Australia has no strategic importance to Russia, therefore Trump doesn’t care about it.

the lack of meaningful decision points.

Again, that’s part of the point.

Sierra Nevadas resident: glares with envy at your measly couple inches of snow

edit: For context, I live near Lake Tahoe and in the 2022-2023 winter we got more than 50 feet of snow at the pass near my house, and IIRC it was something like 39 feet where I live. Since that was mostly spread out from December to March, we averaged 4 inches per day for 4 months straight. Not that we actually got 4 inches per day; it was more like 2 storms per week which each dropped a foot of snow over a 12-hour period. It got to the point I had to get my snowblower onto my roof to clear off 15 feet of snow so the roof didn’t collapse from the weight.

Man, fuck that winter.

I’m going to make a generalization and say that someone in a PhD program (any PhD program) is more practical and better at handling financial planning than 95% of all professional athletes.

yeah, but at least we can vet that shit better that the unsourced and hallucinated drivel provided by ChatGPT

Be the change you want to see in the world…

Zyklon B might not have been developed as a chemical weapon, but Haber was instrumental in developing and advocating for the use of chemical weapons explicitly on humans for Germany and Spain both during and after WWI (source)

To elaborate, if it’s relevant and they want you to know, they’ll tell you without being asked.

If they don’t offer, it’s none of your business

I must have been remembering that his research between the World Wars lead to the development of Zyklon B muddled that up with some other chemist (maybe Otto Ambros?). I’ll see if I can find my source.

Edit: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

Don’t get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.

Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber, as I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler. edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon B

Edit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

Really a fascinating bit of science history

Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can’t remember which) was named “German” and I think the original name was “German’s chocolate cake”

1. Pulp Fiction: Perfection
2. Reservoir Dogs: he did so much with so little, and I love the idea of a heist movie that doesn’t show the heist
3. Inglorious Basterds: Beautifully cast, and Tarantino’s first collaboration with Christopher Waltz is just amazing. Plus that scene in the bar keeps you on edge for an unimaginably long time before letting the shit hit the fan.
4. Kill Bill (1+2): just an amazing soundtrack and he perfectly captures the essence of both samurai films and revenge films.
5. Django Unchained: somehow perfectly fuses blaxploitation and westerns. Plus, more Christopher Waltz
6. Jackie Brown: the least “Tarantino” of the Tarantino films, but still a pretty good flick.
7. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: pretty good and I love when Tarantino rewrites history, but I don’t generally like Hollywood movies about Hollywood as they usually feel a little too much like a circle-jerk.
8. Death Proof: I like it for what it is, but it’s not really a feature-length Tarantino movie, so it doesn’t really scratch the itch.
9. Hateful Eight: I grew up on Westerns and love Tarantino, so I really wanted to love this one, but it wasn’t really very good. The premise of closed-room Western is fascinating and it was almost great, but the last third/quarter was a huge letdown

It’s a complicated case, lots of ins, lots of outs

I only got to play at my friend’s house, and I think I got stuck on Minos (or whatever the Greek island was) and couldn’t get past it before they bought a new computer

I can hear this meme…

Thanks for the explanation!

You recover faster and better, because you distribute the new connections throughout the tissue, you don’t have this one rigid perforation to tear, so you don’t have to be healed up all the way before you can get back on your feet

Isn’t this a function of the surface area, though?

You’re doing the Dark Lord’s work, many thanks 🙇

Source? I’d love a higher res version or a print I can purchase

This map bothers me as they omit Lake Tahoe, which is higher than Baikal (~6,200 ft) and deeper than everything except Baikal (~1,600 ft deep)

What’s the point of including all that empty space between Baikal and Titicaca when there’s a world renowned lake that would be great to include

Fucking mirrors are the worst.