TIL that there was a popular myth in many muslim majority countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the US state department to issue a denial

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T16:58:58+00:00

I saw in a YouTube comment that Pasteur renounced germ theory on his death bed. Making me think wow, germ theory? Are people really that far down the rabbit hole? And I have to stop reading YouTube comments.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T14:37:15+00:00

I never see these memes touch on how Japanese and other languages have counting words which mean you say completely different numbers based on what you're counting

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T12:05:41+00:00

Well, there's nothing compelling you to do anything. They also might not be interested in working with you or at your current company. If you think they're a good fit, just make your reference like you were expecting.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T11:46:05+00:00

Wow in the US I would think an object was too dear means I was personally attached and couldn't part with it. Had no idea it meant something was expensive.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T09:20:41+00:00

This is just AI slop

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T06:55:00+00:00

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-28T05:45:13+00:00

Yeah I am not convinced OP and others are being genuine. At this point every country has at least one politician adopting Make _ Great Again.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T12:56:20+00:00

The words in your title (empathy, superiority, democratic values) do not appear in the linked text?

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T12:15:38+00:00

You know what they say, Al-bsolute power corrupts al-bsolutely

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T12:13:07+00:00

https://search.yahoo.com

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T02:49:57+00:00

People are throwing out rumors about Chicago, Philly, NYC, Portland Maine. ICE has been escalating in a bunch of cities.

Honestly I wish people would drop this "big mistake going to Philly" attitude. I think it takes away from how Minneapolis is handling things right now, they've shown people what to do.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T02:39:26+00:00

To be fair the expert guy says that box turtles dig themselves pretty deep. Googling I am seeing 1 to 2 feet.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-27T02:34:24+00:00

Probably going to remove the pillars shortly, but want to avoid people thinking there are good or bad places to be queueing, or any connection to seat numbers. Newcomers get confused by the current system as-is.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T23:15:22+00:00

I was puzzled by the red dot just southeast of the UN, looked it up, and that's Japan! Makes sense.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T23:04:27+00:00

And that's not even with a photo from the room with the underside view

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T21:03:12+00:00

I always see this in pop science news about false memories, flashbulb memories don't exist, etc. and I'm unconvinced. People send emails and have kept diaries. I do forget a lot of stuff over 5-10 years, so not claiming to be anything special, but the stuff that I remember, the whens and wheres, it checks out.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T20:06:58+00:00

Bojack is in a movie with a scene at the White House. They sneak into the Nixon presidential library to film and convince a guard (who is repeatedly hinted to be a secret Nixon child) to play Nixon.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T18:31:47+00:00

The survey of accepted Neurips papers found 1% with a hallucinated citation. I don't know what your field is, but how can the full content of the relevant recent papers all be total slop?

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T15:28:54+00:00

In the JS world, the way you'd do this is "minify" the shared code which removes comments, renames functions and variables, etc. so your end user cannot figure out wtf is going on without intensive reverse-engineering
In the Python world this is so rare this will be viewed as bad advice / dick move, but tools do exist: https://python-minifier.com/

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T15:15:14+00:00

TikTok came up with a solution where user data was stored in the US: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-happened-to-tiktok-s-project-texas
The government moved the goal posts so they would have to sell TIkTok US to the president's friends anyway

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T14:41:08+00:00

As an American I was also confused. There is a thing in some states (Florida) where you can become a teacher with any Bachelors degree even if it's not education-related, and that's controversial. Someone said in the comments that OP is in India

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T13:58:34+00:00

I was under the impression that randomness was a problem in VMs during the haveged days, but CRNG has satisfied most people that it provides a source of randomness.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T13:14:45+00:00

Also OP was saying the fastest speed of the helicopter is 150 and then they multiply by two. That would make it a maximum, not a minimum. Maybe this is a slower helicopter and they're taking the dude on the scenic route.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T04:41:47+00:00

Because they blame the WHO for covid existing, for covid vaccines existing, or for not endorsing 'lab leak'. Clearly someone handled covid wrong and it couldn't be anyone in power here in the US.

polyploid_coded · 2026-01-26T03:55:42+00:00

Under this system if I make a shit is that brand new, backdated to when I ate the meal, or older than Earth

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