SatanicNotMessianic @ SatanicNotMessianic @lemmy.ml

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God damn it. I don’t think that reviewers and publishers are aware as to the potential long term consequences of publishing shit papers that ultimately get retracted. It’s one thing if it’s some physics paper on a new superconductor, it’s another thing if it leads to an antivax movement that’s still going to this day.

Not if your lips just touch lightly in the middle and the air flows around the sides.

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but that’s also how I say that sound.

I’d be uncomfortable if large aircraft were operating so close to tolerances that it made this kind of thing necessary. I’ve been on small aircraft where they’ve asked passengers to switch seats before takeoff to balance out the load (I’m assuming there’s a scale readout on each wheel).

Assuming they have those data already, I’m not sure how per-flight data would change what they’re doing (as opposed to averaging), unless they’re talking about tiny planes.

I hope he sues Silwa and the Angels to bankrupt them and send their organization into collapse. I also hope he sues Hannity and Fox for defamation.

He’s a Trumpist and a liar, but I’m just repeating myself.

If you happen to remember which episodes, please let me know! I haven’t noticed that on any of my pass throughs.

My mind was blown while re-watching The Wire (where I also never skipped the intro). I said to myself “The singers change but the song remains the same.” Then my brain blew up because that’s the entire point of the series.

Person, woman, man, camera, tv

Iirc the GoT intros gave you a hint about the episode by highlighting the map areas that the episode was going to cover. But S8 ended up being so bad that it went back in time and ruined the entire series for me, so I never rewatched it and might be misremembering.

Right now I never skip the intro for What We Do in the Shadows. It’s the same every time, but the song is just too much fun to skip. I am probably on my fourth watching of that series.

I think I also sit through most of the Star Trek intros just because I enjoy the visuals.

It looks like Jesus is targeted by a sniper.

Braess's paradox

Dietrich Braess, a mathematician at Ruhr University, Germany, noticed the flow in a road network could be impeded by adding a new road, when he was working on traffic modelling. His idea was that if each driver is making the optimal self-interested decision as to which route is quickest, a shortcut could be chosen too often for drivers to have the shortest travel times possible. More formally, the idea behind Braess's discovery is that the Nash equilibrium may not equate with the best overall flow through a network

Deflation is much harder to fight than inflation. I think Japan struggled with it for a decade or more.

Residents also described problems with wireless service that could serve as the only replacement for copper networks in areas that AT&T hasn't deemed profitable enough for fiber lines.

When I lived rurally, I had two choices - landline or edge cellular network which was unreliable. I also had the absolute best connectivity of all of my neighbors because not only was I the only one able to have an account on the ISP’s over-subscribed DSL line (at a whopping 1.5 Mbps), I was also fortunate enough to have the house with the highest elevation - literally on top of the hill. No one else had any cell reception at all. Eventually AT&T actually gave me a femtocell box, which routed all of my cellular calls across my shitty DSL, but they weren’t having to pay the fees to the edge provider.

Part of being granted monopoly rights when doing things like laying lines is that you have to take the good with the bad.

If you start college (assuming you’re an American) do not under any circumstances drop out. This goes double for grad school. What will happen is the at you’ll still owe money on your student loan, but will not have whatever advantages you might have accumulated as a result of having a degree.

This article presented no analysis or insight whatsoever. It just is a few paragraphs presenting raw results of survey data and a pull quote from a finance guy essentially saying “YMMV.”

It would be helpful for people to have something about retirement expense rates, lifestyles at different income levels, the burn down rates of people retiring today and projected future costs, and so on.

I mean, I’m American, so it wouldn’t apply directly to me anyway, but it’s something I think about more and more as I get closer. I’d retire today, if I could. I do have a fair amount of savings, and if I was willing to retire someplace inexpensive I might be able to pull it off today, or in a couple more years at most. So I’ve been doing my own research there (including looking at golden visa programs in case US politics continues on its current path), but I like to hear how others are thinking about it as well.

I think it’s more likely that we will see smaller scale attacks by domestic terrorists, ranging from mass shootings to something on the scale of a Timothy McVeigh. I can also see a probability of a return to a 1960s/1970s level of political violence and assassinations.

I think those are more likely than a large scale attack from foreign terrorists.

So, let me tell you about my 1990s investments in Sun Microsystems…

It’s a foregone conclusion that Trump is going to win the Republican nomination. The nightmare scenario for the republicans has to be Trump going in as the nominee and then being found guilty of a felony charge. It won’t bleed off the Trumpists, but it certainly might make the never-Bidens stay home rather than voting for the guy.

I grew up going to the Natural History Museum in NYC and it’s a huge part of the reason I went into biology. The blue whale is amazing to see and experience. I had a mini panic attack thinking they were taking it down, but couldn’t confirm it on other sites.

I’m very relieved to find that it was just an Onion article.

I’m going to write a script that uses chatgpt to write letters of concern about AI to my representatives and senators daily.

You know what my point is, man. I’ve seen you make it yourself.

When someone conflates concerns with one aspect of a belief system with a vile hatred of all members of that culture, it’s an argument in bad faith.