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A loaded croissant please, Chef, with tomato and mozzarella.

Check your user profile.

In the app I use, the user profile shows my own activity, and has a menu for things like "upvoted" and "downvoted".

Your app (Summit) might well do the same. Otherwise check the regular Web interface (no app).

So, update after calling the local council:

The council rep said to drop it in their e-waste collection bin, next to the other mobile phones.

I'm not actually sure that is quite safe enough, honestly, but maybe these spicy pillows aren't as dangerous as I have been led to believe.

Anyone know how to (safely) get rid of a phone battery that's swollen up into a "spicy pillow"?

!spicypillows@lemmy.world

It's apparently a fire risk, so it needs some kind of special handling — I don't want to just drop it in a bin somewhere!

I dug up the actual paper (Cook, 2004) and it turns out the bicycle was symmetrical... and, in fact, entirely virtual.

It's a plot of a computer simulation, rather than records from a real-world physical experiment.

A bicycle is composed of four rigid bodies: the two wheels, the frame, the front fork (the steering column). Each adjacent pair of parts is connected with a joint that allows rotation along a defined axis, and the wheels are connected to the ground by requiring that their lowest point must have zero height and no horizontal motion (no sliding).

So the simulation has a lot of simplifications from reality, and the picture tells us more about the simulation model than it tells us about the real world. It is a pretty picture, though.

Here's the paper reference:

Cook, M. 2004. It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle.

(I couldn't get it from the Cook's Caltech site, but I found a copy elsewhere.)

At a basic level... yes? I think all those words are important enough in English to be short words. They're important in a way that "theatrical" and "equally" are not as important.

And none of those words are as important in English as "a" or "I".

Actually, yeah, kinda?

Like, there are only so many one-syllable words. Even fewer words that are just a single letter.

Generally you don't want to waste them on complicated, niche concepts that only come up rarely.

Hmm. Your comment gave me something to think about. Now I've thought about it and done some research... I still think the comic is right, because it specifies a 4-holed sphere.

Here's my thinking:

A sphere with two holes can be stretched into the shape of a drinking straw (or a donut, or a coffee cup). That same shape can be stretched into a disc with a single hole: one hole in the sphere becomes the outer boundary of the disc.

Likewise, a disc with three holes has the same topology as a sphere with four holes. (Or a dress, or a T-shirt.)

So yeah, you can say that a straw has one hole and a dress has three ... but only when you're counting holes in a disc.

This page shows the sphere/disc thing visually, and uses clothes as examples:

https://seattlemathmuseum.org/math-in-real-life/clothes-holes

Is it? Like the person in the comic, I count four... one for the head, one for the legs, and one for each arm. Am I missing something?

(I don't know if I'm not enough of a topologist to understand your joke ... or too much of a topologist to understand your confusion.)

Reddit never banned me, and yet here I am.

Maybe there's something missing in your analysis?

That... doesn't really explain anything, but good luck anyway.

What made you choose this particular community to post your story?