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What I’ve got in my pocket.

To paraphrase Keynes—in the long run no one survives.

But the difference in life expectancy based on income will continue to widen.

Tang-era Sogdian dance music.

Because any putative simulation of the universe would itself be algorithmic, this framework also implies that the universe cannot be a simulation.

How do they conclude that any simulation would have to be (purely) algorithmic? (For a fictional counterexample, take Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex, which simulates a universe by extrapolating from a physical piece of cake.)

Beijing is actively cooperating with the international community. The Chinese authorities have confirmed their readiness to engage with all relevant parties to maintain the credibility of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

I assume this is a response to Trump’s decision to re-institute testing?

Time zones were originally mandated for the sake of railroads: before trains each town used its own local time, and each locality refused to change their clocks to match anyone else’s. So time zones were set by the federal government because there was little chance that every town in the country would reach a consensus otherwise.

When DST was introduced much later, time zones were already an accepted thing—so the federal government gave states the discretion to adopt DST or not. But they have to take it or leave it: they can’t make it year-round because that would effectively move them to a different time zone, which is still the prerogative of the federal government.

Reflective inner surface that can double as a solar cooker.

It would be unbelievable if they hadn’t caught it on film!

If stop-motion counts, then the train chase from Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers.

Even if your claim were correct… with every infection the pathogen potentially gets better at infecting humans, and you’re giving it another opportunity to improve and spread to others.

Entire species have been wiped out because natural immunity doesn’t always outpace pathogens’ ability to adapt—letting nature take its course has no predictable winner.

Those who benefit from the way the police currently operate are incentivized to preserve the status quo—mental illness and all.

A cockle is a type of shellfish. I don’t know how the association with the heart was formed, but it must be old—the Latin name for the order is “Cardiida”.

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

The “baby boom” (whence Boomers) was called that because it was a huge demographic spike that has given that birth cohort disproportionate political and cultural power ever since—and the generation most negatively impacted by that was the immediately-following Gen X. (Even now, after decades of an increasing mortality rate, Boomers still outnumber Gen X by about 8 million.)

The paper and the phys.org article are a year old (which is maybe why it doesn’t seem so unexpected)—any guess why Popular Mechanics is only reporting on it now?

CSI (and other shows that distort the public’s understanding of the criminal justice system—see the CSI effect).

The study says they sourced their proteins from “Not Company LTDA”, which seems to be Chilean.

Don’t animals accumulate the heavy metals they consume from plants?

From Stand By Me:

Ace: “What are you gonna do? Shoot us all?”
Gordy: “No, Ace. Just you.”