Here on the fediverse, you’re treasured NOW, fam!

My BFF went to school to be a funeral director, where they learned how to embalm on donated cadavers. So when my BFF was dying, they arranged to have their body donated to a local medical university, kindof as a way of “giving back”. The program didn’t disclose exactly what the bodies would be used for, but they said many of them were used for medical training. Anyway, in both cases (embalming training and medical training) apparently “unusual” bodies are still useful. Also, it greatly reduced funeral expenses because the program provided free cremation afterwards.

So, people should still consider donating their bodies after death, someone will probably find some value in it.

It makes sense now.

• tiktok being down = MILDLY infuriating (the name of this community)
• people using tiktok = MASSIVELY infuriating

I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly. This is, after all, the MILDLY infuriating community, and it can be a hassle when something stops working for you, even if it’s perfectly reasonable for it to happen.

But what if the kid listens to Bauhaus and Siouxsie but just doesn’t dress the part?

If you want to play games/text/watch movies you can also carpool.

I would take a bullet to protect that cat’s smile.

This graph will live forever, in intro classes, as an example of how not to do things.

See, when I was in grad school I once had to calculate an agreement metric from a bunch of labels on a corpus. No problem I said, the math is easy, I can write a script in an hour or so. Fam that mfing script took me two freaking days bc there were always some little bugs or weird edge cases I hadn’t thought of. So the deal I made with myself was: I would use Matlab or a stats library or something like that, BUT I would make sure that I understood the math beforehand.

But for whatever reason, I never had to calculate a standard deviation. Thinking about it, someone else might have done that for papers I was co-author on, though.

I’ve worked as a scientist for around 10 years (and as a research programmer in various labs for 5-6 years before that) and have never done a standard deviation calculation.

“Do you love being a scientist? Or do you love the IDEA of being a scientist?” - something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently…

Regardless of what you think of him, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a fascinating and well-written book (co-authored with Alex Haley). It’s available at many public libraries.

not only. The cat was the mastermind! Just look at that killer stare…

see: https://grafana.lem.rocks/goto/gMske4jHR?orgId=1

I don’t understand everything on this chart, but it looks like sh.itjust.works lagged a bit over the past 24 hours and is now catching up.

Well you’ve got a lot of great recommendtions in general on this post, but while we’re on the topic of war movies:

• Gettysburg (1993) has some great character studies, the book it’s based on is “The Killer Angels” and also worth reading
• Zulu (1964) is another product of its times but they did an outstanding job, and it’s a solid depiction of English defensive tactics of the late 1800s

Yah, OP seems to like war movies, so I’d add:

• A Bridge Too Far - a classic, tho kinda old-fashioned moviemaking
• Apocalypse Now - another classic, still seems fresh
• Waterloo - the only good movie about Napoleon
• 1917 - some really amazing camerawork

The bad ending: On his way out, Thomas passes a twisted piece of metal hanging from a hook. It is his soul, which has been removed from him, and it is eternally screaming.

The good ending: And so Thomas reached immortality, his old parts melted down to make his new parts, and in time he came to rule his island nation.

a classic: “Hallowed Be Thy Name” by Iron Maiden.

I still remember the first time I heard that song.

good bot.