Rolando @ Rolando @lemmy.world

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Hold on a sec... what if just aim the volcano at our enemies?

Wait, this is real?

Why. Why does it have to be this way.

I think there's oil in that there yard.

I really like this chart. It seems complex, but the upside is that your country can find exactly the level of engagement it wants.

vision is based on a “dark current”

WTF, for some reason, reading about all this stuff is seriously freaking me out about my eyes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_current_(biochemistry)

Every spell involves "your mom".

They should put some strange women distributing swords, as a basis for their system of government.

I found an entire dissertation on “THE EXPLOITATION OF LIVE AVIAN RESOURCES IN PHARAONIC EGYPT: A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY” BY ROZENN F. BAILLEUL-LESUER (JUNE 2016)

I thought you were BSing about this being a real dissertation, but here it is: https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/research-archives-library/dissertations/exploitation-live-avian-resources-pharaonic-egypt

TIL there were ostriches in ancient Egypt.

"Xeepzorp, it's not that complicated. The thumb-up is like crossing your eyestalks, and the middle-finger is like extruding your rectal tentacle."

The longest relationship I ever had started this way: we were at a mutual friend's house with a bunch of our friends. I introduced myself, then sat across the room from them, in a big comfortable chair, and I fell asleep while looking at them. For some reason they thought this was charming.

Have you found that there’s peer-review included when it’s university published?

Not comment-OP, but there are different levels:

• "pre-print" means that it hasn't been submitted yet, hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, and hasn't been accepted yet.
• "post-print" means that it's been peer-reviewed, revised, and the content is ready to publish, but it hasn't been formatted to be in the journal.
• "version of record" is the published version. this is called "camera-ready" if it's waiting to be published.

Depending on the contract signed, the academic scammers publishers will usually let the researcher publish the paper on their own web site or university site or repository like arxiv.org. If it's the pre-print, it may be available before publication, but if it's the post-print or version of record, this may be only after a certain period of time has passed.

The editor is what the journal offers,

In my (perhaps more limited) experience, the editor isn't an expert in the field, they're just the person who finds the volunteer reviewers who are the experts. Sometimes they find expert "guest editors" who are volunteers. Also, the final formatting / line-editing was outsourced to India.

Academic publishing is a scam. Don't volunteer for scams -- only review for open access journals / conferences.

Human civilizations have only been around for a couple thousand years. That's nothing.

How many fathoms do you have to go before even death may die?

I've been told that's what it looks like in Europe, except everyone has bicycles instead of cars. True?

loses mind

gains ultimate power

becomes Azathoth:

"the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws"

Pro tip: there's no need to wait for a holiday to celebrate your independence from Britain. I'm going to celebrate it right now.

Don't forget to tip.

Yeah, but I still post links to Bandcamp, even though they've gone down that path. One day they'll cross the line, and I'll start posting links to other services.

Time to update this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#Reddit