is it blood or poop?

I find sports boring and I find movies about sports boring. Even if I accept that they’re fundamentally the same thing, there is the question of subject matter.  Fundamentally, I’m not super invested on which group of millionaires moves the McGuffin the best.

That one woman wail was present in the first movie and it was so astonishingly cliche. Kinda confused by Zimmer’s choice on this. I mean he’s otherwise so experimental but the music in this trailer sounds like The Mummy.

Could it not “cling to orbit any longer” or was it a controlled deorbit?

“Pranking” like this is the clearest test for low-empathy I can imagine. Gleefully irritating other people for money is sociopathic af.

The same thing is true for Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery. It turns out apparently that everything in every series and movie is irrelevant because the Federation just collapses anyway due to a random space anomaly. *shrug emoji*

Death Blow!

Finally male nerds can be body shamed too!

That’s a fair point, but could also be made about nearly all of women’s clothing.

I had to google “Fake Geek Girl” to make sure it meant what I assumed it meant. Ugh, this is so juvenile.

I will say though as an early millennial I have met many “geek” men who have tirforce tattoos and talk about how much they love Zelda games, but knew nothing about the original. “It had a gold cartridge?” “I would…

We really need a different hotword. “Goo-Gol” is too hard to say and you feel like a moron saying “hey google!” all day.

Google clearly has purposefully avoided personifying it’s assistant. It’s nameless, formless, and without personality. I can see why computer-types would like this idea and I can see why…

No, I want an article about something to teach me something, not simply make me feel smart for reading it.

I am not asking for a complete and free education in a technical field, I already have that.

But if your science writing isn’t educational, what is it?

What *is* your goal? Do you want to inform your readers or…

Why does it bother you so much that other people like things you don’t like?

I don’t care about sports, but I don’t care if other people do.

I don’t care about Harry Potter, but I don’t care that other people do.

Why do you?

No one said anyone was a rube. Consuming pig skins, pep pills, and energy drinks has nothing to do with intelligence and that wasn’t implied. In fact, you’re the only one who implied it.

I also liked that they were making Rosita interesting. In fact, I actually remembered her name after the episode, which never seemed necessary before!

However, given the show’s history, a character suddenly being given a lot of lines and development is the surest sign they are about to be killed off. No doubt she will…

I read her blog regularly, and we glad to see it mentioned here! However this post was kind of disappointed. I’m a fan of the simulation hypothesis (because it’s neat to think about, if nothing else) so I was excited to see her take. She didn’t really seem to know much about it except the general gist of it. Most of…

She’s kind of making a straw man argument though. Our inability to do the kinds of simulations needed for our own universe does not constrain entities which are in a different universe. We cannot assume our universe is anything like the universe of our (proposed) simulators.

It’s basically a “it’s impossible because I…

I don’t think it’s necessarily unscientific. I mean, we can’t unify the physical forces, quantum mechanics, and gravity into a single model. This seems to go against our intuition right? There should be *one* mathematical system it all works in, right?

But if it’s a simulation, it doesn’t have to. All of the work of…

I find her argument odd. We can of course simulate the behavior of quantum systems. That’s what quantum mechanics is afterall, a set of mathematical models which predict what a quantum system will do. Generating the deeply, truly random number necessary to really do it well is hard, and often requires help from a QM…

So when you said they discovered a “better” way for insects to walk, what you meant was they discovered a “faster” way?

This is why you will never be ars technica, which is actually a good science website.