I have no idea why the USA spends money on training international students until they get their PhD and then doesn’t automatically give them permanent residency. One guy I know came from Iran to get his physics PhD and although he has managed to stay in the USA with a work visa, by default the USA would have sent him back to Iran!

Dibs on being the palm tree.

The study claims that the area covered by “rock gardens” was significantly smaller than previously believed, but I’m not sure how that contradicts the collapse narrative. Presumably if there had been a collapse, the people before the collapse obtained their nutrition from sources other than rock gardens. Am I missing something?

The two poorly-rated “classic” Simpsons episodes are both clip shows (the second and third such episodes):

S06 E03: Another Simpsons Clip Show

S09 E11: All Singing, All Dancing

The first clip show episode, S04 E18, is lower-rated than its neighbors but still gets a 7.0, perhaps because of the IMO hilarious “April Fools” framing narrative.

Also notably unpopular classic episodes:

S08 E24: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (three non-canonical segments that are deliberately bad for the sake of humor)

S09 E02: The Principal and the Pauper (Principal Skinner is revealed to be a fraud)

My impression is that the construction of wind turbines is opposed only in the sorts of place where no one would even consider strip mining - e.g. places where wealthy people live. Aesthetic sensibility is a luxury.

Edit: I’m not saying this to imply that people are wrong to develop aesthetic sensibility once they can afford to. I’m not so wealthy that I can afford to do anything about, say, a building being built that ruins my view, but as a member of the middle class I can participate in collective opposition to something like a nearby strip mine, whereas I wouldn’t if I were so poor that I would welcome working as a miner.

I spent those years in dll hell.

Romans got to determine the terminology that people would use for thousands of years.

Celts got their culture disrespected and forgotten.

Looks like InsanePeopleLemmy…

…and why do kids these days say ooh-wooh?

$600 less in gas costs over the lifetime of a car? Isn’t that a rather small amount? Less than one tank of gas per year… Are they comparing a 50 mpg car to a modern car or to a hypothetical future car with better gas mileage?

People seem to hold computers to a higher standard than other people when performing the same task.

I don’t think you’re interpreting the phrase correctly. It’s not about harming someone in order to make money vs not harming them at all, but rather about harming someone in order to make money (or attain some other reasonable goal) vs harming them simply because you wanted to. Consider the analogous situation with animals: shooting a deer because you want to eat it vs shooting it because you like killing things. The deer probably won’t like you any better in the first case, but most onlookers will.

Apparently the court system has to make decisions regarding this case without knowing the medical justification for euthanasia.

Her father believes his daughter is generally healthy, and his lawyer previously argued in court that any physical symptoms she presents are a result of psychological conditions.

I wonder if she has treatment-resistant anorexia. I have read somewhere about people with that diagnosis seeking euthanasia.

That’s just from the debris of all the drones they shot down, duh.

(Sarcasm, just in case.)

Well, at least it’s literally true, which is a standard the things he says don’t often meet these days.

A man my ex-wife dated after I divorced her contacted me on Facebook once, calling her a “horrible psychopath”. Apparently he knew my name because she had told him awful things about me. I feel really sorry for him, but I also feel validated in a sense. I get a nagging thought sometimes that I could have prevented the failure of my marriage and made the relationship work somehow. (I don’t miss my ex at all but I’m ashamed of being divorced.) Knowing that another guy also had the experience I did with her reassures me that it really wasn’t my fault.

I get that that’s why they want ordinary users to create online accounts but irritating the small but vocal number of power users that this change affects seems like it costs more in goodwill than it gains in data.

I eventually got to create a local account on my laptop by putting it into airplane mode using the keyboard shortcut. Why is Microsoft so desperate to force even power users to use an online account?

Chance is an illusion. You cannot escape your fate.

I thought the army gave recruits an IQ test and then trained them for what it thought they were good for.