War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left.
06.03.2026 20:07
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War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left.
好久沒畫虎杖我的寶鼻
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
"In a 2015 experiment, Dutch researcher Merel Kindt gave propranolol to arachnophobes right after making them sit with a tarantula for two minutes. Some participants ended up holding the spider."
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Tiens, j'étais récemment tombé par hasard sur cette vidéo sur comment l'École du Ski Français a réussi à s'imposer à tel point que beaucoup de gens croient que c'est un organisme public: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTq2...
Tiens, j'étais récemment tombé par hasard sur cette vidéo sur comment l'École du Ski Français a réussi à s'imposer à tel point que beaucoup de gens croient que c'est un organisme public: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTq2...
Bar charts when the bars decide they want to be free:
Bon, moi il y a 20 ans, j'écrivais ça: www.madore.org/~david/weblo...
Non mais ça ne se fait pas de fouiller dans les archives des blogs un peu anciens à la recherche des trucs embarrassants, comme ça. 😠 C'est un peu comme si on allait dénicher des vieux tweets des politiques pour montrer qu'ils ont dit des choses embêtantes.
OK, yes, but I find it a bit different to transliterate words that don't have an obvious translation or that are associated to a particular language than to write “Indian something” in English in an Indian script.
Very good points concerning the accessibility of graphical user interfaces: 🧵🔽
And if the point was to not just address the Hindi-speakers in India, then this fails too, because Devanāgarī isn't widely used outside of Hindi.
Or does the Indian Oil logo read “இந்தியன் ஆயில்” (this is still English!) in Tamil Nadu? 🤔
I don't know Hindi, but I'm pretty sure the way you'd say “Indian oil” in Hindi (maybe “भारतीय तेल” or something of the sort) isn't to transliterate the English “English oil” into the script. I know for a fact that Hindi has a native word for “India” (one of the few words I know). 😁
Photo of a sign with the IndianOil logo on it, which is a red-orange circle (with a blue outline) with text that says “इंडियन ऑयल” in white on blue characters in the Devanāgarī alphabet.
I was glancing through a BBC news article photo when it struck me that the logo of the India company Indian Oil says “इंडियन ऑयल”, which is the transliteration in Devanāgarī script of “Indian Oil”. Transliteration, not translation! This is English, but written in Devanāgarī. 😮
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
The meticulously detailed and beautifully illustrated Wikipedia page for the profanity “fuck” and its wide gamut of meanings is a wonderful example of how Wikipedia can turn a seemingly frivolous subject into something simultaneously wonderful and absofuckinglutely hilarious.
Un billet de blog sur les Prunus en fleurs, où et comment en voir en Île-de-France: www.madore.org/~david/weblo...
(Billet publié hier, mais je viens d'ajouter des photos dessus, donc j'annonce maintenant.)
Serious question: how do other birds of the same species (say, a corvid species) react to an albino individual? Do they identify it as one of their own? Ignore it? Attack it? How do the parents react when their offspring is white?
(Cc @jastrow75.bsky.social )
A large raven in an enclosure. Instead of the usual black, it is white with blue eyes
Today I got to meet a white raven at a wildlife rescue center! This is Opal 💗
Car moi aussi parfois je suis un justicier.
What the actual — and I cannot stress this enough — F😵CK‽‽‽
Me (screaming to the sky): "Ok Michael, I figured it out, THIS is the Bad Place! You can stop, now!"
Douze ans d'âge mental (et c'est généreux).
See? I'm beginning to warm up to the “everybody is twelve” theory of American reality.
Of course darling you can be Braveheart and Maverick from Top Gun and Master Chief from Halo and Superman and whatever you want. You're twelve, so of course you want to impress us all.
Another comparison I like is with a fruit tree: if someone wants to grow fruit and tries to cut all the roots from a fruit tree because no fruits grow on those parts, they are in for a surprise.
This is what we need to tell politicians who ask “why do we need pure math for?”. •4/4
Math research (or all of science, actually) is like a brain: even if you are interested only in one task (say, creating practical applications), you can't just remove or starve the brain parts that don't seem to directly connect to that task and hope everything will still work just as well! •3/4
… but slightly misleading.
I would say the main reason we study very abstract math isn't for their applications outside of math, but because they connect to other areas of math which themselves connect to others, etc., ultimately to applications.
And you can't just chop one part of this off! •2/4
This is interesting, but let me offer a counterpoint: I think it's generally not a great strategy to try to argue that even very abstract math concepts can have sometimes unexpected applications. It is ✵true✵ — like abstract number theory turned out to be fundamental to cryptography ― … •1/4
Hors contexte: 😅
Parce que les logarithmes ne paient rien? Si c'est ça, je suis désolé de dire, elle est vraiment mauvaise. 😛