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I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.

sandumilfshous

reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world

post-to-poll-pipeline

How old were you when you got your first smartphone?

Younger than 10

10-13

13-16

17-20

21-25

26-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

Older than 60

Never had a smartphone

Voting ended onJul 22

#I think I was 21 #before that I had an ipod touch

poughkeepsiesjr

if you feel queerbaited by actual real human beings have you considered that maybe you're just queerstupid and queerparasocial and need to touch some queergrass

almondcroissantsandink

Ryland Grace, seconds before losing consciousness: did--did you just reference Parks and Rec

#project hail mary

mindsmist

always think of this meme when this scene comes up

#project hail mary

synnthamonsugar

The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.

enba-and-luka

goldengenuflexion

#interview with the vampire

fuckhugeoctopus

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

#project hail mary

whiskeyplains

i watched the sheep detectives a few days ago and i gotta say i love this guy

not-a-e-not

Also because he dies his hair and whitens his teeth and shaves his chest and *whispers* he's probably vegetarian

#the sheep detectives

olidel

#the sheep detectives

puncertainty

a leap of faith !

uninterestedemby

They make me physically ill

#project hail mary

weepylucifer

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

carys-the-ninth

"Scientific fraud doesn't make sense, why would you claim you can turn mercury into gold when everyone can see you can't" well because the vast vast vast majority of scientific fraud is not Elizabeth Holmes Theranos level chicanery but instead juicing the numbers (or the Western blots) to make the results more statistically significant in what is otherwise a fairly minor & straightforward paper

carys-the-ninth

You're a grad student. You're already a semester behind. One of your experimental replicates failed halfway through a 6 week experiment and you didn't notice til you collected the data. You no longer have the statistical power you need and have to start over, with money you don't have and no time. Telling no one and making up some numbers that supports the pattern you can see in the other data is a huge temptation.

And if you succeed at that fraud—because, realistically, no one is going to check—the deadlines don't stop coming and that temptation is always there. You need another grant, you need another publication, another pilot study, on and on and on.

The people who finally get nabbed for scientific fraud, like spider biologist Jonathan Pruitt or the many medical researchers Elisabeth Bik catches, typically were getting away with it for yearsss. And none of them were claiming they could cure the common cold or turn dogshit into gold. They were publishing unassuming papers, with reasonable results. The pressure for publishing above all else is a perverse incentive.