I feel like the Weierstrass function and I don't like it.
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I feel like the Weierstrass function and I don't like it.
I would also add Orange Crush and Shiny Happy People. Though if I'm being honest, the former is mostly due to the drums and bass.
Every space mission carries the potential to transform our understanding of life in the cosmos—yet 41 are at risk of cancellation. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be silenced before it reveals distant exoplanets. DAVINCI could lose its chance to probe Venus’s unique atmosphere. 🧪 🔭
...Happy Labor Day!
90% is being generous. This week was a high use week for me and it was still parked 95% of the time. Last week it was parked 99% of the time. Though I'm sure people with 2-hour commutes probably drive the average usage up.
Shhhh, let's see how long we can drag out this whack-a-mole game.
Nice
Well not totally rock solid, your first and third points are evidence in favor of your hypothesis. As far as number two goes, it would not only be unsurprising but expected for way more photographs to be taken of Trump than published initially.
Which means we have a single digit number of days until some stores are putting up Christmas decorations...
No, but if I had to assign meaning to it, I would go with "asymmetric binary star system"
And snowballs are human-made sedimentary rocks. 🤪
You've fallen prey to the classic blunder of thinking that millennials are younger than they are (30-45ish). Most millennials I know watched this movie multiple times growing up.
Of course you're muttering it to yourself, you couldn't possibly be muttering it to a random crystal, since you don't form parasocial relationships with them.
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Sharing one of my favorites for #InverteFest: Cotinis mutabilis, the figeater beetle. The pictures are about 10 months old, but I figured I'd dust them off. This one was raised as a class pet from the larva I found in my backyard.
Some of them are merely generic and uninspired, but "Heaven's Chimney"‽ ...What‽
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
How far above ground are they putting everything? Is this going in Tulare Lake?
My kid just requested to listen to this jingle while making lunch, I'm sure they are going to love the eel facts too, but it may be hard to top this earworm. Side note: they just decided to be a bioluminescent squid for Halloween.
So I'm not sure that trying to stay neutral and fly under their radar is going to be a successful strategy either. It may just be a hard road ahead for scientific research no matter what.
I appreciate the clarification, and you raise an excellent point about multi-year research, and you might even be right about how they're going to respond to scientists engaging an activism, but they started politicizing science and cutting funding even when scientists weren't being activists.
"Activism now only fuels the right"? So all the 'woke' liberals are to blame for the march towards fascist theocracy? I don't think that's who shoulders the responsibility. Unless what you're trying to say is that they're not doing enough.
I'm sorry you mistook a sarcastic tone for rude demeanor. But I don't think we should bury our heads in the sand in the face what is repeatedly happening and what the stated anti-science intentions are.
I'm sure you're right, they probably wouldn't even dare to start setting any sort of internal rules about what types of scientific research are acceptable to carry out, or pass laws at the state level to forbid teachers from mentioning certain topics...oh wait.
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
And when they pass laws that say it's illegal to do science? Or teach it? What then? Should we wither away?
Yep, or at least well past midnight. Also some neighbors have flood lights, one of the worst offenders is actually a household that's had two other families move in in just a few years I've lived on the street, and both times I tried (unsuccessfully) to convince the new family to take it down.
Wait, your street lights turn off before sunrise‽
Seriously! Although I shy away from bets where I think it's anywhere in the vicinity of 60/40, 70/30. This has earned me a reputation among friends as someone not to bet against. But if I'm very confident that I'm right or the odds are very much in my favor, sure I'll place a bet.
And those should be easy to come by, Zach's been giving them away for all sorts of things for years! Nobody should be saying they don't have fake internet points to bet with.
I think I've been pretty good about doing it every single time, but I honestly didn't know about that setting, so thanks for sharing!
I find it funny when people—and I’ve seen comments like this — say we need to build fusion reactors instead of wasting time on solar. It’s like, honey, there’s a big fusion reactor in the sky that is always sending us power and we just need to collect it.
I've heard conflicting reports that it was actually green... (😆)
Theater tech didn't hurt either.
I sure remember admin making a big stink about the posters that were taped to very high windows on the front of Dutton Hall at UC Davis, apparently it was a great expense for maintenance stuff to get tall enough ladders to get them down. It's not my fault they couldn't climb as high as me.
For whatever reason Bluesky wouldn't let me post the .gif at the same time as my text post, in case anyone is wondering why I made it a reply to myself.
LIGO is on board, so I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.
We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement. Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.
September *is* fall! (As far as meteorological seasons go, but nobody who isn't trying to figure out what stars are where in the sky should be going off of the astronomical seasons, in my opinion)
That looks fantastic! I may just have to make one myself... when I have time.
That almost reads as "Zoolander"
Probably the same type of person who bets thousands of dollars on obscure European ping pong matches in the middle of the night...someone addicted to gambling. youtu.be/Pxvfy4qQRog&...
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You almost got me with the flower, but it's that bee mimic that doesn't belong.
How is she alive? I'm underweight and I'm shorter than that, and weigh more.
