I’m so embarrassed by this, but here it goes. One time, me and my gf-at-the-time got free tickets to Epcot to see LeVar Burton speak. My ex and I weren’t doing well at the time, so we were drinking a bit too much. We showed up to Epcot early and pre-gamed at the Mexican pyramid. By the time we showed up to the Burton speech, we were pretty buzzed. My ex had a habit of disrespecting people in a passive-aggressive manner that is hard to define and point out. But this time, she was too drunk to pull it off right. My stupid self would go along with everything she would do because I just assumed she was right about everything since I’m so socially dumb (turns out I’m autistic 🤷‍♂️).

While we’re there, she starts with her remarks complaining about everything: the weather, the audio, where we were sat (even tho we showed up drunk and late!), that we had to go to the talk (we didn’t have to), etc. Since I’m too buzzed to think right and I was submissive to her lead, I’m going along with it instead of helping her calm down like I would do most times. I’m pretty sure Burton could hear us in the quiet breaks between his words. People around us start complaining. I finally come to and realize that we need to go. I convince my ex that we should leave by pointing out how unhappy she was. She’s something like, “Yeah, let’s go. I don’t want to be at this stupid talk anyway.” When we get up to leave, people around us start cheering and clapping. While this is happening on the way out, I’m acting like I don’t exist while my ex is complaining back a la Karen. After that, I had to hear about how unhappy she was for like an hour. So embarrassing!

One day, Burton did an AMA on reddit, so I made a comment apologizing for that in case he remembered. He didn’t respond to my comment tho. If you’re reading this Mr. Burton, I’m really sorry for being so rude! 😞

This is what I see when I’m dizzy. It happens cause my brains gets too busy. Standers-by ask, “He’s not going to vomit, is he?” But I got my balance in order like Ostariophysi: a frizzy fishy in the hizzy playing pachisi vs Aiperi Medet Kyzy.

the dude really was bacon with that savory stripe across his face 🤤

Joseph Kittinger

That guy had one hell of an interesting life: world-record altitude, world-record jump, flying in combat and being shot down over Vietnam, being a POW, being the first person to cross the Atlantic on a balloon, and making it onto a game show.

Beautiful! I’m jelly 🪼

What does it feel like? Is it super quiet? Does the air feel crisp? Do you feel peaceful?

I think one reason is that the stockbrokers make profit off of every trade through commission. The more trades, the more money they make. Thus, they would lobby to make it legal. Furthermore, limiting number of trades would upset traders by restraining their ability to trade, which would upset a voter base. There’s really no one that would care enough to provide the political capital necessary to implement the limitation.

The investment bank already does that and calls it commission. It’s basically how the Wolf of Wall Street’s main character got started: commission on penny stocks.

why dont we see a band that goes across the center like in the visualization below?

From what I can tell, et al. is not about socio-political power*. It’s just a necessity for ease and efficiency. In-text citations need to be short to limit wasted space. Otherwise, we’d have lots of text dedicated to unnecessary names. An in-text citation that reads (Perez et al., 2023) is much more efficient than (Perez, Washington, Smith, Iwukuni, Johnson, Patel, Boofy, Yamirez, Tate, Hendrix, Apple, Man, & Gargamel, 2023).

Using 7th ed. APA, the citation entries in the bibliography/references include upto the first 20 authors, so contributors are rarely omitted.

• Perhaps being the first author is in many situations, but APA format can’t really address that.

I’m no STEM major, so I may be way off, but this is how I see it.

V = IR isn’t math. It’s a way of defining the relationship and outcome of two specific physical qualities. It says that we combine the resistance of a medium ( R) with the current flowing through it (I) into another joint emergent quality we call voltage (V). We do this because it makes our understanding of the physical world easier to manage since this relationship has helpful applications.

Math is simply patterns in the relationships of quantities. It excludes any physical units or qualities. In other words, math is the art of counting.

In social science, theory requires application. Otherwise, it’s just a cool story, bro.

The test to know if anything is an absolute truth is if it is called an absolute truth. If it is called an absolute truth, then it isn’t an absolute truth. If it isn’t called an absolute truth, then it isn’t an absolute truth. Absolute truths don’t exist. If someone tells you something is an absolute truth, stop listening to them.

Every single corporation is doing what they’re legally bound to do: increase profits for shareholders. Companies don’t and never have cared about the customer. They care about a customer as much as you care about an NPC. What’s with people thinking that they ever cared??

Of course MS is using that data. Why wouldn’t they?? Would they lose customers if people found out? Nope. If you were in charge of making that decision, you would use that data too. And if you’re too held to your privacy morals, you’ll never be in that position at MS because they only place people that will decide to maximize profits.

Here’s how you know a company is doing something: Would it make them more money? Then theyre doing it. That’s it.

Also, it’s MICROSOFT!! lol Not Mozilla, RedHat, Canonical, or the Linux Foundation. Remember when someone shoved a pie in Bill Gates face?

This guy is awesome. I knew it when he made that song about missing his girl when she said it was either her or fishing. He said, “I’m gonna miss her…when I get home.” 😂

This shit’s a riot: https://youtu.be/WwRrKaq0IyY?si=57FG3OjSbPI-_eli

equestrian 🐎

I understand trilateration, but what’s “oracle trilateration”? How did these dating apps share the proximity distance of a user and to what precision? Like if it said the user is 5km away, that is still going to give a pretty big area if someone were to trilateral it because the line of the circle would have to include 4.5-5.5km away. Do that three times, and we’d get an area of about a square km. To get it down to 2m, the app would have to be precise to the meter, such as “user is 5,000m away”.

I just ran a test on my stock Pixel 8 Pro connected via Proton VPN:

1. I opened Firefox and searched DuckDuckGo for “pool heater”.

2. I scrolled down until I saw an Amazon link, then closed the tab and Firefox.

3. I opened the Amazon app. I scrolled through the “deals” on the app’s home page and did not see anything pool related at all.

4. I typed “pool” into the search slowly, to see if and when “pool heater” was suggested as a search. I typed in “pool” entirely, yet “pool heater” was never suggested.

I don’t know what that implies, but it seems like if I am using Firefox, DDG, and Proton VPN, Amazon isn’t monitoring my Internet searches.

How’d you get ChatGPT to read the file?