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https://xkcd.com/435/

A warning from the sacred texts for anybody else looking to avoid math by doing biological sciences. Its all math, all the way down. Always has been

Peppers and tomatoes can do this too. I used to grow tomatoes and habaneros in the same raised garden bed, and the tomatoes always came out with quite the kick

I feel you. I’m so fucking sick of the scam based economy we (I’m assuming you’re also in the US based on the vibe of your comment; apologies if I’m wrong) live in. I don’t have a family, I can only imagine how much more difficult things are right now for people who do.

It makes me feel like the only path forward in terms of improving any facet of human life is to push the kleptocrats and oligarchs currently running things out of power. That’s honestly one of my goals going to law school; I want to work in politics in some fashion and try to change that. I see some of the anti-oligarchy politicians that have had success or at least a lot of news coverage lately and that gives me some hope for the future. I absolutely hate the idea of being a politician, but I hate the idea of allowing the people currently in charge to remain in charge even more.

I feel this. 5 years ago I was a radar engineer making ~200k/yr. Today I’m unemployed and just submitted an application to a law school. I love technology and I’d love nothing more than to continue working in STEM fields, but I just cant justify it when the torment nexus is the only project those in charge are willing to fund. I cant bring myself to continue letting the rich harm people with technology I make, hopefully I can at least get involved with the law and try to create conditions where people in the future can work on tech without building the torment nexus

All models are wrong, but some are useful

Yes. So is every broadcast sattelite with relatively predictable transmissions/positioning. Most of them aren’t set up to parse return signals into radar information, but anything that transmits and receives from ~2ghz to ~18ghz is physically capable of being used as a radar. If you consider the existence of passive radar, every active transmitter in that frequency range already is acting as part of a radar

I used to work in an office that had rules about how many of different types of personnel could be on the same airplane at the same time. With engineers on the team for instance, it was a massive pain scheduling flights anywhere because we were never allowed to have more than two of us on the same flight. We were allowed to have infinite LT’s on any flight though, and somebody added an addendum to that chart indicating they were also allowed to run with scissors. I wouldn’t admit to being a LT online either lol

I’ve been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it’s a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don’t even know what to call it; I think I’ve made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller

A scientist and a fascist with grant funding walk into a bar. Two fascists walk out

What? No, that sound I’m making is laughter, not crying. Definitely laughing

Meh. Negative results are still results, and there’s still plenty of well researched sci-fitheory that needs to be tested. I could see the field of experimental particle physics shrink or pause until technology catches up to the experiments they want to run, but I can’t see it disappearing forever

What are you talking about? I’ve stux every parking lot USB drive I’ve ever found into my pc and I’ve net to have a problem

BORN TO SWIM

OCEAN IS A FUCK

鬼神 Drown Em All 1989

I am trash-island man

410,757,864,530 UNDISCOVERED JELLYFISH

Reminds me of the undergrad experience of someone who is not me, lol. They had “the dropbox”, spoken about only in hushed tones and never openly acknowledged, which may have contained a pdf copy of every single text required by the curriculum of that person’s major.

“Even users in r/massivecock, where most of the posts are images of erect penises, railed against ICE in their captions.”

The politicians go where the people are, not the other way around. It sounds weird but I think a social media platform has to be a good place for folk with low tech literacy to post and chat about cute cat videos before it can ever be politically relevant. I’ve yet to come across a fedi client that I think my mom in her 60s could handle/would find appealing, and I kinda think you need something like that for widespread adoption. If you had a fedi client like that and some incentive to sign up like free lotteries run on the eu server for the first few months to catalyze a critical mass of users, I bet you’d have a fighting chance at breaking away from US social media walled gardens

Well yeah. I said they were topologically flat, not bottomologically flat ;)

Calculus tells you how curves work. Aqueducts are famous for their ability to be topologically flat. The math checks out

It’s true. Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch turns to snow in my clutch. Interstellar was still awful though lol. I might have enjoyed it like any other scifi if it wasn’t specifically advertised as a scientifically accurate portrayal of space travel, but that is how it was advertised and accurate it was not

Im not familiar with kurzegesagt or Rick and Morty hentai but I’m pretty sure that was the expression on my face for most of the runtime of Interstellar