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- Comment on naughty naughty 1 week ago:
It’s been there quite a long time:(
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 1 week ago:
We had blackberry vines in the backyard when I was little along a fence bordering with a neighbor (I think they originally started on their side of the fence) and I cried when they cut them down. They were so delicious!
- Comment on naughty naughty 1 week ago:
If you haven’t bailed from the platform completely you certainly shouldn’t join the facebook group “ask for pds from people with institutional access” either
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 2 weeks ago:
Yeah mcdonalds fries need to be piping hot and fresh straight from the fryer. Reheating in the air-fryer even right after delivery changes the flavor (though you can get them back to ideal texture which is still a big improvement).
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 2 weeks ago:
It’s because you pulled me over my guy
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 2 weeks ago:
I lived in a run down part of town a few houses down from a crack/coke distributor in college and once a friend locked himself out of the car. Before we could even panic someone popped out with a hanger and opened it in like 30 seconds. Crisis averted!
Also got pulled over on my own street regularly though (“you looked nervous”) and my dad almost got arrested when he was dropping off plants (cacti and flowers).
- Comment on vibes-based astrophysics 3 weeks ago:
This, a model is a human tool and it’s as useful as it is useful.
- Comment on Anon goes on holiday 3 weeks ago:
In my opinion you should still go. There’s really not another part of the country like it and the park is humongous— just expect it to be somewhat crowded at the more popular sites like old faithful. Just talk to a park ranger and ask for rewarding hikes that are less traveled. Yosemite is the same way. Obviously try not visit during a popular vacation date if possible. Leave no trace and don’t approach a buffalo!
- Comment on Can you beat the record? 5 weeks ago:
Personal record
- Comment on nuclear 1 month ago:
And that pot looks iron!
- Comment on Nobody will question you 1 month ago:
Yeah that would be bad practice, industry standard is to run all the tests simultaneously and if something comes out statistically significant make up a narrative then try to split it into 4 papers.
- Comment on heard the NYPD is offering $10,000 for any information 1 month ago:
For shame! It’s illegal to shoot wild birds off season. He should be fined a pretty penny!
- Comment on Friend or Foe: The Confusing Reality of AI "Friends" 1 month ago:
Super interesting read! New frontiers for sure.
- Comment on if statement == false 1 month ago:
IFF you use the universal quantifier
- Comment on [Meta] Some of y'all are way too sensitive for this community 1 month ago:
Yeah I feel like twitter in specific started (or maybe just accelerated) a trend towards moral absolutism in online spaces.
It’s always enjoyable to watch people who spend a lot of time in online echo chambers trying to use the same energy irl.
- Comment on mossy ass milf 2 months ago:
Since we’re mossposting… Image
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 months ago:
Still Not Butter
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 3 months ago:
3 of the couples I had in mind when I mentioned traditional dating sites used Match.com (between 2015 and 2022 in their mid 20s to mid 30s) and 1 couple each around the same time period/age demographic on specific religion dating sites (catholic chemistry and christian mingle)
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 3 months ago:
I don’t think Anon is considering the set of all possible cute girlfriends or lending them enough agency. I think it’s someone reasonable if you’re app dating to assume that people are doing some amount of maximizing cute + interesting or something similar but I think that’s because the apps encourage people to gamify dating and things that are competitive are a game.
Anecdotally I’ve seen a ton of…erm…normatively mismatched couples form and find success in other contexts like dive bars, pick up soccer, chatrooms, kink communities, boardgame cafes, more traditional dating sites etc. Again anecdotally these relationships seem to skew (normatively) in the guy’s favor more often than the gal’s as far as looks and personality go despite the fact that complaints like this come more often from men.
- Comment on Charlotte doing her Fibonacci Spiral impersonation 3 months ago:
Perfection
- Comment on ouch 3 months ago:
Academia only really rewards novelty, but the scientific method is supposed to be a slow slog towards the truth with lots of redundancy and endless cycles of minor tweaks that in turn force you to tweak theories that connect so that our picture of the world maintains its internal coherence
- Comment on Can relate. 3 months ago:
That’s unrealistic— some of them are etched into stone
- Comment on Can relate. 3 months ago:
As someone who consumes a lot of ancient history, it can also make you like “Ah yes, another city rises, another is displaced by climate disaster, and another falls due to land mismanagement. ‘Tis the way of things.”
- Comment on Self-reflection 4 months ago:
I have a friend who turned in such a good paper during grad school that the professor thought it was plagiarized (no turnitin or anything) and gave him a 0. After meeting with the teacher and straightening it out I would have felt pretty good about myself.
- Comment on Smart 4 months ago:
I tried to google it and it’s not super clear. -Perelman gets his phd in russia super young and is hired at NYU/SUNY -Publishes some groundbreaking stuff on arxiv (a free site to post white papers in math and physics) in 2002/2003 -There is some drama with another scientist who is known for stealing people’s work trying to downplay Perelman’s contribution -Perelman quits his US jobs and returns to russia to work in math (making wayyyyyyy less money), then quits that job too and becomes a recluse -Turns down fields medal and millennium prize (1M dollars for solving) -Says some mathematicians are unethical but the rest of them tolerate it so they’re shit too so the whole thing is shit. Also says he doesn’t want to be put in a zoo or treated like a pet about it.
— I’m going to go ahead and assume I don’t understand enough about being a math superstar to understand where he’s coming from, but he certainly sounds like a principled guy and now I respect him.
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- Comment on stacked 4 months ago:
Okay but if they really built a hydraulic lift elevator that’s so cool
- Comment on Mental hell 4 months ago:
If it sounds interesting and other things just don’t I say go for it if you can get a funded position. Definitely ask other students before choosing an advisor so that you don’t get someone who is completely unavailable or a dick
- Comment on Philosophy 4 months ago:
4.5 Spinoza gets shadowbanned
- Comment on Mental hell 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s not the best path for everyone, and some subject areas just don’t have enough teaching positions to reasonably expect to get one
