The formatting docs don't really elaborate this, but any text inside the [ ] part of an image markup will be used as alt text when it renders the image.

![A red rose in a glass vase](/images/rose.jpg)

So, when posting images, be a friend to those using assistive technologies and add descriptive alt text.

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

On Android: App settings > Jerboa > Set as default > Supported web addresses > check whatever you like

I checked my instance's only, so whenever I click some link to a community in Jerboa it I will go directly to the community, instead of it opening in the browser.

Don't think it will work very well with other instances, right now tho. At least not until link redirection is launched.

This may be pretty niche, but if you've ever shopped for valves you've probably seen these weird symbols. Turns out they can be read, and they do mean something! I mean, I think words would work too, but all the power to valve people.

"It is a matter of some debate as to whether the duties involved cleaning the king's anus, but the groom is known to have been responsible for supplying a bowl, water and towels and also for monitoring the king's diet and bowel movements and liaising with the Royal Doctor about the king's health."

I did it. I posted the crab fact.

This was one of my favourite discussions on the big R, so I thought I'd carry it over for posterity

OP (u/Exodia251)

Could someone with a strong enough will survive looking at any of the old gods with their mind intact? I don't know if all of them have the insanity factor or just cthulhu, but I'm mainly curious about our underwater priest boy

EDIT: I appreciate all the well written responses! From what I'm understanding it's not just seeing them that causes insanity. It's not being able to comprehend that beings of such size and potential exist on our universe. Or knowing you have no way of sharing the knowledge you have earned without people thinking you've lost your mind.

Response (u/[deleted])

I think the idea is that humans have set beliefs in how the universe works, but these creatures defy our understanding. They exist in a way that isn’t supported by science and I think THAT is why ppl go mad. I heard a fantastic explanation a while back, which went something like this: “If an ant had the ability to speak like a human being, it could theoretically communicate with us and request things of us. The ant is regarded with a kind of rudimentary respect since it clearly is more intelligent/capable than the other ants. We talk to the ant, the ant talks to us, we tell it about the universe and how we understand it, and everybody has a great time! Of course, we humans can’t spend our entire lives hanging around this one ant, so eventually we leave it to its own devices and move on. For us, that was a neat little experience! We humans sally forth on our eternal trudge through our bizarre, massive, endoskeletal lives. But…for the ant? Well, the ant just experienced things that it can NEVER communicate to other ants. Ever. It will never be able to give voice to what happened because the other ants don’t have any ability to comprehend the things it saw or said to us. It will live out its days in swirling madness, surrounded by its compatriots but utterly alone, seemingly insane, frothing about some non-pheromonal method of communication that involved ejecting vibrating air from its mandibles? What? The other ants just shrug and go about their lives, unconcerned with the world above, but that one, single ant, who dared to look beyond the veil, is permanently and completely changed.” That…my friend, is the madness. Not a matter of will, but of reintegrating into a society that cannot, will not, and is incapable of, understanding what happened to you and how the universe looks to you now.

Edit: this is what I was thinking of, thanks fellow Redditors! https://i.redd.it/6rstedlo0rb71.jpg

"The story goes that during exercises with the Royal Navy, a US Navy fighter pilot, vectored to investigate an unidentified contact at 3000 feet, found himself flying alongside one of the Fleet Air Arm's Fairey Gannet AEW3s.

"What have you found up there?" his controller asked him. The American aviator paused to consider his answer, staring at the odd-looking machine as it ambled around the sky with one engined turned off. With a jet pipe sticking out of the side like the siphon of an octopus, bent wings, contra-rotating propellers and psychedelic swirling yellow and black spinner, and the swollen afterthrough of a radome, attached underneath like the cap of a giant mushroom, there was no doubting its strangeness. But it was the pilot who most caught his eye. In the cockpit, high on top of the the Gannet's tall fuselage, was a man who looked like Brian Blessed, wearing an old leather flying helmet, who, apparently engrossed in a book, didn't even look up. ' I, er, I think I've found God...' concluded the fighter pilot."

From Phoenix Squadron by Rowland White

u/Vladimir_Chrootin

I like that this article shows not just the good and not just the bad, but both sides of the story. All too often we see articles saying "caffeine is bad!" and then "No, caffeine is good!"

Have you read some of the articles on math subjects? It's like they're written for mathematicians by mathematicians.

Even some mathematics concepts I have a decent grasp on ... the corresponding wikipedia entry reads like an alien language.

initial evacuation is 3km, then 19km after hydrogen tank explosion

Japanese gov tried to cover it up initially

Iodine tablets were handed out

Hydrogen tank 3 blew showering soldiers with radioactive concrete, not boron/graphite

Another hydrogen tank blew?

USA advised it's citizens to stay 50 miles away from plant, Japanese gov still 12.

19 km exclusion zone around plant.

Q: why was the az5 not used?

2600km sq evacuation of all humans, which is also the exclusion zone

10x10km all top soil buried underneath the middle soil

750 000 labor force

Thousands to 10 000s of deaths

Small penis rule Strategy used to evade libel lawsuits

The small penis rule is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. It was described in a New York Times article by Dinitia Smith in 1998:"For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule". One way authors can protect themselves from libel suits is to say that a character has a small penis, Mr. Friedman said. "Now no male is going to come forward and say, 'That character with a very small penis, that's me!'"

100C = 200F – super slow cooking for meats etc. similar to a slow cooker.

150C = 300F – regular slow roasting.

180C = 350F – for most sweet baking, cookies, cakes etc. Roasting nuts.

200C = 400F – for cooking everything else. Roasting veggies, fruit, cooking baked dishes and reheating food.

250C = 480F – aka ‘cranking it’. For pizza, fast roast fish and times when I’m running super late.