David Sheen

@TashaDrew New expansion with new Emergency Events, anti-vaxx and government meddling

@ctcartoonist @Dr_BigMac @shaTIRED This is not perfectionism. A perfect autopilot doesn't exist. Neither does a perfect paper. Perfectionism is refusing to let something be good enough. Medicine is dangerous. So is flying. At some point, the risks have to be acceptable, or else we simply can't do those things.

@Dr_BigMac @shaTIRED It's science-and-engineering culture. Recognition that reality works according to certain rules, and that if you get these wrong, your manipulations will not have the desired effect. You wouldn't fly in a plane whose autopilot was fed bad data; you'd want perfectionism.

ok so i have a tiktok series where i discuss 15 characteristics of white supremacy culture. i’m going to link them in this thread with highlights:

@T_Manzana27 @McJesse

@McJesse Vito was gay. AJ had ADHD. And Tony saw a shrink. Did you watch the show?

If they made The Sopranos in today’s woke times, one of the mobsters would be gay, AJ would be diagnosed with ADHD, and Tony would be in therapy.

@RileyJohnGibbs By this definition, Peter Thiel is woke

I've recently come to learn that "woke" means "has non-white and/or non-cishet people in it."

@waitbutwhy @lpfproject This statement is inaccurate. Supermassive black holes can have the density of water, or even of sea-level air. They can form almost by accident. Nothing intense at all.

You’d have to compress Earth to this size (9 mm) to form a black hole. You’d have to compress the sun to 3 km and the moon to 0.1 mm (width of a human hair) to turn them into black holes. For every black hole out there, something THAT intense has happened. Image: @lpfproject

@duolingo this is getting really annoying, pls fix

@TashaDrew @slackX How did you get a picture of my drink?

@michaelharriot I'm wondering who the 4th Justice was

Breaking News: In a 5-4 decision, the conservative judges on the Supreme Court reject the final death row appeal of a Nazarene minister convicted of teaching Christian Race Theory. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues blistering dissent, calling it a “crucifixion.”

@RileyJohnGibbs Shifting schedules by an hour in winter vs summer is DST by a different name. Clock time is a construct but school isn't. Really we should move away from the obsession with synchronized schedules or at least the idea that someone else owns your morning.

What if kept Daylight Saving all year and started school an hour later in the winter months? Or start everything later? What if we kept Standard Time all year and started school an hour earlier in the spring or fall? Anyway clock time is a construct.

@RileyJohnGibbs This tweet makes it sound like you had a fight with EOMONTH()

PS: Reminder that the day that is one month before the day that is one month after January 31st is not January 31st.

@tmurnin1 @MycVicious @carinaromano @ashtroid22 But they clearly can force them to do lots of things more unpleasant than taking a covid test, with taking the damn test as a way out.

@MycVicious @carinaromano @ashtroid22 Have spent my career in aerospace, so I actually know something about this. The FA can make the passenger isolate/change seats, wear a mask, not talk, physically restrain them if safety is a concern. They can’t force them to take a medical test if the passenger refuses.

@TashaDrew 😨

Good morning. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Orion in a dark sky

In all that “deadly, violent, chaos ” that necessitated an AR-15 for “self defense”… The only casualties in the Kenosha “unrest” were the people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse

@Terri75857650 @fleetwood_ziggy @OhNoSheTwitnt Excuse me, you can't call them victims, because that makes the mass murderer look bad. The judge said so.

@fleetwood_ziggy @OhNoSheTwitnt They talk about the victims criminal history because they want to dehumanize them to the jury.

@BrunnenGeez @klpe66 @ezraklein A fascinating audio book narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

My son made me read him "The Giving Tree" this morning. Rough way to start the day.

@TashaDrew Deja vu

@chops_bailey Given the options at performance reviews, technically firing you is the second-best thing they could do. Still, apparently a close second

I was stressing my performance review at work, but I just realized the worst thing they could do is fire me, so I'm not really worried. I mean, the second worst thing they could do is keep me employed here, and it's a pretty close second place.

One must be cautious using the word "annealing" in materials science because it has one meaning in metallurgy and another in machine learning, which are completely unrelated and both used frequently in materials science.