RiceMunk

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 16 hours ago

So everyone will just get matched with Nicole the fediverse chick? But that's already happening.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Nuo ovat kyllä yhtiä haaskalintuja nuo asianajotoimistot jotka noita heippalappuja lähettelevät; otan osaa.

Piraattipuolueen riveissä on ainakin joskus ollut jengiä joka osaa neuvoa oikeaoppisesti miten näiden kanssa toimia. Täältä löytyy infoa miten heihin saa yhteyttä; näyttää esim. olevan Discord-palvelin heillä: https://www.piraattipuolue.fi/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This looks interesting; thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe if the academic world behaved like that, I wouldn't have burned out and fucked off to the IT sector a decade ago.

Kind of adjacent to this, years ago around said burnout I kept floating this idea around my head where I was thinking if there was some way out of this tradition of creating these giant monolithic papers every time -even if your effective research result could be distilled down to a paragraph with some numbers and preliminary handwaving- where you need to pad the whole thing out with a big-ass literature review to keep the citation circlejerk going.

So why not just have "papers" consist of effectively a few paragraphs? The citation tree of how you got there is still relevant, but you can put all of that stuff in what's effectively metadata and not clutter up the whole thing with it.

Have an idea for a lab experiment? Publish the methodology as-is, and link it to whatever other tidbits of knowledge make it relevant. Did the experiment and got results? Publish the data, and link to the experiment. Got some new theory out of the results? Publish the theory and link to the experiment results in the metadata. And so on.

Maybe this would have weird side effects of its own, but I can't help but imagine this would make the whole process so much less painful, and allow also for better organizing of the knowledge produced.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The ring promised him great power, like that he would finally be able to find those droids he's looking for

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I didn't ask "Can you imagine something better?", but "Do you think they would be replaced by something better?"

Edit: And that's ignoring the fact that the EU hasn't even existed for centuries to do any of that colonialism or other stuff which you think merits its dismantling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You think they would be replaced by something better, if they were somehow dismantled now?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Instructions unclear, now the universe consists of nothing but an oven preheated to 375F

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True; some mold is actually medicine. Therefore you only have 1/4 chance of dying.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You have the causation wrong here.

Autistic people go into astronomy, and then find more exoplanets. Therefore autism causes exoplanets!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure "blue", "red", "green", or "white" are strictly speaking stances.

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