anabolic_cow
anabolic_cow t1_jaa9u3e wrote
Reply to comment by Blutarg in TIL that the Slurpee was invented by accident when a Dairy Queen owner would provide frozen soda, from a cooler, to customers when his soda fountain would break down. The owner, Omar Knedlik, improvised the Icee machine out of car parts, which was eventually licensed by 7-11, to become the Slurpee. by jdward01
Inb4 Poe's Law
anabolic_cow t1_is7v6at wrote
Reply to comment by _Haverford_ in TIL the first confirmed victim of Takata airbags was 18y/o Parham. As she drove around a car park, she lightly bumped another vehicle making the airbag inflate, sending metal pieces at such tremendous force that one hit the teen’s neck slicing open her carotid artery. She bled to death in her seat by ahm713
I can't help but wonder if she made an attempt to stop the bleeding or just didn't understand how severe her wound was.
anabolic_cow t1_jbqp7g7 wrote
Reply to [OC] Impact of Russian Missile strikes on Ukraine's ICT Infrastructure by datainspace
My computer science professor for an algorithms class taught us about the concept of "articulation vertices" and he always did it by using terrorists blowing up power or communication lines as an analogy. Basically, these connected systems, if well made, are extremely difficult to bring down because they're usually setup in such a way that blowing up lines has very a limited effect on overall connectivity of the system.