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When the sun is at X position in the sky, the clock should read Y

Sunlight during the morning commute improves traffic safety for drivers and kids waiting for the schoolbus

Sunlight after work improves viability of local small businesses and after-school activities

The rate of car crashes, heart attacks, and other hospitalizations spikes the day after each DST switch, in either clock direction

I drink a lot of tea! One reason for this is that I have never really learned to like coffee. (This is just one of the many facts that can be used to support the contention that, despite my advanced age, I should probably not be regarded as a responsible adult.) Perhaps because of this, I find this sketch extremely funny.

Also because of this, the Girl Genius tea posters are among my favorite pieces of Girl Genius bonus art.

The two images above were posted to the Girl Genius website as bonus art. (Links are in the images.) A third tea posted was posted to Patreon in August of 2020. In the accompanying message, Kaja said that they bring printed posters of these "in universe advertisements" to conventions in very limited quantities, but that she would like to release them on a larger scale. I am not aware that that has ever happened, but I think they would be very popular, so I hope it does.

built-in protection against tipping during heavy seas

cheaper than Mechazilla

easier maintenance than Mechazilla

When the sun is at X position in the sky, the clock should read Y

Sunlight during the morning commute improves traffic safety for drivers and kids waiting for the schoolbus

Sunlight after work improves viability of local small businesses and after-school activities

The rate of car crashes, heart attacks, and other hospitalizations spikes the day after each DST switch, in either clock direction

There was a "local fixed-point radiation detector is going nuts" post on the local subreddit. We're talking 2500-3000cpm, way beyond normal background radiation. Some redditors claimed that this persistent hot reading must be caused by the nearby nuclear reactor, about 8km away.

So my friend grabbed their Aranet Radiation meter (not really a true Geiger counter) and went over to the local reactor, where you can get to within a few dozen meters of the containment building on a public path, and sat there long enough to get a reading.

18 years. this is enough time for the work to grow to adulthood and begin to care for itself

Because Apple didn't show scrollbars on iPhones

Because in CSS, scrollbars have not been consistently style-able

Because in CSS, scrollbars affect width calculations for the scrolled container in non-obvious ways that were not trivial to work around until recently, a condition which is exacerbated by users with uncommon situations such as: hiDPI screens, standard-DPI screens, webpage zooms other than 100%, non-default computer UI themes, non-default browsers, default-deprecated-dead-buried browsers like IE6 and IE8 and Edge, mobile phone browsers, and so on

Because the browser's position at the edge of a scrolled container interferes with borderless designs

Because their positioning on the edge of a scrolled container reveals the edge of the container, which may highlight subtle alignment or spacing issues that are not obvious if the scrollbar is not hidden

Because the visual presence of a scrollbar creates a "lopsided" design where there is always a visual element present on one side of an area, which requires a counterbalancing element on the opposite side

Because, by defining the edge of a scrolled container, the dreaded Rectangle is invoked

Because they don't work well with squircles or rounded corners

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing