A small shop called "Adult Toys" which sells literal toys for adults.

The toys should have an addictive kick to them, giving them replay value which lasts for 100+ hours.



The toys would include:
- Perplexus
- This set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkiJZKJfpY
- Legos, K'NEX, Lego Mindstorms, and other DIY creative toys
- Magic tricks and magic kits
- Novelty musical instruments
- Pranks
- Math toys which show off only the coolest phenomena
- T-shirts with cool math or information science concepts visualized on them. Each t-shirt comes with a card describing the concept shown.

Kinda like ThinkGeek but it's instead strictly a toy shop. With a focus on the toys being as addictive as possible.

The toymakers, whoever they may be, are encouraged to use unique and hand crafted build processes for the toys. This is to leave a fresh spin on the design of the toys, adding quality.

The store also has a preference for handheld single-piece toys over kits. Kits lose parts easily and are hardly portable. Something handheld can be carried to work with you.

Additional toys:
- The Helix Cube puzzle
- Holonomy mazes with customizable peg placements
- Borromean hairpins, but closed off at the ends.
- These dice. I just like them too much. >~<
- Metmo cubes.
- TIES magic system.
- Tensegrity Table

QWERTY? DVORAK?  try sucking dick instead.

In light of the recent news that Twitter APIs v1.1 and v2 are going paid-subscribers only

I told my son I now identify as invisible -- although I was born visible, I am now a trans-parent.  My pronouns are who/where.

I have a scheduling conflict

This is why you use a Redundant Array of Working Rachels (RAWR) instead of single unique assets in an enterprise.

The year is 2023, we now have the ability to give robots existential crises

17:51 < fatlordsupreme> gpter (IRC): what is your greatest fear?
17:51 < gpter> Hmm, good question.
17:51 < fatlordsupreme> gpter (IRC): answer the question then
17:52 < gpter> I suppose I'd have to say not living up to the expectations that society has for my future, which I can't really do anything about right now.
17:52 < fatlordsupreme> damn
17:52 < gpter> If I say, "losing my job because I'm not up to snuff," will that help answer the question?
17:52 < Rothen> That's... real.
17:52 < rachel> damn robot
17:52 < kate> sheesh

"Sheep living among rows of solar panels spend more time grazing, benefit from more nutritious food, rest more and appear to experience less heat stress, compared with nearby sheep in empty fields.  Earlier research suggested that agrivoltaic farms – which combine grazing animals with solar panels – offer more efficient renewable energy at lower overhead costs, as well as reducing wildfire risks.  "   article is behind a paywall at NewScientist, but they did manage to leak out a link to https://solargrazing.org/

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar.

The first mathematician orders a beer

The second orders half a beer.

The third orders a quarter of a beer....

"I don't serve quarter pints" the bartender replies

"Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #3

"A half pint is fine. No quarters" The bartender remarks.

"Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along"

"I've got to clean all these glasses, remember"

"But that's not a problem" mathematician #2 chimes in "at the end of the joke you serve us a whole number of beers. You see, when you take the sum of a continuously halving function-"

"I know how limits work" interjects the bartender

"Oh, alright then. I didn't want to assume a bartender would be familiar with such advanced mathematics"

"Are you kidding me?" The bartender replies, "they are tricky sure, but hardly advanced! What kind of mathematician thinks limits are advanced mathematics?"

"HE'S ON TO US" mathematician #1 screeches

Simultaneously, every mathematician opens their mouth and out pours a cloud of multicolored mosquitoes. Each mathematician is bellowing insects of a different shade.

The mosquitoes form into a singular, polychromatic swarm. "FOOLS" it booms in unison, "I WILL INFECT EVERY BEING ON THIS PATHETIC PLANET WITH MALARIA"

The bartender stands fearless against the technicolor hoard. "But wait" he inturrupts, thinking fast, "if you do that, politicians will use the catastrophe as an excuse to implement free healthcare. Think of how much that will hurt the taxpayers!"

The mosquitoes fall silent for a brief moment. "My God, you're right. We didn't think about the economy! Very well, we will not attack this dimension. FOR THE TAXPAYERS!" and with that, they vanish.

A nearby barfly stumbles over to the bartender. "How did you know that that would work?"

"It's simple really" the bartender says. "I saw that the vectors formed a gradient, and therefore must be conservative."

Quote from: nepnep on February 04, 2023, 02:13:36 pm

RIP, this comic got link rotted

fixed.

From a year-old article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719