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@timjan In the excellent Daybreak board game, players have to produce more green energy AND get rid of the dirty energy.

Up and at 'em, people! These snakes aren't going to oil themselves!

Heard from the other room: "There's a giant bug in here and I can't reach it. It's the size of a quarter and it's headed for your [Girl Scout] cookies."

Core competencies are something I think about a lot. I love to dig into what makes companies or ecosystems or social groups tick. Especially when that core competency *enables* what they do:

McDonald's, for example, is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

Walmart is a shipping logistics company that also sells things.

What other examples can you think of where the core competency of the company is such that the "thing" a company does falls out naturally as a consequence?

Sometimes there is good news.

Texas is a deeply racist state, and the way it operates its judicial system is some of the best evidence. But an appeals court there overturned the conviction of a woman who only wanted to vote, and was told she could vote by officials, though it turned out she was ineligible.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m

Up and at 'em, people! These worms aren't going to can themselves!

First known symbolic gesture observed in birds; scientists recorded the Japanese tit using repetitive wing movements to signal "after you" to others.

u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z

Today's platelet donation viewing:

Damsel: A solid dragon movie, with the gravitasty Shohreh Aghdashloo as the voice of the dragon. Millie Bobby Brown is imperiled and plucky.

3 Body Problem S1E1: Well-done, but extremely grim. Also, why did they need 16 executive producers?

Note that each has one moment of mass bird death.

@mrcompletely ... but they almost always have you slash or peel back the film so steam can escape.

Does the film you peel back and replace on a microwave meal affect the cooking process, or is it just a splatter guard?

@atomjack604 Waiting for a story where a were-komondor infiltrates a facility by disguising herself as a mop.

A colleague asked me about labeling points in a scatter plot in . A quick web search found this handy module:

adjusttext.readthedocs.io/en/l

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