Stupid sexy Spiderman.

Try adding more sand

We haven’t had the technology to fake a moon landing for decades now. Everyone who knew how to do it has retired.

What’s the next step in the plan there? Go for a walk for a few hours? Sleep in the shed? Maybe head off to the pub.

Texas power grid is a special case though.

I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

That’s exactly the point of the video

I’m now going to be humming Agadoo all day.

Matilda?

https://youtu.be/0MDQp3fG4OI?si=tiVqzoE0m4p8F2Iu

Sorry it’s a short, couldn’t find a proper clip

Alan Davis?

Piss poor management for decades has finally been noticed.

Yup, been there, but the other side of it. Was hired to do research and then teaching suddenly appeared as an expectation.

Sure, that would work. Or government grants available so anyone who wants to be an editor can apply for funds to get it going. Papers are rarely printed on paper nowadays, so the main costs would be paying editors, paying reviewers, and web hosting.

I didn’t say it was the publisher’s paying the salaries. My point is that researcher are paid to research, and publishing results is part of that.

Not to argue on behalf of publishers, but the papers aren’t written for free. It’s part of the job of being a researcher, it’s a significant KPI for which you’re hired and receive a wage.

Reviewing for free is pretty much bullshit though. As is paying to read them afterwards, if your research institution doesn’t pay to publish in an open access journal

There’s literally food in restaurants in London and if you eat it a dude rocks up and informs you it’s like £15 to eat it.

I’m not sure what you expect here. A charitable or government service to provide you with deck chairs for free?

We’d probably need a few people to keep track of things, but that’s quite a powerful position so we’d need a system to switch them out for better people if they start making decisions we don’t like. And if some people are growing corn and others are catching fish, should they just trade them directly? Maybe some system to keep track of how much of next year’s corn you’re swapping for the fish I gave you last week… And grandma is pretty old now, should we feed her? Can I ask my neighbours to help feed her?

Technically it would be fine for the moon to be bigger or closer and you’d still get a total eclipse.

Claw Shrimp

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/19/claw-shrimp