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I recall in a high school biology class, a classmate asked whether atoms were alive. The teacher was kind, but perplexed. She went into detail about how cells, which we do consider to be alive, are built out of molecules (not alive), which are built from atoms (not alive), etc. I'm not sure the question asker had ever considered that cells are not the same as atoms 🤔

Like she could have you bend over and she'd put a paper on your back and write on it?

Eh. As much as I want that to be true, there are some people who will never admit they don't know something.

Superman is literally a Christ figure. He's basically a god, he loves humanity, and he constantly sacrifices himself to save us. Naturally, the religious right hates him.

The core of Christianity is internalizing the contradiction of three gods that are actually one. With the axiom that 3 = 1, you can prove anything. This is how you can believe that Jesus taught radical acceptance, but it's okay to hate anyone who's different than you.

Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.

There's a lot going on here, so I won't try to respond to all of it.

My point is merely that there are population clusters with genetic differences. It's incorrect to say that we are all human, therefore scientifically we are all the same. In aggregate, the people of Japan are not the same as the people of Ireland. (This paragraph makes zero claims about individuals; it is scoped to large groups of people.)

I just want to clarify that I'm not claiming that "race" per se is a thing, nor am I claiming that there are any mutually-incompatible human species. I'm not attempting to say anything about nationality, country borders, or deportations. The political madness happening in the USA is truly disgusting. I am deeply saddened by the cruelty and hatred that's on display.

My annoyance with the chip cards was that some of the POS machines would say

DO NOT REMOVE CARD

for a long time before silently switching to

REMOVE CARD

without any other visual cues than two words in 10pt font disappearing. Like c'mon, change the background color from red to blue or something.

The first @ was silent, duh

Chart showing average height, but incorrectly scales the entire person instead of just the height, ...

The sin committed here was that the y axis began at something other than zero. If you scaled just their height without fixing the y axis, everyone except the Dutch would look like little clay men getting squished by a hydraulic press.

It's Aeropress™ and purchased from a reputable roaster. I suppose it's unknowable to me if some shenanigans were pulled further up the supply chain.

I'll add that the thing I noticed is that it tastes plasticky if I use water at 205°F but not 185°. I prefer the hotter temp because I think it gives a better extraction, and I need the caffeines.