BodyBySisyphus

joined 3 years ago
 
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

When is Tolkien's angry ghost going to rise from thr grave and drag every dystopic tech corporation named after something in his books into the depths of Hell?

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

...Still waiting, reddit is disappointingly full of people blaming Gaza supporters for her defeat.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 15 hours ago

Universities have developed a lot of the same issues as businesses: managerial bloat, the MBA-ification of measuring progress and outcomes, and erosion of job security, work-life balance, and sense of advancement among the people doing the actual work.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If you live near a university you can check their surplus store, often they have things beyond just the standard upholstered Steelcase chair, although those are also functional.

That's the crazy thing about math: it's completely objective and devoid of assumptions!

True, it's just funny that autopsy is the more technically correct term.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We can't call the election until we have a statistically valid sample. New rule: every November we'll have an election per day until the 95% confidence intervals no longer overlap. Every 20 presidents we'll have a meta-analysis to see which one was the statistical error and annul everything that happened during their term.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

post mortem

I mean if we're being prescriptivist about it, "autopsy" is preferable because it's a noun while postmortem is an adjective, the terms "autopsy" and "postmortem examination" being synonyms.

grossAnd I do kind of like the ring of "autopsy" because it evokes a sense of pulling all the organs out and sticking them in jar full of formaldehyde for display and to poke at in the future, because if 2016 is any indication the examination is going to last a good long while. Maybe we should start calling it a "mummification."

We just launched some satellites in the last couple of years that are capable of detecting methane plumes in the atmosphere. Before then people were just hauling equipment up there to measure the gasses as they were seeping out. It's difficult and imprecise work.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Typical Commiefornia amirite?

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago

It's not just the vote, people who have the energy to show up to protest have the energy to go out and knock on doors, raise funds, evangelize to friends and neighbors. The "well there's no rational alternative so I guess I have no choice" folks will vote for you, but they won't do anything to get anyone else's vote.

 

Damn sure sucks when people who hold power over you do don't take your life seriously, eh Michelle?

 
 

According to Michael Roberts, that figure is currently at $1.3 tn including private investment, with only $100 bn in climate finance to poorer countries

 

It's been a while since I've breadposted because I've been lazy and not baking anything particularly exciting. But this week I pulled out the grain mill and channeled my inner Poilane. The fresh milled component is a mix of wheat, spelt, and khorasan, and the balance is Sequoia AP. I converted my liquid starter to a stiff one, then did one feeding with the fresh milled flour. After the starter doubled, I mixed the loaf and gave it an overnight proof in the fridge.

The forums said cutting the traditional three-day starter build down to one day doesn't make much of a difference, but I can't say the end product tasted substantially different from a decent whole wheat flour. Sprouting makes a much bigger difference but that's also a process.

I think I'm going to have to just go the whole hog and try all the extra steps to see if it's worth it.

 

There's a beautiful 20-year-old citation that doesn't map to anything that he's saying and seems from the abstract to be critical of microfinance as an enterprise.

This post brought to you by the Grameen Bank guy apparently being put in charge in Bangladesh? His bank said they had to charge 15% interest on microloans to break even and people were struggling to see the benefits back in 1998.

 

Oil companies lobbied for - and received in the Inflation Reduction Act - better subsidies for carbon capture and storage while overstating its efficacy and selling captured CO2 for new oil extraction

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