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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin well, you know...journalistic standards being what they are...
Relying on the Daily Mail for science news is like … uh, like relying on the Daily Mail for anything really.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
And based on what we know of vaginas,
Not gonna read any further than that.
The gals at Arsetechnica sure know their shit.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin Whatever you do, do not transplant poop into vaginas.
But the reverse is perfectly fine!
I don't know about you but I'd rather not find any vaginas in my poop.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@topspin Whatever you do, do not transplant poop into vaginas.
But the reverse is perfectly fine!
I don't know about you but I'd rather not find any vaginas in my poop.
Thank you for noticing!
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@Carnage I mean, that's nothing new. I'd say the same of US schools. No Child Left Behind is awful.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Carnage I mean, that's nothing new. I'd say the same of US schools. No Child Left Behind is awful.
The really perverse bit is how being intellectually above average (or better) makes you a social pariah, but being good at fiddling with balls makes you a popular person. WTF...
It's gotten so bad that specialist education for mentally gifted children is frowned upon.
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@Carnage I mean, when going to college costs roughly 6 trillion dollars a semester, you better either have rich Californian parents or a hand-egg scholarship.
Filed under: maybe this should be Jeff'd
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 5000-odd years of a very clear trend?
FTFY
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I've read this before and it makes no sense to me.
Minoxidil is a topical treatment. How does it work orally?
IANAD but it seems you're looking at this the wrong way around. I would expect the drug to work on the whole body when ingested if it can spread to the hair follicles (thus the werewolf effect), and using it topically is just a method to get hair growth only more or less where you want it to.
I've ordered two boxes. Will report when I've turned into a one man carpet factory.
*Edit whoops wrong news section. Have this instead
I got out of a company linking my twitter to their company by threatening to put in my bio "any views expressed here reflect those of my employer"
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?
Well, duh, if you let them. Don't whine about things you can change. Get involved. Or don't - but then don't whine about the consequences.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?
Well, duh, if you let them. Don't whine about things you can change. Get involved. Or don't - but then don't whine about the consequences.
How do you know what can and can't be changed? And I think you can fuck right off when you try to tell people on a site where the raison d'être is to bitch about stuff not to bitch about stuff.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?
Well, duh, if you let them. Don't whine about things you can change. Get involved. Or don't - but then don't whine about the consequences.
How do you know what can and can't be changed? And I think you can fuck right off when you try to tell people on a site where the raison d'être is to bitch about stuff not to bitch about stuff.
Quit your bitching about my bitching and fuck off!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
a one man carpet factory.
I hear munching on carpets is more entertaining...
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- Apparently the how-is-the-oneboxing-library-called does not understand SGML entities.
- It's the wrong entity anyway.
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is U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, but they wanted the simple apostrophe, for which the plain old ASCII U+0027 APOSTROPHE is appropriate and they could have avoided the entity nonsense.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
I.e. you were learning so much about Ancient Rome that topics such as Vietnam, the Middle East or similar much younger topics weren't covered.
Which is something I myself experienced as well - we had Ancient Greece / Rome, the middle ages and WW1 / 2. Newer topics such as the Cold War, Vietnam or similar weren't covered. Sounds rather reasonable to me, the rest will probably be blown out of proportion.I had something similar. Teaching of history in France is basically that in primary, middle and high school (roughly), you go through all of history, first very coarsely in primary school, then again with more details (middle), then again with even more details (high). In practice, teachers often don't quite finish the program in each year, so the next year teacher has to do some filling-of-the-gaps, which of course means they themselves don't finish etc. This kinds of resets when switching primary/middle and middle/high, as someone teaching Roman antiquity won't care you haven't done WW2. So essentially, the last parts of the program (WW2 and after) are usually skipped, because last-year teachers have got to cover half of the previous year program.
