AmidFuror

As long as the bot has a stripper name and an attractive pfp, I’ll interact with it. Have to remember not to send money, though.

Meanwhile, people who don’t recognize sarcasm can only make it to middle management.

Not sure about the longitude pneumonic. Latitude lines stay parallel, but longitude lines all connect at the poles. 0⁰ longitude ends where 180⁰ longitude starts at each pole. So longitude lines don’t really keep circling.

Le Tits Now

I read the question as. “Is this game bad for reason #1 or for reason #2?” It assumes the game is bad.

The educational system isn’t setting the prices. The publishers are separate private enterprises which are mostly profit-driven.

In the last 20 years, “open access” journals have been created where the author (author’s grant money, mostly from the government) pays the charges instead of the readers. That has led to a whole slew of other problems including predatory and phony journals springing up.