You know that stinky chemical added to odourless natural gas? It was chosen so vultures can find leaks
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"Two thirds of the men in the study—and one quarter of the women—chose to take advantage of the shock option [vs. boredom]"

In software, the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.

Must... not... lick.. this is like an adult version of the Marshmallow Experiment, isn't it? https://t.co/YaCdDY1SnS

Torture testing some 15w tdp broadwell solid state boxes. Fanless is hard. https://t.co/5d4xFfvD08

“If it had landed softly,” said one of the investigators, “they could have swam home.” https://t.co/KKDIa6KmCT

I think the secret to life is that you are actually not the main character

If men interacted with everybody they way they interact with women on social media https://t.co/y2Ggjrqx9Y

Another significant victory for science and the inevitable forward march of humanity https://t.co/ROG0hVmaLr

@Gargron @jennschiffer that is moronic

You had me at "no lots of pink" https://t.co/QhhPvuxdSQ

How casual racism ruined free speech forever https://t.co/WGFaU4xBj1

How users read all confirmation and error dialogs. https://t.co/7h52Vivokh

She Knows The Cool Kids https://t.co/EHoVPomI8U

Anil Dash on "never read the comments": persuasive argument that the common in-joke normalizes online harassment   https://t…

the ironic thing is, there are plenty of legal mirrors of Stack Overflow + the CC data dumps. GitHub, source control, no mirrors? weird.

Who’s Afraid of Gender-Neutral Bathrooms? - The New Yorker https://t.co/r35cO1knBz

In the long run, storytelling is the only skill there is.

So you'd like to be more charismatic. Here's how. https://t.co/D2gi5gxDuJ

You want to change the world? "Learn to be charismatic" > "Learn to be a programmer"^2

"Be grateful that you’re home to be interrupted at all." https://t.co/I7ynO1bF2l

my wife @betsyphd is a biologist so there has been a *lot* of side-eye directed at Theranos in my house over the last year

No matter how bad things get at your company, you can still think, well, thank God we're not Theranos

A film unlike any you've ever seen before https://t.co/dmaNG1EEsn

Part of me likes thinking google just did this whole thing last night in 10 hours to show off https://t.co/dftl2IBPdO

Canadians. https://t.co/f1SaxU90hs

A personal hero of mine. The world needs more @pahlkadot https://t.co/fm6fVx2jSb

Thank you @joshk and @johnolilly for betting on the vision of https://t.co/miaK4w4tDk -- 100% free, open source software anyone can use

Melody's guide to programming languages https://t.co/RbrUkRQcNf https://t.co/JqLl4oAqQq

"If something is off limits, but you want it really bad, go nuts." https://t.co/YOUVzFtmuR

Those Davos pictures are greatly improved when you replace the words with Mitch Hedberg quotes https://t.co/BdeXCzN43A

Oh captain, my captain https://t.co/jJ60GgWaMv

"And days add up, like it or not. We cannot stop them from doing so. What we can do is decide what they add up to." https://t.co/8h5xqedR0W

Apparently @ID_AA_Carmack pulled a Fallout "mysterious stranger" and literally solo converted Minecraft to C++? https://t.co/FBl4O2h7lC

Tha Canadian Apology Act https://t.co/51naEzlL6H

@codinghorror You are an awesomeness machine. #TheNiceBot

It sounds crazy, but disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement for me https://t.co/ChXxSepCBK

feeling happy. Unicode 8 simple_smile emoji happy, not smile emoji happy. let's be reasonable here, people, nobody is THAT happy

I have some questions about the police. https://t.co/lzRlPCxN9I

@lowellheddings your winter coat is coming in nicely

"No cost" license plate readers are turning Texas police into debt collectors and data miners. https://t.co/SgLWnXOGSS

so much computer love for my brother from another mother @jarrod_dixon https://t.co/dYCRbdI5ue

Apple's tablets are amazing, but tablet market is still cratering. Maybe MS Surface was more right longterm -- that'd be a kick in the ass.

@jaysmeek does it matter? All the iPad news is bad, real bad

Wow this really does not bode well for the tablet market, at all. Looks like PHABLETS PHOREVER https://t.co/K40eRMH48R

The Michael Jackson/Sonic 3 videogame conspiracy: Sega continues to deny Michael Jackson's work made it into t... https://t.…

The current state of the art in beyblade science 😂 https://t.co/g5ddUcvLl6

"So, why hasn't Ruby been able to deliver better performance results?" https://t.co/xENOZlQEx3

For our beyblade experiments, digital calipers, scale, tachometer, and data notebook. The only religion in this house is science!

