The world’s largest database to track retractions, collated by the media organization Retraction Watch, does not yet include all of 2023’s withdrawn papers. To analyse trends, Nature combined the roughly 45,000 retractions detailed in that data set — which in September was acquired for public distribution by Crossref, a non-profit organization that indexes publishing data — with another 5,000 retractions from Hindawi and other publishers, with the aid of the Dimensions database.
I guess that's the source.
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two decades, a Nature analysis has found.
So the usual suspects are doubling down on cheating and plagiarizing.
It has more to do with if we want to go back to a traditional society then we'll have to stop media that allows people to impotently vent their sexual frustration. Men aren't going to get girlfriends, marry, and have children if they spend their time lusting after fictional characters. The knee-jerk response is that "but real women are whores so it's okay if I don't make an effort" but I'm talking about a holistic, healthy society and if we were ever to return to that then yes it would include, but not be limited to, getting rid of the tiddies. Like welfare, the fantasy woman gives a man no incentive to become a productive member of society.
If the MLB is only 6% black then that's insanely good considering how blacks are way overrepresented in basketball and football. I think it's like 70% of players in NFL/NBA are black?
So think of all the 18 year old black dudes who don't drop out of high school, or commit crimes so they're thrown in prison, or shoot each other dead. Guys who avoid all that shit and keep playing to get scouted and get on professional teams. And think about how so many of a black baseball player's cohorts are football or basketball athletes instead. Factor those things, it's FANTASTIC that as high as 6% of players are black in the MLB.
I have no interest in seeing it. I took one look at how America gets divided up and nearly cried laughing, it's so stupid. Shit like Washington and Oregon and Minnesota grouping with Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas, etc.
The article itself discusses this, that since this is new information but very little data has been collected on the extent of the contamination or how it affects infants. So it concludes that until more information is obtained, due to the known benefits of breast milk it's better to keep breastfeeding a baby.
...Did you read the article? They're talking about chemicals that have polluted the environment, not chemicals from booze and narcotics. They're talking about chemicals usually linked to industrial areas but they're now being detected in everyday things. Some might even be in drinking water so people going "oh I'll just give my baby formula instead" isn't a solution. And at this point there is so little information about the long-term effects of these chemicals on infants, while knowing the significant long term health benefits breast milk is to infants, that even contaminant-free formula might still be worse for a baby.
I think there are lots of skilled women and nonwhites, however they are a minority and you quickly hit a problem when every company in the industry becomes obsessed with making the majority of your hires minorities, because you end up with hiring and promotion sacrificing skill for a checkbox.
iirc people with BIID have something gone wrong with their peripheral nervous system and it's not sending all the correct signals it should, which results in the brain thinking "hey this body part shouldn't be here" driving the person mad. So far there isn't a medication to alleviate it.
I really don't agree with doctors agreeing to surgically amputate on people like this, especially when most cases result in the person becoming legally disabled (not this case, which is why the doctor agreed to do it) but often someone with BIID ends up doing some DIY amputation or mutilation. Maybe therapy can help a person cope with the sensations and urges, but it doesn't sound pleasant either way.
Heritage laws are stupid but if you're wealthy enough to plop $5 million freaking dollars on a house, you're wealthy enough to buy a house that isn't a heritage property.
These people just don't want to admit they're such dipshits that they didn't pay attention when they signed all the paperwork.
Granted I'm not a lawyer let alone a Canadian one, but I would assume delisting heritage status of a property is an even bigger pain in the ass and it won't happen just because the original owner was a meany-pants. Especially if the original owner was a meany-pants because it would set a case for any heritage property to get delisted that way.
Wow. I did not expect her to sound so whiny every time she finishes a combo. Maybe it's just the English voice actor overdoing it, but she doesn't need to be trying to hard with every exertion. This sounds like a petty thing to criticize but it's an action game so I expect to be hearing these lines a lot.
Yeah the Disney movies were so bad it hypnotized people into thinking the Prequels were actually good. They weren't. They sucked. They ruined Anakin Skywalker from being a noble Jedi into a cringey whiny little creep, they practically character assassinated the Jedi into being a bunch of buffoons, had one of the worst romances this side of Twilight, and the only reason people showed up to the third one was because they believed they'd get to see a good volcano light saber fight with Obi-Wan. Which ended up being okay but the over-reliance on CGI highlighted how it was just two actors dancing at each other and not a real fight.
