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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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tedder
16 days ago
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I'm confused by this. What's the dilemma? Wanting to use the plum for dinner?
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marcrichter
16 days ago
Me too, but there's always this: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3209:_Plums
ttencate
15 days ago
Not always; it's throwing 500 errors right now. Apparently you and I are not the only ones who are confused 😁
dlowe
15 days ago
There's a famous (infamous) poem about stealing plums from the icebox that has been remixed a thousand times in meme-culture.
fancycwabs
15 days ago
He's tempted to go all William Carlos Williams on the plums, mostly for the opportunity to apologize later.
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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

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'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.
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tedder
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I still struggle to remember if I add or subtract.
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'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of less than 5° of declination,' he thought, derailing all other tasks for the rest of the day.

Skew-T Log-P

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The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.
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tedder
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Randall is obviously learning to fly, does he talk about it anywhere?
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The most important quantity for meteorologists is of course the product of latent pressure and temperostrophic enthalpy, though 'how nice the weather is' is a close second.

Dakota Cates

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Dakota Cates

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jhamill
636 days ago
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daily life
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624 days ago
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Earth

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Just think of all the countless petty squabbles and misunderstandings, of all the fervent hatreds, over so insignificant a thing as the direction and duration of a rocket engine firing.
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tedder
723 days ago
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What did he get wrong?
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aakashm
723 days ago
If you get your reentry from orbit wrong in a particularly bad way, you can 'bounce' off the atmosphere and end up a loooong way from Earth
Vixy
723 days ago
Ohhh, now I get it, Carl's supposed to be IN the spaceship.
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Pylgrimm
723 days ago
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Damn, how did he get the hair SO right.
iustinp
722 days ago
Damn, I didn't see it, now I can't unsee it. It's indeed perfect!

A Cat Covered in Toxic Chemicals Is Terrorizing Japan

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The city of Fukuyama, Japan is on high alert after a cat fell into a vat of toxic chemicals and escaped into the night. Officials warned the animal is covered in hexavalent chromium, and residents should be careful not to touch any “cat that seems abnormal.”

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tedder
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The origin story of catzilla
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