Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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  • It’s actually an infinitesimal chance per subatomic particle, so if it does happen it’s actually more likely you’ll only be partway through the wall before your luck runs out.

    And if that weren’t existential dread enough, the same applies to walking on floors.

    Floating in space seems safe right about now.

    … except that quantum tunnelling can happen without anything in the way. Any one or more of the particles that make up a person can spontaneously resolve its wave function elsewhere in the universe.

    But the odds of any of this happening, especially in a massive object with interlinked wave functions, are so close to zero they might as well be.











  • Argh. That doesn’t work. The “were-” in “werewolf” means “man” and there are no humans in that comic.

    Unfortunately there don’t seem to be many ancient synonyms for “house” like there are for “human”, so it’s not really possible to obfuscate the meaning in the way that “were-” does.

    house-warehouse doesn’t really roll off the tongue well, and it’s open to the misinterpretation of “houseware-house”, which is something else entirely.

    Badly translating back into Old English gives hūswāruhūs, which, if you corrupt vowels to “huswarahus”, does kind of sound like a cryptid.