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randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend
DmMacniel , to xkcd in xkcd #2936: Exponential Growth

Holy Hell

A7thStone ,

New rice just dropped.

Hadriscus , to xkcd in xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

oh lord that alt text

De_Narm , to xkcd in xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

I think sliced bread is overrated as fuck. It used to be nice back when people couldn't just buy knives for cheap, but nowadays it just means getting stale bread faster.

tiredofsametab ,

For some types of bread, the machine can do it much more uniformly and without crushing. This can be difficult for humans.

onion ,
Gieselbrecht ,

My appartment is too small for this kind of stuft. Buying sliced bread is fine.

onion ,

Of course

BennyHill ,
@BennyHill@lemmy.ml avatar

i got a like 30 year old electric bread slicer, never sharpened the blade, still cuts like brand new, sometimes the crust gets stuck when its a super fresh super crispy crusted bread, but its amazing.

MonkderDritte ,

Thanks, i laughed. ^^

leftzero ,

Those aren't good types of bread, though.

Rai ,

I recommend a very nice bread knife! I have a mediocre bread knife that was like 15USD like 15 years ago and it still saws solid slices of soft bread without schmushing the bread!

tiredofsametab ,

I'm mostly just commenting on why it was such a big deal in the time that it happened rather than today. Today, we do have more machines, easier access to knives, and generally less domestic work to do than was the case in this era. I do own a breadknife, though I rarely eat bread and it's mostly denser loaves when I do (a kind of sandwich bread the wife prefers or something like Baurenbrot for my tastes).

biddy ,

But sliced bread has become something else that doesn't exist with loaves. You can't buy an unsliced loaf of ultra-processed white bread.

De_Narm ,

You can get a wide variety of both sliced and unsliced loaves in pretty much every supermarket in my area. The ultra-processed american type bread is something else entirely and it's also a bad idea too, like pretty much all ultra-processed foods. Can that stuff even get stale? I remember it staying exactly the same up until it grows mold.

deegeese ,
@deegeese@sopuli.xyz avatar

For pan loaves, people store it in a plastic bag to keep the crust soft.

Pan loaves should be presliced, stone baked loaves with thick crust should not.

randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2906: Earth
agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.world avatar

I definitely needed that

randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2904: Physics vs. Magic
342345 ,

I needed that explanation.

tominator , to xkcd in xkcd #2893: Sphere Tastiness

I bet you could find 800-meter comet made out of ice. I would argue that the water tastes "ok".

PunnyName ,

Do not lick the space ice!

CptEnder ,

That is almost certainly the first thing I'd do to space ice

randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2939: Complexity Analysis
teft , to xkcd in xkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

See Marco Inaros was just trying to give those inners some extra planet armor.

LazaroFilm , to xkcd in xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Technically, the sun is pulled by the earth too so it’s sort of true.

dev_null ,

Yeah, any 2 bodies actually orbit a common point in between themselves. In case of the Sun and Earth that point is probably still inside the Sun, not far from the center.

lugal ,

My thought exactly but isn't the common center still inside the sun?

knatschus ,

Yes, but they still both orbit the black hole in the center of our galaxy

kamenlady ,
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

The urge to orbit a black hole is universal

KidnappedByKitties ,

Only until we find something heavier

the_joeba ,

Looks over shoulder Nobody's going to take this? Sighs Fine. I'll get this one. Clears throat

Now we all orbit KidnappedByKitties mom.

KidnappedByKitties ,

Get in line! It's you, everyone and the rest of the universe!

Orbiting...

Slowly watching...

Slowly descending towards the crushing abyss...

Fast or slow, near or far, there is inevitably only Mother...

And the complete annihilation of her touch

TWeaK ,

The common centre is the galaxy they both orbit spiral around together.

Then, the galaxy moves around some other point along with other galaxies.

Then, a bunch of aliens are playing with marbles.

Tier1BuildABear ,
@Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks, kurzkesagt

TWeaK ,

I was thinking Men in Black.

Jaytreeman ,

Except it's still inside the sun, so depending on how big you view the center of the sun it could still be wrong.

danc4498 ,

So if the point is inside the sun, do we not consider the sun as orbiting that point? I would think it is still orbiting a point.

ech ,

The sun isn't orbiting itself, though, so to say it's wrong is also wrong. The sun is orbiting a small point in space that is affected by the bodies around it. That the point is covered by the sun doesn't change that.

starman2112 ,

It's usually not inside the sun thanks to Jupiter's fat ass

Bademantel ,

I mean, yeah. That's the joke.

LazaroFilm ,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Oh thanks! I wasn’t sure. /s

Bademantel ,

A cunning display of deception!

TrickDacy ,

May as well lose the /s

Nightwind ,

No it's not. The common center here is the center of our galaxy which both orbit. Even if the sun wobbles a miniscule bit there is no common orbit between them.

tryptaminev , (edited )

it is possible for objects to orbit multiple objects at the same time. Add the moon to the system. The moon is orbiting the earth that is orbiting the sun that is orbiting the center of our galaxy. And yes each of them have a common center, just that it is very very close to the center of mass of the larger object in each case.

For the moon the earth is the dominant gravitational force, for the earth it is the sun and for the sun it is the center of our galaxy

Cypher ,

for the sun it is the center of gravity.

You mean the galactic center, which in turn orbits a point somewhere in the middle of our local galactic cluster.

Sylver ,

And our local galactic cluster is heading towards something ominous called the Great Attractor. It’s direction is hidden by the horizon of the Milky Way, but it is most likely another larger cluster of galaxies

tryptaminev ,

youre right, i miexd up the words and edited it. thank you.

Donkter ,

There's a very famous smart man with zany hair and a big tongue that says your comment is wrong and it's all relative to your frame of reference.

SomethingBurger ,
@SomethingBurger@jlai.lu avatar

zany hair and a big tongue

Gene Simmons?

blanketswithsmallpox ,

The Goblin Bulge King?

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I would have gone with Groucho Marx.

Zron ,

No the common center is called a barycenter and it’s somewhere just outside the middle of the sun.

Fermion ,

Then Jupiter and Saturn enter the dance and they're all sort of wrong.

V0lD ,

I mean, yeah, but the bigger argument here is that due to the sheer mass of Jupiter, the centre of mass of our solar system is actually very so slightly outside of the sun

randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2944: Magnet Fishing
davidgro ,

Nice. I actually missed a couple of the puns.

cobysev , to xkcd in xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

See, my middle name ends with an S and my last name begins with an S... and my middle name is a pluralized name, so nobody hears the S when I say it in conjunction with my last name. So I've gotten really good at pronouncing the S, stopping for a beat, then saying my last name, without it sounding super weird or robotic.

So properly pronouncing "hot potato" while enunciating the first T doesn't seem too challenging to me.

asteriskeverything ,

This is some riddle shit I can't figure out

Yearly1845 ,

Something like "Adams Smith" probably fits the bill. People would hear "Adam Smith"

asteriskeverything ,

Thanks so much! I always sucked at riddles I couldn't come up with anything lol

KISSmyOSFeddit , to xkcd in xkcd #2941: Cell Organelles

Midichlorians are the force-house of the cell

randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop
randomaccount43543 OP , to xkcd in xkcd #2934: Bloom Filter
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