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Sure, you can talk about per-capita adjustment, but if you want to solve the problem, it's obvious that this is the problem group you need to focus on.

You'd need to keep track of so many people! Would you use, like, Excel or something? Far too fancy for a simple country nanoenzyme developer like me.

Gotten the Ferris wheel operator's attention

"Okay, that was weird, but the product reveal was normal. I think the danger is pas--" "One more thing." "Oh no."

If there's no dome, how do you explain the irregularities the board discovered in the zoning permits issued in that area!?

It's cool how, when there's a number lots of people are curious about, but which isn't easy to measure, some random guess will get cited everywhere and become the universally quoted value. Unrelatedly, did you know there are 850 trillion waves in the ocean?

"I have nothing to offer but blood--next slide, please--toil--next slide, please--tears, and--next slide, please--sweat."

Junior astronomers hate getting put on board update duty, but someone's gotta make sure that stuff is still up there.

People ask me whether I feel any moral qualms about the source of the points, but if he hadn't introduced factory farming to Agricola, someone else would have.

Oh no, they set up a roadblock which is just a sign with the entire 'Czech hedgehog' article printed on it.

Ontology is way off to the left and geography is way off to the right.

In Dimensional Chess, every move is annotated '?!'.

Who knew you could learn so much about sexual reproduction from looking at pictures on the internet!

[One hill over, a competing astrophotographer does a backflip over a commercial airliner while throwing a tray of plastic space stations into the air, through which a falcon swoops to 'grab' the real one.]

The key to discovering life on Mars is to find someone who built a camera and landed it on Mars. Then you just look through the pictures for plants and dogs and stuff.

NASA may not want to admit it, but at this point they ARE the 90's Kid Space Program.

I built a model that combines local case rates and vaccination stats to estimate when it's reasonable to attend various types of party, but I forgot to include anything about where to find them.

"I've traveled here from the year 2020 to bring you this vaccine!"

I think of myself as the David Attenborough of factory mailing equipment.

I'm looking forward to having to worry a lot less about covid, but wouldn't mind if we worried a little more about giving each other colds. Colds are bad!