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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My city's zoo currently has cheetah cubs and a few weeks ago I was able to observe live how one of them chirped. Usually they're quiet, but it's really cute when they do make sounds.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Are these the same as these cuties? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133886/Still-wild-The-cheetah-labrador-raised-cub-puppy-remain-best-friends-year-on.html

These photos put into perspective that cheetahs really aren't that big, way smaller than actual big cats.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A bear walks into a bar and says: "I'll have a …………………………………… beer."

The barkeeper asks: "Why the big pause?"

The bear looks down and answers: "I don't know. I was born with them."

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

I think it is supposed to be a mouse (Meowth of Team Rocket being a cat chasing a mouse btw), but I'm pretty sure its name is still a reference to pikas.

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xkcd #3029: Sun Avoidance (xkcd.com)
 

C'mon, ESA Solar Orbiter team, just give the Parker probe a LITTLE nudge at aphelion. Crash it into the sun. Fulfill the dream of Icarus. It is your destiny.

https://explainxkcd.com/3029/

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xkcd #3028: D&D Roll (xkcd.com)
 

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

https://explainxkcd.com/3028/

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xkcd #3027: Exclusion Principle (xkcd.com)
 

Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

https://explainxkcd.com/3027/

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xkcd #3026: Linear Sort (xkcd.com)
 

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

https://explainxkcd.com/3026/

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xkcd #3025: Phase Change (xkcd.com)
 

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

https://explainxkcd.com/3025/

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xkcd #3024: METAR (xkcd.com)
 

In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

https://explainxkcd.com/3024/

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xkcd #3023: The Maritime Approximation (xkcd.com)
 

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

https://explainxkcd.com/3023/

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xkcd #3022: Making Tea (xkcd.com)
 

No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

https://explainxkcd.com/3022/

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xkcd #3021: Seismologists (xkcd.com)
 

And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.

https://explainxkcd.com/3021/

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xkcd #3020: Infinite Armada Chess (xkcd.com)
 

Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

https://explainxkcd.com/3020/

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xkcd #3019: Advent Calendar Advent Calendar (xkcd.com)
 

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

https://explainxkcd.com/3019/

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xkcd #3018: Second Stage (xkcd.com)
 

Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.

https://explainxkcd.com/3018/

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

Sir this is a Wendy's

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