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mineralfellow

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  • China Calls Bluff on 245% US Tariff: 'Meaningless'

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  • We could have had the trans Pacific Partnership. Had it been signed, we would probably be in great shape globally, with trade securing peace and economic stability.

  • Trump administration freezes $2 billion after Harvard rejects demands

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  • The endowments are earmarked for particular use. The grants allow individual researchers to do their research. University funding math is weird.

  • You cannot learn without failing.

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  • Yeah, my first thought when I saw this was that it was definitely not made by a scientist.

  • How do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?

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  • Depends somewhat on the particular negative. We can claim with certainty that dinosaurs are not alive today, even though there are theoretically places that are not sufficiently explored where, in principle, a dinosaur might live. We are well aware that the fossil record is globally consistent and demonstrates the timing of their extinction, as well as the lack of any fossils of dinosaurs since then.

    Similarly, I can claim with confidence that a force does not exist in the universe that would allow me to teleport from place to place instantaneously, because such a force would violate many of the known laws of physics.

    There are various types of god-beings that cannot exist because of a logical contradiction. An omnipresent entity, for instance, would be always detectable if it had any measurable effect on the world, but no such measurable effect can be observed. If it is not capable of a measurable effect, then it is indistinguishable from not existing.

    Other types of negatives are not easily proven. That is why scientists will say things like, “Based on 3478 measurements, there is currently no evidence to support the existence of higher values than those reported here.”

  • Tech megacaps lose $1.8 trillion in 2 days as Trump tariffs lead Nasdaq to worst weekly drop in 5 years

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  • What was going on five years ago?

  • Welp.

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  • I love Tartu, but last I heard, the pay and funding sucked. How is it now?

  • What is something you've done that you believe very few other people have done? Only one caveat: it can't be cool or jealousy-provoking.

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  • I did not make a hypervelocity impact crater. I did, however, make a large number of low velocity impact craters.

  • What is something you've done that you believe very few other people have done? Only one caveat: it can't be cool or jealousy-provoking.

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  • Rode 190 kms on a unicycle one day.

  • Zelensky says he doesn't think he did anything wrong after public spat with Trump

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  • Same.

  • A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.

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  • China has a very large capita.

  • Judge gives Trump administration two days to release billions of dollars in blocked foreign aid

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  • I'm just going to mark this comment for reference next week.

  • Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’ | US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

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  • Climate Change is already Newspeak, adopted when there was political pushback against "global warming."

  • Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

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  • Is the Reichstag on fire?

  • Erasure

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  • It is pretty standard practice. For one, it helps people who read or review your work know who they are dealing with. For another, it helps the general public understand who scientists are. Part of the mission is to make sure that the next generation carries the work on, and by emphasizing the human aspect of the science, young people can actually imagine themselves getting to that point some day.

  • Trump turns on Time after new cover shows Musk sitting behind his Resolute desk

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  • Your friends are laughing at you behind your back. Kill them.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House

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  • It's all been downhill since JFK...

  • Trump Sparks Constitutional Crisis, Seizing Budget Authority from Congress

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  • Has anybody made a checklist?

  • The bork

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  • Yes, and it was super effective.

  • The Washington Post lays off roughly 100 staffers as star journalists exit

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  • It is a test that AI fails on many platforms. Can’t count letters.