The main reason why people don’t want to be paid directly in food is because food is inconvenient or even costly to store and transport, and may not retain its value over time (potential loss to spoilage).

But if your local currency is also inconvenient to store and transfer, and doesn’t retain its value over time, maybe food is the better store of value.

Once I understood this, school really started to click. Too bad it wasn’t until I had baked in a shitty undergrad GPA.

Who said anything about scamming? At most, it’s an accusation of trolling for the lulz. Which is actually quite common on the internet.

Oh here’s another:

They’re just not easily searchable (many of the most popular ones are just reposted on pinterest or reblogged on someone else’s tumblr).

Yeah, that’s a good one. I also like this one:

https://sarahcandersen.com/post/726092139029774336

But most of what I’m thinking of is more than 10 years old, from her first two books (I have them in this house somewhere). Lots more angsty youth in those early collections, including some stuff about insecurities and self image.

Extrapolating from the plot of the Fugitive, I think it’s safe to say he’s murdered 4 people!

I just read it as an artist saying “hey I can draw in this style, would you like to see more by paying me money at my Patreon or paying for a commission or something like that?”

Flicking beans is back on the menu I guess

I definitely know at least one woman IRL that would post like that.

Aight let’s do a quick lesson in Bayes Theorem, here in a shitpost community.

Imagine there is a disease that exists in 1% of the population. Medical science develops a test with 90% accuracy (both in false positives and false negatives) on whether a person has the disease. Your doctor orders the test, and it comes up positive and saying that you have the disease. What is the probability that you actually have it?

Well if you test an entire population of 1000, 10 of whom have the disease, it will correctly positively identify 9 out of 10 who have the disease, and incorrectly give false positive results to 99 out of the 990 who don’t have it. So among the 108 people who get positive results, you only about 8.3% chance of having the disease.

My Bayesian priors for an anonymous prolific poster of thirstposts in a shitposting community on a heavily tech-centric social media platform is that they’re about 90% likely to be 30+ year old men. Claiming to be an 18 year old woman might move the needle a little bit, but not as much as you might think.

Sarah’s Scribbles is one of the better comics for drawing the author’s self as pretty cute in most comics but knowing how to draw herself as an ugly goblin when the comic is making a point about insecurity or embarrassment around physical appearance.

That comic is basically the gold standard for how to convey those ideas in an otherwise cute art style.

Dull Men’s Club is a fantastic fediverse community where this kind of stuff tends to be discussed.

It’s not about wavelength, but about intensity.

At night, in darker conditions, cameras dial up their light sensitivity so that they can see faint light (the human eye does the same thing through the iris). So in that mode, they’re sensitive to the brightness that can be produced by human-made light emitters.

But during the day, they’re already set for sunlight levels of brightness so that blinding them in that setting will require more light than is feasible to produce using normal light emitting technology. Infrared or visible light.

Think about trying to blind someone with your car headlights in the middle of a bright sunny day. It just doesn’t work.

According to this analysis (probably a biased/motivated source but not one worth lying about actual output for its members to make economic planning around), each bushel produces 2.9 gallons of ethanol, 14.5 lbs of distillers’ grain, and 0.9 lbs of corn oil.

Distillers grain is a pretty useful animal feed, with about the same amount of calories, and a higher protein content, than regular corn per pound.

So if a 54 lb bushel of corn that has been used for ethanol production still has about 14-20 lbs of grain equivalent (depending on how important that higher protein content is for the animals being fed), then some percentage of that corn being used for ethanol should still be counted towards animal feed. Depending on how you want to account for the oil, too, there’s probably some feed value there, too.

Weight of human beings, weights at the gym, etc.: pounds

Height of people: feet and inches

Height of buildings: mostly feet, but occasionally meters.

Depth of water in scuba: meters

Kitchen weight: grams

Kitchen volume: fluid ounces only between 0-128 oz, then gallons after that. Decimal places, not fractions. So for example, cocktail recipes should all be in ounces, no tablespoons or teaspoons.

Distances in wilderness: meters/km

Distances on a football field: yards

Distances on a basketball court: feet

Distances on roads or in cities: miles

All temps in Fahrenheit.

Energy in calories for food and heat, watt hours for electricity, joules for everything else.

My version of this was still being among the smartest people at my good engineering school but realizing I didn’t have the discipline to thrive without externally imposed structure. I coasted on skipping classes and catching up just fine my first semester, but that didn’t last all that long (a year before I was no longer near the top of any given class, 2 years to where I was struggling to understand because my grasp of the prereqs wasn’t as solid).

So it took a few years to learn how the world doesn’t inherently reward intelligence for the sake of intelligence, but that intelligence is still a good tool towards accomplishing other things the world does value.

I’m still sometimes the smartest person in the room, but I’ve learned to stop assigning any value to that fact.

I’m pretty happy these days, and I directly credit my intelligence and introspection for that. Even though the “smart but lazy” label gave me some trouble early on, and I had a little quarter life crisis when I realized that being smart wasn’t enough, eventually being thoughtful gave me the flexibility to recover from some setbacks early in my career, has helped me with my social life, helps me manage the day to day life outside of work (finances, chores, hobbies, interests, family life, etc.), and otherwise has helped me set up the things that are important to me and find contentment in a chaotic world. It’s certainly a form of intelligence, just productively channeled at some point to make things better for myself.

Those percentages don’t really add up to 100, though.

Something like 40% of American corn is used as a feedstock into ethanol fuel production. But that just strips out most of the starches and carbohydrates for fermentation into alcohol. The remaining proteins and fats are used mostly for animal feed. And somewhat surprisingly, the captured CO2 is sold as an industrial CO2 product, such as dry ice. So for that 40% of corn, we could say it’s used for ethanol production. Or we could say it’s used for animal feed. Or other processes. But it’s really all of the above.

Modern American corn and soybean farming is just basically efficiently producing a bunch of bio feedstock into whatever processes can make use of those products, whether for human food, animal feed, industrial processes, etc.

The horse self driving mode is pretty good though, with its built-in hazard avoidance and lane keeping.

Ozempic works by making you not want to eat the pizzas. It’ll never be a performance enhancing drug for sports because the top levels already have nutrition habits indistinguishable from eating disorders.

Why should I change—he’s the one who sucks!