sheer_audacity

Sure, but why do you have to know it? Who taught you it? Why is it important? Do you just absorb things without context?

I’m just hearing Charlie Brown teacher muah muah muah noises here, what did you say?

Let’s just have no moderation at all then - HN for people who believe in the market of ideas (that’s what you lot like calling it, right? Some nerd shit like that)

Go wild, the NYT has platformed some inherently questionable people and that should be questioned (let’s start with all the alt-right people they platformed over 2014-2017 making them out to be these friendly talking heads and go from there!) However, the U.K. has an ecosystem of right wing funded papers and being ignorant of that while talking about what’s in the article is cringe.

No, ideas should always be stated with the context they were produced in, including the people who made it. You can’t publish a physics paper without context (why are we checking this equation, what is the theory behind it, who are the authors behind previous papers and what have they said), let alone a boring online news article. Ideas do not create themselves spontaneously, they need a mind behind them. Don’t be tedious!

Please don’t post unherd here - it’s a bunch of U.K. journalists who want to write for the telegraph but can’t because they’re not rich enough, and the majority is tedious far right talking points you could hear anyone in a crappy pub spout off about after a few drinks.

The hard truth is that farming/homesteading is difficult, dangerous work which is even more difficult if you’re doing it cut off from a community. You have to be doing it for your own satisfaction rather than anything else, as the glory days of homesteading were almost 150 years ago in America.

Cities work great for many people, there’s no denying that. The main question should be what works for you, rather than anything else.

Aye, I used to live somewhere like that as well. It’s still ridiculous when outside is 40C and inside is 16C, there’s no need for that.

Okay, but if an office is so cold that people are putting scarves and jackets on, that’s a problem. It’s also a huge waste of energy.

Letters change shape depending on where they are in the word, so almost certainly! :)

Interesting they used Arabic for this example - I grew up learning it at school but it’s only recently that smartphone keyboards are good enough to implement abjad. Most of the time you used to just switch to arabizi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet

Writing in Arabic is really fun as well, calligraphy is appreciated.

Buddy, the article was about moral relativism from different cultures and western grandstanding. If you want a good primer, go and read Edward Said/Franz Fanon/Huda Sha'arawi/Kim Tallbear like the rest of us.

Why are you so keen on fucking animals? Asking in good faith, assuming you’re not doing it in bad faith. You know the article is disingenuous and funded by Fox News style journalism, right?

Haha, it would not be the worst headline out of England this week - I meant to say funding in that last paragraph somewhere!

And as someone just mentioned to me just now - Unherd is funded by the same people who do GBNews, who are trying to set up a Fox News style service in the U.K.

Also might be related to the Mumford who resigned from the Sons recently as well, it sounds like his Dad funds it.

The type of article like this is in the U.K. often at the moment - presented liberal with an awful lot of ‘here’s my wonderful argument that sounds liberal and intellectual but if you dig and think about it for about half a second you realise it’s a huge distraction.’

It happens a lot with comment pieces in the U.K (and when I say U.K. I really mean England here) in national magazines and newspapers. Like, never mind that he’s completely ignoring non-western modern philosophers and thinkers, not to mention left and human rights groups in those countries who are doing their own thing without having to do this kinda gross comparison, but this seems like it was also co-ordinated with the Spectator (which is a right wing magazine) which also had a weird animal sex article in it recently.

Why are conservatives so keen on wanting to shag animals? Can anyone enlighten me? What’s the allure here, people? All I’m going to think of when I see a link to unherd.com is ‘Horse shagger’ in the future.

In any case - yes, they do. There’s many reported cases of cross animal/human parasites, viruses and diseases, which can then be passed onto other humans. The more contact you have in this way with various species, the higher your risk.

There are some great services out there for people who want their designs made at that level. Speaking as someone who has worked in fabs - there are so many ways it can go wrong and so many ways you could kill/poison/burn/electrocute yourself if you tried to do it yourself. Your lithography would probably need a lot of tweaking too!

I don’t consider the Quillette to be a good source of anything and it’s well known to be good at peddling right wing interests. It’s a student newspaper for weird right oddballs. Signed, an ex solar researcher/semiconductor researcher.

It’s true for all genders. Girls with things like adhd and autism are generally over policed in their behaviour compared to boys.

Speaking as someone with ADHD that is being studied by a big international university- adhd has a huge sleep disorder component. Your septum will have contributed, but generally people with adhd have problems sleeping due to dopamine regulation during the day.

I agree with all this. It’s one of the reasons why so many products get built and fail - engineers of all sorts, not just computer programmers, need to consider why things need and get made and who for, even if they’re only concerned about the most particular of technical details.

I think a lot of engineers could stand to take a formal graphic design/drawing/writing/critiquing class so they can better communicate and understand themselves better.

Sigh.

Speaking as someone who has spent the last six years of their career working on advanced physics in various technology sectors (including biotech) and then trying to make various 2D-xene materials work for semiconductors, I’ll tell you one thing:

They pay you shit and if you think you’re all treated badly in FAANG, hoooboy, at least nobody has nearly caused deaths in the lab through negligence!