The cat who walks thru walls

@geekysteven@beige.party Sure, yeah, and then you tell me you can summon energy from space even without crystals, and use it to change your body's color?

@countablenewt I will always treasure the memory of a cow-orker who once pronounced SQL*Plus as "squeal! splat! plus!" (I am well aware he was not the only one) @greem @bloor

@kpl@social.lol @maxleibman@beige.party [checks notes for the past, uh... 15 years... 20... 25... going on 30...] ...always has been!

@Jacob_Wren@mastodon.social But what if the elephant I want to be would simply pack their trunk and trundle off to the jungle?

@n_dimension@infosec.exchange @erkhyan@yiff.life "It's two miles to the cornfield below, we got a human full of drugs, a full set of grey costumes, it's dark, and we're wearing huge-bulging-eyes-glasses." "Probe it!"

@drahardja@sfba.social That's no moon! @integerpoet@sfba.social

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Come, mister tally man, tally me banana Blue light come an' me wan' go home Six loves, seven loaves, eight loaves bun Blue light come an' me wan' go home

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @xerge@mastodon.nl @geekysteven@beige.party Also, everything will become crystal clear as soon as we figure out crystals. I mean, the stuff crystals are made of. Those small parts that make them up. The ones that are mostly empty space. And somewhere in there, but we can never say exactly where, there is stuff. Or there isn't. Or there is stuff, but it's actually waving at us. And vibrating. Rolled up on itself and just... shivering. And it looks like a piece of string, except it does not. And some of it is dark. Dark shivering strings that we cannot see, but we can feel them. See? Crystal clear!

@xris@ecoevo.social ...that would be fine (it would not be fine) except there would also be something that it would go boom into. @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

@woozle@toot.cat ESOP is one of the steps in that direction, and some small-to-mid sized companies have seen good things from it, but unfortunately I don't think many companies over a certain size would even consider it other than for the laughs. @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@woozle@toot.cat There's a fun corollary to that. If the government starts taking, say, 0.5% of their shares in each company they own, year after year, then it won't be very long before the government has a controlling interest in at least some of those :) @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

@qwyrdo ...you do know that there actually used to be a commercial HTML editor called HoTMetaL way back when, right? @mansr @me_ @bloor

@steve@discuss.systems @shriramk@mastodon.social ...and then proves that the problem is intractable by its nature; the proof attracts more attention, thereby expanding the field and leading to newly-possible conclusions.

@StarkRG But it is very simple. The alt text of the image here talks about a "root kitty". The equivalent in your distro would be a fruit bat. So it is all about the use of different parts of the plant. @dianea

@sugar "I'm not locked in here with you..."

@pacanukeha@mstdn.ca @sc_griffith@mathstodon.xyz Yeah, sounds like you're using OuvreGumbies. Try LiberatedGumbies, you have a one in thirteen chance of getting a Rick Astley song instead of the static.

@luigirenna@infosec.exchange "Of all the rainbows on all the sheets of paper in all the world, he stepped onto mine..."

@jamesbow Hm, but are you sure it always does that? Its shape is somewhat banner-like, so maybe it tries to lift or lower a banner in Arthurian Camelot first, and it only does the garage door thing if it fails - which it often does, but not always... leading to even more confusion for both the garage door owner and the independent observers. @sjolsen

@nick_appleyard @AstroKatie As I understand it (and of course ICBW), if it does indeed turn out that those galaxies are too massive, that would require a rethinking of our current understanding of how the universe formed ("the first three minutes" and all). Right now, I'd say the only answer could be "no one knows", but reworded as "we need more data" - it would be yet another case in the history of science when the widely accepted theory would be incapable of explaining the empirical evidence, so modifications would be necessary. So, no one knows :)

@virtuous_sloth@mstdn.ca @mttaggart@fosstodon.org It is only a bagel if it comes from a toroidal geometry region of the multiverse, otherwise it is merely a piece of dough sparkling with Cherenkov radiation.

@rixx "...so occasionally I have to read up on niche idiocy" is *such* an apt description of what it takes to help even friends and relatives not fall into online traps these days!

@fast_code_r_us@floss.social Maybe the "soon" part is the one aspect of the product that they have complete confidence in, reliably reproducible in trials? @dw@infosec.exchange

@TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange You crouch, you hold it at the level of your ankles, then with a single fluid motion you rise up and toss it upwards really, really hard. @ptrc@social.treehouse.systems

@mweiss@infosec.exchange Well, if it does have many cool things inside, then its sum total of coolness is indeed quite high. @Sea1Am@mastodon.social @MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me Yes. @Redfuchs@furries.club

@esvrld@normal.style [sigh in exasperated resignation with the son's refusal to accept][breathe in, fill lungs][lift finger] Carry on, my wayward sooon... @gonzo@monads.online

@stringlapse@tech.lgbt Hmm, almost. Since the pattern to be replaced, as per the original toot, is "B.", if we treat that dot as a regexp metacharacter, we get "benoit b. mandelbenoit b. mandelbrotot" @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe Also, it will be mandatory to arrive in time and watch all the trailers with rapt attention. Half of them will be propaganda reels or carefully presented news items reinforcing the belief in the doubleplusgood state[1]. The other half will look like actual movie trailers, but will be carefully designed to provoke reactions in the audience, all recorded to be studied later. Still, everyone will watch all of them in the desperate hope that maybe this time they will show a real trailer for a different movie. [1] That part was actually true in socialist times in the Eastern bloc.