Hey, my Italian grandma liked this kinda shit! She… she also managed a Spirit Halloween store…

Disabled, vehemently anti-AI enby here. The only thing I’m good at professionally is being a great big brain, so taking knowledge work away from me makes me angry.

I’m really surprised they omitted OAN, the news source for America’s most critical thinking challenged.

Why wait until he’s dead? We’re entitled to shit on him now.

No no, you don’t get it. Every single person in the world must love it for it to be the greatest game. Until that day, they’re just pretenders.

/s

Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds, making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe.

Good article but this stood out as a massive exaggeration. They can cost millions, much like a car can cost millions, but I can pick up a microscope sufficient for most clinical laboratory work for around $200-300. A cheap epifluoresence microscope can be acquired for around $2k.

Still an inaccessible amount for many, but it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper.

Reading an article on Musk’s erratic, ridiculous behavior from over a year ago makes me pine for the world’s previous level of insanity.

Temporary tattoos can help confound identification.

From that article:

While importers—typically U.S. businesses but also foreign exporters contractually obligated to pay import taxes—may be entitled to refunds, Reinsch told Newsweek that consumers would “probably not” see any as a result of the CIT’s decision, even if the tariffs resulted in higher prices for foreign-sourced goods purchased over the past few months.

Raise prices due to tariffs × additionally price gouge blaming tariffs × pocket tariff refund = late-stage capitalism³

He told everyone they had to wait until Tuesday but chickened out and released it today.

I eat one big dinner each day, so I go around 23 hours between meals. It takes a little acclimation, but I don’t get “hangry” anymore and can go much longer without effect if something comes up and I have to delay eating.

Height is about 80% genetics, 20% environment (nutrition and general health). Grandparent’s genetics are a factor since that is where the parents inherited their genes.

A child inherits two copies of every gene from their parents, one copy from each. Your family could be like mine, where my grandfather was quite tall and my grandmother was unusually short, suggesting my grandfather had double pairs of genes for height and my grandmother had double pairs of genes for… not height. Their children, my mother and her siblings, then had an even assortment of tall and short genes.

Her brother married a woman whose parents followed the same tall father/short mother pattern and they had three sons: two of about the same height as the parents (even tall/short gene mix) and one who is about 20 cm taller than the rest (few or no short genes).

You might be surprised! My uncle is 170 cm tall, his wife about 165, and two of their sons are about 170. Their third son is nearly 195 cm. Yes, he’s their biological child - we’ve checked!

Both my aunt and uncle had tall fathers and very short mothers. Height is polygenic (multiple genes are responsible), so my cousin won the height allele lottery and inherited a higher proportion of the height increasing traits both parents carried, making him a height outlier.

He was a two layered onion: onion on the outside, rotten onion on the inside.

That’s the key. I LOVE explaining things I’m passionate about but it’s rude to just go wild on people, so I’ve developed a process to gauge familiarity and interest.

Show the baby MC Escher drawings, shame it horribly for not following along, and in 22-24 years you may have a physicist!

Awww, I’ll be your data dump buddy! I’ll tell you all about freshwater fish, brewing rice wine, and woodworking in great detail if you’ll tell me your things in equal detail.

Beans are hella cheap!

This is great advice. I want to add that it helps to have the necessary social skills to make those friends. I highly recommend Dale Carnegie’s How to Make Friends and Influence People. It’s old and a bit hokey but the advice is solid. It helped me grow from being awkward and largely friendless to awkward with a few friends!

I have a similar rule I call the 2/3 rule. I’m willing to put in around 2/3 of the effort required to keep any sort of relationship going. If the other person consistently can’t put in 1/3, I’ll be cordial but won’t otherwise do anything more for them than I’d do for a stranger.