I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: plastics are going to be the leaded-gasoline of our generation(s)

Absolutely this is why the data looks this way. I bet if they looked at searches for “trans woman”, “trans man”, “mtf”, “ftm”, etc, the charts would be reversed.

Also, people searching “femboy” mostly won’t be looking for trans content at all, just… femboys (cisgender men who express themselves in what are traditionally feminine ways).

That is the true etymology and meaning among people who know, but it is now used as an anti-trans slur by the American Right, who do not know its origin.

The arachnid version of wife guys.

Definitely agree with you there. The FBI had traditionally treated different types of shootings as each being unrelated. It was US media that pushed the term mass shooting in its current definition (so they could run big-number stories), and the consolidation of very different profiles under one label has done more harm than good, imo.

If you actually break them apart into distinct groups, there is a much stronger correlation with mental illness among especially e.g. school shooters.

There are several different subtypes of mass shootings, and school shooters and planned hate-crime shootings each have their own distinct characteristics. They get the most media coverage, for sure, and tend to trend younger than other types, but they’re the least common type of mass shooting.

The mass shootings the article is talking about, which are the most common, are often workplace or family shootings, and are usually by middle aged men.

The definition of mass shooting used most commonly now is any shooting with 4 or more casualties, which includes a lot of shootings that most people wouldn’t really think of as mass shootings, which are generally thought of as being like the ones like you named.

I was just making a joke about us all being isolated for a long time. :)

So, they experienced COVID lockdown?

Dang, this is really serious. You don’t call in leadership from Boeing and NASA unless there are some serious issues to hammer out, that go beyond engineering.

This is an extreme acceleration of what is happening in the US as well. Any time employment or compensation is based on research outcomes, it is by definition a monetary incentive to doctor your outcomes.

In China this was down to their ranking system and grant eligibility. In the US this usually happens inside companies (see literally the entire history of DuPont and the research they did, or all the research that is funded by Nestle or Petrochemical companies), or in order to secure or keep tenured positions, or retain grants.

Good research needs to be publicly-funded, and devoid (as much as possible , from a methodological standpoint) of desired outcomes.

Not only humans can use language to impart abstract concepts. Crows have been observed sharing information about danger to crows who are not present to witness the danger themselves, but then successfully recognize it in the future. They’ve also been found to be able to create tools they have not seen before in order to solve problems.

Koko the gorilla was also famous for her abstract thinking. Others species include dolphins and elephants, and obviously we haven’t tested most species out there.

My s.o. and I were discussing tests for animal intelligence being too anthropocentric, and we’ve both come to the conclusion (based on more recent work in the field that is getting better at trying to assess an animal’s intelligence on its own grounds, rather than our’s) that there’s going to be a major existential reckoning as this field progresses, because so many people do not realize the extent to which animals reason, think, and feel. If we ever reach the point of truly being able to understand what animals are thinking, we’re likely going to be horrified at what we’ve been doing to them (even more than many of us already are).

You mean Fox News?

ba-dum-CHI

Isn’t every beverage without alcohol a non-alcoholic beverage, by definition?

Sure, but there is no evidence of that here.

I’m not sure if you’re referring to the Conquistadors, but this site was abandoned quite a long time before that.

All the Upano artefacts dated by Rostain’s team are older than 1500 years, however, suggesting the settlements in the valley were abandoned after this time, long before the colonial era. Why isn’t clear, but the team has found layers of volcanic ash, so it is possible a series of eruptions forced people to leave the valley.

widespread digital competence in the scholarly community

Tell me you have never done IT work in higher ed without telling me…

Poop rag

“without non-penetrative” == “with penetrative”, so I think they’ve gotten it reversed. They’re the only ones to mate with non-penetrative sex.

I don’t want to live on Mars, I want to die on Mars.

I want to make that journey.

You get one life, and going to space, nevermind Mars, is something that so few humans throughout history have ever done, I just don’t understand people who would say no to that.

Like, you could get hit by a bus, or get in a car accident, or get cancer even without the space travel. It’s not like you’re guaranteed safety by living a boring life.