Self-plagiarizing:

Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Poland, where Poland has by far the highest rate of trust in US and Chinese tech companies. Seems therefore like the five other countries might not be a representative sample of Europeans, even though total Polish trust of US tech companies still only amounts to 38% compared to ~15% in runner-up Italy.

Coincidentally™, Polish trust nearly triples over more “Western” countries, which shows that this clearly isn’t a representative sample of Europeans – definitely not enough to claim “8 in 10 Europeans”. (Politico actually changed the headline from earlier which didn’t claim this.)

Provably so!

Yeah, I mention those at the top, but doesn’t work for people who need/want to wear glasses. Plus, at least to me, putting on swim goggles dry pulls on my hair and is uncomfortable. Lab goggles are the more generalized – and arguably comfortable – solution, and realistically, there’s no issue with the lab goggles’ seal (the mistake I made one time was because I was being an idiot and wouldn’t have been prevented by swim goggles).

Presoaking and making the cut slightly more dangerous seems like a silly solution when you have a pair of goggles in a drawer unless you’re waiting for your soon-to-be-only pair of goggles in the mail. Especially because all you’re likely to be doing is kind of watering down the droplets, making it less bad.

This is true. (re: droplets; study also rejects the popular chilling method). People in my experience don’t understand how much safer a sharp knife is until you put one in their hands and get them to just try it.

Otherwise, though, the “fume hood” approach seems extremely excessive when a cheap, comfortable, unobstructive pair of goggles is likely to work more consistently and with less thought. I merrily chop with my cutting board wherever I want and standing however I want.

A sharp knife is something you should be using regardless, but these other methods like meticulous posture, fume hoods, pre-soaking, etc. all seem more convoluted and varying degrees of less effective than grabbing some goggles from a drawer and putting them on your face.

[insert modified justification from Vegan Bingo here]

You know what? If that carrot were in the wild, it’d be way worse off. Imagine being gnawed on for hours by a rabbit; I’m giving it a quick, painless™ death. You moralizing nihilivores are obnoxious.

We vegans kind of slide everything over, so slaughtering animals becomes unthinkable, and butchering vegetables becomes sad.

A Metal Gear villain in the making.

Here’s the full letter.

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects:—my only reason for writing, is to remove a heavy weight from my mind, so now you must understand, what you will perceive before you come to the end of this; that I am writing merely for my own pleasure & not your’s.

To answer the other commenter’s question: no. Darwin married first cousin Emma Wedgwood; this letter was to second cousin William Darwin Fox (“My dear Fox”).

If only Darwin had waited; he could’ve dropped bars with “I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about finches.”

Oh, with a denim apron and lab goggles, I look like a bootleg Jesse Pinkman. But that kind of makes things a bit more fun in its own way.

I think so?? Some of it depends, I think, on the variety of onion (e.g. I’ve always found sweet onions to be gentler compared to white onions). I don’t always cry without them per se, but it still feels noxious.

[insert joke about Jericho here]

But I’m at least glad this Pope is standing up to this in the only realistic way he can.

Email wall* to be clear. Meaningfully different from a paywall – and imo also shittier since I’m paying with my spammability rather than my money that supports the journalists. But easier to negotiate with a sock email.

“The investors are simultaneously strong and weak.”

What does “ISS” stand for again? I forgot.

Extremely pedantically, sure. But under that level of pedantry, the whole metric falls apart anyway because there’s surely never or rarely been a point in recorded human history where someone hasn’t jumped/fallen/not been physically touching the ground themselves (let alone this having been measurable). What about “touching”; your feet are just repelling the ground via electromagnetism.

It’s really obvious what the metric is, and trying to pedant-proof it isn’t worth bloating it into a mouthful. We can just recognize what it obviously means, say “oh, neat”, and move on with our day.

Cropped so I get the authentic glaucoma experience.

The limit of space is widely defined as 100 km, which no commercial plane even nearly crosses.