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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

Toilet paper Memes

Posts tagged with Toilet paper

Breaking The Laws Of Toilet Paper Physics

Physics Math Science
6 months ago 33.8K views 0 shares
Breaking The Laws Of Toilet Paper Physics
The mathematical impossibility of folding paper more than 7 times meets bathroom desperation. Fun fact: Each fold doubles the thickness exponentially—by fold 7, your toilet paper would be 128 layers thick. By fold 10, it's thicker than your hand. Fold 42 would reach the moon. But sure, go ahead and create a black hole in your bathroom while solving the eternal toilet paper shortage crisis. That's one way to make your colleagues question your absence from the lab meeting.

The Real Hierarchy Of Thinness

Materials Science
1 year ago 23.9K views 0 shares
The Real Hierarchy Of Thinness
The claim that "hair is the thinnest thing in the world" is actually incorrect. Human hair averages 70-100 micrometers in diameter, while school toilet paper measures approximately 0.1 micrometers thick. Still, both pale in comparison to the thinness of one's patience after the third consecutive failed experiment. The real thinnest material is graphene at just one atom thick (0.33 nanometers), but Harvard scientists were probably too busy fighting for parking spaces to measure that properly.

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Best Frigate NVR hardware in 2026 (post-Coral edition)

Coral is unsupported and cloud cameras keep leaking data. The Frigate NVR hardware I'd buy in 2026 - N100 mini PC, Pi 5 with Hailo, PoE cameras. Read article →

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