sense stuff wrong is not the sort of end user that would ever have read the documentation anyway 🤷

On Saturday April 19th he met with Pietro Parolin. This was framed as a snub. On Sunday 20th he met with Francis.

These are sanitary mushrooms.

Michel Vaujour had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery; this was his fourth escape attempt. He made his way to the roof by threatening guards with a fake pistol and nectarines painted as grenades. On top of the jail he was picked up by his wife Nadine, who had taken helicopter pilot lessons especially for the escape. They landed at a nearby football pitch and fled in a waiting car.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

The couple’s hideout was right back in Paris. Bold or foolish, they stayed in the city where they had just staged a daring escape. Three months later, they were caught not opening a charming coffee shop but robbing a bank—again. In the shootout that followed, Michel took a bullet to the head but survived. He was soon back in prison, his sixth escape attempt with a new accomplice, Jamila, ending in failure.

- https://www.readingolive.com/storyDetails?story=nadine-vaujour-the-woman-who-got-a-pilots-license-to-help-her-husband-escape-from-prison

There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.

My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.

Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk

everything attacked when the change penguin nationed

great(adj.)

Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)

(Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).

You were right the first time - they’re CRISPR-edited gray wolves engineered to exhibit the physical traits they found in dire wolf DNA.

There’s an 80-gene difference between dire wolves and gray wolves, and they’ve modified 14 of what they felt to be the most variant differences.

It’s still fascinating and tremendously difficult, and probably the best we can hope for in a very long time, but I don’t feel Colossal are being totally honest in their presentation.

I don’t know anything about insects and spiders, but maybe some sort of running crab spider, e.g. Philodromus cespitum?

It’s not an insecure app per se, but it is an uncontrolled app, in the context of an organisation’s communication. Some of the GOP have tried to imply that it’s the product that’s at fault, but it’s user error all the way.

Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there’s still plenty of debate). It’s thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.