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Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.

Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/

I remember the Kyokutaisei doc 😢

he probably needs to win both given the number of promotion cases—it's not impossible to hold on with a 6-9 from M16, but not if there's a legit replacement

5-0 now, after beating Tochimusashi with minimal effort

reminds me of what happens when I take a photo while cycling and put the phone back in my jersey pocket while the camera is still on 😉

as expected, he was completely dominant in his 3 maezumo bouts; video not hard to find

Not Aonishiki for move of the day? I know he gets plenty. Takayasu borrowing his uchimuso was also pretty sick

As good as he is, he is also 25. At that age, Hakuho just got his 15th yusho and was in the middle of a 7-yusho run. He maintained that level for another 5 years, getting to yusho 35 before he had to go kyujo. And then got 10 more in the twilight of his career.

I really want to see his maezumo bouts, cc @sumosoul.bsky.social

Sry to miss it, I left FB like a decade ago 🥲

Defaulting to surgical masks in health care settings in 2025 is one of the most dissapointing examples of reluctance to change despite overwhelming evidence.

Even defaulting to KN95 style would significantly increase protection of the most vulnerable.

Infuriating inertia in the HC industry.

13 basho to sekiwake for Aonishiki breaks the record of 14 held by Konishiki, so he *is* the fastest ever for anyone starting at the bottom (tsukedashi are a separate thing, I don't think anyone is touching Ichinojo's 5 basho)

Los Angeles!

"sumotori" is also acceptable, right?

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

AI in biology: "I read about some new computational method...get excited because it’s exactly what I need...I try the method...Most of the time things don’t work...I have seen this play out so many times my default assumption is nothing is going to work" blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

It's our two sekiwake

Terunofuji too, right? Maybe at ex-Isegahama's kanreki? I remember Midorifuji having a blast as one of the "opponents"

4-panel comic. (1) [person in front of window, shaped like a trapezoid with a curved top] This weekend, I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window. (2) [person sitting with hands on head surrounded by images of assorted equations and measurements] It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be. Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity. (3) [person in front of window with screen on it, with building detritus strewn on the ground] ...I solved them all. I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts. And it fit *perfectly.* No gaps, no ripples. (4) [person typing at computer] I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry, and literature. However, if you review the attached photos showing how well the screen fits into the...

Window Screen

xkcd.com/3151/

I also feel like the small guys who outperform their weight tend to rely a lot on throws, trips, and the like, which wasn't his game. I can't think of someone who is small, with short reach, and is an oshi specialist

He's gotta be lighter than Enho now, tough to get past Makushita at that size regardless of skill level, no? I do think he got heavier than would have been optimal.

Another record month for bioRxiv - and further evidence the pandemic spike+dip was just that and growth continues. Thanks to all involved and that includes 🫵

I haven't seen "the ending" montage, did they not do one this time? @sumosoul.bsky.social

"1. Be extremely good on the belt. 2. Get him to engage with you on the belt head-on. 3. Profit."

Move of the day: Hoshoryu 🙃

Aonishiki racking up Tim Sumo awards like he racks up special prizes (fully deserved, don't get me wrong)

He was a big prospect when he debuted in 2020, but kept getting derailed by injuries; hopefully that's behind him. Interesting game plan today, he's more of a yotsu guy.

Having his photo taken like that is ... brave?

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

xkcd.com/3140/

I usually think of it as epistasis for two alleles of a gene when the effect of both in cis differs from the sum.