What the actual fuck? Literally.

In academia you are trained to not accept any claim without adequate evidence. Look at left wing claims vs. right wing ones and show me one that has better evidence on the right.

No, those 907 people absolutely had to die so that Britain could keep its frozen rock halfway around the world.

It’s only legitimate out of context. The two countries were trying to negotiate a transfer before the war broke out. Argentina was ruled by a military Junta and used the invasion to bolster its internal politics. Thatcher did the same thing by using overwhelming force over a territory that Britain was trying to get rid of. An Argentine cruiser was sunk outside of the exclusion zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_ARA_General_Belgrano

Afterwards Britain fortified the island to feed its military industrial complex and drum up more support for its decaying empire. Everything about this war was totally pointless except from a domestic political standpoint.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/07/british-sovereignty-falklands-absurd-imperial-hangover-argentina

The victims of this conflict are the casualties of a completely pointless war, on either side. Neither side fought for legitimate reasons and both used it to drum up nationalism.

Look to Hungary for advice. We’re trying to systematically clean out every trace of the old regime. It’s not easy and probably won’t be perfect but people are being arrested.

The polite thing to do in this instance is to get on her level by pounding your own set of shots.

I use Excel to calculate the ages of the oldest rocks in the Solar System. If I was using it to find accounting loopholes for a private equity firm, I’d probably kill myself.

Ted’s problem is that he equates the tools and the processes of post-industrial society with its people. Just because the possibility exists for these surrogate activities to replace meaningful work doesn’t mean we all succumb automatically.

So are they like, really into Windows?

Go get a PhD and an academic position. The pay is shit but nobody will care whether you show up or not.

I’d love to watch these geniuses try to “innovate” their way out of cleaning toilets.

Ok? Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer all do this.

Now, instead of paying a subscription, they charge a one-time several thousand dollar fee to the researcher for open access. Problem solved! Everybody knows those fat cat grad students and post docs have plenty of money to throw away on oat milk lattes.

It’s a “sciency” meme that presents a bunch of nonsense. I will not chill.

These social customs are derived from genuine interactions with friends. I’m curious how you deal with talking to people you care about? When I ask my friends how they are doing I’m actually curious about their lives, and I expect them to also be curious about mine. This type of reciprocation is necessary for a friendship in my opinion.

I’m a planetary scientist so technically this is a field, you can also be into meteorites as a hobby.

Chondrule formation. These are spherical balls of formerly molten rock that solidified and clumped together to form chondrites, some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System that predate planet formation. Essentially these are nebular dust grains that formed when the Solar System was still an accretionary disk.

Except, do chondrules predate planet formation? What causes them to melt while they’re floating around? How do they overcome the kinetic barriers to agglomeration? Are the terrestrial planets, whose bulk composition is thought to be chondritic, actually composed of chondrites?

If you want to see one of the most simultaneously esoteric and bitter scientific debates, attend a chondrule formation session at a meteorite or planetary science conference. MetSoc is a great one in August, and officially I go to present my work but actually I just love the fireworks. As an achondrite person, I don’t touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I love to watch when someone introduces a new wacky idea (space lightning? Shine from a molten Io? Extrasolar?) and you see 15 eminent greybeards rush the mic to yell their objections.

So I was under the assumption that every time they beamed someone up or down they murdered them and an exact copy appeared elsewhere.

We laugh, but this was an actual product.

I would do the exact middle of the neck.