Not to argue for creationism, but this argument sucks. Lead can be produced by supernova, not just through decay of heavier elements. But even that’s besides the point, since if you believe some entity created the universe, surely said entity could have created whatever ratio of lead to uranium they wanted. It’s not a falsifiable claim, there’s really no disproving it, unfortunately.

(Not so fun fact: the environmental impact of leaded gasoline was discovered by trying to estimate the age of the earth using the radio of lead to uranium in uranium deposits, but the pollution from leaded gasoline was throwing the measurements off.)

For my anniversary dinner last night I wore a cute green sweater and sweatpants and my wife was like, wtf are you doing it’s 104F out.

Anyways, dress for the weather you want not the weather you have.

Biden was Obama’s VP.

I think OP is trying to do a series of posts asking if we have the technology to do various things, and the topic for this post is whether or not we can make a real blue raspberry.

It looks like the average is 11 PTO days a year according to Forbes, with nearly a third of employees getting zero. I myself get 24 days a year with it going up to 29 in about a year. That said I’m terrified of being effed over by layoffs so I’ve been hoarding them like a dragon for the payout, which is arguably way way worse than having a nice federal minimum of PTO days.

The country of Brazil makes something like 20x Musk’s total net worth, but every year.

Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)

It’s a set of patches for the base ISO, so hopefully it’s pretty resistant to takedown? In either case I’m downloading it now while it’s up.

In published media it’s getting really frustrating to find articles that seem like honest reviews. The NYT did an article on toaster recommendations and they praised one for having something like a 3 year warranty because “toasters aren’t known for their longevity.”

I have a coworker who swears by it, particularly for C development.

This is by far my favorite video on the entire planet. I’ve gotten all of my friends and family to quote it constantly.

Do you mean correctly? If not, there have been several predictions this month.

There was a lot of talk relating the eclipse and Israel to the end times, and then last week there was this:

Whenever I talk to philosophers on zoom, I show them a program I wrote that simulates their consciousness having a zoom call with me, so they can’t be sure the zoom call is real or if they’re a brain-in-vat.

Is it? I would expect someone to come up with either toggling a variable back and forth for even/odd, or counting by 2s, heck, treat it as a floating point, divide by two, and search the string representation for a period or something!

Does the paper have any results that say they’re still cleaner on a dirty grid? As far as I can tell it’s only cleaner in the future after at least a 50% decarbonization. Which is reasonable, even in my fairly conservative city most of our power is low on carbon.

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Best I can do is a crummy soda brand:

I assumed the meme referred to all the interviews being done at CPAC right now.

Many people might not realize it, but the area of northern California they’re saying Portland will become like is insanely hot in the summers. My first summer there I swear the high was in the 100s F from May 1st til Halloween.

I think they meant what they said. “Remember that you will die” does mean something similar to “you only live once.”