mayj.bsky.social
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SpaceX seem to have hired their competitors, the dishonourable Ford Pinto engineers
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[I haven't fact checked this]
A HS teacher once told us that parasites/UTIs/[? ] used to be so endemic in some places that men were believed to menstruate due to the frequent occurrence of bloody urine
I don't know if this is *true*, but it seems almost like the not antisemitic version
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Such a good description of the political texts my MiL sends me
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I've been on the other side of this, and it's a nightmare for both parties
It's well known how hard the postdoc job market is, but then hiring a good postdoc is also oddly difficult
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A lot of people seem to find it comforting to assume that all AI is secretly a bunch of humans
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"stats" meaning Lynn et al's "racial IQ data" and similar such high quality info
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"pivot to Asia" cheese lmao
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I think he effectively uncritically believed various mediaeval peasant type beliefs, but then reasoned rationally from them.
So somehow believed that all Jews were demons, but then logically reasoned that various Jewish people weren't demons and hence weren't Jews
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A coworker back home once explained to me that most "Jews" are fake, because the real ones have horns and cloven feet
Bibi: scapegoat controlled by the Jews
(Jewish person): believe it or not, also fake but controlled by the Jews
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My mother in law is a US immigrant, and probably to the right of the median Republican on immigration somehow
She's a wonderful person, but remarkably credulous. When Fox News says they'll deport the bad ones, she believes them
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The "indicted for CSAM" to "Kremlin supporter" pipeline is a remarkably consistent path
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>Sees the cost of some basic lab equipment
>realises I could do it for a tenth of the cost
>make it myself
>waste a day on it
One day they will invent an academic who understands opportunity cost, but not today
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He's even started tweeting with his cadence lmao. Trump has taken over his mind like an orange symbiote
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This is like that wax model of Trump that was clearly originally a Hillary statue hastily edited at the last min
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I once lived in a flat where the previous occupants had rehung every door to have the hinges on the wrong side.
I have no idea why they did it, but I cursed them every day that I was in that flat
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He can't keep getting away with it
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We have our answer!
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Some of the equipment in my lab is ~£100-£200k, and comes with a built-in PC as a controller. In every single piece of equipment, they "saved money" on the PC, the cheapest component by far
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>be apple's RAM guy
>want more default memory, execs say no
>lie that it's needed for apple ai
>they fall for it, memory increased
>turn off apple ai
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Nominal gdp growth: 9%
Real gdp growth: - 5%
Checkmate, liberal
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They choose to drive, yes.
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it kills lots of people, but also it helps me get to work on time. so who can say if it's good or bad
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Nothing in there says filming is OK smh. Clearly a war crime
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The overall murder rate in SA was much higher during the waning days of Apartheid than post-Apartheid
Depending on definitions, I'd argue that a fair percentage of those excess deaths were due to the country being in the process of slipping into civil war
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Me, who glosses every day: "bro you were there the last time my teeth were flossed. Clearly it's unnecessary"
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I tried explaining to my MiL that I don't particularly want to visit the US right now, given that I'm a foreigner with tattoos
She said "oh no but you're not bad!" and simply couldn't comprehend that sometimes good people get screwed too
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They're better than cops, but not perfect. So better do nothing apparently
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Problem solved!
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I think he might be an actual textualist, and the various treaties etc are fairly textually clear-cut in support of his positions on Native Americans
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Bantustan in that it's only the arid, infertile land I guess
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Well let's hope that Reform continue his trend
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Whenever I click "translate" it just opens google translate, but with nothing copied or pasted
It's honestly kinda funny if you pretend it's intentional
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This little guy woukd never
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Scrotum?
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During my (engineering) undergrad, I took some philosophy courses. My mark ranking was higher in philosophy than in engineering, but my philosophy marks still brought down my average mark
95% or 5% for a maths exam: unusual
95% or 5% for philosophy: effectively unheard of
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Normal shoes are arguably worse than steel toed or flip flops. Not enough to protect from any serious damage, but enough to get bits of cloth jammed into any cuts
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I was banned from campus due to hijinks at the end of my PhD, and then about 9 months later hired as a lecturer at the same uni. I think the institutions lack object permanence
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Imagine how many cartoon dogs you could sic on the cheese
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You're laughing? Hundreds of FBI informants are about to be out of work, and you're laughing??
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Songs about tarrifs on Canadian heavy sour crude?
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I once responded to a supervisee's mediocre "report" with this, which is apparently a big no-no
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Of course he was deranged about Stancil lmao