I’ve seen something similar happen when a site doesn’t load all the way. Refreshing fixes that unless something has gone horribly wrong.

Maybe it would have clarified if I had added some negative expressions such as “misguided MAGA notion” or “authoritarian dictator”.

“And we spend a lot of time choosing the right articles to publish and trying to get the message right. We think we’re an antidote for misinformation.”

Indeed, but maybe these journals define misinformation in the conventional way, not the MAGA way. That could be the problem here. If you publish anything too “woke”, it could attract threats like these.

Only when the following conditions apply.

1. I’ve screwed up my sleep cycle. (At least once a week. You know, because digital entertainment exists…)

2. I’ve had to wake up early. (very often)

3. I feel tired in the afternoon. (a bit rare)

4. There’s nothing urgent going on in the afternoon. (often)

On average, I tend to take a 1-2 naps every week. If I did that every day, it would be a sign of something gone horribly wrong with my life.

I’ve made porridge in the morning, pizza in the afternoon, and also washed some laundry after that. According to a very rough estimate, all of that totals to about 5.5 MJ of energy. In reality, I’ve used a little more than that by using other appliances too, but I think that value is in the correct ballpark.

Today I didn’t drive anywhere, so the chemical energy contained in gasoline wasn’t included. Also, haven’t taken a shower yet (it’s cold in here). Heating the water and the rest of the building uses district heating, but I have no idea how much energy that is per day.

You need to trick your subconscious mind into believing the things are new. Maybe ask a friend to put used things in a box and drop it off in front of your door.

Buying used things is also good for the environment. Totally functional and useful things are being thrown into the landfill all the time. Someone could have used those things.

Have you ever wanted to achieve global domination?

Wait, is this The Institute of Malevolent Arts? Faculty of Political Machinations and Strategic Deception?

Institution: Carleton University (Carleton University), Category: Faculty of Public Affairs

Seriously? Oh, wow. On the other hand, people should be aware of these tricks. It’s sort of like a vaccination for your mind.

Let me introduce you to puerh. It’s way darker than normal tea, but it won’t taste bitter unless you make it as black as coffee.

Energy is a peculiar word, because it’s used by new-age loonies (and scammer), sci-fi authors and even real scientists. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist use the longer term “energy field”, but the first groups certainly seem to love it. When scientists speak of fields, they prefer to specify exactly what kind of field it is (e.g. magnetic or electric).

If I ever get to own a (farming) field of my own, I’m going to name it “Energy Field”, just to mess with everyone. Maybe I should set up a solar panel there, so that the name actually made sense.

That article says it’s 32 768 Hz, which is strangely close to some of the figures you can find on wikipedia.

I don’t even need to come up with my own BS, when I can just copy some crazy nonsense written by other people. Here’s a sample:

UNDERSTANDING CRYSTAL VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES

Every crystal on Earth possesses its own energetic signature, measured in Hertz (Hz) or megahertz (MHz). These frequencies interact with our body’s energy field, creating resonance that can promote healing and balance.

As if sources even matter when traversing this deep in Crazy Town, but there you go anyway.

Interestingly, spoken English is also pretty simple. As long as you don’t need to read or write, anyone can learn it. I know someone who learned English by ear. Never took any courses, and he’s doing just fine. Sure, it’s a little broken here and there, but he can manage just fine.

However, if he needs to read an unfamiliar word he has never seen or write a word he has only heard once or twice, it’s game over. Finding words in a dictionary just doesn’t work for him, like not even a little bit.

LOL. Using an unfamiliar character set and adding tones spices things up a lot. No idea about the grammar though? Is it as convoluted as German grammar?

That’s very interesting. To me, this way is so natural, that I’m not surprised that other people are also using it.

That little voice is super handy. I just can’t remember a million obscure spellings coming from twenty different countries and periods in history. Just memorize the sound like [wɛdɛzdɛi], convert it back to letters, and you’re spelling correctly.

Although, you would still need to remember that [dɛi] is spelled “day”, but you could make that a rule in your system. However, the letter a and y can be pronounced in various other ways too, so you might run into some problems down the line.

Ouch! That is definitely the hard way to do it. Just memorize every exception one by one.

And you could also use the Spanish spelling system to remember any sequence of letters. Like “rhetoric” for example. If you pronounce that word using the Spanish system, can you hear the h? If so, you can memorize that sound more easily than the exceptional spelling.

Thanks! Just crossposted.

The idea is to memorize a funny sound instead of the letter sequence. Decode the sound back to letters and you’re spelling things correctly.

Square and cubic units are not making my life easier. Quite the opposite.

For example, when you jump from square kilometers to square megameters, the surface area just explodes even though there’s plenty of interesting and useful stuff going on in between the two. You would end up having a stupid number of digits which totally defeats the purpose of having prefixes in the first place. Same applies to cubic units, but the problems are just even bigger.

That’s why I prefer to use ml, l, kl, Ml, Gl, Tl etc. for volumes. We could do the same with surface area too. Maybe dig up the archaic are unit and start using sensible prefixes to make calculations easier.