A lot of the culture war topics seem deeply weird. mRNA vaccines that absolutely do work and are safe somehow get all kinds of things ascribed to them.
Prayer in schools, which has passed out of the Gartner Culture War hype cycle, seems like another one of those head scratchers.
So? Does it confirm my pet theory, that angered and disappointed anti-Castro Cubans, still furious about Kennedy not backing them at The Bay of Pigs, did it in conjunction with an element of the CIA?
> conveniently restricts things like push notifications for web apps.
I have never knowingly allowed push notifications. I dumped Facebook years ago when whatever their messaging app started popping people's faces up all over my phone's screen, using valuable screen acreage to tell me that someone posted an uninformed conspiracy theory.
I hear you and I myself have push notifications turned off by default.
But ours is a b2b app and our customers do ask for push notifications so they won't miss any important notifications from their customers.
This reads like weak tea. Maybe AI generated but edited by a human. There's no byline that I can find. It's also offered by an ad blocker vendor - it's in that grey area of maybe being a "supporting" blog post for a product. It just might be one of the ads doing unethical stuff that it talks about.
I snickered at the subtle dig at David Brooks, but this does read like a sly defense of Elon Musk. I would even buy this particular defense, but Elon and his adoring crowds don't applaud him as a "smart guy" but rather "an exceptionally smart guy, a brilliant guy". From that standpoint, this defense falls flat. Elon is supposed to be able to extemporize and remember facts like Tyler Cowen, according to the adoring crowds, and Elon himself.
Long, original title: Ordovician–Silurian true polar wander as a mechanism for severe glaciation and mass extinction
Not to counter the recent burst of "A supernova did it" posts, but rather to give some context on what kind of theories exist to explain the end Ordovician extinction.
Yes, completely overstated. The 2009 paper on the supernova causing the Ordovician extinction (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0809.0899) has always been viewed skeptically, even for a paleontology paper.
The Ordovician extinction has always been contentious. There's evidence of a severe ice age, but ocean water temperature proxies don't line up. There's even a "It didn't happen" faction among paleontologits. There's probably 4 other plausible theories for that particular mass extinction, including 2 kinds of volcanism, dust influx from the L-Chondritic parent body breakup causing the ice age, land plants drawing down atmospheric CO2 causing the ice age, a meteor impact in Australia, and to my mind, a vastly less plausible explanation, "true polar wander": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35609-3
This is absolutely not true in my experience. I've taken pay cuts on job hops twice in 41 years of full time employment: once to switch from stress analysis in aerospace to C programming, once after I took a voluntary layoff. The latter was a contract job, which doesn't mix well with getting divorced. Every other job hop has gotten me a substantial raise.
But even if (for the sake of argument) we grant that it doesn't lead to more income, it unquestionably can lead to a better job at the same income level.
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