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- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 8 hours ago:
Late to the party, and no offence to buddhism, but i always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett
“Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"
Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!”
And Clodpool went away, satisfied.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
(copies the quote from www.goodreads.com/work/…/46982-thief-of-time?page… but i’m rather sure its correct, so i didn’t check my copy).
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 weeks ago:
yes, generally it’s l/(1-l), where l is the loss (ranging from 0 to 1). Example: if you loose 10%, your portfolio needs to grow 11.11% to compensate just for the loss. go figure how long that is gonna take
- Comment on ehh 3 months ago:
this is stupid, of course you can en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birnen,_Bohnen_und_Speck
- Comment on Petrichor 4 months ago:
i Kind of doubt it. in a video i saw if the process they were using hardfired bricks. i don’t believe any organic compounds would survive the heat.
(dung might be a better term for what you were referring to. i seem to remember that because of the way they feed their cattle the dung has a very high fibre content which makes it a good source for building material. it’s nowhere as gross as the diarrhea like consistency we get from cows in Europe)
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
I’ve never smelled the stuff but apparently the smell of rain is something people try to bottle.
- Comment on Owl Pellets 5 months ago:
what’s with the femur? is it on purpose?
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 5 months ago:
there is a segment on German public TV if that’s any help zdf.de/…/zdfzeit-tricks-der-lebensmittelindustrie…
(Starts at 13:15 min). from what i remember it shows the same pattern mentioned by other commenters. vegetable fats instead of milk, thickeners, stabilizers, artificial flavors.
- Comment on Excuse me? 5 months ago:
the abstract of the PDF provided in the link has more commas. (not sure if any of the terms mean anything though. i know jackshit about any of this)
- Comment on Excuse me? 5 months ago:
someone fucked up the commas
- Comment on MDPI 5 months ago:
this is my impression. back when i still was in academia it would pop up from time to time but i never published there since i never cited any of their journals in the first place. (why would one publish there when all your peers are somewhere else). nowadays i sometimes get requests from them to my personal email for special issues which i just ignore. (it’s academic spam essentially).
have a look at retraction watch retractionwatch.com/?s=mdpi
- Comment on MDPI 5 months ago:
some might regard it as a predatory publisher
- Comment on Mod Post: Sorry for spam! 9 months ago:
thank you for your work. although i don’t post here i really appreciate the community and the work that involves. thanks a lot