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9991··on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox
I’m in a similar situation and the Firefox translation add-ons simply don’t work. Chrome is where it’s at.
9991··on For many neurodiverse people, 'The Sims' has been a lifelong comfort
Individuals can’t be diverse. Only groups.
9991··on Katskhi pillar in Georgia: One of the world's most isolated churches
Unfortunately the cigarette smoking is out of control. If that kind of thing bothers you, skip the whole country.
9991··on What Is EXIF Data in Digital Photos?
I don't think it can be that simple. The photo is just a list of facts about the light incident to a small region of spacetime.
9991··on Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper
Not for power — to synchronize the legs.
9991··on Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper
Yea, can confirm it benefits from re-reading. Without spoilers, there was one part in particular that was confusing on the first read.
9991··on US Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)
Integrity?
9991··on Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic
I know "nearly half" is not quite a majority, but it's still a plurality of Americans getting it right. Don't count out American democracy just yet.
9991··on Arizona Mom Fights Abusive Prosecution by Department of Child Safety
> So the man from CPS came and inspected our house to make sure we weren’t abusing our child.

Were you legally obligated to let him into your house?

9991··on How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
With enough kids they’d stack corpses to climb out.
9991··on A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
> I have strongly felt for a long time now that even average students should have received the experience my honor student did in 6th grade.

The average kids are the problem and will poison any class they're a part of, otherwise the standard classes would do just fine serving this purpose.

The real question is how much better your kid could have done if he or she’d had only gifted classes rather than once a week.

9991··on How Urban Legend Destroyed the Ball Pit
I don't know for sure, but I don't think so. The balls are very light, so there's almost no buoyancy. The only way to support yourself is if the balls are locked in place from the force of your foot stepping on it, which might work for a stack 2~3 balls in height at the most before it becomes unstable and slips out from underneath you.
9991··on A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
Yea, that's essentially what happened to Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School.
9991··on Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)
Well he's on sabbatical now ...
9991··on Compare Webb's Images to Hubble
The difference is the expansion of space is accelerating over time. And certain wavelengths of light will be blocked by gas in the intervening space, and which light is blocked changes over time based on how red-shifted it is. Special Relativity isn't enough to explain this.
9991··on Compare Webb's Images to Hubble
The objects aren’t really moving in that sense. The expansion of space over time is what stretches the light.
9991··on Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular anymore
That would be a helix, not a circle.
9991··on Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
Sounds like the insurance company is the customer, then.
9991··on They Think It's Murder
By that logic, chimeras and gingers have too little soulfulness?
9991··on Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987)
I believe the paper the parent comment linked used 'thick skin' as a metaphor for pain resistance, not literally deeper epidermis.
9991··on Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987)
And? Is it true?
9991··on Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
I see. Thanks.
9991··on Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
I don’t understand what you’re saying. What does the line actually imply? And what do people think it implies?

(Part of my confusion is that I don’t think the stats imply anything at all.)

9991··on Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm
Self-reports of mental harm are not worth anything. Why do people keep quoting these useless stats?
9991··on I was forced to be a child star. It was never my dream or my idea
Nobody involved figured out that cutting children's faces was wrong? The 80s must have been a wild time to be alive.
9991··on How to stay informed without getting paralyzed by bad news
Trasmatta said important stories.
9991··on See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment
Look at how fat you Americans are. It’s a safe bet.
9991··on Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie
If you find yourself making vertical videos, you need to reexamine your life choices.
9991··on Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track
The part where we create categories of people and give some categories different treatment. It's political because there are differences of opinion as to whether this is an appropriate thing to do.
9991··on Always tell kids the truth (2019)
I'm reasonably sure that's not how lying works.
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