KnowAttitudeQ: What's the difference between Vietnam and Iran?
A: Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.
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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESIt's not weird for some species to incorporate toxins from their diet as defenses: poison dart frogs, monarch butterflies, sea slugs, etc
But let's get weird and circuitous with it
#Nicotine was developed by plants to kill insects. As a quirk of #neurochemistry, humans use it addictively, so cigarette butts are everywhere
Birds have figured out they can use them in their nests to repel insect parasites
The original intention of nicotine
Weird!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347226000011
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Chuck DarwinA heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN
It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.
Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal proton.
Its extra mass comes from the fact that it is made from heavier building blocks, known as quarks.
A regular proton contains two "up" quarks and one "down".
However, the Xi-cc-plus proton contains two “charm” quarks instead of the lighter "up" quarks.
Because of this, it has been dubbed a “doubly charmed baryon”.
(A baryon is a subatomic particle, including protons and neutrons, that is made of three quarks.)
Scientists were able to deduce its existence when they spotted three lighter particles created as by-products when the Xi-cc-plus proton decayed.
It is the first new particle detected by the upgraded LHC, whose first iteration astonished the scientific world with the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
@l_inadapte Tymon is great! Definitely a cuber I enjoy watching. I legitimately cried when I saw him get the 5x5 WR average live at Worlds 😆Good point about the ML results! He's mentioned before that he gets more nervous about the ML solves than in WCA competition. The head to head is a different mental game for sure!
404 MediaThe CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
@l_inadapte I was curious what his PB was and found this 4.02: https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/unofficial-tymon-kolasinski-4-02-3x3-ao5.94423/ His PB spreadsheet looks out of date. I'd be curious what his ao25 is. That seems like a good indicator for peak performance in a competition with good scrambles to me 🙂
@l_inadapte Those 5s were a bummer. I could easily see him getting something like a 4.20-4.30 average by the end of the year🤞 Maybe even a second counting 3 with the right scrambles!
@l_inadapte I was curious if that was his first counting 3 and it looks like he got another one the last time he got ER single 😄 3.62 single with a counting 3.89. He's gotten a lot more consistently fast with ZB!
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