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The entire reason why there are class hours is that there are, in fact, things not written down, because writing down all the minutia of how to put the information together to replace the professor is a nightmarish pain in the ass. It does not matter how much brainpower you pack into Plato, he...

The methodologies of modern science are non-trivial and many only make sense deep into the field, while figuring out how to sort the enormous bodies of information is a significant challenge in itself. It took centuries of peer-reviewing research to start codifying standards for such. To do...

The amount of this required to get anywhere new makes college or university ties rather important, because the up-to-date textbooks and studies are not easy to get elsewhere. There is no longer a reasonable expectation of "law hanging fruit", testing theories takes large sums of money to pay for...

Probably the weirdest thing to realize about modern academia is that this is not the case for most fields. Oh sure, the diversity hires leave you with dead weight in bad scientists, but the sheer distance between the logic in use in stuff like particle physics or geology and what has a...

I'm now curious just how far one would need to go for an organized assault on hypocrisy to invoke all possible sources of cognitive dissonance to honestly qualify as "terrorism" from the push for existential dread.

By that standard, the enthusiastic pederasty of antiquity is of immense relevance to "peak" Christianity. Claiming that good things are exclusive to your position because they happen to have been sourced from it is still a form of the Genetic Fallacy. Edit for a bit of clarity: The connection...

>the men using chainmail to clean them How? >doubling down with paint thinners Definite troll, likely would not survive >like 100 comments in mentions cast iron is porous So THAT'S how it works! >general advice is "rub with course salt and hot water, replace grease, heat" Good to know if I find...

Wherein you completely misunderstood very basic functions of statistics and have yet to respond to me pointing this out, making it very clear you are talking bullshit because you are rejecting out-of-hand and wildly misunderstanding corrections to your own figures. Again, three orders of...

More accurately, highly intricate, but pointless, knowledge of a subject gets associated with the fixation expected of autism.

To my recollection, one of the main things with Rare Earths is that they're usually partly Thorium ores, so a lot of countries fucked off because "Muh radioactivity" rather than not actually having access. At least they are in China, being the main source of their fuckhuge stockpile of the stuff.