SATW always portrays Finland with a knife, so it’s more of an inside joke and not related to this specific comic strip.

Necessary? No. Not much except eating, drinking and breathing is. Even reproduction is optional from the view of a single individual.

A good idea? Absolutely:

1. Exploring space tells us a lot about earth. We currently assume that the moon formed when something big collided with earth and threw lots of material into a stable orbit. This means moon is probably made of the same materials as earth and because there is no erosion nor tectonic activity on the moon, it lets us study what earth may have looked like billions of years ago.
2. Lots and lots of things that were originally developed for space are very useful on earth: teflon coating, memory foam matresses, efficient solar panels and many more. Sure, they could have been developed without space exploration but the pressure to get something exactly right helped a lot. And of course we directly use satellites for a lot of earth stuff, too. Think tv, weather prediction, monitoring of climate change, communication, GPS, accurate maps and many more.
3. It gives humanity something to unite behind. Even during the cold war, the USA and the Soviet Union ignored their feud for a bit to make Apollo-Soyuz happen. These days, the ISS is one of the biggest multinational projects and I dread the day it gets decommissioned because Russia will have one less reason to talk to the rest of the world.

On the other hand: if their new tool is so great, why haven’t they used it to fix Claude’s security issues?

Of course I do. And even that was rare and special because it was so much effort to carry everyone‘s gear into one place.

Or like PC before internet connections at home were widely available.

Am I supposed to tell them I really really wanna kms right now?

Yes. If you don’t, they can’t help you.

Nah, they’d lock me up lmfao

Not if you are honest about it. Talking openly about it instead of just doing it is a good sign that you might be ready to fix stuff.

Can’t even tell my mom cuz she’d get mad at me…

That’s not normal and not healthy. Tell your therapist. They might be able to find a way to get you out of an unhealthy environment, at least for a while.

Not me but someone close to me:

• There is a difference between “ready for therapy” and “ready for change”. Some people will sit in therapy for years but never see much progress because they are so stuck in doing or thinking something that holds them back.
• Your therapist will tell you things that don’t make sense to you. Listen to them anyway. If they tell you something that seems impossible, don’t ignore it, ask how you can do that. If they tell you something that seems useless, try it anyway, then report back if it doesn’t work and be open for an explanation for why it didn’t work.
• Be brutally honest. Your therapist won’t be able to help you unless you tell them exactly how bad your situation is. If you spend 90% of your day in bed and tell your therapist you’re doing okay, they won’t be able to correctly identify what kind of help you need.
• It is completely normal to miss some of your goals. Therapy takes time and nobody will judge you if you take longer than others. Figuring out how much you should push yourself and when you need a break is hard. Either way, don’t be angry at yourself when something doesn’t work out. As long as you tried, you’re fine.
• Most of your problems are in your head. That doesn’t mean they aren’t real. It doesn’t mean they don’t hurt. It doesn’t mean they aren’t difficult to overcome. It just means that the only person who can solve them is you. A therapist can explain how to solve them but they can’t change your thoughts or your habits.

Yeah, seems like a bug in either their link shortener or their internal routing:

• Clicking the share button on the correct definition gives me http://cherry.urbanup.com/757445 which seems right so far. 757445 is the ID of that specific definition
• When visiting http://cherry.urbanup.com/757445, it gets expanded to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cherry&defid=757445 which still has the correct ID but for some reason still shows the full list.

To fix this, they should either

• Expand the shortened link to https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cherry&defid=757445#757445 which makes the browser scroll down to the right definition, or…
• Have https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cherry&defid=757445 show a different page with only a single definition and a link to the full list

They actually do have the sensible explanation but for some reason not as the top one. Sorry for not checking that the link UD gave me actually leads to the correct explanation. It instead shows the full list even though the link contains the correct ID.

Urban Dictionary’s share button didn’t give me what I actually wanted to link to. Fixed.

Oh damn, Urban Dictionary fucked up the link. The hymen explanation is further down on the same page and I specifically clicked that share link and the shortened link even includes the ID for the correct explanation but somehow when expanding the link they just show you the full list without even scrolling down to the right section. Thanks for nothing, I guess.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cherry&defid=757445#757445

Edit: Looks like Urban Dictionary’s link shortener doesn’t work correctly if you want to link to an explanation further down the page. Fixed by manually digging through the HTML and finding the anchor id.

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Night. Getting out of bed in time for work is hard enough. Showering in the morning would mean I need to get up even earlier.

What we do know is that the full title includes “as the Gravest Crime against Humanity” and I can fully respect countries having reservations against that when there are other similarly horrible crimes. I don’t know why Germany abstained but I figure that some people might be pretty angry at them if they declared the slave trade was worse than the holocaust.

The “Gravest Crime against Humanity” part honestly explains why so many countries abstained.

The slave trade was an absolute atrocity and certainly one of the gravest crimes against humanity but should we label it as the gravest crime? Do we really need to introduce a ranking between slavery, the holocaust and dozens of other genocides instead of agreeing that they are/were all bad without picking one as the worst?

Can we please stop measuring stolen data by size? That carries no interesting information at all. 1.1 TiB could literally be the uncompressed version of a single movie and nothing else or it could be the personal information of every single customer and employee with room to spare.

I’d need a couple more volunteers to make sure all signals have the same delay.

No fabric at all, just metal rings and a bit of string. They are far from see-through though because they are pretty dense. If you’re close enough you can see a bit of… anatomy… but it’s more on the side of a coarsly knit sweater than transparent fabric.

I remember that Australia was the exact opposite. It has a single outside connection and once it reaches a stable state, it stays there. Every impulse that goes in will come out again and leave the inside unchanged.