it’s a proven fact that ugliness is not mutually exclusive to “sells well.”

THIS SIR GETS IT.

i used to detassle corn as a kid in the midwest. google it sometime. horrible, bullshit work in 100 degree heat; had to wake up at 4 am to catch a bus type shit that i’ll use to shame my children when they’re teenagers (back when I was your age...). anyways, it paid damn well, and, one summer, i used a bunch of my…

who even uses the word cute anymore. i mean, seriously, jesse.

Two 👍🏽 up; lets be frands.

This.

Out of the greys!1!!

It’s like raaaaaaaayyyyaaaaaaannnnnneeee. 

Stick to Porsches cuz your porches game is all kinds of stoop-id.

I concur. This car looks really classy.

This is delightful.

fuck YES

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of GODA@#$20!23.

Bugatti’s = fucking ugly as sin.

Interesting. I’m in a more esoteric, “soft” science field (social / political psychology), and the commercial / financial incentives regarding data are effectively zero. I split my time between traditional academia and policy analysis, and the latter definitely tends to be a less cooperative environment as you outline…

While I have run into some folks who have been extremely unwilling to share data (usually a function of funding source drama), on balance my experiences been largely the exact opposite. I’m curious what field you’re working in?

While your latter points are correct, your first statement is not: there has been a MASSIVE push in both the hard and social sciences to make replication data available so that interested parties can check the validity of one’s findings. Practically, this doesn’t mean releasing ALL the data you’ve collected, but it…

A pox on people who use fucking pie charts.

They did not. General moaning on my part regarding the problem of correlation does not equal causation. Statements like “Autosteer reduces crashes,” muddy the water. Best we can say is that “there appears to be a reduction in crashes after the implementation of autosteer—whether we can chalk that up to that program,…