ImplyingImplications

Kids start asking why when they become self-aware.

I wouldn't say it's when they're self aware. Kids can recognize themselves in a mirror at around 1 year old. They start asking why when they realize other people know things they do not, a concept usually called "theory of mind".

I have a friend who saw one of these and said "ah that's one of those joke pictures where everyone says they can see a word even when there's no word." and that's when he found out he was colour blind.

What a dummy. Even I know it should be Japan-san.

Imagine what it would have been like to be alive 50 years ago.

Domestication of the first canine (30,000 BCE, colourized)

Hank Green actually posted a video relevant to this yesterday. He was reading a Fox News article about a machine that can turn C02 into fuel that an internal combustion engine can use.

He then scrolled to the comments and saw all the posts talking about climate change being a hoax. He says it would be very easy to assume the average Fox News reader is a climate change denier. If you were to ask him how many people in the US deny climate change is real, he'd guess around 50%. However, surveys have consistently shown it is less than 10%. It is a minority of people. His point was that people leaving stupid comments are not the average person, they're just really vocal, and try not to assume stupid comments are reflective of the average person's beliefs.

Me, every time I try searching a Rust question.

That's easy. Just do:

fn is_second_num_positive() -> bool {
    let input = "123,-45";
    let is_positive =
        input.split(',')
        .collect::<Vec<&str>>()
        .last()
        .unwrap()
        .parse::<i32>()
        .unwrap()
        .is_positive();
    is_positive
}

I work with a guy who refuses to wear his ear plugs saying he "can't hear anything with them in". Brother, that is the point. Do you find the sound of an air compressor soothing?

Signing petitions is the easiest and laziest form of activism and incredibly unlikely to change anything. A general strike is a huge risk to the people involved in it, but has the power to cripple a government and force change. 300,000 people committed to risk their livelihood by not showing up to work is a hell of a lot more courageous than 1,000,000 people signing an online petition that comes with no risk.

Even worse is that so many people from the US support it but won't even petition their own government. Critikal is from the US, is a millionaire, has a large following, but (at least to my knowledge) has never used any of that in an attempt to enact political changes in the US. For me, that is way more depressing.

Parks and Rec, Scrubs, Brooklyn 99,
???, The Office, Community,
30 Rock, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Lovely plumage.

Stnoe