Also, because not all teachers bother to properly fill the gaps from the previous year, chapters that are towards the end of each year's program tend to be less well known, so (as far as I can see from my very biased sampled around me) there are some periods of history that are much less well-known than other, by the simple fact of falling at the end of a school year! For example the 18th century (before the French Revolution) is the end of the first year of high school, usually gets skipped. The second year of high school has to cover both the French Revolution and WW1, so it's usually the end of the 19th century that gets squeezed out (WW1 is too important to skip, so as teachers get to the end of the year they skip the rest to have time to do it). And the last year of high school is supposed to cover the rest of the 20th but usually stops at the beginning of the Cold War (i.e. 1950 or so). This is fairly obvious in e.g. history questions in pub quizzes and the like, even simple questions on those periods will be much harder than equivalent questions on periods just before/after.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
they wanted the simple apostrophe, for which the plain old ASCII U+0027 APOSTROPHE is appropriate
Lies!
No typographer would be caught dead using ' instead of ’. A lot of software like MS Word replaces it automagically because it
'’s so much nicer.
Filed under: TRWTF is the sequence “ASCII U+” in any context
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
No typographer would be caught dead using ' instead of ’. […] because it
'’s so much nicer.A sane typographer will use a font where ' looks well.
A lot of software like MS Word replaces it automagically
MS was never known for having sane typographers in their staff though.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?The reason why politicians suck is that people suck at voting for politicians. Particularly the ones that use "they all suck" as justification for voting for the suckiest one.
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@anonymous234 Looking at it from another angle, being a politician attracts the worst people to actually be put in charge of anything, while people who would do a better job instead prefer to do something (anything) else
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 Looking at it from another angle, being a politician attracts the worst people to actually be put in charge of anything, while people who would do a better job instead prefer to do something (anything) else
That's probably true for any leadership position.
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@Rhywden Not necessarily. The process of politics (especially at higher levels) is such a shit storm that turns your life into a calamity, that most people will stay away unless they really want it. Other leadership positions don't have that, or it's to a much lesser extent
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@hungrier It's a bit more sedate over here.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
I didn't say they make everything worse. But they have continuously made education in Sweden worse over the last 30 or so years. That's not even a point of contention in Sweden. And my offhand comment about politicians was regarding recent scholastic history in Sweden. It's a big steaming pile of failure upon failure, and pretty much everyone agrees on the failure bit, and disagrees on how to fix it bit.
But most people that aren't politicians are of the opinion that as long as the politicians stop meddling, it will improve.As someone working with education in Sweden I get to experience this in my daily work. Incompetence everywhere. Minimal following of government regulations works best and just try to improve the niche corner I’m in.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier It's a bit more sedate over here.
I'll take your word for it. I'm only familiar with Canadian, US, and to a lesser extent other English language politics, and from what I've seen it's been dirty and horrible since voting was invented
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Not necessarily. The process of politics (especially at higher levels) is such a shit storm that turns your life into a calamity, that most people will stay away unless they really want it. Other leadership positions don't have that, or it's to a much lesser extent
And as somebody famous once said, nobody who really wants it should be allowed to have it (because if they want it that much, they're in it for their own benefit, not that of the people they intend to govern).
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Cathay Pacific has banned a social media "influencer"
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Incompetence everywhere.
It's not only in education, it's literally everywhere
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
reading the article..... got what was coming. definitely acting in bad faith.
Presenting the faked letter the first time was wrong, but all that happened to her was she got the service she previously paid for. but to try the sham a second time on the return leg..... After it was shown that it wouldn't work once.... yeah I'm not surprised that they were refused service.
frankly I think the company was extremely generous in refunding the unused portion of the ticket given the influencer was acting in bad faith and attempting to con services from the company.
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@Vixen It definitely improved my view on Cathay Pacific. Seems they have no tolerance for stupid bullshit and the willpower to shut it down
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When mainstream porn doesn't cut it anymore
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Movie theaters are improving the experience
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@TimeBandit Don't they already have that? I've definitely seen ads (mostly for cars and Scotiabank) playing before trailers for at least a few years.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Don't they already have that?
