18898 pts · November 17, 2015
Gotta be kinda careful with mortality stats. I don't have any actual numbers to offer, but my understanding is that high infant mortality rates drag down calculations of "average" life expectancy in a lot of data sets if not accounted for. You might have a population where those who survive infancy live a good 60-70 years, but all those zero-year-olds mean the "average" lifespan appears way lower.
Not an EO to my knowledge. Looks like it was a decision by the Department of State, and has already formally taken effect. Seems it was proposed back in 2023 per details at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/state-department-slashes-fee-for-renouncing-u-s-citizenship-by-80-to-450.
AI/robotics probably has a longer-term role in that particular fantasy, but some are getting a bit overly eager.
It was very recently dramatically cut down to $450. Good timing for some folks, I suspect.
Fair enough then! I guess that's something people do. This is going to have me looking more closely at the counters whenever I'm out and about at businesses for a while.
You lucky bastard.
I can't say, to my awareness, I've ever been at a business that had a camera, with audio, on the counter, pointed at the employee at the desk (and only them) at all times. Most of the time if a business has cameras for security they're going to be positioned so they can see things like the customers, the cash registers, etc. A recording of just cashier from the chest up won't help out much in most of the situations you'd need footage for. But to be fair, maybe it's a practice I've never noticed.
I've seen various AI-generated rage bait videos before, but the lip syncing is usually badly off. The fact this is limited to one person, a vague background, and a stationary camera would make it easier to pass off, but while I agree chances feel high this isn't a genuine event, I suspect it being staged rather than AI. The large number of unidentifiable background objects does give me pause, but the TV looks right even when it gets covered and revealed again several times.
Something I always ask myself about potential rage bait videos is, "How did this get recorded?" I assume the camera wasn't already in place. Did he have to ask her to wait while he set it up at a nice upward angle with himself perfectly centered? This could be a failure of imagination on my part, but this really does not look to me like something hastily recorded in the middle of an unexpected confrontation.
This is Patrick.No, the character's name is "Still in Love" (named for a real-world racing horse) I think. Artist is Ace Glitch if that's what you meant. The character does not normally look like this. This particular artist kinda just draws everyone as the same character in different cosplay.
Thank you, now I get it!
Hey, just for anyone else who didn't know: If you desperately need the last word, you unfortunately have to leave the other party unblocked. Otherwise they can't actually see your response. Well, unless your concern is just the *appearance* of having gotten the last word, in which case it doesn't matter. But it's worth bearing in mind if you want to make sure someone knows you're going to teleport behind them with your katana just barely unsheathed and watch them fall into perfectly cut pieces.
Fair point. I feel like asking "What is the light source" in a context where the list of possible answers is a single item long still sounds silly, but I am taking the question too literally.I think I missed the unintended pun though. Is it because you're calling me dim? That's actually pretty funny if so, but I wasn't sure.
I think my sister had that same book, from the same source. I mean, not literally the exact same book, but you know what I mean.
I guess "sun makes light" is in a technical sense astronomy. I think it just also falls on the "learned roughly in kindergarten" tier thereof. But I don't mean to disagree with your broader point; no harm in answering the question, even if it seems "obvious."
Look up "chuunibyou" or "chūnibyō" during your next Japanese study session. In addition to being more widely illuminating, it might even help the ol' vocab break double digits.
Oh. My personal ranking would go subs>dubs>racism, but I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Just to provide some substantiation in addition to my agreement: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/
You can just say pedos, or pedophiles. They don't deserve a cutesy protective nickname.Incidentally: The quote in the first image is fabricated, although I wouldn't be shocked if it was her actual belief. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/
Funny enough, we actually got at least approximate coordinates for R'lyeh in "The Call of Cthulhu" (S. Latitude 47° 9′, W. Longitude 126° 43') But it's in the south Pacific, almost right on the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (the spot in that ocean furthest from any land).
Sorry I'm late. As best I can tell: Promachocrinus fragarius, or the Antarctic strawberry feather star. It's a species of crinoid discovered in 2023. The Wikipedia article on them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promachocrinus_fragarius has no images but some good info, and there's an article on their discovery (along with some other new species) from the year it occurred at https://www.iflscience.com/alien-like-antarctic-feather-star-with-20-legs-joins-four-new-to-science-species-70231.
Crinoids are an extremely old order of animals, so that's probably fair to say!
I think you're right! Checking up on this, it looks like it's Promachocrinus fragarius, or the Antarctic strawberry feather star, discovered in 2023. The "headline" here seems like it's trying to imply (without lying outright) that these aren't part of an already well-known order of animals.
I hate seeing headlines like these and not knowing if it's an actual newly-discovered animal, or not-technically-lying-exactly clickbait selectively omitting WHEN the discovery was made, or talking about a new species in an already well-known group as if it were some wild new discovery unknown to science. This appears to be the second category. I think that's a crinoid of some sort, possibly a feather star (a free-swimming variety). If you're concerned: They're small, and harmless to humans.
Rather looks like a crinoid/feather star. If I'm right, they're not microscopic but they're very small. Aside from being absolutely harmless to humans, a lot of them are really pretty.
Thanks bro
Well damn. The $100's under the old stump. You know the one.
Has enough time passed to claim that $100?
Subs or dubs?
Six days later, it appears I should probably have said "if" instead of "when."
