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"Heterycy Diuny" skończeni. Byli całkiem spoko, przeczytało się szybko i nawet wciągło. Za co myślicie lepiej się zabrać? #ksiazki

Wszystko jest kwestią perspektywy. Na #Islandia nie opisuje się jajek numerkami. Ale jesteśmy przekonani, że tutejsze jajka od szczęśliwych kurek to te od tych mieszkających w klatkach, które nie muszą wychodzić na dwór.

These crackpots have seemingly zero self awareness. The only way to save the “traditional family” is, it seems, to deprive your spouse from the right of unilaterally extracting themselves from it.

I must imagine they’re not super pleased you can’t compel the marriage itself.

Hey geologists and other #geology folks! This stepping stone was a leftover piece from a patio I had put in last year. A friend noticed the pattern on it and asked if these were fossils or just an interesting unique surface. The other side doesn't have the pattern. So what is going on here?

I know a trade name may not mean much, but the mason who installed the patio said this is Pennsylvanian Bluestone, from a quarry in Montana.

Draw a one centimetre square on your finger & hold it towards the Sun 👆

Now consider that some 60 billion neutrinos hit it every second, created by nuclear fusion in the solar core 500 seconds ago 🙀

Even if it’s nighttime & your finger has to point down through Earth’s surface – they don’t care 🙃

But if it makes you feel better, there are only about 2 solar neutrinos in each cubic centimetre of you at any given instant 🤷‍♂️

Well, plus another 300 from the Big Bang 😬

#Astrodon #BigNumberology

Did you know in python you can stick a for loop in the list brackets and just BAM have a list? No “append” check it:

l=[chr(i+65) for i in range(0,26)]
print(l)

> [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, … , ‘Z’]

(it will be the letters A-Z since the unicode for the capital letter starts at 65, chr renders these numbers as letters.)

Is that classy? For some reason this neat little feature isn’t really taught. I guess with a loop and appending you have not flexibility— but still this is cool. #python #coding #tricks

W ramach zwalczania stereotypów. Nieprawdą jest że #Islandia jest cała górzysta i piękna. O dziwo tu zostało dużo więcej śniegu niż na wulkanach

Water pool refugees at lowtide.
I walked on limestone again and saw many of those little water holes with ocean creatures in it, who tried to hide there until the next tide would come in. Look at the sea anemone who is just wrapping herself in. I also wonder if the white underground could be some sort of salt deposit from the salty water. There are moments when I'd really like to be an oceanographer...

#MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #Oceans #SeaLife #Oceanography #LimeStone #Photography #Ireland

Early career researchers, don't ever fall for shit like this.

if I get a personal email from YOU about your work, explaining why I might find it interesting and inviting me to take a look, I will appreciate it and remember you (even if I don’t have time to read it carefully).

But if I see that you are more interested in spamming people to play the numbers game, that tells me how seriously you take you own science—not very!—and I will do the same.

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I've told the cat many times to stop opening inter-dimensional portals in the house 🌈 ☀️ 🙀 #ScreamingRainbowCat

Wspomnienie @szescstopni o „islamskich bankach” przypomniało mi jeden uroczy termin z dawnych czasów. Wyderki, l.poj. wyderek.

Wyderki zagnieździły się w prawie i obyczaju dzięki zdecydowanemu potępieniu lichwy przez Kościół. „Lichwy”, czyli każdego pożyczania na procent. Tymczasem — potrzeba czasem przyciskała, potencjalny pożyczkodawca nie rwał się ryzykować pieniędzy bez perspektywy zarobku i trzeba było coś wymyślić.

I tu wchodzą wyderki.

Potrzebna była do tego jakaś nieruchomość. Nasz potrzebujący sprzedawał ją za gotówkę, po czym od razu wynajmował od kupującego, płacąc czynsz na poziomie typowo 7-10% rocznie. Kiedy już uzbierał na spłatę, miał zagwarantowane prawo odkupienia w tej samej cenie, za jaką sprzedał. Widzi papież? Żadnej lichwy! Tylko uczciwy czynsz za wynajem i dwie transakcje kupna-sprzedaży.

No, ale historia kombinacji finansowych tak sobie mnie interesuje, zapamiętałem to tylko ze względu na nazwę. Skąd taka? Pomysł przyszedł do nas z zachodu, oczywiście przez Niemcy. Wyderek zrodził się z wyderkafa, a ten to już zwykły Wiederkauf, czyli „odkup”...

#historia #polszczyzna #etymologia

Once AI works out how to do hands then this deepfake crap is going to be one of the biggest problems the world has faced. It has the potential to be extremely damaging and we are sleepwalking into a nightmare with this. I hate everything about it.

SCOOP: An anti-trans doctors' group, the American College of Pediatricians, leaked a Google Drive containing 10,000 internal files, including financial data, account passwords, and much more, @dell and Dhruv Mehrotra report: wired.com/story/american-colle

"A school district in Pennsylvania must allow students to convene an After School Satan Club, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

“In a victory for free speech and religious freedom, a federal court has ruled that the Saucon Valley School District must allow the After School Satan Club to meet in district facilities,” the ACLU announced.

In a Monday filing, issued in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and shared by the ACLU, a judge found that “here, although The Satanic Temple, Inc.’s objectors may challenge the sanctity of this controversially named organization, the sanctity of the First Amendment’s protections must prevail.”

The school district must allow the After School Satan Club, which is sponsored by The Satanic Temple, to meet during the school year on three previously agreed-upon dates, but it won’t have to distribute permission slips for the club for students to take home, according to the filing."
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
ktla.com/news/federal-judge-ru

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