Because you are looking at it from the destination. People from across that field all want to reach that point you’re at and their paths gather like rivers flowing together.

Aka the mons pubis

Media and documentaries are not scientific studies! But they get people talking. And they get scientific studies funded because you can point to the movie’s success and say “look, this is an important subject”. And they get politicians regulating because they can see the people care. Whether the movie was actually influential or a product of the zeitgeist I’m not sure.

Tells you something about the impact it had that people would still try to discredit it all those years later! What’s OP’s point, eh? McD every day is gonna be healthy if you don’t drink. Get outta here!

I think it’s more they want a proof that they aren’t bragging or crazy when they do feel like they are surrounded by morons. Not sure about the need to show off though. That seems silly. We got both kids tested at the behest of the school so it’s an officially recognized test (WPPSI-IV) but I didn’t need a test to tell me I have clever kids. Nor do the teachers after about five minutes chatting with them, usually. But it was useful to get them sorted in the upper class when there was a doubt. Also it was nice to have some fine grained detail and an actual statistical value of just how different they are. Something I try to keep in mind when dealing with them on the daily. In France we use the term “High Intellectual Potential” and that’s really all it is : potential. It’s up to me not to waste it and help them flourish now. So far the teachers also see it and the best they can to also help them flourish but clearly the public school system is barely equipped to grow that potential when there are so many kids in difficulty. A single “social case” kid in a class can fuck things up for everybody around them, it’s a fucking nightmare…

Hmmm, what could be the common factor between the victims, I wonder ?

If you think all the scientists around the world giggling about all the puns are gonna destroy that ever bountiful source of joy, you got another one coming.

I would absolutely love that. Fuck fast travel, let me explore!

Alain Robert way ahead of us all on that one!

I’ll be honest, my thought was not fully formed when I posted. I saw “non-white billionaires” and it reminded how delightful it was how the CCP handled Jack Ma. I wish Elon Musk was treated a bit more like that, instead of being invited in oval office and being given a fucking department with a funky acronyms. Insanity doesn’t begin to cover it. Anyway, it appears there is some sort of white privilege going on, even within the 1%

Fuck… Yeah? Not sure I’m ready.

It would be nice to imagine ICE hunters, years from now, hunting those traitors to humanity down, one after the other, no matter where they escape.

Early vore artwork, circa 1982

And I thought I had it difficult parking a Honda Shuttle with 30cm to spare… Mad respect.

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Haha, for real, I remember watching the cooks and seeing those burners… no surprise I can’t fry that rice at home when they are working with a small rocket engine!

You heard anything about Jack Ma recently?

Even using C#'s decimal type (128bit) would be an improvement! I count 22 characters per numbers here. So a minimum of 176bit.

I’m amazed at developers who don’t grasp that you don’t need to have absolutely everything under the sun in a human readable file format. This is such a textbook case…

Can you smell what the Shiny Rock is cooking?!