During the preview, I look at my phone
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@hungrier Also, I don't know why I'm getting ads for Inception themed toys but I don't mind
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@dcon they shut down the Concorde because it wasn’t economical, even though it was prestigious. Why would this be economical? It must burn through fuel like there’s no tomorrow.
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@topspin I mean, just take this part:
ABRE technology differs in that the engine has a pre-cooling module that features thousands of thin-walled tubes covered in super-cooled helium, allowing incoming air (entering at temperatures as high as 1,800F) to be rapidly cooled to below 0F in one twentieth of a second.
Great. So, how do they expect to create this super-cooled helium?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
So, how do they expect to create this super-cooled helium?
First guess: use the fuel to cool it? You want that to be as hot as possible before sending it into the injectors (whereas the air does want to be as cold as you can manage at that point to maximise the amount of expansion and hence thrust).
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@boomzilla maybe they can shoot the planes out of a hyperloop.
Filed under: intercontinental ballistic travel
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
I do know that the entire edumacationating thingymabob in Sweden is in a really sorry state because of politics, so politicians making it even worse doesn't really surprise me.
It's funny how you say that you cannot find anything but, of course, "politicians make everything worse."
If you cannot find anything then how do you know?
Projection based on 50-odd years of a very clear trend?
Well, duh, if you let them. Don't whine about things you can change. Get involved. Or don't - but then don't whine about the consequences.
I'm getting as involved as I can afford. That is, I'm complaining anonymously on a forum and educating random relatives and acquaintances.
You see, even if I had the money to build a competing news/media empire, it'd get stopped by the authorities because "racist", for speaking truth to power.
And my family is right now just a tad too vulnerable to withstand the shitstorm I'd get from publicly supporting the party that I do.Oh, yes, and I can vote. Which I do, until they start linking votes to IDs. But the last 2 elections already had unexplained discrepancies, which likely kept the last rational party from forming the goverment, and kept the socialists in power. By a hairline. So I have very little confidence that the next Finnish general election will be any more straight than the last Russian one.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
it'd get stopped by the authorities because "racist", for speaking truth to power.
What, are your jobs getting stolen by Mexicans or something like that?
INB4 yes.
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@acrow Yeah, the OSCE does not agree with you there.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@dcon they shut down the Concorde because it wasn’t economical, even though it was prestigious. Why would this be economical? It must burn through fuel like there’s no tomorrow.
I seriously doubt it would be economical for travel. It would, however, be massively better space launch system than current ones, because due to the way rocket equation works, not needing oxygen for the first ~1.5 km/s Δv makes a big difference in payload fraction.
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Some called for the journal’s editors to delay publication altogether. In a statement, scientists at Harvard warned that the conclusions “harm the credibility of nutrition science and erode public trust in scientific research.”
Long overdue, frankly.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@acrow Yeah, the OSCE does not agree with you there.
The courts of Finland, however, do:
A new party led by a very popular politician Paavo Väyrynen (who'd been in parliament for decades, and just now made his own party) was effectively hijacked from its creator's control. The court determined that this was done illegally, and the party should cease operations until it re-instated Väyrynen. However, this party still placed candidates to the election without Väyrynen, and thus had an effect on the result. And considering how close the largest 2 parties were in the results, and the fact that the largest party gets to form the government (or attempt first anyway), this likely determined history for the next 4 years. Of course, the police delayed investigation until after the election.
TL;DR: Nice paper you have there. I hope it's soft, so it has at least some value in the toilet.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
it'd get stopped by the authorities because "racist", for speaking truth to power.
What, are your jobs getting stolen by Mexicans or something like that?
INB4 yes.
Nah. The immigration-related crime wave problem. And tax-money being sent to Africa in increasing quantities while basic public services like the police, schools and medical care are all but totally run down. And rivers getting polluted by the "greenest" government yet. You know, the usual...