This is so deliciously nerdy
This is so deliciously nerdy
Nomen omen?
It is so awesome Carpenter thought about making a movie whose protagonist is the sidekick. It’s an absolutely obvious role reversal and yet (as far as I know, and I admit I know little) it hadn’t been done before and hasn’t been done again (please correct me if I’m wrong)
“Publish or perish” is an expression that’s been around since forever and it’s well ingrained into every researcher’s mind so…
What did society expect?
(Not so) Fun story: when a friend of mine was doing her PhD she was trying really hard to reproduce an experiment published on Nature by two Harvard postdocs at the time. She was so frustrated because she couldn’t reproduce it, so she approached one of the authors during a conference and he candidly admitted the experiment was utterly wrong, since after publishing it they realized they made a fatal mistake in interpreting the result which invalidated their claims.
They published the original paper honestly, since they were not aware of the mistake at the time, but they willingly decided not to retract it since a paper in Nature is always a paper in Nature and the citations piling up were too important for their career… How about that for the intellectual honesty that scientists project having as an aura?
Anyhow, this nearly killed my friend’s PhD, but luckily she switched to something related she managed to understand and graduated…
Message from the whole Lemmy community: we hate you for having inb4-ed our collective standard joke answer.
Signed: everyone but you 😜
Mom, could you please buy me a Spaceballs™ flamethrower?
They’re so hot right now!
Edit: fixed grammar
That hits too close to home…
He’s convinced she’s his wife before he hugged her, so I surmise she’s the 2030 version of the ninja log…
…Just before he could hug her, she replaced herself with a cake. That really is dedication on her part!
Things like this are why I love Wikipedia and Lemmy!
WTF? He tasted one “for science”! While I understand there wasn’t any other way to know… What if it Hay been a poisonous mixture? I suppose he’d tested it before against common poisons! Still, wow!
Goddamn you, I started laughing loudly and people stared at me. Have an upvote!
“TurboTax must die”
That would be the perfect title of a multi billion dollar franchise about rebels from the IRS tryijg to thwart known scammers from Intuit.
Até we 100% sure of this?
The internet is fine, it’s social media and the people using it that are toxic (aided by algorithms pushing people to give their own worst for all sorts of reasons)
I’ve read it this year for the first time. It’s fantastic. So short and so powerful.
So are there any good news in this respect?
Wait, has it officially been dropped? I love Eternity, it’s the best app I’ve tried of several…
No way you have the tools to make that estimate! Admit your lies 😄
That’s truly depressing, but unfortunately in line with how we’re treating the rest of the planet 😔
Edit: fixed grammar