Yes, took me a couple reads to get it. It is funny but perhaps a bit too subtle for some

That, and the caddy may not have been a good deal back then. Getting the same basic deal now doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a good deal, it could just be the same crappy deal.

What was the glitch in the JWST? Having only paid attention to it for a bit over a year everything seems to have gone smoothly. Are you referring to a glitch that delayed the project completion? I know it was tremendously over budget and schedule.

Kind of the idea behind EMDR. Wonder if there is any connection on a neurological level with this and that.

Agree, with him it’s not merely straying out of lane, it’s plowing the entire school bus of academic authority through crowds of bystanders before plunging it off the bridge.

I think the point is about ensuring that there isn’t a mismatch between the claims of authority you employ (or, if you have any degree of fame/recognition, the degree to which you temper any public perception of authority you may have) and the actual degree of expertise you have on the topic being discussed.

Here on Reddit, unless you claim expertise you are just another rando commenter, and even if you do claim expertise people are likely to be skeptical due to the anonymous nature of discourse here.

But using your academic credentials or public recognition as an expert to bolster your standing — particularly in non-anonymous settings — despite lacking direct expertise in the topic is another matter altogether.

Ahem Jordan Peterson

Now she needs a matching tattoo of Boreas

Pretty much this. OP should consider that during the 6 months it might take to get to Mars, Mars moves considerably, yet that is no barrier to our getting there accurately. Getting to a nearby star is not dramatically different in terms of the complexity of physics. By comparison with achieving FTL travel, predicting the path of a nearby celestial body is trivial.

In terms of “what if something happens while en route,” FTL travel would make that less of a problem rather than more. 25 years is a smaller proportion of a star’s lifetime than 25,000 years, so there is 1000x less of a chance of some major stellar event — and even 25,000 years is still very little and unless it’s Betelgeuse the likelihood of a (super)nova would be almost zero for most stars.

Not all plants require insect pollination to produce fruit.

For example, corn and most other grains are wind pollinated so they would not be affected by a loss of insect pollinators.

By contrast, most fruits, nuts, and many vegetables that are scientifically part of the fruiting process (tomatoes, squash, beans, etc.) are insect pollinated.

The idea behind this study is that the insect pollinated plants tend to provide healthier, more nutritious food, loss of pollinators causes those foods to be in shorter supply, and as a result people eat less-healthy diets that rely more on non-insect-pollinated foods like grains.

With the rotation = 2g

Against = 0g

Probably the practical limitation there would be that the car’s grip would reduce as it sped up running against the rotation, so it might be hard to actually get going that fast.

Assuming there was some kind of track or other setup that allowed the vehicle to get to 70 safely, yes, the person would experience weightlessness and basically fly.

According to this calculator a roughly 100m ring going 3 rpm would have a tangential velocity of about 30 m/s. Which is about 70 miles per hour. So while it is an interesting theoretical question, practically you’re not running nearly that fast unless you’re a cheetah.

When it’s cloudy over half the year in the part of the state where most people live, it’s hard to spot the UFOs

I think that's in book 14 of the Orange Catholic Bible

Perhaps more a “virtuous cycle” — a little bit earlier start of speech means a bit more being spoken to, means more rapid speech acquisition, means yet more being spoken to, etc. Seems absolutely plausible that what seems like a small difference in when speech starts could end up causing a larger vocabulary difference.

“You want to build a house? Not in my state!”

This is a highly editorialized title that is not supported by the data presented (this is starts per capita, which doesn’t measure how responsive the permitting process is to market demand; showing starts per application might get closer).

Such editorialization suggests that OP has an agenda. What agenda? I don’t know for sure but I would hazard a guess that they are trying to paint a picture of some states being unreasonably restrictive of issuing new construction permits, given that title. Too bad they aren’t actually showing data that supports said picture.

B-b-b-but the post title "More houses are being built in states with growing populations" wouldn't be clickbaity or try to push my political agenda!

If it wasn’t obvious I was referring to ARM

>The cooling system is called the “AirJet” chip, and it comes from Frore Systems, which has begun collaborating on the technology with Intel.

Or you could, you know, use a more efficient architecture so you don't need all that cooling in the first place. For bonus points you get more battery life.

Was gonna say if ages in old photos are at all consistent he's probably 28 here

I stick with lossless in case by some miracle I get cans or ears that can tell the difference.

Honestly, hard drives are cheap enough nowadays that even lossless files don’t cost much to store. So why not.

I wonder if — ad long as the edges were covered — a thin piece of glass glued to (or just laid on top of) the polycarbonate would work. The glass could provide the scratch protection and the polycarbonate could provide the strength. Or is there something I’m missing?

“I’m so rich that when I wear clothes that look like complete ass, other people question their own style rather than laughing at mine”

There is a reason you need to use the phrase “long haul” before “truck driver” when you describe yourself. Because there are lots of truck routes (and drivers) that are short and medium haul. Which is what Renault says this truck is for.

FWIW, “organoids” means this is study was in vitro, not on actual brains in living humans. That said, this seems consistent with the fact that many people have cognitive effects after covid.