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Average personality profiles of fans of various genres of movies. Values higher than 0 indicate that fans are above average in the trait in question; values lower than 0 indicate that they’re below average. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/manterrupt...
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Average personality profiles of fans of various genres of movies. Values higher than 0 indicate that fans are above average in the trait in question; values lower than 0 indicate that they’re below average. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/manterrupt...
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Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
January 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
Probability isn’t real. It’s just useful to act like it is.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-....
Why Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist (but It’s Useful to Act like It Does)
All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is
www.scientificamerican.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Probability isn’t real. It’s just useful to act like it is.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-....
What’s the secret to Iceland’s super economy? Cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
How Iceland Lost 50% of Its GDP... And Recovered
YouTube video by Economics Explained
m.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What’s the secret to Iceland’s super economy? Cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
Hydroelectric is one of the most underutilized and under-discussed options for combating climate change. Every river should be dammed. Fish ladders can be added to preserve biodiversity.
December 22, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Hydroelectric is one of the most underutilized and under-discussed options for combating climate change. Every river should be dammed. Fish ladders can be added to preserve biodiversity.
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Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.
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One of the last effects to wear off after a trip to space is psychological. Several astronauts returning from the ISS have reported that months afterwards, they still occasionally let go of an object in mid-air, and are surprised when it drops to the floor rather than floats.
December 8, 2024 at 11:21 AM
One of the last effects to wear off after a trip to space is psychological. Several astronauts returning from the ISS have reported that months afterwards, they still occasionally let go of an object in mid-air, and are surprised when it drops to the floor rather than floats.
Proof we live in a shaded oligarchy.
We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.
December 8, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Proof we live in a shaded oligarchy.
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Video games let us live out common power fantasies like carrying 20 swords and 200kg of food in a singular ergonomic backpack.
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Video games let us live out common power fantasies like carrying 20 swords and 200kg of food in a singular ergonomic backpack.
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Here's my incredibly popular opinion that will never get any traction:
Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.
Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.
November 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Here's my incredibly popular opinion that will never get any traction:
Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.
Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.
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Stoicism is built around the foundational idea that we can’t control the world around us, but we can control how we respond to it.
December 1, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Stoicism is built around the foundational idea that we can’t control the world around us, but we can control how we respond to it.
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star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like “you don’t understand it was a different time…”
December 3, 2024 at 4:16 PM
star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like “you don’t understand it was a different time…”
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I identify heavily with cartoon witches because omg leave me alone with my soup this is why I moved to the forest in the first place
December 3, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I identify heavily with cartoon witches because omg leave me alone with my soup this is why I moved to the forest in the first place
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I have news…that place where you got food poisoning is probably not where you got the food poisoning.
Time between exposure and symptoms:
Campylobacter: 2-6 days
E. coli: 2-5 days
Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days
Norovirus: 12-48 hrs
Shigella: 1-3 days
Staph aureus: fast
Listeria: 9-48 hrs
Time between exposure and symptoms:
Campylobacter: 2-6 days
E. coli: 2-5 days
Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days
Norovirus: 12-48 hrs
Shigella: 1-3 days
Staph aureus: fast
Listeria: 9-48 hrs
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 AM
I have news…that place where you got food poisoning is probably not where you got the food poisoning.
Time between exposure and symptoms:
Campylobacter: 2-6 days
E. coli: 2-5 days
Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days
Norovirus: 12-48 hrs
Shigella: 1-3 days
Staph aureus: fast
Listeria: 9-48 hrs
Time between exposure and symptoms:
Campylobacter: 2-6 days
E. coli: 2-5 days
Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days
Norovirus: 12-48 hrs
Shigella: 1-3 days
Staph aureus: fast
Listeria: 9-48 hrs
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sucks how video games perpetuate unrealistic expectations, for instance my dog will never bring me valuables from the enemy whose throat he just throttled while I stood back and watched
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 PM
sucks how video games perpetuate unrealistic expectations, for instance my dog will never bring me valuables from the enemy whose throat he just throttled while I stood back and watched
“They matter” - well sure, but what a valid statement.
The fact is that some fields produce great benefits for society and some only produce personal satisfaction. I think it makes sense to celebrate the fields that actually advance society.
The fact is that some fields produce great benefits for society and some only produce personal satisfaction. I think it makes sense to celebrate the fields that actually advance society.
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 11:02 PM
“They matter” - well sure, but what a valid statement.
The fact is that some fields produce great benefits for society and some only produce personal satisfaction. I think it makes sense to celebrate the fields that actually advance society.
The fact is that some fields produce great benefits for society and some only produce personal satisfaction. I think it makes sense to celebrate the fields that actually advance society.
My mood while reading Christopher Ryan:
December 2, 2024 at 5:29 PM
My mood while reading Christopher Ryan:
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At what point is a kids-shouldn’t-be-on-social-media problem really a dangerous-algorithm problem, and why aren't we trying to solve that problem instead?
November 29, 2024 at 2:27 PM
At what point is a kids-shouldn’t-be-on-social-media problem really a dangerous-algorithm problem, and why aren't we trying to solve that problem instead?
