Recovering comedian, polymorphic fox-shaped lava monster, self-appointed Sheriff of Saturn, singing voice of the Wingdings font.


dog
@dog

Surprisingly hardcore turn of phrase in the British Pringles lawsuit


kda
@kda

Just like cyanobacteria naturally crank up the oxygen concentration in anaerobic atmospheres tens of times over, and flowering plants naturally convert ungodly amounts of sunlight into chemical energy that animals can use, humans naturally figure out how to wield every single chemical element on a planet toward ends such as "maximally nutritious tubers", "maximally disease-resistant nutrition-optimised tubers", "maximally profitable disease-resistance high-yield very nutritious tubers", "what if we turned these fuckers into a tasty snack with the magic of the Maillard reaction and pyrolysis", andβ€”

The SoC driving your phone and the tokamaks that various governments are trying to beat the Sun at its own game with are exactly as natural as any organ in your body.


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The Maillard reaction: the best lifehack since photosynthesisβ„’*

*Ok, ok, since tool-making, which is technically the enabling lifehack, but it doesn't flow nearly as good and, hey, like photosynthesis it's a new and shiny energy source and it's not firemaking's fault that it gets overshadowed in magnitude and novelty by fission