Physicist / dark matter aficionado. The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Huxley & Oliver Wendell Jones
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Pro tip: you can’t wait until the power goes out to start eating the ice cream before it melts. You need to start now. – at NEW YORK
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same spirit of patriotism and sacrifice as we would show were we at war."
-a president
Fios out for better part of the day @Verizon knows it's broken. I ask them maybe they could give phone hotspot while it's broken and they say sure, just $10 more per month! What embarrassingly horrible service.
Election Day is like Christmas for adults, except the only options for presents are socks and the dog destroyed all the presents.
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We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude."
- Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant?
Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.
"It's just quantum mechanics. It shouldn't be hard explain." Slatyer speaking at Lawrence-Hitoshi Fest
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The idea that Eminem & LL Cool J just dropped one of the best tracks I’ve heard in 2024 is WILD.
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The one thing linguistic prescriptivists and pedants are correct on is that "begs the question" should not be used as a synonym for "raises the question". Hold the line comrades.
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I won that final. Won more break points that day. Nobody won more break points than I did that day
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He sounds like a guy yelling at random people on 34th Street with a karaoke speaker
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Two new interesting H0 measurements on arxiv last night: arxiv.org/abs/2408.03660 (Boubel et al.). - and arxiv.org/abs/2408.03474 (Lee et al. - @abigail_j_lee). The first does new Tully-Fisher and gets high H0, the second does JAGB and gets lower. Interestingly, I think both support the hubble tension story after you unpack them. A wonky thread.
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I don’t mean to question Kamala Harris’s qualifications, but has she even seen Silence of the Lambs?
I see @NBCSports is taking the Costanza leave-them-wanting-more approach to the French Open. Sinner down two breaks in the first set to underhand serving Moutet! NBC sports is like: