I’m not a wordologist. Do words become harder to say when they’re longer? I mean, alalalalalong has 6 syllables.

Interesting.

As if second place didn’t know you’re trying that and is also slamming the brakes.

I get that there’s catch-up mechanics in a casual game. But why did it have to be a ‘ha ha, you lose!’ item without recourse for the target?

Not
in
markdown

(Pressed Shift+Return after every word.)

Not in markdown.

But it works in other word processors (like Word, libreoffice) that distinguish between line breaks and paragraph breaks.

Might be my imagination is playing tricks on me.

Example: Type

Once upon a midnight dreary  
While I was pondering, weak and weary  
Over many a quiant and curious volume of forgotten lore  

To get:

Once upon a midnight dreary
While I was pondering, weak and weary
Over many a quiant and curious volume of forgotten lore

(You can highlight the source code to find the extra spaces at the end of each line). Note that this is different from paragraphs, which add spacing between them:

Once upon a midnight dreary

While I was pondering, weak and weary

Over many a quiant and curious volume of forgotten lore

Once upon a midnight dreary

While I was pondering, weak and weary

Over many a quiant and curious volume of forgotten lore

This is how markdown works. There is no way to disable that. This is an old convention from when text editors didn’t wrap lines automatically and enables you to write long paragraphs of text, breaking the lines as it makes sense to you, without creating a paragraph each time.

See the Lemmy help page on markdown or the Markdown Guide.

I think this refers to everyday household items being powered by some unspecified kind of uranium engine.

Do they think

no.

LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP $300

I’m inclined to buy that just because it exists. I hate subscription services so, so much!

This is the best option if you think you’ll use Nebula for more than 5 years.

30 minutes before the show?

In my local theater you also have to ‘reserve’ a seat when you buy the ticket in person. Don’t ask me why.

For the others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqHh6TvGQIQ

Adults are dumb

It might be from *Flight of the Phoenix” (2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Phoenix_(2004_film)

Just to provide some data on the radiation dose. It’s everyone’s own decision whether a ‘willy-nilly’ PET scan is worth it.

From the English Wikipedia:

FDG, which is now the standard radiotracer used for PET neuroimaging and cancer patient management, has an effective radiation dose of 14 mSv.

The amount of radiation in FDG is similar to the effective dose of spending one year in the American city of Denver, Colorado (12.4 mSv/year). […T]he whole body occupational dose limit for nuclear energy workers in the US is 50 mSv/year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography#Safety

From the German Wikipedia:

Es ist bei einer Strahlendosis von 1 Sievert (Sv), der 100 Menschen ausgesetzt sind, mit 5 Todesfällen durch Strahlenkrebs zu rechnen […]. Man müsste also 100.000 PET-Untersuchungen durchführen, um 35 Todesfälle an Strahlenkrebs (nach einer mittleren Latenzzeit von etwa 15 Jahren für Leukämie und etwa 40 Jahren für solide Tumoren) zu verursachen, das heißt etwa eine auf 3000 Untersuchungen

If 100 people received a radiation dose of 1 Sievert (Sv), one would expect 5 deaths due to radiation-induced cancer […]. One would need 100,000 PET scans in order to cause 35 cancer deaths (after a median wait duration of 15 years for leucemia and 40 years for solid tumors), which is about 1 in 3000 scans.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie#Strahlenexposition

Why do Anime intros always have to be a full-length pop song? I came to watch the story, not a music video.

A text editor that doesn’t assume that the keys on my keyboard are in the same order as yours.

Are all public clocks in the US digital clocks? Off the top of my head, I can tell you 4 locations within walking distance that have analog clocks, one of them being the train station.