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"When all the world is mad, we too must take part in some measure."

- Isaac Newton

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Comment · 14 days ago
How long before colleges still using "artificial intelligence" are threatened with defunding?
Comment · 14 days ago
For those going with the satire, recall the original French: "Système international d'unités".
Comment · 21 days ago
Scarcity of instructors competent to teach such subjects? Followed by the natural bureaucratic response: Pretend no such need exists.
Comment · 26 days ago
As others have suggested, photos of previous generations look a lot like strangers, absent a story connecting them across a lifetime, and ideally all the way to the present.

The story furthermore must have enough intrinsic drama to engage readers, and fall into the hands of a writer with the skills to turn the raw facts into a biography.

The biographic text provides a structure to hang the photos on, yielding a "photobiography". Search for the term and you'll find examples.

Comment · 1 month ago
> But a report by the International Center for Research on Women found that teenage girls who are married are more likely to live in poverty, more likely to drop out of high school and more likely to develop diabetes or cancer.

Such a study needs thorough review for confounders, and direction of causation.

Comment · 1 month ago
You wouldn't have to, to nevertheless provide great benefit to the grid. Look up "TOU billing".
Comment · 1 month ago
> short form text

Underestimated. Turn off keyboard customizations that let your phone learn you're a literate adult. Then discover how much it really expects you to be swiping: butt, sup, lol, rofl, bruh ... Interspersed with plenty of emojis.

Comment · 1 month ago
Absence of land borders simplifies the problem considerably.
Comment · 1 month ago
But neglects to consider why it won a majority of votes. Why did it? And how does Prop 13 relate to the more recent Prop 19, which substantially weakened it?

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