You really should have lead with some of this! Hopefully you can see why your original comment, in a vacuum, wasn’t especially constructive or enlightening.
It’s no surprise that a pop sci article makes bolder claims than the paper it’s based on (even if you think the paper itself is overreaching); this old PHD Comics diagram is as relevant as ever.
I’m feeling a bit defensive about UK food in this thread, but it’s undeniably true that our sausage rolls are an absolute embarrassment. Supermarkets predictably are the worst – gristly flavourless meat in anaemic half-baked pastry. Same goes for pasties.
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Straight-up misogynistic, transphobic down-punching.
Anyone want to explain their downvotes?
I didn’t vote you down, but I nearly did. Project CETI, an academic group of linguists, whale biologists, underwater acoustics professionals, and machine learning experts, say that sperm whale communication is highly complex, comparable in many ways to human language, and can be described as phonology.
Random internet user with no declared expertise or experience says, “nuh-uh” and provides no substantial counterpoint, and is confused by the negative reaction.
I don’t expect you’re wrong per se if the perceived take-away from OP’s article is that whales have language to the extent that humans do, but just being dismissive without bringing anything to the table is entirely unhelpful to the discussion.
The same Gina Rinehart who didn’t want anyone to see her Vincent Namatjira portrait? (Yes.)
Looks to be by Alfred Twu, who’s a painter and illustrator from Berkeley, California in the US.
Edit: direct link to original on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alfred.twu/p/DCiMTLlBQKs/
A Pigouvian tax is a tax on a market activity that generates negative externalities, that is, costs incurred by third parties. It imposes costs corresponding with the externalities, internalizing those costs to improve Pareto efficiency.
Ideally, the tax is set equal to the external marginal cost of the negative externalities, in order to correct an undesirable or inefficient market outcome (a market failure).
Easiest just to read through OP’s post history!
Anyone got a “before” screenshot?
Read before writing multiple paragraphs of total crazy talk
This is ironic – you’re the one not to have read and understood the comment. Note the last line:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
They were responding to the last bit:
Tell them to move to Poland or Portugal where you can live comfortably with 1/10th of that money.
Why does the last frame of Part II work so well? 👏
I’d love to see something like r/simpsonsfaces on the Fediverse, but with expanded scope. Intermediate frames in older animation can be amazing.
At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it’s not all that light.
Baguette is genuinely a diminutive, but the French is a loanword from Italian bacchetta “little stick,” from bacchio “stick.”
Funnily enough, “bacteria” also means “little stick” due to the shape of the first ones seen under a microscope, and the word shares the same etymological root (reconstructed as *bak- in proto-Indo-European), but in Greek – bakterion is a little staff, baktron is a staff or stick without the diminutive.
Indeed, the original read, “It was 9 hours of non-stop Star Wars cantina band.”
I’m not sure any amount of image correction will make those sausages less criminal.