I love that the highest waves are phenomenal

This is just the Beaufort scale with extra trash cans

Does not matter. All these natural rubbers are very similar in how they work, you can find a paper on the polymerization in chicle here if you don’t believe me.

Yes really, still a polymer: it forms polyisoprene upon drying. You also find the stuff (synthesised from oil, yes, but chemically indistinguishable) in tires and condoms.

Also, chemically they are identical. Plastic made of a plant is still a plastic.

But no-one is hiring professors because they are good at peer reviewing. Spending time on research is simply a ‘better’ use of your time.

Counterpoint: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/

I agree with your timings, but Spain has an obesity rate of over 20%, so I would say seldom is a serious underestimation.

Also, Spain is not a mystical domain filled with elves, of course people are lazy, over-eat, and snack in excess. They are human after all.

No they are not. The literal equivalent would be ‘It rains’. Tenses just work slightly different in English.

Come on, this is just a joke adults will understand while children will not. If you think double entendres are censorship, I don’t know what to tell you.

Because the plague specifically did not reach Europe before 1347 as far as we know. Now of course there could be plague in Europe before this, and we modern people don’t know about it because of poor recordkeeping or something. But it would be a bit surprising. Therefore: weird.

Probably, although there would still need to be some evolutionary pressure for forward facing eyes… I wonder what it is.

Please don’t! Or at least make it possible to change the app language instead of following the system if you do. Plenty of apps have faulty ‘translations’ that just make the app unusable. Especially because app text typically has no context, so you get these weird literal translations.

Enjoy finding a literal english translation that corresponds to something I may want to do in your app!

No, you may disagree with changing the minimum time from 3 to 5 years, but this is not ‘a Nazi’. Let’s keep that word for actual Nazi things, instead of ‘things I vaguely disagree with’.

I feel like I should point out that this is an opinion piece by this dude, unlike the Hitler one above.

I don’t know if first authorship needs to go away. I’ve definitely been 2nd or 3rd author for a few days of work (as compared to months of work for the first author).

You can give detailed attribution (many papers require them nowadays), but no-one ever reads them.

Haha, DB also does this with foreign delays. I’ve been in a German train starting in Amsterdam that left 5 mins late - they mentioned it at every stop until Munich.

A candidate for genuinely Dutch hot dog-like food are maybe broodjes rookworst:

Or maybe even worstenbroodjes, now that I think of it…

The WHO discourages this because people will start associating the name with the disease. Which sucks if you happen to have this name. See Tourette’s, or Chagas disease.

You can read a bit about it here.

Somewhat relevant XKCD