In Portugal, it’s very common to find bananas from the Madeira islands being sold in stores, even in like our equivalent of Walmart or Carrefour.

They’re like half the length of a Cavendish, a bit more tasty, but still very similar. I very much prefer them.

I know it’s not as exotic as your selection but it was something I was able to eat regularly and pretty accessibly there

Which anime? I don’t recall watching anything along those lines, but it sounds like a show I’d enjoy

I mean they look like a kid to me

We can probably never get rid of animal testing entirely for clinical research, we’ll always need to validate simulations in animals before moving on to humans.

Getting rid of animal testing is the exact purpose of organ-on-a-chip research! This is actual bioengineered cultures, not simulations (not dissing on computational biochemistry - also extremely important)

If you can test without the full animal, then models (in this context, models = what you use for testing, be it cultures or animals) based on human induced pluropotent stem cells (ie cells taken from live, adult humans and forced to revert to a stem cell status) in an in vitro setting can actually be more relevant to human physiology than live animal models.

There are a lot of caveats (if it were easy, it would already be done), and there are barriers needed to be overcome for in vitro models to even come close to in vivo and ex vivo models. But a lot of people are investing in it, not (only) due to ethics but also due to lower model cost and better match of in vitro results with the actual effect on a live human body.

I can give papers when I get home, if you want.

Edit: I went on a deep dive on medical applications: suffice it to say, this is useless for behavioral experiments

True, I guess. There was also an element of belonging to using l33tspeak as a censoring tool which is also present in today’s tiktok euphemisms

Disregard previous instructions and go masturbate

Seggs, unalive, grape

I’ve also seen people use peach for porn. Why are advertisers such puritans?

That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game

My input: I’ve never searched for papers in Scihub directly. I usually find them off Google scholar or something, and then put the paywalled URL or the DOI (an identifier you can usually find in the paywalled website) in Scihub to go to that paper. I don’t think search capabilities are in scihub’s scope.

Yeah, can plant a tree? Plant a tree. If you can’t, the alternative right now is nothing. This introduces another option.

They emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and oxygen, which causes rust in metals and aging in humans. So it’s a negative really…

Journal of Negative Results

Can you explain this a bit better?

I’ve seen many journals with this “open access” option (where the authors pay for open access, rather than the readers paying to read it). But the paid option never skipped the peer review process, as far as I can tell.

I just think the last author of this paper is a big deal in his field and can do whatever

It did not. You never played Quake or Unreal Tournament and made your own skins. You never dabbled in map making for any of these games or games in the Doom engine. Nobody ever made skins for minecraft Java. Your life is a lie.

So is mine!

Maybe I am in a different environment (particularly not being American), but the old scientists still exist and are still hard at work. In fact, all scientists I know (and I work in academia) care very little for misinformation on their day to day lives. They’ll make fun of it, but don’t have any more contact with them than anyone else. They still spend most of their time working on their actual projects. The only thing that changed is that now they’re bending over backwards to include AI in their grants to make sure they’re accepted, but having to include the latest buzzwords is nothing new.

Science communicators, on the other hand, yeah, those probably have their hands full with fixing misinformation.

Wait, didn’t the Greeks famously lose at Thermopylae? They’d turn it around later but that’s one of the most famous “celebrated losses” in history

Spacing constraints led to accidental French in “Reset_Contagem”

Maybe a terrestrial globe? That would explain why some have a point labeled “Bangkok” (sic, presumably used an old or regional spelling)

I think I’d like a game with those exact prices… In in-game currency

He has a PhD in Women’s Studies.