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  • Yeah I'm not buying it.

    • in academia, there are a lot more mid- and low-tier academics (like me!) than there are high-tier academics, and there are plenty of lower-tier venues and lower-tier institutes. In these tiers, you're not expected to publish at the highest levels.
    • in higher-tier academia, once you get tenure (to be precise: once you submit your tenure package) the urgent need for high-impact journal cites is greatly reduced. you write books or something I dunno.
    • industry scientists have far fewer publishing requirements. or they write articles for trade mags. One place I interviewed was actively hostile to publishing.
    • government-lab scientists, I dunno, I think they write technical articles that they give their sponsors?

    The dynamic that u/mIRNAexpert describes does exist, but it's not the whole problem. And like any scientist will tell ya, figuring out the problem is half way to figuring out the solution.

  • I kinda think of it as a memento mori... he's like: yep, that was me, 20 years ago... keep the sunglasses on son, now lean in and put your hand on her neck... yep, I remember those days...

    The not-quite-visible whitehaired person to the left only adds to the effect. Like: this is the inevitable course of your life, buddy.

  • Hi, someone else here, noting that even after the update you're not guaranteed that a thumbnail will propagate.

    Consider:

    On the default web client, you should see thumbnails for the youtube videos on the first two links, but not on the third. There are various reasons for this, here's an earlier investigation.

    On some phone apps I think all 3 of those links resolve to your instance. Clients/apps handle things differently, and some even fetch their own thumbnails!

    Finally, everything is evolving: instance servers are reconfigured, versions are updated, clients change, hosting servers change the way they do things, youtube changes things on its end, etc. So it's a bit of a moving target.

  • A scam center, fraud factory, fraud park, scam factory or scam compound is a collection of large fraud organizations usually involved in human trafficking operations, generally found in Southeast Asia and usually operated by a criminal gang. Scam center operators lure foreign nationals to scam hubs, where they are forced into modern slavery, to scam internet users around the world into fraudulently buying cryptocurrencies or withdrawing cash via social media and online dating apps.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_center

  • Oh yeah Sanctuary kills! another couple good things:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aij5PTNHdvY - what could be better than a couple drunk Texas sumotori watching the 1992 film "Sumo Do, Sumo Don't"? Not much. It takes them 5 minutes just to get the movie started tho lel. There's also a 2022 miniseries of the same name but you'll have to find someone with a Disney account for that.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CISA3X2cJw - Hinomaru Sumo anime. sub is better imho but most of the dub is free at that link. It's missing the last episode of season 2 tho, you'll have to find it elsewhere if you get that far, I think it's on crunchyroll and amazon streaming.