Pictures is to genes as sound is to memories.

Caratacus by Dirk Ehlert (@DETUNEde)

They might as well say there's no proof nuking someone triggers war because every use in the past resulted in world peace.

No Evidence US Strikes Send a Message to Rivals

All these "no evidence" claims that keep coming out are arguments from ignorance.  Not having evidence does not automatically mean false.  It doesn't mean true either.  It's just unknown, unproven either way.

This kind of blind reading of data without logic or interpretation is what gives quants / scientists / statisticians a bad rep.

Finally getting a new phone after 4 years... this one promises 10 times my current battery life!

Death is only natural... That is, until you find a cure. Then they'll kill you to have it.

For those curious what it's like seeing with retinal occlusion... (aka RVO, RAO, CRVO, etc)

The first time your eye goes out, everything is white.  This happened for my left eye in the spring of 2012.



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The strange feeling knowing there's a shrinking window, a last chance, before there comes a day when you can't even go to Mars to be alone anymore and truly away from society.

Nandemonaiya Cover by Dion and Raon Lee (@raon_leee)

Cutting thru a city grid is the same distance as going around the perimeter. There is no time saved if you never actually travel diagonally.  Just something that irks me when people opt to zigzag through for a "shortcut" rather than walk the "long way" along the perimeter.