• First they came for the checkmarks, but I did not speak up because I was not famous.

Then they came for the api, but I did not speak because I was no researcher.

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Do you pray to the invisible hand of the free market before going to bed every night?

I guess it is not lying when you believe it yourself. That does not make it true though.

I am currently trying to publish in the European Journal of Psychology (EJoP), which is Open Access only. The fee is 750€, if I’m not mistaken, and you can apply for fee reduction. I have no idea how lenient/strict they are with that, or how much effort that would be. The department is covering the costs, obviously.

Why is that? I would expect an SUV to pollute more, both in production and over its life span.

Is this some kind of next level circle jerk?

Mmmm

According to Randall Munroe (the author behind xkcd.com) in his book ‘what if? 2’ a house sized cumulus cloud, which would be very small for a cloud, contains roughly one litre of water, which in turn weighs 1 kilogramm.

If you want to look it up and somehow find a version of the book online, this information is in the chapter about the largest thing you could theoretically eat in one sitting (it’s the cloud).