I had a conversation last night with a dear friend wherein I told her I feel somehow deficient because I don’t have marriage and kids and a house like almost everyone else in my life. It was almost a breakdown moment, because I want those things but somehow don’t see myself getting them, and I wondered why I couldn’t…

In Snowcrash (the Stephenson novel, right?), it was a flotilla of the poor.

This current travesty sounds more like a Ballard novel.  Sadly, it didn’t end like one. 

Yeah, medicine should never care what you identify as, just what your body actually is. I mean, sure, socially the docs and nurses ought to address you as whatever you ask them to, but it’s medically important that you also tell them what you actually are.

This is absolutely idiotic. It does not matter that it can’t determine if someones gender is male or female. It matters that the technology exists in general. Its scary tech and needs to be watched in kind with regards to how it is used. It is not labeling “a non-binary” person (something that does not exist) and…

Sigh, super unpopular facts incoming, please hear me out.

I’m a medical student who just passed forensic medicine. My good friend works in the field of archaeological forensics. Her team is specialized in identifying the remains on archaeological sites, but also in mass graves from the recent war in my country.

Most…

From a technical point of view, in this case the machine learning is mostly likely using a neural net to do these classifications and neural nets only give categorizations, they don’t give probabilities. In fact you can’t even really tell what variables are influencing the prediction or by how much, it really is a…

Obviously the star diverted all supernova power through its main deflector and caught everyone off guard :P

These Goddamn millennial amateurs. It’s been done years ago already with visual instructions but do they want to do the fucking research? Noooooo

Vampire Weekend’s discography is the official soundtrack of gentrification  

The golden ring of hell.

“testosterone can confer a slight edge to women athletes”

Melt Man! With the power to... melt.

I’m so sorry that happened to your mom and aunt. It’s not her fault- as I’m sure she logically knows. 

Me too.  My mom brought home measles from school when she was 8.  Three days later her 2 year old sister was dead from measles based encephalitis.   My mom was there after raised as an only child,  who held her breath all night to see what it felt like to die.   The guilt lives on with her 62 years later. 

There is no part of Jewish law that says you shouldn’t vaccinate. In fact I’d go as far as saying it’s a general commandment to stay healthy and furthermore you can break any Jewish law if it is to save a life.

Seems like execs are tired of only making good money and want to cash in and get crazy money.  Unions probably seem so totally non-disruptive to investors (even though they practically invented the concept of disruption) that it’s a legitimate concern that they’ll get less crazy rich if the employees unionize. 

Plenty of unions represent high paid and well treated workers - Actors and pro athletes are prime examples.

Of course, they never, ever talk with any actual autistic people. To them, if we don’t come out normal and perfect, we are ruined.

“Oooooh so you’re a Jersey Girl?!” Translation: I still don’t know what this means because no one ever has a real answer when I ask.

And we will never speak of this again, under penalty of torture.