Reading 8-10 year old kids reasoning about Beyblades, writing reviews of them, it's just 😆 this is how religion was invented, isn't it

aha! Per @marcoskirsch the truck driver data is not quite right... coming soon, retail salesperson simulator 2015! https://t.co/bPrKzmlMmk

Hope these guys come out of retirement and do The Witless. https://t.co/UsZgrWcmsq

A thrilling simulation of the most common job in the USA https://t.co/UMgIEem5lI https://t.co/J6dcnfaNzG

Homework.. or video game.. is there any difference? https://t.co/EFK8BW5ZDe

"The higher the concentration of high-ranking executives, the more a group struggled to complete the task." https://t.co/5q9X1C3nnw

Irredeemable takes the evil superhero concept in an interesting direction https://t.co/6Bi6k4grab

When you're thinking of replying to that MRA activist who mentioned your name on Twitter https://t.co/I15c16sNoQ

@abvndbynd I need to invite you over for dinner. It's time.

Beautiful https://t.co/Z0826BqLTX

@ricaudbenoit @LeaVerou flexbox covers that https://t.co/x09swnHhRZ

101 years ago today, San Francisco and New York spoke over the phone for the very first time https://t.co/lcPZe4l678

getting deeply invested in hot new "Mail.. kimp" joke https://t.co/SBz1nCapxR I am hip, I am with it, I know what the kids like

I still miss camo cat. https://t.co/IQaUYLajSE

Hamilton! https://t.co/xXW9TzmC49

Brb, stealing a baby because I really love getting no sleep, changing diapers, the general sound of screaming, and paying for childcare

"Grandpa what was it like before emojis?" Well, we used words called adjectives "That doesn't seem very 💯" No, it was not ve…

@lowellheddings https://t.co/SgojSCwmBL

@lowellheddings p.s. when you die you're just gone forever, no magical afterlife kthx bye

@lowellheddings it's coming atcha like a steam train, and you won't see it when it hits

@lowellheddings it's a thing

One of the comics that blew my mind as a kid: the heroes in it *actually died*, and didn't magically come back https://t.co/u6jWAxVXrQ

Brb calling my dr http://t.co/yDoGzzPxz8

Related: no comic book character ever dies. And that's why superman is kinda.. super-boring https://t.co/AZMAAj7IlS

This is some scary Children of Men type scenario precursor https://t.co/V92P92dVjU

@gortok my point is that resistance to endings is a pathology on many different levels. Ending well is important.

My big beef with The Walking Dead and Saga is "never ends, drags on ambiguously forever" syndrome. Great stories *end*. Even your story.

I wish for the death of no human, but I am looking forward to reading Scalia's obituary.

Moar lumens!!! https://t.co/lc4X9iTQn7

@sloverlord Dubya and Windows XP, good times

The Bad Idea Bears are the real heroes of Avenue Q https://t.co/z5zTgruosh

@sloverlord it feels a bit early 2000 in places

Going to see Avenue Q at last thanks to @betsyphd -- I remember @seesharp telling me it was my kind of jam 6 years ago

I had no idea casual racism was this off the charts horrendous. WTF people https://t.co/EqwpzS3L9u

Zero Bugs and Program Faster by Kate Thompson -- looks quite good! https://t.co/zxCpSMRFLE

OK friend invite sent. Friends. We could be friends 👬

damn right it is https://t.co/4JsqTLHdCj

Does anybody want to date me? And by date me I mean measure the remnants of radioisotope Carbon14.

Black Metal Apartment Buildings, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
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Did you ever consider how BS it was that we were born now instead of in 2100 or 2200? Check your time privilege, man.

This bad supercar driver montage is making me wince so hard I think I just winced my face off https://t.co/rx1II0kJBL

so technically having a family that does not drag you down, but tries to build you up, is a privilege.

It is very interesting to read articles about how your family can actively, intentionally drag you down. I never thought about that.

This article about growing up poor is a total eye opener. Thank you @rickyyean https://t.co/Mdn5iDsj0c

XKCD helpfully breaking down the ninth planet for us https://t.co/n3BHjAUBrK https://t.co/qbjNYFDL1V

Excited to see Apple pushing into lower cost phones, hope it will displace some of the awful Android low end https://t.co/wzni4913Og

I used Google autocomplete to write a dating profile and it may be the best dating profile ever https://t.co/DyspovLr3t

I wish there was more of a focus on "modify a game you like" vs. "create your own game from scratch", which is far harder. Like fan-fiction

TIL the default lock_timeout in postgres is, uh, FOREVER.

Just a small bug in the code, no problem, should be easy to fix https://t.co/iTjfPkoeUY