- @KapteinB
I used to read Cracked every day. It could be surprisingly insightful for a comedy site.
We reinvented the sail. Good news though!
They found that pythons' ratio of food consumed to meat produced (where a lower number means greater efficiency) was 1.2, compared to 1.5 for salmon, 2.8 for poultry, 6.0 for pork, and 10.0 for beef.
Impressive! I guess because they're cold blooded, and require less energy for just existing?
Exciting insights. Makes me want to rewatch Hunt for Red October.
I know we have some iPhone users here. Do you all use Safari, or have you looked into alternatives? I guess performance-wise they're all more or less the same (since they all use the same browser engine), but features may vary.
A taste of their own medicine.
Still too early for polls to matter much.
The song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekc8t0rJqA
Last Sunday I was driving home from skiing in Sweden, down the Riksvei 73 through Hat Mountain Valley, towards Svenning Valley. Where the R73 meets the E6, there's a one-horse town named Trofors, where we decided to stop for lunch at the town's only restaurant; Trixie. It's one of those roadside grills that don't look like much, but where the food is recently priced and surprisingly good. One of the walls is adorned with a framed signed poster; "Thank you Rahim for tasty food, Marcus & Martinus." One of my travel companions pointed to a house across the street which she claimed was their childhood home.
These kids are local heroes, and I'll be rooting for them in May! Them and Gåte, of course. Oh and Switzerland, because that song is awesome.
For Putin, it appears to be a wager worth making: his costly project in Ukraine has laid a minefield under the country’s economic and demographic future, but it is entirely possible that these mines will explode only after he has left the scene. Call it the King Louis XV model of governance: Après moi, le déluge. (“After me, the flood.”)
Putin will likely be in office until 2036, then live out his final years in luxury. While his predecessor upon taking the reins will realise that the whole of Russia by then is a facade, about to come crumbling down. Worst case Putin will be remembered as the magnificent statesman who held it all together, and his predecessor will get the blame for the crash, leading to a new cycle of yearning for a strong leader and nostalgia for a time that never really was.
Sad for those who use it, but I'm curious; do any of you use any Android apps on Windows? I can't think of a use case for it.
I was never good at conversations growing up, and had to train myself to be better at them, which could be emotionally exhausting.
Curiously, [supercommunicators] were not necessarily the obvious “leader” (in fact, groups with a more dominant individual tended to be less synchronised), but they were people who in their everyday lives tended to have bigger social networks, had people confide in them and were more likely to enjoy roles with greater responsibility. So what did they do? They spoke less, repeated other people’s ideas, admitted mistakes and were self-deprecating. They also asked questions – around 10-20 times as many as anyone else.
This is what I learned to do, more or less; listen, learn, and ask follow-up questions. I fish around for common interests, but sometimes I just have to pretend to be interested in whatever they're talking about.
I've also found that I have two abilities most people apparently don't possess: To pick up on when two people are talking about completely different things while thinking they are discussing the same thing (happens shockingly often!), and to pick up on when someone else was about to speak but got cut off. (During a recent-ish conversation with a friend about what would be our voice-lines if we were NPCs in a Bethesda video game, I was told one of mine would be "You were about to say something?".)
(I've also found that 3 is the optimal number of people for a good conversation. 2 will result in awkward pauses, while 4 or more will result in the conversation splintering into several, or some participants never getting a word in.)
Reading this made me wonder how many of these "supercommunicators" are actually naturals at it, and how many are really socially awkward dorks trying their best to be part of the conversation. Maybe there's a reason the socially awkward dork gene has survived for so many generations.
Wolves eating wolves, and more bridges burned.
The headline seems a bit sensationalist; as far as I understand Modafinil isn't really comparable to amphetamines. But this was still a wild read. I wasn't aware of Ronny Jackson before reading this, and he seems like a real character. And now he's a member of congress, where loons fit right in!
I'm going to Wien in May, but I'll be going by plane. I will however be taking the train from Wien to Innsbruck; maybe I'll look into night trains there.
A year's tuition at the school is over $59,000, leaving many graduates with more than $200,000 in debt, the Times reported.
Wow, that is a ridiculous amount of debt to start your career with.
That also means the gift should cover about 17,000 years worth of tuitions.
Mat you rest in peace, Flaco.
I've been thinking for a while that the West could make our own version of the Wagner group; voluntary mercenaries that can be deployed in eastern Ukraine without escalating the war.
The new observations likely complete the inventories of Uranus and Neptune’s moons down to between 8 and 14 kilometers respectively. In comparison, Jupiter is complete to moons of about 2 kilometers in size, while Saturn is complete to moons of about 3 kilometers in size.
Maybe we need a better definition of what a moon even is. Like they changed the definition of planet after they kept discovering ever newer and smaller ones.
This makes it sound like LaPierres was just a patsy, and the lobbyist were actually in charge.
US politics is such a fascinating mess.
Honestly though, I think third parties would be better served aiming for smaller targets; try to get representation in state assemblies, then the House. Going straight for the big prize seems like a complete waste of money and effort to me.