porous_grey_matter
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- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 6 days ago:
Scamming is core to what it is to be human, other animals don’t scam, and when they do insofar add they do we say they are like us
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 6 days ago:
But what about <incredibly contrived specific example involving song lyrics, guns to heads etc.>, can I say it then?
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Those few top people are assholes who love the enormous power they wield over PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty, and they are usually editors on those big name journals. Unlike the people who actually do the work, they are getting paid from this system.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Nope, you just can’t get a job unless you suck it up and publish in these journals, because they’re already famous. And established profs use their cosy relationships with editors to gatekeep and stifle competition for their funding :(
- Comment on An evil origin story 1 week ago:
Doesn’t have to be a conspiracy to have that effect or reflect that view
- Comment on We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease! 1 week ago:
Overestimating it a little, the construction workers just need to be good. But there are indeed literally thousands of PhDs working on it for decades, from all over the world.
- Comment on Force of habit 2 weeks ago:
There is no issue from graphenes side really, Google wallet doesn’t work because obviously Google doesn’t allow it to. nfc payments always worked if you are lucky enough to be with a bank that does it through the bank app itself, there’s nothing intrinsic about the os that stops them. There are a few of those online banks/money apps offering this now, some people have said PayPal works? And various other services. If you Google a bit you should find some suggestions.
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 weeks ago:
Haha. But I mean they’re too polite and nonconfrontational to argue about less than an ounce, but an American pint is like 100 mL smaller, it’s really noticeable
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 weeks ago:
British people know how big their pints are meant to be ahaha
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 weeks ago:
For a criminal charge, absolutely, and that’s as it should be. But in lay terms there is a bit of a grey area. I think you can be an overworked bartender who at some level does realise that the pour isn’t 100% up to the line (so the customer won’t be getting the full pint they ordered), but is too busy or distracted or lazy to really give a shit about making it exactly perfect. Who among us would make every burger perfect if we worked fast food? None, but it’s technically illegal in this case. But a punter who’d send a pint back for being less than an ounce under is pretty rare, nobody really cares that much.
I think the real news is that the average pub goer is spending almost three grand a year. Jfc.
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 weeks ago:
Sure, technically, but I doubt it’s always on purpose.
- Comment on Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals 5 weeks ago:
No, just sloppy pouring mostly
- Comment on Clever code is probably the worst code you could write 5 weeks ago:
Everyone’s level of clever/readable is different
- Comment on pick your side 1 month ago:
So close, but you got social studies and English the wrong way round, they go in rainbow order corresponding to the science-to-art spectrum.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 2 months ago:
The thing you’re missing is that other people come in and say the same thing as you, and when they listened to them once, they absolutely freaked the hell out, left bad reviews, maybe threatened to sue or something. So you just have to live with that unfortunately.
- Comment on degree in bamf 3 months ago:
Being white is a huge risk factor for unearned confidence. So is male. Being both just multiplies the chances.
- Comment on Youngsters who break new smoking ban face on-the-spot fines in UK 3 months ago:
What, and hurt the economy?!
- Comment on 'I’m a trained GP, but I can’t get a job': the absurd new crisis in the NHS 3 months ago:
Just sort of picked a year that seemed like a turning point for the government ramping up the levels of depravity, and care becoming harder to get, of course there’s no black and white moment
- Comment on 'I’m a trained GP, but I can’t get a job': the absurd new crisis in the NHS 3 months ago:
RIP NHS 1948-2016
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 3 months ago:
New as in 1800s, pretty sure some of these other places didn’t exist then too.
- Comment on temperature 3 months ago:
Ok but having not grown up with F I feel the same way about -20 to 40 °C, which you can divide into 5° bands with almost identical names.