Gotta be kinda careful with mortality stats. I don't have any actual numbers to offer, but my understanding is that high infant mortality rates drag down calculations of "average" life expectancy in a lot of data sets if not accounted for. You might have a population where those who survive infancy live a good 60-70 years, but all those zero-year-olds mean the "average" lifespan appears way lower.
Not an EO to my knowledge. Looks like it was a decision by the Department of State, and has already formally taken effect. Seems it was proposed back in 2023 per details at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/state-department-slashes-fee-for-renouncing-u-s-citizenship-by-80-to-450.
AI/robotics probably has a longer-term role in that particular fantasy, but some are getting a bit overly eager.
It was very recently dramatically cut down to $450. Good timing for some folks, I suspect.
Fair enough then! I guess that's something people do. This is going to have me looking more closely at the counters whenever I'm out and about at businesses for a while.
You lucky bastard.
I can't say, to my awareness, I've ever been at a business that had a camera, with audio, on the counter, pointed at the employee at the desk (and only them) at all times. Most of the time if a business has cameras for security they're going to be positioned so they can see things like the customers, the cash registers, etc. A recording of just cashier from the chest up won't help out much in most of the situations you'd need footage for. But to be fair, maybe it's a practice I've never noticed.
I've seen various AI-generated rage bait videos before, but the lip syncing is usually badly off. The fact this is limited to one person, a vague background, and a stationary camera would make it easier to pass off, but while I agree chances feel high this isn't a genuine event, I suspect it being staged rather than AI. The large number of unidentifiable background objects does give me pause, but the TV looks right even when it gets covered and revealed again several times.
Something I always ask myself about potential rage bait videos is, "How did this get recorded?" I assume the camera wasn't already in place. Did he have to ask her to wait while he set it up at a nice upward angle with himself perfectly centered? This could be a failure of imagination on my part, but this really does not look to me like something hastily recorded in the middle of an unexpected confrontation.
This is Patrick.
No, the character's name is "Still in Love" (named for a real-world racing horse) I think. Artist is Ace Glitch if that's what you meant. The character does not normally look like this. This particular artist kinda just draws everyone as the same character in different cosplay.
Thank you, now I get it!
Hey, just for anyone else who didn't know: If you desperately need the last word, you unfortunately have to leave the other party unblocked. Otherwise they can't actually see your response. Well, unless your concern is just the *appearance* of having gotten the last word, in which case it doesn't matter. But it's worth bearing in mind if you want to make sure someone knows you're going to teleport behind them with your katana just barely unsheathed and watch them fall into perfectly cut pieces.
Fair point. I feel like asking "What is the light source" in a context where the list of possible answers is a single item long still sounds silly, but I am taking the question too literally.
I think I missed the unintended pun though. Is it because you're calling me dim? That's actually pretty funny if so, but I wasn't sure.
I think my sister had that same book, from the same source. I mean, not literally the exact same book, but you know what I mean.
I guess "sun makes light" is in a technical sense astronomy. I think it just also falls on the "learned roughly in kindergarten" tier thereof. But I don't mean to disagree with your broader point; no harm in answering the question, even if it seems "obvious."
Look up "chuunibyou" or "chūnibyō" during your next Japanese study session. In addition to being more widely illuminating, it might even help the ol' vocab break double digits.
Oh. My personal ranking would go subs>dubs>racism, but I guess there's no accounting for taste.
Just to provide some substantiation in addition to my agreement: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/
You can just say pedos, or pedophiles. They don't deserve a cutesy protective nickname.
Incidentally: The quote in the first image is fabricated, although I wouldn't be shocked if it was her actual belief. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/
Funny enough, we actually got at least approximate coordinates for R'lyeh in "The Call of Cthulhu" (S. Latitude 47° 9′, W. Longitude 126° 43') But it's in the south Pacific, almost right on the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (the spot in that ocean furthest from any land).
Sorry I'm late. As best I can tell: Promachocrinus fragarius, or the Antarctic strawberry feather star. It's a species of crinoid discovered in 2023. The Wikipedia article on them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promachocrinus_fragarius has no images but some good info, and there's an article on their discovery (along with some other new species) from the year it occurred at https://www.iflscience.com/alien-like-antarctic-feather-star-with-20-legs-joins-four-new-to-science-species-70231.
Crinoids are an extremely old order of animals, so that's probably fair to say!
I think you're right! Checking up on this, it looks like it's Promachocrinus fragarius, or the Antarctic strawberry feather star, discovered in 2023. The "headline" here seems like it's trying to imply (without lying outright) that these aren't part of an already well-known order of animals.
I hate seeing headlines like these and not knowing if it's an actual newly-discovered animal, or not-technically-lying-exactly clickbait selectively omitting WHEN the discovery was made, or talking about a new species in an already well-known group as if it were some wild new discovery unknown to science. This appears to be the second category. I think that's a crinoid of some sort, possibly a feather star (a free-swimming variety). If you're concerned: They're small, and harmless to humans.
Rather looks like a crinoid/feather star. If I'm right, they're not microscopic but they're very small. Aside from being absolutely harmless to humans, a lot of them are really pretty.
Thanks bro
Well damn. The $100's under the old stump. You know the one.
Has enough time passed to claim that $100?
Subs or dubs?
Six days later, it appears I should probably have said "if" instead of "when."