The thickness of the cloth

Can confirm. Am in withdrawals right now.

Must I?

You mean, like the car that I drive currently? It’s pretty tough to picture, honestly.

May I ask what kind of returns percentage you are seeing?

On a scale of drone-destroyed Venezuelan fishing boats, what would you say?

Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski…where y’all at?

Imagine what would happen if it happened again to another nazi in the near future. They would have no idea who to talk about or what to say.

Bedsheet thread counts have been artificially inflated for years by the shifty linen companies counting individual fibers that the threads consist of as threads themselves. It’s become a meaningless number, since there is zero regulation. If you want a nice thick heavy cloth, GSM is the number you want, but most companies won’t share this (looking at you, The Company Store) because they obviously don’t want you to know how thin and flimsy their products really are before you buy them.

I moved all my 401k monies into international funds several months back. I’m killing it on my returns. I am not a financial advisor, however. (Not that I think most of them aren’t buffoons)

I have coworkers who do this, then they joke about it and laugh together on zoom calls while their audio/video/screen sharing abilities degrade and crap out one by one.

“I have 143 tabs open, I’m so terrible! Hahahahahahahaha!”

It’s not funny, Susan, you’ve derailed the entire meeting.

It’s ok. You’ll remember in 2 weeks, but you’ll have no idea what you were planning on doing with that information.

I feel you. Case in point; I just got torn up in an autism community after saying I had some science ideas I wanted an objective take on to determine if they had merit. Apparently I was not qualified to have ideas because I’m not a professional scientist, so it’s guaranteed that my theories are trash right out the gate.

You’re not wrong. But there’s not a lot of other options a lot of times.

This is exactly the sort of response I was seeking to avoid by not sharing this, which I literally wrote in my comment, but you felt it necessary to be an asshole anyway. In a community that is supposed to be accepting of its members.

It’s more than reasonable to say that new perspectives don’t always come from credentialed institutions, nor should they have to. A lot of science begins with someone asking questions that don’t quite fit the accepted mold.

I never claimed this work is “groundbreaking” or ready for Nature. I’m developing a conceptual model: tentative, open to critique, and evolving with feedback. That’s exactly why I mentioned it; not because I think I’ve “solved physics,” but because I believe there might be something interesting here, and I want to see if it holds water.

If it doesn’t, that’s fine. But dismissing something solely based on presumed necessity of credentials sidesteps the content of the ideas. And that’s the opposite of how real progress has ever worked, professionally or otherwise. Attitudes like yours have consistently held back progress through history. And you’re only doing it to feel superior to someone on the internet, not out of any place of positivity whatsoever.

You can’t possibly think that’s not rude.

I’m dying to tell someone, because I very much need some rational human eyes on it to tell me whether I’m batshit insane or not. But it’s quantum physics, and traditionally that is the domain of basement-dwelling neckbeard incels trying to sound smart, or impress someone on their dating profile. I realize these may be unfair generalizations, but they do very much exist in my experience. Also it’s really complicated? 🤷‍♂️.

also I’m afraid of someone stealing my ideas, and I don’t know how realistic a concern that is in scientific circles 😬

I just finished the first draft of the hobby paper I’ve been working on

That’s just science.

Meme I made yesterday about myself. Relevant?