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Do I understand it incorrectly or does it allow them to webstream my home address???

Sooo actually why land mammals can’t filter out salt from seawater?

Gas valves famously use the opposite direction

A fridge and dishwasher! Food safety is such a huge contribution to our health

Doesn’t frequent cleaning of sinuses cause irritation? I believe healthy sinuses should be mostly self cleaning. Of course if you have some long-term condition then it’s different

When you use Celsius from birth 41C does make you say FORTY ONE DEGREES?!!!

You are indeed correct, some artistic freedom is definitely expected from that kind of series. But relying on Russian propaganda sources and making Legasov a hero doesn’t qualify as artistic freedom but misinformation. Also the representation of the soviet reality was at least inaccurate - my dad who was raised in the former soviet block summarised it as “representing how Americans think it was not how it truly was”.

Chernobyl is a good and very interesting series and it’s good that it raises at least some awareness about the catastrophe. But imo it could be more technically and historically accurate without losing its attractiveness.

Check out this YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@thatchernobylguy2915

Maybe, if reviewers were paid for their job they could actually focus on reading the paper and those things wouldn’t slide. But then Elsevier shareholders could only buy one yacht a year instead of two and that would be a nightmare…

Joke on you until the python program segfaults

I actually would like to choose the track where the number of people increases by one (so 1, 2, 3, 4…) and then the train will kill -1/12 people

PS Yes, I know this sum result is problematic, it’s only a joke