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Comment Re:Thanks WHO (Score 1) 296

I washed my teeth

I'm guessing you just brush them or use mouthwash? The way you phrased it made me laugh.

dargaud has a low UID: considering how long this site has been around, taking them out to wash them is a possibility.

(Anyone reminding me my UID is in a similar range will receive a severe beating with my ear trumpet)

Comment Re:True innovation (Score 5, Funny) 123

The Slashdot editor (Prolixantia verbosus) was last seen in the wild in 2012, and although evidence of a few surviving individuals such as droppings and typography corrections were observed sporadically for the next few years, the species was declared extinct in 2016.

When asked if they would consider de-extinction for Slashdot editors, the site’s current owner responded in a statement “I’m not touching Rob Malda’s DNA, that’s why we had the office sterilized.”

Comment Re:Useful and interesting, but with caveats. (Score 2) 60

But mice don't weight 15% of the average human's weight. I see where they are going with, akin to an extreme/limit test.

The maximum recommended daily amount of aspartame is 10,000mg/kg of body weight; assuming average human weight is 70kg, 15% of the maximum is 105g. The average mouse weighs 25g. If you tried to force 105g of aspartame into a 25g mouse it would literally burst.

I would be interested in seeing the effects when the dose is scaled down to their average weight.

That’s what the word “equivalent” means, and presumably that’s what they did since the report doesn’t mention bursting mice.

Comment Re:Haha, golf courses (Score 1) 74

What really matters for blue collars and no collars is golf courses.

To help improve the internet for everyone please increase your screen font size for maximum visibility and use a permanent marker to strike out the comparisons below you consider not relatable to blue- and no-collars. The amount of water consumed by Google’s data center could be used to:

- produce 61,000,000 gallons of Californian almond milk
- refine 150 metric tons of deuterium
- supply a private zoo of ten tigers for 3,600 years
- fill 500,000,000 pairs of those platform shoes with fish inside them
- distill $1.1 billion worth of Colonel E.H. Taylor bourbon
- simultaneously drown approximately 34,000,000 sacks full of kittens
- excrete almost three billion Starbucks tall alleged “coffees”
- prepare enough homeopathy doses to equal one actual dose
- generate sufficient hydrogen from electrolysis to fill 1.9 billion Hindenburgs
- fill the interiors of 431,000 Volkswagen Mk1 Beetles
- make a full size ice replica of the Library of Congress
- brew 4,000,000,000 cups of hemlock
- operate a backyard waterslide continuously for 494 years
- flood a 192 mile long subterranean canal navigable by nuclear submarines
- fill the sound suppression system storage tank at NASA’s launchpad 39A 900 times
- boil 113,000 fully grown elephants at once
- completely dissolve 975,000,000lbs of salt at 25C (handy tip for pickling 113,000 elephants since you’re probably not going to eat them all in one sitting)

Not how much bread can be grown

Bread isn’t grown, there’s a stage between stuff that grows and bread. The correlation between water supply and bread production isn’t as linear as one might think due to a range of factors affecting crop yields (and too much water is just as bad as too little).

Breadfruit is grown, on breadfruit trees, but that’s not where bread comes from, and admittedly based on nothing but gut feeling I suspect they’re not particularly common in Oregon so probably aren’t relevant to this discussion.

or how many times their ends can meet

It’s easy mathematics: divide 274,500,000 by “meeting ends”. All you have to do is define “meeting ends” as a representative quantity everyone can identify with.

Unless you’re talking about bizarre yoga accidents; people only care about those if there’s a video.

or be washed.

The collars around here are grey. What is this “washed” you speak of?

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