My dad got an art degree by taking one course per semester for years. He loved it. Got his degree last year. Retires this year.

Staring at the wall has been huge for my productivity.

I still use Google Scholar, but I have recently seen that it is also being enshitified. What’s the next best option?

This is misleading, to say the least. Poor South Africans tend to be black, but there are numerically more wealthy black people than white people. Income inequality is a huge problem, and there are residuals of Apartheid, but that ended a full generation ago. A lot has happened since.

In South Africa, I have seen plenty in the big cities, but nothing on the countryside.

And an entire football league.

An ideal police force is full of Andy’s. They seem to be full of Barney’s.

He quoted “Jesus wept.” Hardly inappropriate.

That would be unequivocally bad.

They did target Zelensky, right at the start. The special forces were surrounding the compound he was in.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russian-forces-reportedly-came-close-to-capturing-zelenskiy-during-first-hours-of-invasion

Travel other places. The world is big.

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It is so much worse than that.

I spend my time researching the literature on a topic so that I can spend my time and energy writing a grant. It probably won’t get funded.

If it does, I get to do a bunch of work. It might involve travel, where I will do everything at minimum expense to save enough money for the coming lab work.

I will spend significant time getting the samples analyzed, spending most of the grant money. Then I will come up with a logical way to interpret the data.

I will spend more time sending a document around to coauthors. This may take months, or even years if the coauthors fight.

We eventually submit to a journal. It gets rejected.

We rewrite and submit again. A few months later, congratulations, you get to publish. Money please.

I work for the money to do the work, I work for the writeup, I fight for the acceptance, and I have to pay to publish.

It’s a stupid system.

Not sure, but I think it is a joke about him abandoning his wife, who is a person of color, to have a fling with this woman, who is white. Could be off.

Easy, just have to throw it hard enough.

Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here’s NASA’s recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/

Possibly. He was a weird dude.

The blast blasted blubber beyond believable bounds.

How very Himmler of him.

It would not. The mass of the Earth doesn’t change, and angular momentum is conserved.