“G’day cunts” goes over either extremely well or extremely poorly, with no in-between

What do you mean backfires?

Everybody knows Ohio is bad.

Oh, you meant the slang term

Closely followed by surprisedpikachu.jpg when nobody’s using it

If the current state of America is any indication, plenty of people didn’t teach their kids that

While not exactly a bouncer, I like Quassel

For example Limonene can either smell like pine or oranges depending on what way the molecule is mirrored.

And would you look at that, pine is another extremely common cleaning scent

Make 'em require an online patch to be playable after first install.

Actually, I should shut the fuck up, they might actually hear me

This whole process is regulated via neutrons(or maybe protons, not 100% on that). Put the rods of plutonium closer together, get more fission, more heat. I think they use graphene to regulate things too.

The gist of it is that the fuel rods are designed in such a way as to maintain about the right level of neutron emission, with further refinement using a neutron moderator* (which slows down neutrons and this increases the reaction rate, this is generally water or graphene) along with adjustable control rods, which can be inserted to slow down the reaction.

There are two kinds of decay leading to neutron emission: prompt neutrons are emitted immediately, while delayed neutrons take time to be emitted because of the decay path that the excited atom has to take. In order to maintain control of a reactor, the number of prompt neutrons must be lower than the level needed to reach criticality, with the additional delayed neutrons being enough to push it over the edge. The delay is what gives you time to control the reaction; if the reactor becomes prompt critical, then it begins to melt down.

*Not all reactor designs use neutron moderators, but fast reactor designs are generally military or research reactors, while moderated (‘thermal’) reactors are typical for civilian power generation. Here in Canada, we use the CANDU reactor design, which is moderated using heavy water

Naw, it’s about pretending to stop cheaters. It’s security theatre, same as the TSA

btw I’m an animal lover

Doubt.

You write like an asshole, and I’m not surprised the cat wanted nothing to do with you

Edit: Sorry mods, apparently I’m also an asshole. I will try to be nicer

Did you have the cat from a kitten, or adopt them once they were an adult?

If it pays the bills

Very much depends on the cat, some of them just like being handled.

There are contexts where it makes sense, mostly medicine or science, but even in those contexts it’s deliberately dehumanizing, which is the point. It is also the only English word for a female human that does not imply age, as woman and girl both do.

The quick sniff test: “Males and females”? Clinical, but probably fine. “Men and females”? Fucking Ferengi freak, avoid that guy

Oh yeah, it’s a sucker’s bet, I was just hoping to find a sucker who would take it

For Google money I’d do it too…but I wouldn’t do a very good job of it

Democrats will continue to stack losses if that’s the narrative that they go with

$20 says that or race is the narrative they go with.

We’ll take doctors and nurses no problem. And funny, I expect a bunch of American doctors are likely to want to take their practice elsewhere in the near future

[A day after mainland China invades Taiwan]

“Fuck, why did graphics cards quintuple in price?”