Technically speaking, no. The mantle, which is solid, comprises about 2/3 of the Earth’s mass. However at a planetary scale solids are not rigid enough to maintain their shape, so the Earth is closer to a liquid held together by gravity than to a rigid solid object. See this simulation for an interesting demonstration of its properties: https://youtu.be/kRlhlCWplqk

Probably, but I think you’d need to be a medical professional and have access to his other records. And I’m no expert but I imagine the scalp tumor is a lot more identifiable.

Excuse me, did they censor the man’s eyes in the MRI? Why???

Can they do that? I thought all two letter TLDs were reserved for ccTLDs only. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out.

Remove those cursed half circles and you’ve got yourself a nice annular solar eclipse!

I went there a while back, and I’ll second the great tour. It’s awesome that they actually maintain the elevator and let people go down. It’s a pretty cool experience, though not for the claustrophobic. Never knew about the microbes, that’s really interesting!

Asexuals: “Guess I’ll just die then.”

I hate that so much. Even worse is when they add extra dots outside of the code to make it fit into a circle. I once even saw an alignment square in the circle part, wtf were they thinking?

I’ve been without service since around noon, I guess this explains why. Hopefully they get it fixed soon.

Also make sure you have file extensions enabled in Explorer, it makes it waaay harder for something like this to work.

I wonder whether buying “smart” TVs, flashing “dumb” firmware onto them, and selling them at a slight markup would be a viable business model. I guess you’d be at high risk of being sued, even if it’s entirely legal.

Oops my hand slipped and I accidentally torrented all my favorite shows!

One word: Linux.

Valve’s contributions have singlehandedly revolutionized the Linux gaming scene. They’re the only reason I can play most of the games I own. I don’t worship them, exactly, but I do think very highly of them.

A bit over two months ago. I try to go through my password manager to change all my passwords and clean up unused accounts a couple times a year.

I’d like to see Linus’s response if anyone tried to enshittify the kernel.

Really good book, one of my favorites.

Yeah, Discord is not a privacy preserving service in the slightest. Honestly I’m only using it because of the network effect at this point.

Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for baking bread.

What a novel and interesting idea! If only it wasn’t all a huge scam to take money from investors!

Do you have a source for that? I am unaware of any modern hard drives that support reading individual bits; the minimum unit of data that can be read is generally one sector, or 512 bytes. If the sector fails to be read, the drive will usually attempt to read it several times before giving up and reporting a read error to the PC.

Data recovery companies can remove the platters from a damaged drive and put them in a working drive, as long as the platters are in good condition, preventing further damage. (If the platters themselves are damaged, you’re screwed either way).