It would be fun they said 11 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
Oops. Hard to say, since I don't know where I'm expected to hear from them. I don't watch TV; is that enough?
It would be fun they said 11 comments
A common mistake really 2 comments
Overly honest scientific methods 4 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
All that feels like luxury to me. I'm an astronomer/astrophysicist/whatever. I assume that the gas (in a star-forming region) is a homogeneous sphere, not because there aren't any better models available, but because my supervisor (who wants his name on my thesis) wrote the homogeneous sphere modeling software.
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Thanks Sia 16 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
That was a joke. I'm not into scat, I just looked for the most ridiculous answer I could give to this ridiculous tweet.
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Words 6 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
I just realized that not everybody knew the Latin or Greek etymology of the words they are using. That must be really confusing.
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Camera phones vs. Real photography 13 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
So does mine. The only problem with my phone is that the lens is small so I cannot do crisp portraits with blurry backgrounds (what gamer kids call "depth of field").
Rule 1 of being a gentleman 11 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
What does showing respect look like? From what I've seen in 40 years, respect is about not telling someone when we think they're wrong about something.
Anything else correlated to respect doesn't require respect as a cause or a goal, but is an emergent property of maintaining mutually beneficial and constructive relationships.
Bringing up the idea of respect is a red flag: you might not have figured out the deepest or most fundamental reasons for some behaviors, so you patch that with magic words that sound good but are ill-defined at best, and potentially harmful on the long run.
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Anything else correlated to respect doesn't require respect as a cause or a goal, but is an emergent property of maintaining mutually beneficial and constructive relationships.
Bringing up the idea of respect is a red flag: you might not have figured out the deepest or most fundamental reasons for some behaviors, so you patch that with magic words that sound good but are ill-defined at best, and potentially harmful on the long run.
Scottish Twitter never ceases to amuse me 6 comments
Good puppy's deserve all of the pats 9 comments
Decent kek 21 comments
niriel
· 8 years ago
In Germany, instructions on the machines that sell you metro/tram tickets are written in Turkish. How much more welcoming can it become?
Yes, it's tough to get integrated in a new country. I'm white, male and French, I've lived in the Netherlands for ten years and I've got no friends. I'm not blaming that on my color, religion or origin: it's just that I'm 37, that making friends when you're an adult is hard (especially when your hobbies are abstract algebra and theoretical physics), and that my Dutch isn't good enough to blend perfectly in. In the meanwhile, my medical doctor is called Ahmed Ben Aziz something, so this guy rocked it better than I did.
Yes, it's tough. But it's tough for everyone. When it's tough for a white cis EU citizen nobody bats an eye.
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Yes, it's tough to get integrated in a new country. I'm white, male and French, I've lived in the Netherlands for ten years and I've got no friends. I'm not blaming that on my color, religion or origin: it's just that I'm 37, that making friends when you're an adult is hard (especially when your hobbies are abstract algebra and theoretical physics), and that my Dutch isn't good enough to blend perfectly in. In the meanwhile, my medical doctor is called Ahmed Ben Aziz something, so this guy rocked it better than I did.
Yes, it's tough. But it's tough for everyone. When it's tough for a white cis EU citizen nobody bats an eye.
