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I used to do this with YouMail before their service got cattywumpus.

This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.

It’s what it’s.

I’ve been to SCS’s website and it seems… incomplete? It was on mobile so maybe that makes a difference but with how often I’ve seen it recommended I was surprised to see a site which did not look done. Did I miss something on their site?

Only if it had writing on it.

The article was interesting, and spent vastly more time discussing the practical aspects of statistical analysis; it uses a great, and relatable, real-world example to showcase how statistics can be useful, or where it can be led astray.

I said it loud too while watching it: “that shit’s over 100°C… and they’re going right in?”

Next week is inconvenient for me as my existential dread has flared up again. Can we try tomorrow?

You leave Jack Burton alone! We are in his debt. He showed great courage!

Because stupidity is immortal.

This prevents spring distortion by effectively creating two shorter spring segments, probably because the pen designer wanted a longer barrel and the mechanical engineer was told to “figure it out that’s why we pay you” and the truth is I have no idea it just sounds plausible enough.

Haikus Are Easy.
But Sometimes They Don’t Make Sense.
Refrigerator.

Well, try harder!

Really? I’m getting mixed signals tbh

There are some things computers are just not good at, and collating memories is one of them—thus I am a huge proponent of scrapbooking. I’ve been scrapbooking since 2014, and since then I haven’t touched any of the tools, binders, or boxes of keepsakes I’ve been intending to go through.

¿Queue?

Backdoor deregulation. It’s been their plan all along.

Orwell:

In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

I stay awake all day to punish myself for not sleeping at night.

From the article:

A message appeared at the top of multiple NIH websites last week that says: “This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives.”

Orwell:

Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones. …] The original figures were as arbitrary as the rectified ones, and in any case, the Party had control of all records, and they themselves created reality. The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.