I used to have trust in the peer review process, thinking this is why it takes months or years for a paper to get published. Are you telling me it’s not real?

I feel like I should’ve spotted that… they’re the same units. 🤦

Why km/h (or mph) and not ft/year? Because the numbers have a nicer magnitude then.

no man ask for.

That’s pressure.

I didn’t find that in the Twitter UI and wondered why OP thought it was an AI. Thanks for sharing.

The tweet: (Is the preview working for you? For me, it’s not).

The game is called geoguessing and those who do this regularly are crazy good at it, taking into account the kind of trees you see, where the sun and shadows are, even the color of the dirt and the pavement.

Tom Scott did something similar and was frightened too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ&pp=ygUSdG9tIHNjb3R0IGZvdW5kIHVz

Or – just a thought – you’re reasonably confident that the shit you wrote actually works.

I’m not sure… ants walk really far. Think of how long it takes us to get human children to the point where they can count to 1000. Do ants just hatch with a sense of numbers?

The website is quite tight-lipped regarding features. What’s a ‘smart playlist’?

I’m not sure anymore how I got into a state where that was necessary, but do keep a reference around for how to boot Linux or Windows from the Grub command line.

I did provide the price for a train ticket that is significantly cheaper than Match!!’s “thousands of dollars”, didn’t I?

So you’re telling me that there are people who cannot peel a banana, but who can simultaneously peel the plastic off a container and then eat the banana?

NY–LA via Amtrak: $291. Greyhound, a bus company: $139

Why not both? Companies that peel bananas and wrap them in plastic for sale are garbage companies. And people who buy them are garbage people.

The guy who was too lazy to clean his dishes before he went on vacation isn’t the best example of a biologist. You know, Pasteur and Koch existed, too.

You have control over whether you eat pork or tofu, don’t you? You have control over whether you buy a new iPhone or a used FairPhone, don’t you? You have control over whether you plan a trip via airplane or via train, don’t you?

My respect for biologist vanished after I compared the posters the chemist had on their floor with the biologists’.

Chemist: We found a new material that can replace the <can’t remember anymore> and cut carbon emissions in half.

Biologists: Hey, we found a plant.

This was very clear. Now that I see it, I realize it’s the same reasoning why x^(-3) is 1/(x^3):

 2 × -3 = -6
 1 × -3 = -3
 0 × -3 =  0
-1 × -3 =  3

Thank you!

This only ever got handed down to us as gospel. Is there a compelling reason why we should accept that (-3) × (-3) = 9?