You’re getting downvoted, but eBay enshittified pretty early, around 2003 iirc.

I think a better summary would be: Chile told Bolivia after Bolivia tried to screw it over on an international treaty, and Bolivia dragged Peru into it. It’s an interesting history from many perspectives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific

On the bright side, they save a lot of money on their Coast Guard.

Facts, duh.

The English Bed - by Guillermo Lorca García Huidobro (2020)

“Don’t use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.” - Mark Twain (attributed?)

Let’s be real… he’s exhibiting this in an art museum in NYC. And he’s still working as a TV and film composer.

Also the whole idea of taking one of the finest, rarest specimens of something the universe produces naturally and making it ugly for the sake of these billionaires seems incredibly dumb.

You suggest the real reason for doing it. So a billionaire can own it and say “see, I’m not one of the bad billionaires, because I’m in on the joke.”

ikr this belongs on [email protected] (awful taste but great execution)

Communities like these need more people posting in them. But if you don’t feel comfortable doing so, no problem.

Depends on context. If I’m interviewing for an office job that’s one thing, if I’m running to the convenience store at night that’s another.

I beg you to post this to [email protected].

ikr. No fursuits, no bondage wear, no cosplays. I suspect this is a guide for normies.

Connections 2 episodes are only 20 minutes instead of 45, which might be a bit easier to get your kid into. There’s also a Connections 3 but they’re back up to 50 minutes.

Ostensibly these are for searching/categorization, but people often use them to write out responses to posts so that their followers can reblog the it without bringing their comment along (Tumblr just puts all replies into a single extended post so it’s a bit cumbersome to have long comment chains). The tags are visible in the “notes” section of the post, so people can still see it.

wtf. and they say the fediverse is confusing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Discovery

Just put a sign saying “$1 per toot.” I’d pay it at least once. Wait, no 3 times. Maybe 4.

Mildred sounds like a lot of fun.

• is the chief wit at her monthly book club, where everyone is a published author
• serves tea with strange flavors that you’ll never taste again (and leave you feeling a little… dizzy)
• can tell you your future just by talking with you for 5 minutes - with 90% accuracy
• understands that the 1980 BBC miniseries of Pride & Prejudice is the best Austen adaptation ever
• knows more about gardening than most horticulturists
• when she insults you, you don’t realize it until weeks later.

Great article.

Science publishing is central to the whole scientific endeavour, and should be governed in ways that avoid the pathologies described above. The current system poses risks to the credibility and integrity of the scientific endeavour, a crucially important issue when the proper functioning of science is so central to the whole range of human concerns. It is for these reasons that it is imperative to set acceptable standards for publishing, to identify and highlight anti-competitive activities by publishers, and to facilitate coordinated responses by institutions globally when they negotiate contracts with publishers

https://council.science/news/more-is-not-better-the-developing-crisis-of-scientific-publishing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-is-not-better-the-developing-crisis-of-scientific-publishing

“Mad World” by Gary Jules.

But really you want to start off with “Take On Me” and “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

I assumed the toxic creature was Springer, not Intro to Statistics.