Oh my God this is so f-ing true. It makes me think a lot of sociology classes I took in college where we’d talk about the artificiality of money how it’s only meaningful because we have collectively decided it is. The folks who try to make it all scientific with lots of elaborate analytics and complex charts are basically just engaging a social math exercise.

Having lived in STL for about 10 years now, I know a ton of Boeing people. Every single one of them who’s still there hates it, and the others got away as quickly as they could. It’s somewhat universally known as a shit show in town, but I’m confident that info doesn’t make it to college students or new grads. The universities benefit too much from Boeing.

Yes you can! I got a booster at CVS, with same day appointment. My health insurance covered it at no cost. Doc said it’s safe to get additional and will get you a boost in protection.

Fun fact: historians think she never actually said the famous line attributed to her (“let them eat cake”), which was supposedly evidence used to show her indifference to economic troubles in France at the time. It’s believed that the line was crafted to feed anti-nobility sentiment among the working class that ultimately led to the French Revolution. (Here’s a source, but there’s many put there)

It’s a good thing that we’ve progressed to the point that nobody uses false information to drive political narratives anymore. /s

FYI even if you have been vaccinated you may still need to get a booster.

https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/are-you-protected-against-measles-do-you-need-a-booster-shot-everything-you-need-to-know-about-immunity

TDLR: if you were vaccinated in the 1960s you may need a whole new course of boosters. Also, if you were vaccinated before 1989, you may need one additional shot, since the 2-shot model wasn’t recommended by the CDC until then.

Stay safe out there folks.

It would be great if our legislators would serve reasonable term lengths instead of coasting on name recognition and being the lesser of two evils in reelections and literally stroking out at press conferences.

My husband still browses Reddit regularly and when I asked him about this he said that the r/tattoos has definitely been taken over by AI training. A lot of the posts there are photos of tattoos with generic questions like “what is this style of tattoo called” or “how long would a tattoo like this last”. The only useful results I’ve found recently are from years ago, and even then a lot of searches lead to discussions with a ton of deleted responses.

I went to the last one in DC. It was cold and rainy but everyone was in good spirits and having fun. Was great to be around all the other science needs. Got to hear Bill Nye speak in person.

I didn’t find out about this one until a couple weeks out. I could have still gone, but this time around I just don’t have the emotional strength to deal with everything going on and put on a good face for the sake of solidarity. I hope it was as good of an event this time and will be with them in spirit.

I’ve been learning it over the last few weeks, and I can say it definitely has a learning curve for folks used to the Microsoft style, it’s pretty solid. Integration with the affinity photo and designer are nice too - moving assets across them is incredibly easy.

It’s not free but it’s really affordable, and it’s not on a subscription so once you buy it you own it. Would recommend checking it out.

This is a seriously stupid issue.

Why can’t we deal with this like twitters name change where everyone basically ignores it and just keeps calling it the same name as before?

Here in St Louis they just shoot each other for fun

St. Louis officer gets 7 years for killing female colleague while playing Russian roulette

I went to the March for Science and was glad I did. It was cold and rainy but everyone was having a good time. Got to hear some great speakers and geek out with other scientists. It was really encouraging to see the scientific community come together. I’m hoping we will see more of that this time around.

I remember this story coming out way back when Altman was kicked out of openai. Evidently shes been saying this for a while and his standard response was that she was in poor mental health and was either imagining it or making it up because of that. He comes across as a total nard and i tend to believe there was at least some dysfunction between them even if shes remembering things inaccurately. I hope the sister gets closure.

This seems like another crazy attention ploy that he likes to pull when he doesn’t want us to see what he’s really up to.

What is he trying to distract us from?

This means lenders will also be barred from using information about medical devices, such as prosthetic limbs, that could be used to require that the devices serve as collateral for a loan for the purposes of repossession.

What kind of sick dystopia do we live in where a prosthetic device could be used as collateral for a loan and reposessed???

Finally some f-ing good news for a change.

This looks like 5 different houses in the photos. Crazy.

When Trump won the first time, I cleared out any news or politics subs on reddit and took political news off my news feed. It helped my mental health tremendously even if I couldn’t ignore it completely.

I know that it’s not great to be uninformed, but the stress news caused me was just getting overwhelming.

Fair enough. Maybe my concern is more with newer cars in general.

I don’t really care for this given the trend of newer car design.

I want to support the environment and all, but an EV car is going to be even worse than an ICE car with having everything controlled by touchscreens and collecting data that the car companies sell off to the highest bidder. It’s harder (if not impossible to customize or repair since the whole thing is based on proprietary software, and the average mechanic isn’t a software engineer.

Why can I just have an EV with a damn button for volume and AC controls?