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Sure, but those are still “big glass jars full of electricity”

Yes, except you need to buy each bit in a big glass jar.

Edit: only half joking, they used big Leiden Jars, which were basically giant glass batteries. There was no such thing as people with power at home, unless you were crazy rich

I mean, it would be some 25 years until the radio was invented. And Hertz’ machine required a 30kV spark on a 2.5m meter long antenna with 2 solid 30cm zinc spheres, and his transmission range was something like “barely down the hall”.

Not the most practical method.

But they’re covered in nuts

Sprites are a lightning phenomenon in the mesosphere of earth. They’re red because of nitrogen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)

1m90ish is 7cm taller than the average Dutch male.

Look at its sad little long snoot.

Yeah, nothing about the blatant hallucinations to even basic questions, the dashes are the major problem

LOTS of competitive sports as we have them now came from the military. Shooting, fencing, riding, etc were all basically dominated by military and winning contests was seen as a great historical way of showing your country’s military prowess.

There are also used to be WAY more olympic shooting sports, including moving targets, animal-shaped moving targets, etc etc. Hell, one of the biggest horse-riding championships here in the Netherlands is called “Military” (the english word, because dutch people love stealing words from other languages).

Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???

Ehhh, I recently posted elsewhere: about 80 species of mosquito carry dangerous (for human) diseases. The other 3400 are harmless if very mildly annoying. And all of those species share a niche with their harmless genera mates.

It’s really really hard to kill just one species though, especially if they DO share an ecological niche with the species you don’t want to kill.

That old timey optics bench gear is HUGE. Imagine the table this goes with

The other way around is way weirder. “I forgot my laptop charge, but I have my phone charger, so that works!”

On the other hand, this factor might be the salvation: the current AI market is full of 2000-era-dot-com business models based on selling at a loss and making it up on the promise of global domination later.

Except of course, that’s all a lie and they can never remotely turn a profit. AI can’t perform anything that’s being promised, it’s not getting cheaper and it doesn’t noticeably improve where it matters.

You can see the cracks starting to form: The classical big tech players are already bailing out of AI-growth, microsoft, oracle, amazon are opting out of their growth and not investing anymore. And of course they are, Amazon pumped over 200 billion into AI, and are turning 5b revenue. Not profit, revenue. They’re not making any profit, despite 200b of investment.

Soon enough, Open-AI too is going to fail under the strain of their immense and constant losses when the people who keep pumping venture capital stop doing that. I’ll eat my hat if they last into 2028.

This joke is a bit derivative

It’s easy to knock someone out with chloroform, and many many other chemicals.

The hard part is getting them to wake up later

Only once

hehe, hard

Well, none of them are still alive, that should be a hint

only 4500? I’m sure hydroxil acid exposure plays a role in millions of deaths every year