The planet Dune is special, because only there Spice, the most important chemical in the universe, is found.

Several noble families and organizations battle to gain control over the Spice.

—SPOILERS below for parts 1 & 2 of the series—

One of the families is set up to be murdered, but their young son survives. He is rescued by the planet’s locals.

These locals are fierce, and they are many.

—SPOILERS for part 3 & the rest of the books—

Lead by the noble son, the local people rise up and conquer the universe. The son becomes the new emperor.

He realizes that the universe – and mankind – is vulnerable because of the single source of Spice. Under the influence of Spice, he sees and enforces a Golden Path, which will eventually ensure mankind’s survival but destroy the empire.

Not indian, but yes, one of our cats does use head movements to express her … requests

So, you now learned that human behaviour is often silly when observed without context

Because it is a word, or it’s easier to say, or funnier.

It’s definitely not the only case. NATO comes to mind, or GOAT, NIMBY. Yesterday I heard someone say (in a tv series episode) ‘fudney’ for FDNY

What it ‘actually’ is does not matter.

It’s ICE, as in: cold as

Good question. So, perform an experiment: put an ice cube without air bubbles in a glass containing a mixture of ice and cold water. The temperature should become 0°C (just before it freezes), measure it.

Your hypothesis: ice is heavier than water, so it will sink

Execute the test several times, preferably 10 times or more. More is better.

Please share your experiment results. Interesting data to know for each test would include:

• sequence number of the test
• temperature of the mixture before and after you put the ice cube in
• method of ice cube creation
• volume of the ice cube
• volume of water/ice mixture
• depth of the water/ice mixture (should be > size of the ice cube)
• type of water used (tap, bottled, …)
• did the ice cube sink
• if no, what volume of the cube remained above the surface level

please also share your conclusion.

You don’t scare me.
AOL never was available in my country. Check books? I’ve never even seen someone actually using one, I think.

I will never get to 20, yay!

clueless

Psst, are you sleeping?

I had no clue until I remembered this

Hokkaido is also a type of ice cream. Apparently available elsewhere, too. The rest of the text is chinese (at least, deepl recognizes it as such)

webp is not fully supported by safari and webview on iOS; they cannot export images as image/webp using the toDataUrl or toBlob from a canvas element

Middle name is not a thing where I live. People can have 1 or more given names (I know of people that have 9), but none of these are considered ‘middle name’.

totally unrelated time in the screenshot, I’m sure

So thoughtful to put Spanish in spanish.

Oh wait

This week I don’t. Next week you may be right.