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Thought for the day...
In modern times, humans who take part as a sample (e.g. of medical patients) in scientific studies have stopped being called "subjects", and are now "participants".
Perhaps this terminology could also apply to laboratory rats that will be dissected?
Is the paper about "legacy admission"?
Or about parents who forked over enough $$$ for their name stamped on a park bench on campus?
How could special high-class scholars like you even consider mixing with non-elite scum at (cringe)Non-Ivy(cringe) slums?
Shun the peasants!
Just received email reminders to "Check out notifications you have on Twitter".
Previous emails had called it "X formerly Twitter".
Hmmm... Maybe Elon changed it back? 🤔
US poll claims 1 in 3 Republicans believe in a secret conspiracy to fix the Superbowl game in order to influence the presidential election.
And that one of the main conspirators is Taylor Swift 😳
cnn.com/2024/02/14/media/tay…
I read it on the internet, so it must be true 🙂
Sounds nice and heartwarming, with the usual assumptions about parents all automatically being wonderful people...
But it's really about an extreme *privilege* that many, many people don't have. And haven't had since a young age.
And people with it look down people without it.
New Zealanders beware...
Actual question from the Khan Academy educational website:
"Howell has 75 kiwis. He will eat 2 of them every day. Is the number of kiwis left proportional to the number of days that pass?"
😬
Technical term of the day...
Randomly encountered on the internet, in a description of electrons in benzene rings...
"The Doughnut Of Charge"
Earth calling Massey University administration.
Earth to Massey administration.
Do you read me?
Earth to Massey administration...
Do you copy?
Astronaut Thomas, did you lose your space helmet on the way to virtual-Singapore?
Earth calling Massey University administration...
The first time I ever heard the term "VSEPR theory", a professor pronounced it "v-sepr". So that's how I still think of it, years later.
I'm currently watching videos in which other professors pronounce it "V-S-E-P-R". Or worse, "vespr".
And it grates on my nerves each time 😬
Earth calling American universities... Earth calling American universities...
Why do some of your online lectures/lessons about chemistry and physics go on about converting imperial units to metric units, and vice-versa?
Science just needs metric.
Please update your country.
During a search about New Zealand attitudes towards immigrants, Google's suggested questions include:
"What did Maori eat before Europeans?"
🤔
Labour's new election bribe:
Subsidizsed dental care for under-30s.
Do they assume the previous lack of funding means over-30s don't have any teeth anymore? 🤔
When you move to a new house, and find that your new flatmate puts the toilet paper roll on backwards 😬
It needs to be improved.
When you don't like some moron on Xitter, you should have a button to blast them with a RickRoll.
Elon Musk: "People should post more often to Xitter, to generate more advertising revenue".
Me: "Yes, master..."
Before you were born, I was a homeschooled teenager with a GED. And zero parental support.
Minimum wage factory, retail, delivery, taxicab, cleaning, and resthome jobs.
It never entered my mind to expect anyone to feel sorry for me.