Now so much time has passed there are idiots who unironically think the Prequels are good. Mostly because they've also had multiple shows and other media to damage control and retroactively make it suck less, but it doesn't change the Prequels were once known as the greatest cinematic disappointment around.
Can we start a list of characters that got turned into black wahmen during development?
Saga in Alan Wake 2
Main Character in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
Main Character in South of Midnight
Any others?
Not sure if it counts but apparently GTA6 has way overrepresentation of black people when Miami is much more Latino.
I seem to remember he wasn't a musical prodigy or anything. That was Mozart.
Beethoven had his father practice music day in and day out, and then beat the shit out of him if he wasn't perfect. I think injuries from his father's abuse have been attributed to his hearing loss later in life.
genome-wide association study (GWAS) of musical talent. However, a subsequent GWAS involving 606,825 individuals identified the specific locations (loci) of 69 genes significantly associated with beat synchronization ability, assessed by the question: Can you clap in time with a musical beat? A follow-up family study showed that polygenic indices had a small but significant effect on several music-related skills and traits.
An important thing to remember is the term "significant" and its use in studies. In studies, the word does not mean "major" or "very important" but instead means, essentially, "does whatever we're looking at have a role in the outcome, and we're not looking at random chance here". It's just an issue of statistics.
So what they did was look at the genomes for 600k+ people, looked for associations with people with musical talent, and identified a 'beat synchronization' gene. Those who have it have a more innate ability to keep a musical beat than those who don't, which has a small influence in a person's musical ability.
However, this also seems to be something a person can compensate for. Such as, as Beethoven did, practice music a whole ton and brute forced the learning curve.
Ukraine seems like it wants to shake Moscow's cage. A lot of Russians are convinced that the Ukraine-Russia war is not a big deal, etc. Bringing attacks to Moscow soil help shake that illusion.
It would be terribly naive to think that something (while very tragic) so small would cause Russia to go "oop! let's quit invading Ukraine and go fuck up an ISIS country now!" so I'm puzzled what benefit Ukraine would have to put so much effort into a false flag operation.
It's been one of those poorly kept secrets that he's been using his wealth and power to get away with a lot of rape/prostitution/sexual slavery/etc. and a couple murders, I think. People acting all surprised when a rapper turns out to be a criminal scumbag.
If it's finally busting out, it's not surprising that even with all his money that would let him afford the best lawyers, he's trying to run for it.
The books have stiff writing to them that isn't the fault of the translators. I believe Liu Cixin is a computer programmer, and it shows. That's not to say the books are bad but characterization takes a back seat to the overall "ideas" the books are presenting you with.
So it's not surprising that there are swapping around characters because the characters that existed were already superfluous.
However I think they are doing more to set up later seasons, what would be the second and third books, because Three Body Problem as a first book is really more of a prologue for what's to come.
I would disagree. There has been no movement towards show production since....December 2022? I think Cavill announced in December 2023 something to the tune of, "Okay this time for real a deal has been signed". Yeah the writer's strike put things on hold for several months but now it's 16 months since the initial announcement and I'm not asking why a show isn't out yet, I'm asking why there has been zero progress and no one else has signed on and the IMDB page is a barren stem. Because normally this stuff gets gradually filled in. It's bizarre that it's still blank.
This may be tin foil hat, but I don't think Amazon is in any hurry to make this show. Possibly not ever. It may depend on who wins the US Presidency because I can definitely see WH40k content get associated with people who support Trump.
Amazon can do one of two reactions to that.
Assuming Amazon is full of wokies, they are terrified about their show being some symbol the "wrong" people. So they won't make this show out of spite.
Amazon is run by soulless cocaine-fueled corporate greed that don't give a fuck about woke, but if Trump loses then they don't want to be associated with losers.
There is also a possibility, assuming Amazon does not care about Presidential politics, that Cavill is being stonewalled over Amazon trying to shove woke shit into the show. However, it raises the question just what the hell contract did Cavill sign to make things so hard? And why hasn't Cavill notified people if Amazon is threatening to pull the same crap as what happened to The Witcher?