Is this Balmoral Castle in Scotland? Where the Queen died? That’s the best guess I have.

What’s a bit funny is that the name of the Angles (the people) and angle (the shape) are directly related. Both come from an old word meaning “hook”, the Angles being a fishing people originally and an angle being the shape of a hook.

Secondary fun fact: the surname Sax and the demonym Saxon are both derived from the type of blade called a seax.

I was already really good at not believing in literally every other religion around the world, so I asked myself what made the religion that I was raised in any different?

How did I know I was lucky enough to be born into the right faith? If I had been born elsewhere, wouldn’t I just feel the same way about whatever religion is worshipped there? And so is that the infidel’s fault that they were just born in the wrong place, with no one to tell them that they had it wrong? Or perhaps would they think the same about me?

And so if our religion truly was the right one, why didn’t our supposedly omnipotent deity just make everyone else born into societies that worship it, or render infertile anyone who didn’t? Or if someone else’s religion was the right one, with a similarly omnipotent deity (or deities), why was I born here?

Why would a good and loving God condemn them forever for being exactly what (S)he designed them to be?

This is it exactly. Why even have a “chosen people” in the Israelites during the Old Testament? Why create those other people at all? Just to give random people for the Israelites to genocide like they did the Midianites/Canaanites/Hittites/10 other -ites?

And what of the world before Noah? God realizes he messed up and needs to cull all but a small handful of humans? I thought God was supposed to be unerring. Same for Sodom and Gomorrah, why allow cities to become dens of sin? Or why fear the hubris of humanity constructing the Tower of Babel (or create them with motivation to do so in the first place) if divinity remains unattainable to mortals?

Just way too much that doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, it works as a general rule of thumb but there are nuances. Running 2km or 1 mile burns roughly 100 calories.

If you were burning 100 calories running per day, and consuming just as many calories each day as you were burning, the lack of running puts you at a 100 calorie daily surplus without a change in diet. That translates to an annual surplus of 36,500 calories, which will likely gain you about 10 pounds of body fat in that year.

Simple solution in that situation is to eat 100 fewer calories per day, if you can (or however much else you estimate you were burning). 100 calories is half a candy bar, half a bottle of soda, skipping sugar in your coffee/tea, etc. If the injury was specifically a leg injury, can also supplement with cardio exercises that only work the upper body and don’t require your legs, if desired.

And also worth mentioning that 1 great photo comes after 50 or so not-so-good ones. A lot comes down to luck, especially with more dynamic shots. Take a shit ton of photos and a few of them are bound to turn out nice.

I think part of it just comes from the practice of naming other star systems after the star they orbit. E.g. the Epsilon Eridani system orbits Epsilon Eridani. Our own star system is generically called the “Solar System,” so sci-fi likes to formalize into the Sol System.

No-life an MMO, join a big guild, get to talking more with folks who have similar interests as you.

And yet a lot of kids are entering the workforce today not knowing how to use a computer mouse or what a web browser is.

A lot, TBH. The walled garden is everything in tech these days. When you control the platform and make it hard to leave, you control the flow of information.

Nursing can advance quite a bit. A nurse can become a nurse practitioner, for instance. NPs can even open their own practice in some places. Or get a DNP, become a doctor nurse. Sure that pushes one more towards the admin side, but that doesn’t mean it’s removed from the world of nursing either.

But I guess one could say the same about being a physician as well. Where is there to go? It’s not really about advancing positions, but just doing more stuff that gets you paid more. Whether that be research/education/administration/specializing/whatever else.

do people still use these?

No

Or that kid who thought he knew how to speak Scots.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/scots-wikipedia-language-american-teenager.html

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Large_scale_language_inaccuracies_on_the_Scots_Wikipedia

Expansionist? They’re a small island nation. There’s nowhere to expand.

First Amazon, then Oracle, now Meta. All heavily invested in AI.

They show an example in the video, it’s just swapping the equator and the prime meridian. Hence why Britain (self-declared center of the world at GMT+0) ends up on the new equator.

The more detailed article on XKCD’s site specifies they’re using the Cassini Projection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_projection

Or A can be 10 in hexadecimal, but that wouldn’t fit either.

By “the FBI scanned”, they probably mean “We told Kash Patel that there was a six pack of Miller hidden somewhere in the plane and let him have at it.”

KeePassXC is the best FOSS option, but you’ll need to figure out self hosting if you want to sync the database between devices.