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The deorbit burn of the Ariane 6 upper stage occurred at 0235 UTC Aug 13 (10.35 pm EDT Aug 12). Spinup and propellant dump at about 0245 UTC was widely observed in the eastern US and Canada as Ariane 6003 headed north and downhill for reentry over the Indian Ocean half an orbit later
And now we have the expert weighing in: bsky.app/profile/plan...
Others already suggested it, but ESA just posted this: bsky.app/profile/esa....
It may be headed away from you, in which case its position in the sky wouldn't change very quickly, and that would also explain the symmetry of the spirals as fuel is jettisoned while it's rotating.
First guess is rocket launch.
Slightly diminish a band: -Wednesday -The Juliana Hypothesis -Silly Punk -2 -Complain About the Machine
I spent a summer in Boulder (but I live in California), and I understood what you were talking about, so hopefully yes.
Do you mean city, county, or just the general coastal Southern California area?
Okay, I bent the rules a little bit. The first one is the last image I took, but it was just outside of DC on the way to the airport, the second image is the last one I took actually inside of DC city limits. Either one does a fine demonstrating the point.
Challenge: Post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is.
All bread is yoga mat bread in that a decomposition reaction produces carbon dioxide, which forms bubbles that get trapped in a foamy matrix, just like how they make yoga mats.
Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be
For sure, just like happened with Obama and 9/11, but even more widespread.
I feel like it's mainly diagnostic of my basic awareness of how presidential elections work in this country, as well as my awareness that there was some amount of controversy over who "actually" won. Also, there is some subset of people who would get the question right with incorrect reasoning.
Thanks?
I assume you mean who won the election in 2020, because Trump was actually the president for the entirety of the calendar year. Biden didn't take office until late January 2021.
Spray painting a "Drains to Delaware River" decal/stencil by a bunch of storm drains. That, or posting up in defensive positions along the banks of the river.
Not posting mine because it's got a close-up of my kid's face, but it's a 2-year-old about to use a miter saw. Don't worry, they're wearing safety glasses and hearing protection.
My point is that pocket constitutions are cool, and they are apparently catching strays.
I've been raging about tyranny under Trump more than Biden, I never actually took to the streets under Biden, never said I did, you just added that. And it isn't just guys out here.
That's mostly in the southern US, I think.
TikTok is bigger with Gen Z.
Whoa! Why are we bringing my pocket constitutions into this‽ And this is definitely not my guy!
Exactly! Tim may have pulled a fast one and given nothing of any real consequence, similar to what Canada did, but it all still reinforces for Trump that his approach "works" and that he can get away with it.
I'm just surprised that JKR is taking the position that people born with ovaries *and* testes are women, actually; regardless of any other characteristics being absent or present.
Because that is exactly the Weird-Al parody that would have gone on the food album.
Hear, hear!
Does this mean Evil Carl Sagan is basically just @astrokatie.com ?
Jim Lovell has a Bacon number of 1‽
sic itur ad astra
Mass per volume, that is. Where is the edit button‽
Water has 1000 times the mass, 30 times the thermal conductivity, and 4 times the specific heat capacity. So I guess it depends on whether you lump the density difference in with specific heat.
For sure, if there is zero heat capacity, then all the thermal conductivity in the world won't matter a lick. But now I want to calculate a comparison between the two if they traded conductivities, but kept their heat capacities, just to see which one actually has the bigger effect.
And thermal conductivity, more importantly.
A box of air 4 km on each side would still be more comfortable, because it isn't just how much heat it can absorb, it is how quickly it does it.
Then the fishmongers start calling themselves icthymancers
Honestly, just make all the sports coed. That's my hot take.
Even if the AI could do what is promised, not proceeding with a lot more caution makes me feel like nobody was paying attention to all those sci-fi movies and novels. We have been warning ourselves about this for decades.
Agreed! (Or boysenberry) If you want to do a real hot take, try defining the structure of "cobbler" as opposed to "sonker", "buckle", "slump", "grunt", et cetera... My family's recipe calls for batter with hot fruit and syrup poured over, and some of the batter floats up as it's baked.
Yeah I'm not even trying to make room in my mind for pedagogy until I am physically at PD on Thursday. I even hung out with my physics teacher coworker today for hours (our kids were playing at the beach)...we talked about Ukraine.
It feels like it should be, but technically it isn't. However, I think the "crave that mineral" meme applies, since it's close enough.
Iodine is technically a mineral because it can occur in a solid crystalline form naturally on the Earth. The iodine that's added to salt is usually in the form of potassium iodide, which is a compound, and is, itself a salt. Though, because it is not naturally occurring, it's actually not a mineral.
You should treat RFK Jr. like a man who is personally trying to murder millions of children. Because that's literally what he is. And he's succeeding.
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Alternatively you can do like many girls did when I was in high school (winter in coastal SoCal#, and wear a tank top and shorts with boots, a scarf, and a knit cap. 🤷
But they use sterile needles, and he doesn't want to be sterile. Besides, lampreys have a natural microbiome. /s but I swear that has to be the level of incomprehension they are operating on.
Don't hate the insect, hate the parasite!
I grew up around the corner...this is sickening. ICE jumped the shark a while ago, but this makes it all the more obvious. Thank you for amplifying.
This comic is fantastic, but somehow it was the mouseover text that sent me!