There’s something philosophically unsatisfying about treating c, G and h as primitive givens.

When their origin is bracketed off, anthropic or fine-tuning arguments tend to do the explanatory work.

Is there a better explanation?

Then again, it could be the West African equivalent to one of these 😆 : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koteka

And that photo didn't even require Grok AI to alter it

gutted I couldn't win because I only joined bsky today, ah well, back in the british queue for the next one...

Dark matter has at least earned fifty years of serious contemplation.

European Convention on Human Rights doing a lot of quiet work there.

My gin and tonic disagrees, sublimation alone won’t cool that argument.

“Free speech” is treated as a branding exercise, not a principle, right up until it becomes legally inconvenient.