Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 138

The missing web comic is a guy talking to his phone:
"Siri, how far to downtown?"
"6 minutes"
"I am gay"
"3 minutes"

Guy smiles and starts walking.

I tried and failed to find a particular comic strip when I posted the OP. This will have to do:

https://libranet.de/photos/clacke/image/842801506064ae3f8ed9d3b427405743

@Mans R I like the gift, I just don't care much for the giftwrapping. I don't mind it too much, I get why it's there.

Tom Scott is like if you take Veritasium, remove the click-bait title, the action thumbnail, and replace the whole "unversity media production major" enthusiasm with subdued English enthusiasm.

> I have no idea who Tom Scott is.

Case in point. 😇

Wow, are they advertising the Alita: Battle Angel sequel already? I thought it wasn't in production yet.

Ah, no, it was just a normal HK concert poster.

@Hypolite Petovan It's a gay cliché, a self-perceived stereotype, at least among american urban gays.

gq.com/story/move-im-gay

@Mans R Nah, I disagree. His thumbnails and titles are clickbait, but I don't see how "people can't seem to see that" when he himself made a video on it. 😃

The video content is not too different from e.g. Tom Scott, take some seemingly simple thing and do a deep dive into it.

He does it with more flair than Tom Scott, sure, and maybe sometimes there's a "did you know" or "many people believe" that I find silly, but I don't have problems with the subject matter.

Apart from framing and presentation I think the main difference is that Tom Scott is more "here's a curious thing I found" and Veritasium is more "here's something I wish your primary school teachers had been effective in teaching you".

Great overview of the RHEL RPMS saga so far, from the announcement to the responses from the other vendors:

mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1106… @nixCraft 🐧

After Red Hat announced they would no longer be providing the general public with exact sources for RHEL packages, first Oracle reaffirmed their commitment to source releases for their RHEL-compatible distro, and now, somewhat surprisingly, independent vendor SuSE says they will start maintaining a RHEL-compatible distro too.

suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-C…

> Yesterday I went to dinner to catch up with my buddy from the math department, and he told me this story about how he ran the city marathon in 2 hours, 59 minutes. That’s an amazing time. He was 19th out of thousands.

> He was doing pretty well for the first half, but then his ankle started to hurt. He slowed down for a bit, but then this girl he passed before passed him, and he started overthinking whether or not it was awkward to pass the same person multiple times, and, like, what if they small-talked about it? He decided it was better to pass her and stay ahead, so he picked up the pace. A few miles later, he fell in with two dude-bros who started talking to him. Not pleased to find himself in the company of dude-bros, he pulled ahead once again. This continued for a while; every time he got closed to a group of other marathoners, his social anxiety kicked in and he ran faster because he felt nervous being near people.

> TL;DR A mathematician ran an record marathon to avoid making small-talk with randos. He introverted his way into qualifying for the Boston marathon.

mathed-potatoes.tumblr.com/pos…

@Mans R He talks about fascinating stuff in an informative way.

He's also good at promoting it and even released a video about that. I don't see the problem.

An absolute banger of an animated music video in Spanish about the misadventures of Aphrodite

Destripando la Historia: "Afrodita"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=q1A7ardAe4…

I like it because #Eris is in it, of course.

#καλλίστη

I wear my rainbow flag wrist sweatband when outside because:

- It is sweaty outside
- I want to be a visible ally
- I walk fast

The anatomy of a clichéd joke we have been laughing at for at least 24 centuries:

"He's right behind me, isn't he?"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=9HJH6C0yp2…

Veritasium recently released a video on the history and double-edged nature of early 20th century synthetic chemical research, the German chemical giant BASF and the Nobel prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, inventor of both synthetic fertilizer and chemical weapons.

Here is a video with historian MakingHistory mostly agreeing with the historical perspective, but adding more context and detail along with a few minor corrections, while also guarding a bit against Veritasium's implied moral perspective.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=Hl233GBfI3…

Veritasium original:

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=EvknN89JoW…