Interesting Links for 23-10-2024
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andrewducker- 1. How does WhatsApp make money?
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- 2. You Don't Need Words to Think
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- 3. Who wants to hear interesting facts about the English language?
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- 4. Bohemian Rhapsody, told in memes
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- 5. George R.R. Martin Announces He's Written Every 'And' That Will Appear In Next Book
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- 6. Keir Starmer scores first major Brexit reset success with landmark defence deal with Germany
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- 7. Edinburgh city centre to get first major new public gardens for 200 years
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- 8. Scientists Say Our Water Cycle Has Started Breaking Down
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- 9. Meet the winners of Nikon's 2024 photomicrography contest
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- 10. California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
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- 11. What explains the timing and manner of the Chagos Islands sovereignty deal? (the USA)
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- 12. UK Supreme Court rules that individuals can take regulators to court to make them do their job.
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- 13. "Autism" is at least four different things.
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Date: 2024-10-23 04:44 pm (UTC)During parent-teacher conference, he pulled it out as "evidence" that I thought learning was a joke.
I thought I was making a pertinent point (albeit in a funny way, yes) but there was truth, and I was not wrong, he could have advised that I was right, but the nutrients/minerals in the urine would have cycled into the ground as well.
Guess who got put in what I would call "remedial" Science the next year (instead of a more advanced level, I was basically forced to repeat the same sort of experiments with a different style (instead of poking at a marble in clay with toothpicks to determine it's dimensions, we stuck popsicle sticks into a shoebox with a wood block to determine the dimensions of the wood block)).
I admit I had stuff to learn about science. The Freshman teacher I argued with attempting to "convince him about Christianity" using a self-derived Pascal's Wager (that included reincarnation), he was Jewish, so that was... "fun". I of course now realize how utterly offensive it was to the poor guy.
In the Sophomore year(the year after Freshman), I was a silly creationist eating up Duane T Gish books and I thought arguing with the teacher about "How could the universe explode if all the matter were in one tiny ball, the gravity would be too great!" Which I understand now is still sort of a question, but know more about symmetry breaking and physics pre-bigbang just wasn't the same as that after, etc....
I feel like I was being punished for a lackadaisical approach. That said it didn't take me too long to get rid of the fundamentalist habits after high school, and have read quite a bit on quantum mechanics in the meantime.
Anyways, yeah, we're doomed from what I can tell. I am very curious what La Nina will bring to the states after this brutal El Nino cycle. IIRC you guys had some interesting weather effects in the waters between the UK and Continental Europe recently?
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Date: 2024-10-24 05:08 am (UTC)#2 and #13
Date: 2024-10-26 12:11 am (UTC)I've hinted over the years at "remaking" myself. I did it once as a survival response a few decades ago. I hope to do it again one more time before I die. I hope to remake myself by undoing the changes I needed to survive human society, maybe going even further to give up any pretense at verbal language. I'm curious to know what animal I would be, what person I would be, without that influence.