https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZpTO7IFtA is worth the 15 minutes, but the TL;DW is that the kids are just using it as an in-joke marker (i.e. the phrase is a shibboleth), but its origin is in lyrics* by the rapper Skrilla referring to police codes for a dead body.

* are rapped words lyrics?

I don't see a website linked, you might want to edit that in to your post.

Edit: found it: https://clockwooork.github.io/

I'll be very happy to not have to use Date any more. Pop quiz, what's in whatnum?

const vday = new Date('14 February 2025');
const whatnum = vday.getDay() - vday.getMonth();

Err, it's 5... Ha, amazing; that's not even the gotcha I meant to demonstrate. getDay returns the day of the week, the day of the month is returned from getDate.

Take two:

const vday = new Date('14 February 2025');
const whatnum = vday.getDate() - vday.getMonth();

So this is 14 - 2 = 12, right? Nope! The day (from getDate) is 1-based whereas month is 0-based, so 14 - 1 = 13.

You might have been joking, but this is the best answer. All plants need a decent amount of light, so they either need a grow light or rotating out. Or just get a plastic one instead and save the poor thing a life of misery.

If it's chemically identical, what does it matter if it's come from dairy, this process, or a Star Trek replicator?

The article uses the word modified, but it sounds like it's just talking about configuring it and using it as normal.

Perhaps everything after the low hanging fruit feels too politically painful.

That Jordan (who shot down some of the missiles) agrees that Iran gave warning, I think it's clear that Iran wanted to retaliate without escalating. Israel saying we'll reply when we're ready feels like they're happy to draw a line under it for now.

This is a very cool bot

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Lord Palmerston, House of Commons, 1 March 1848

People says Kissenger paraphrased this with "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" - afaik there's no evidence of this but either way the quote's older than he is.

A general tip on buying UPSes: look for second hand ones - people often don't realise you can just replace the battery in them (or can't be bothered) so you can get fancier/larger ones very cheap.

Then the next article:

Local anime fan Tyler Jenkins has recently found himself in a cultural conundrum: wondering how accurately he can sing his favorite anime theme songs without crossing the line into unintentional racism, sources close to the karaoke machine reported.

"sources close to the karaoke machine" - just brilliant.